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Population and Environment Case Studies: Local Approaches to a Global Challenge (Blog Post)
...d a sustainable tourism-based economy. They are looking for ways to increase the resilience of their diverse mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs to promote high-end ecotourism and manage development to protect its unique ecosystem. However, manag...
Practical visual literacy for science communication (Blog Post)
...p: A photo of a kayaking trip, which can be used to enhance written information. Bottom: a video discussing the role of seagrass in sequestering blue carbon. Visual credit: Integration and Application Network A diversity of visual elements enhances...
Presentation dialog (Blog Post)
...mportant message? B: Well, let's see, I was going to tell everyone how we established that there is a global decline in seagrasses. R: How big a decline? B: I'm not sure I can remember, I need my PowerPoint. R: Why are you even talking about this s...
Previewing NY Harbor exhibit at the New York Aquarium on Coney Island (Blog Post)
...in while watching them in this exhibit, serving as a testament to its authenticity. To top it off, they even had a nice seagrass tank, complete with cute seahorses hanging onto the blades. Any aquarium with seagrasses gets my vote! Seagrass and sea...
Queenscliff, Bellarine peninsula and Victoria embayments (Blog Post)
...en roof and slanting windows to obtain winter solar heat but to avoid summer heat. The location on Swan Bay overlooking seagrass meadows with wading birds and raptors was stunning. The ocean beach on Bass Strait is a short walk across the narrow pe...
Reef Resilience in Townsville (Blog Post)
...-based trajectories of reef structure Deploying calcification stations and staining crusty algae Measuring and modeling seagrass productivity All to better assess reef resilience The IAN 11 team helped consolidate the results Drawing diagrams, writ...
Remembering Bob Simon: A class act (Blog Post)
...he fact that my Marine Botany group at the University of Queensland had been documenting the expansion of mangroves and seagrasses in the nearshore reefs, which we attributed to increased coastal inputs of sediments and nutrients. 60 Minutes’ corre...
Remembering Randy Alberte (Blog Post)
...gy). I told Randy that I was interested in pursuing a PhD following my Master's degree from the University of Alaska on seagrasses and he invited me to visit his research group at Barnes Laboratory, The University of Chicago. On that visit a few mo...
Resilience based management of the Great Barrier Reef (Blog Post)
...arrier Reef Foundation, providing workshop overview Another example from the Caribbean was Florida Bay , when a massive seagrass dieback led to an ecological cascade which included phytoplankton blooms, sponge mortalities and spiny lobster declines...
Rich Batiuk’s retirement from the Chesapeake Bay Program (Blog Post)
...he powerpoint also included some historic photos of Rich. My favorite was a photo of a smiling sea otter cavorting in a seagrass meadow, which reminded me of Rich. We featured this photo in the video. Rich Batiuk lured scientists to the 'Fish Shack...
Samoa; tsunamis, coral reefs, fishing, dredging (Blog Post)
...c islands are dispersal limited. Extensive live coral cover on north shore Samoan reefs There were small patches of the seagrass Halophila spp. in shallow water inshore of the coral. The fish life of the coral reef was rather disappointing, as ther...
Savai'i Island, Samoa; lava, blowholes, pigs, churches (Blog Post)
...t had destroyed the forest, with a new tree canopy forming below. This park was created by Dr. Paul Alan Cox , a former seagrass colleague of mine who has had a long standing conservation role in Samoa. Rainforest in Savai’i We saw many small marin...
Science Cafe and science communication training in Boston (Blog Post)
..., MA , and was organized by graduate students and Bob Chen from the University of Massachusetts , Boston. I spoke about seagrasses and their lack of coastal charisma, Brian Card from Amazon Web Services talked about an amazing visualization of Bost...
Scientists Alone Won’t Save the Earth (Blog Post)
...ty of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). Professor Dennison started his career as an ecologist studying seagrass and discovered a novel phytoplankton bloom (brown tide). Later, his career path was influenced by his postdoctoral fell...
Sea turtles, dugong and a major city skyline (Blog Post)
...s large populations of green sea turtles ( Chelonia mydas ) and dugong ( Dugong dugon ). The turtles and dugong feed on seagrasses growing on the shallow sand banks of Eastern Moreton Bay. These shallow sand banks are flushed with clean ocean water...
Seven attributes of a vibrant science group (Blog Post)
...d , we had a very active group of researchers, science communicators, graduate and undergraduate students investigating seagrasses, mangroves, corals, macroalgae, phytoplankton, benthic microalgae, bacteria and viruses. We called ourselves the Mari...
Speaking (scientific) truth to power through storytelling: using lessons from the past and examples from the present to plan for the future (Blog Post)
...m with participation from political leaders, research scientists and the local community, problems of sedimentation and seagrass loss, sewage plumes, and harmful algal blooms were greatly reduced1. Similar case studies are available for many region...
Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries (Blog Post)
...ics like Chari Pattiaratchi 's, and the wonderful photographs like Marion Cambridge 's historical and recent underwater seagrass photos. Lyn Beazley used paintings and beautiful photographs to illustrate the history and science of the Swan River. A...
Sweet Kenny Moore is retiring (Blog Post)
...s that they ‘vacuumed’ up from an eelgrass meadow using flowing seawater pumped up from below the pier. We talked about seagrass and I admired their offices out on the pier. I didn’t stay too long (it was cold and they were still sorting through sa...
The first thing people ask: Where is Guam, anyway? (Blog Post)
...s scuba diving and snorkeling area where you can see a large variety of fish and corals. There are also healthy beds of seagrasses that provide shelter and food for fish, sea turtles, and other aquatic animals. The dark areas in the foreground are...

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