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Bob “JJ” Orth receives the Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award (Blog Post)
...t prolific and most supportive colleague of my career, and has worked with me the longest time out of any. Bob Orth and seagrass colleagues at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. I am very glad that Bob Orth received this awa...
Brisbane 2011: Living with floods and dancing with dugongs (Blog Post)
...e of the January floods was the increased turbidity of Moreton Bay. Dugongs, a conservation icon of Queensland, rely on seagrasses that grow in shallow waters of eastern Moreton Bay. Seagrass require adequate light to survive and turbid flood water...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 10- Progress in Monitoring and Management (Blog Post)
...hesapeake Bay had done some sewage upgrades, and some quiet engineering to reduce the overflows. It had a resurgence in seagrass, which created a large nutrient and sediment sponge with what was essentially a large filter feeder. The classic waterm...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar (Blog Post)
...We're both working on that front. QUESTION: You did have a focus very briefly on the model of organization of worldwide Seagrass-Watch . I'd like to know what your thoughts are in regards to citizen science, and recognition. One particular movement...
Celebration of Susan Williams’ life and impact at UC Davis and Bodega Marine Laboratory (Blog Post)
...an flying to Washington, D.C. to testify on her ‘own dime’ and her regular participation on the advisory committee. The seagrass and seaweed session was chaired by Megan Dethier , from the University of Washington. Megan read a quote by William Jam...
Change of science and management in ecosystems along size gradient (Blog Post)
...ical balance of Florida Bay. Similar to the Chester River, eutrophication and algal blooms have threatened the habitat. Seagrass die-off, phytoplankton blooms, sponge mortality and lobster declines [5] occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Th...
Citizen Science Programs (Blog Post)
... plant and animal inventories through the National Park Service’s ‘Bio-Blitz’, low tide benthic assessments through the Seagrass Watch program, or bird surveys conducted during Audabon’s Christmas counts, just to name a few. These citizen science e...
Climate Change and resilience create new challenges in tracking ecosystem health status (Blog Post)
...ction or form: a system can change form but provide the same ecological function. For example, species composition in a seagrass bed may change as a result of changing temperature or salinity, but the habitat function of the seagrass bed may remain...
Coastal Bays report card launch (Blog Post)
...port Bays). Chincoteague Bay has historically been our jewel of the East coast, with improving conditions and expanding seagrasses throughout the 1990s. However, seagrasses are now declining in Chincoteague Bay, but the good news is that water qual...
Commemorating Bob Menzer at Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences (Blog Post)
.... In collaboration with Drs. Michael Kemp and Laura Murray , I was investigating the interactions between nutrients and seagrasses. Mike and I had a Water Resources grant and Laura had a grant from Salisbury University where she was teaching and we...
Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network (Blog Post)
...than the report card process. A diverse set of examples can be found in a previous blog, “ Top ten conceptual diagrams: Seagrasses, streams, eco-rhythms ”. One of the strengths of using conceptual diagrams is the ability to depict historical situat...
Creating the Texas Coast Ecosystem Health Report Card (Blog Post)
...m Health Report Card ... Jamie Currie and I had an exciting meeting with experts on Texas coastal water quality, birds, seagrass, oysters, and fisheries on November 1 and 2 to create the first Texas Coast Ecosystem Health Report Card. We met at the...
Data Visualization 101: Simple changes can make a world of difference (Blog Post)
...ur audience what you are talking about, rather than depending on text alone. (Would I know that Zostera and Ruppia were seagrasses without seeing the seagrass symbols in the first slide above? Definitely not.) Sample recommendations that can be mad...
Developing a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef: Part 1 (Blog Post)
...ide in surface waters of the ocean. Katharina has observed the decline in sensitive tabular and plate corals, with lush seagrasses and one type of coral ( Porites ) remaining at the highest carbon dioxide concentrations. She uses three seep sites a...
Developing a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef: Part 2 (Blog Post)
...workshop was that I was able to visit with two former Marine Botany members following the workshop. Catherine Collier , seagrass scientist at James Cook University , and her husband Dieter Tracey, who worked with me producing the book ' Where river...
Developing a strategy for Long Island Sound embayment report cards (Blog Post)
...Whoa, whoa, whoa It comes down to sampling reality And it's fine with me 'cause we can't do it all I don't care if it's seagrass or macroalgae I do have some reasons That I left some indicators behind I'm in a Long Island Sound state of mind. Oh ye...
Developing a Swan River report card (Blog Post)
...k swans and has dolphins that regularly swim up to the foreshore of the central business district of Perth. It supports seagrasses (black swan food), prawns and fish, but has some severe water quality problems. For example, the dissolved oxygen lev...
Developing scientific stories for Chesapeake Bay submerged aquatic vegetation (Blog Post)
...c Vegetation Synthesis . The SAV team during the second meeting in Solomon's Island. Bob Orth and I co-chaired a global seagrass trajectories synthesis effort at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) . We saw the utility...
Developing video techniques for science communication (Blog Post)
... music video using relevant slides and scrolling text to follow the lyrics. An example of this type of music video is " Seagrass Blue Carbon Blues ". Video interviews: We occasionally will interview people and produce a short video to use in educat...
Discussing island drought in Puerto Rico Part I (Blog Post)
... about the ridge to reef concept of connecting land impacts of drought with adjacent coastal ecosystems like mangroves, seagrasses and corals. She also pointed out the data deficiencies throughout the US Virgin Islands. Breakout group discussing ag...

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