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Holidays are when we really catch up with family, and the “How’s work?” question is inevitable. If you’re lucky, a few family members are even interested in your reply, but we all know that’s rare. I’m excited about what we do at IAN, but most of the time only a few of my family really [...]
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I recently attended a summit in Washington DC on climate change where the keynote speaker was Dr John Holdren who is the Science Advisor to President Barack Obama. Dr Holdren gave a great presentation on the facts proving climate change, or what he coined “climate disruption”. He believed “climate change” was too soft and too [...]
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At the invitation of Dr. Andy Longmore, Victoria Department of Primary Industries, Kate Moore and I traveled to Queenscliff on the Bellarine peninsula at the mouth of Port Phillip Bay. We stayed in a wonderful, cosy bed and breakfast in Queenscliff called the Athelstane House and worked in the Department of Primary Industries Queenscliff Centre [...]
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During a visit to Sydney, I stumbled upon an interesting climate exhibit in front of Customs House in Circular Quay. A British sculptor, Mark Coreth, created an ice sculpture in the form of a life size polar bear. Inside the bear was a skeleton model created from metal. The sculpture was placed outside, and although [...]
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I am not sure exactly what I said upon learning that I had received the award for the Healthy Waterways Champion, as it was a big surprise and unexpected honor, but the following is what I was trying to say. “Thank you for this unexpected honor. I am staggered by this award and would like [...]
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The vibrant Marine Botany group was part of the Botany Department while I was at the University of Queensland, but went into the Centre for Marine Studies after I left. The Botany Department has disappeared and the Centre for Marine Studies has morphed into something quite different, but the spirit of Marine Botany lives on. [...]
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The appeal of iconic creatures has long been used to generate support in the conservation movement. Whales and dolphins in the sea and pandas, gorillas and other apes on land have been and still are conservation icons. WWF still uses the panda in their logo, for example. Icons like birds, particularly raptors, are fairly global. [...]
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The Integration and Application Network recently conducted an international collaboration with people from different organizations and locations in order to develop conceptual diagrams to be used in a booklet on Ecosystem Based Management (Taking Steps toward Marine and Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management). The project was supported by the United Nations Environment Programme and we had a [...]
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As the Integration and Application Network continues to add symbols to its growing symbol library and associated image library, it is with the idea that we are organically growing a global symbol language. These symbols can be combined in order to construct conceptual diagrams (or ‘thought drawings’), in which the essential attributes of an issue [...]
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The gold standard for scientific publication is known as ‘peer review’. This refers to the established practice of sending manuscripts to appropriate experts who critically review the data, the analysis of the data, the conclusions drawn from the results and even the style and manner of communicating the findings. Scientific manuscripts are submitted to an [...]
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