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Developing a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef: Part 2
...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 Swan River report card
...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 an Index of Resilience to Climate Change Impacts to the Great Barrier Reef – Workshop 3, Townsville, Australia.
...ient coral reef include high calcification rates, high coral and fish structural and community composition, and healthy seagrass communities (McLanahan et al. 2012). As part of research funded by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation , scientists are d...
Developing scientific stories for Chesapeake Bay submerged aquatic vegetation
...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
... 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
... 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...
Discussing jellyfish with scientific colleagues and Diane Rehm
...portray the ' Rise of Slime ' during the increasing phase, and then ignore the decreasing phase. And Carlos Duarte , my seagrass colleague who is also in Rob's jellyfish group, co-authored a 2013 paper ' Is global ocean sprawl a cause of jellyfish...
Discussing science communication at CERF2013
...ation Network implemented in the State of the Estuary 2012 report. State of the Estuary 2012. Bob Virnstein , a retired seagrass colleague, who has been studying the Indian River lagoon on Florida's east coast for many decades talked about how seag...
Drawing sketches and creating conceptual diagrams to communicate science
...as a sketch of the sun reflectors and floating shade screens that I used to increase and decrease light availability to seagrasses in Izembek Lagoon, Alaska . During my PhD research, I drew the seagrass depth transect from Great Harbor in Woods Hol...
Dugong Rock; Using iconic creatures in conservation
...ey remain globally significant. A conservation icon in northern Australia is the dugong , a marine mammal that feeds on seagrass. Several years ago, Dr. Peter Oliver wrote a song called "Dugong Rock". One of the reasons that Peter chose a dugong fo...
EcoHealth Metrics for the Texas Coast Workshop
...titute. In 2013, we created a vision document for a Gulf of Mexico Report Card with example indicators for pelicans and seagrass. Although it’s a few years old, it’s still a great document that provided us a framework to begin this process again. T...
Encountering Former Students
...is student Mitch Lyons. Chris and Mitch, who are part of Professor Stuart Phinn's remote sensing group, had worked up a seagrass risk map for Moreton Bay, based on light attenuation from the flood plume, bathymetry and knowledge of seagrass light r...
Environmental literacy of the Texas coastline
...ient along the Texas coast in precipitation/evaporation and temperature resulting to gradients in relative abundance of seagrass, salt marsh and mangrove habitats. Texas lagoons and embayments are affected by hurricanes, nutrient loading, harmful a...
Erasmus Mundus thesis defense in Faro, Portugal
... 50 m away and the inlet lapping at the hotel wall. Ria Formosa has large tides (up to 3 m) and extensive salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and supports an active aquaculture industry (mainly small, tasty clams, but also finfish). Historically, there...
Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club
... in the Choptank River and transited the Bay from top to bottom. I talked of swimming on the extensive oyster reefs and seagrass meadows, learning about the 132 recipes for crab cakes from watermen, and watching skipjacks ply the oyster reefs of th...
Field Trips in Puerto Rico…. with a mission
...st. From there we traveled to the adjacent ecosystems on the coast, stopping at Playa Tamarindo. Bill and I, both being seagrass ecologists, quickly ran out to the dense meadows of Thalassia testudinum (turtle grass) that lined the beach. There wer...
Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach
..."white paper" should be carefully examined. There are cases, such as in the Great Barrier Reef, where the coral health, seagrass, and water quality data were obtained by citizen science initiatives. In another case, trailer truck rentals were used...
From the Toxic Algal Blooms of Australia's Coast to the Oil-soaked Shores of the Gulf of Mexico: The Role of Science in Environmental Crisis
...gbya is a toxic, filamentous, marine cyanobacterium capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen and is commonly epiphytic on seagrass, coral, and macroalgae. Blooms of Lyngbya can uproot whole seagrass beds and create hypoxic zones beneath the floating...
Going from "Aha!" to "Well, Duh" in the Great Barrier Reef, with beer coasters and Burdekin Gold
...t Barrier Reef was divided into six reporting regions and we selected a variety of independent water quality, coral and seagrass indicators to generate scores for each region. David Haynes sailing to Magnetic Island near Townsville, Australia Our "...
Great Barrier Reef report card workshop
...ption and effectiveness (paddock scale), catchment condition and loads (catchment scale), marine water quality, inshore seagrass and coral indicators (reef scale). The shorthand for the Paddock to Reef program is P2R. Grahame Byron from Queensland...

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