Search | Integration and Application Network

All
People
Publications
Media Library
Blog Posts
Enewsletter Articles
Projects

Blog Posts

146 results for "seagrass":

Australian cities and waterways: Sydney and Sydney Harbour
... capital of New South Wales and hosted the 2000 Summer Olympic Games . The water in the harbor is amazingly clear, with seagrasses, kelp ( Ecklonia ) and other macroalgae visible from the shoreline. The juxtaposition of a major city with clear wate...
Awakening Environmental Passion
Being inspired by Cousteaus: An evening with Jean-Michel Cousteau
...ghout. 1) Scuba gear: I used scuba gear extensively in my research on marine plants. In fact, during my PhD research on seagrasses in Woods Hole, MA , I used an old fashioned double hose regulator, Mistral, developed by Cousteau and Gagnan. 2) Unde...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards
...noff of sediments and nutrients from the watershed and from sewage treatment, the re-suspension of sediment and loss of seagrass. There are turtles and dugongs in the diagram. We also tracked the nutrients and the sewage with isotopes and concentra...
Bill Dennison's 500th Blog
...aradigm shifts. A 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton by Godfrey Kneller. Source: Wikipedia 8. " Top ten conceptual diagrams: seagrasses, streams, eco-rhythms ," published in 2013. I created a blog series of top ten lists (like in the blog you are readin...
Biscayne Bay Marine Health Inaugural Summit
...International University Biscayne Bay campus. I flew down at the invitation of Jim Fourqurean , my long time friend and seagrass colleague, who provided a very nice introduction. There were around two hundred people in attendance and my role was to...
Bob “JJ” Orth receives the Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award
...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
...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 11- Monitoring of the Moreton Bay
...s deposited in Moreton Bay from flood. Why do we care about the light getting down to the bottom? Because we care about seagrasses. Seagrasses are the coastal canary for light attenuation and that's because seagrasses need more light than any other...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 12- Charismatic Environmental Initiatives
...risbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 12- Charismatic Environmental Initiatives ... Globally, seagrasses are a good indicator of ecosystem health, and so we have gone and put a global database together and started analyzin...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar
...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
...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
...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...
Chesapeake Bay Science and Management: A need for more effective scientific communication and adaptive management
...are half way home” because of the previous efforts that have reduced nutrient pollution to slightly over 20%. Also, the seagrasses in the Susquehanna Flats have re-emerged over time (Figure 2) from needed light conditions, absence of storm events,...
Citizen Science Programs
... 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...
Coastal Bays report card launch
...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
.... 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
...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
...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
...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...

Search form