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Overcome imposter syndrome: Contribute to working groups and build strong networks (Page 1)

Overcome imposter syndrome: Contribute to working groups and build strong networks

Bates AE, Davies MA, Stuart-Smith RD, Lazzari N, Lefcheck JS, Ling SD, Mellin C, Mouillot D, Bernard ATF, Bennett S, Brown CJ, Burrows MT, Butler CL, Cinner J, Clausius E, Cooper A, Costello MJ, Denis-Roy L, Edgar GJ, Fuchs YH, Johnson OJ, Gordó-Vilaseca C, Hautecoeur C, Harper LM, Heather FJ, Jones TR, Markey AC, Oh E, Rose M, Ruiz-Ruiz PA, Sanabria-Fernandez JA, Schuster JM, Schmid JK, Baker SC ·
2024

Scientific working groups bring together experts from different disciplines and perspectives to tackle the “wicked problems” facing natural systems and society. Yet participants can feel overwhelmed or inadequate in groups within academic environments, which tends to be most acute at early career stages and in people from systematically marginalized backgrounds.

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Interplay of management and environmental drivers shifts size structure of reef fish communities (Page 1)

Interplay of management and environmental drivers shifts size structure of reef fish communities

Canty SWJ, Nowakowski AJ, Cox CE, Valdivia A, Holstein DM, Limer B, Lefcheck JS, Craig N, Drysdale I, Giro A, Soto M, McField M ·
2024

Countries are expanding marine protected area (MPA) networks to mitigate fisheries declines and support marine biodiversity. However, MPA impact evaluations typically assess total fish biomass. Here, we examine how fish biomass disaggregated by adult and juvenile life stages responds to environmental drivers, including sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and human footprint, and multiple management types at 139 reef sites in the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) region.

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Contributing to sustainable development pathways in the South Pacific through transdisciplinary research: Conference report (Page 1)

Contributing to sustainable development pathways in the South Pacific through transdisciplinary research: Conference report

Riechers M, Baumann L, Braun M, Carew A, Chinappa M, Dehm J, Ganachaud A, Holland E, Kelsey H, Lal S, Landemard M, Rocle N, and Stockwell BL ·
2024

This conference report synthesises the discussions and lessons learnt from a workshop with international and local experts and practitioners held in Noum´ea, New Caledonia (France, Oceania) from 17th to 21st of October 2022. The workshop was part of a larger transdisciplinary process aimed to anticipate and react to marine heatwaves, coastal erosion and sea level rise as well as ocean deoxygenation and acidification in Fiji and New Caledonia.

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Evaluating water-quality trends in agricultural watersheds prioritized for management-practice implementation (Page 1)

Evaluating water-quality trends in agricultural watersheds prioritized for management-practice implementation

Webber J, Chanat J, Clune J, Devereux O, Hall N, Sabo RD, Zhang Q ·
2024

Many agricultural watersheds rely on the voluntary use of management practices (MPs) to reduce nonpoint source nutrient and sediment loads; however, the water-quality effects of MPs are uncertain. We interpreted water-quality responses from as early as 1985 through 2020 in three agricultural Chesapeake Bay watersheds that were prioritized for MP implementation, namely, the Smith Creek (Virginia), Upper Chester River (Maryland), and Conewago Creek (Pennsylvania) watersheds.

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Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework (Page 1)

Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework

Layva Ollivier ME, Newton A, Kelsey H ·
2024

This research assesses Chesapeake Bay’s sustainability in four domains: environment, social, economy, and governance, using the Circles of Coastal Sustainability methodology. Each of the four domains has five categories, and each category is evaluated by the authors’ expert judgment using indicators related to the socio-ecological system and the definition of sustainable development.

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Legacy sediment as a potential source of orthophosphate: Preliminary conceptual and geochemical models for the Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA (Page 1)

Legacy sediment as a potential source of orthophosphate: Preliminary conceptual and geochemical models for the Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA

Cravotta III CA, Tasker TL, Smyntek PM, Blomquist JD, Clune JW, Zhang Q, Schmadel NM, Schmer NK ·
2024

Nutrient pollution from agriculture and urban areas plus acid mine drainage (AMD) from legacy coal mines are primary causes of water-quality impairment in the Susquehanna River, which is the predominant source of freshwater and nutrients entering the Chesapeake Bay.

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Your Land, Your Water: Using Research to Guide Conservation Practices on Local Farms in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Page 1)

Your Land, Your Water: Using Research to Guide Conservation Practices on Local Farms in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Webber JS, Clune JW, Soroka AM, and Hyer KE ·
19 December 2023

Agricultural lands are an important part of the economy and heritage of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and are a focus of conservation activities. Streams and rivers around farms provide communities with drinking water and recreational opportunities, but these local benefits can be impaired by elevated nutrient and sediment concentrations.

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Effects of point and nonpoint source controls on total phosphorus load trends across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA (Page 1)

Effects of point and nonpoint source controls on total phosphorus load trends across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA

Zhang Q, Bostic JT, Sabo RD ·
2024

Reduction of total phosphorus (TP) loads has long been a management focus of Chesapeake Bay restoration, but riverine monitoring stations have shown mixed temporal trends. To better understand the regional patterns and drivers of TP trends across the Bay watershed, we compiled and analyzed TP load data from 90 Non-Tidal Network stations using clustering and random forest (RF) approaches.

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