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  My experiences along the Luangwa River

  ... home to the largest population of hippos in the world, who depend on the river for their survival. We also saw dozens of bird species and gained an overall deeper understanding of the importance of the Luangwa River to all of the life that inhabit...
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  A Listening Session Right off the Rappahannock River!

  ...ence! Picture taken by Bailee Porter on June 1st, 2024. Here the author is hold a baby guinea. A guinea is a domesticated bird that is usually kept for meat or eggs....
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  Discovering the Luangwa River

  ...n goods, are vital to protecting the vulnerable species that call the Luangwa their home. A wildlife guide explains about bird nests in South Luangwa National Park. Local women received a microloan to start their own artisan goods business in Mfuwe...
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  Diversity in Environmental Management Strategies found in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

  ... largest estuaries in Maine and is greatly affected by climate change. Both estuaries have a strong presence of migratory birds, eelgrass beds, and diverse bottom habitat that supports many industries and species. Hurricane Agnes in 1972 devastated...
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  On the River with Darion and Tre

  ...D.C., and West Virginia. This historic river is home to over 100 species of freshwater fish, approximately 100 species of birds, and 60 mammals including smaller amphibians and reptiles. On June 7th, we embarked on our journey to visit this revered...
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  University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Faculty Convocation

  ...An idea that was floated was to have organized field trips, including faculty, students, and staff. Horn Point has weekly bird walks, for example. Faculty convocations seem to fly by, because we spend so much time catching up with one another, espe...
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  Planning a Conference in Unprecedented Times

  ...idal plant species are vital to the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem as habitat and food sources for fishes, crabs, plankton, and birds. The WSC/ISBW14 meeting covered both marine and salt-tolerant freshwater species, such as eelgrass , and they will be co...
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  To Tweet or Not to Tweet: scientific communication is the new blue

  ...an be highly effective in endless scrolling at times inducing procrastination, the presence of a very popular little blue birdy has changed the distribution of science all over the world. “ Isolation or Collaboration ” by Aaron Davis is licensed un...
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  Let’s Learn Things We Never Knew, We Never Knew
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  We Blacks Don't Trust Us Scientists: Helping to Bridge a Gap Between Two Communities I am a Part of

  ...s behave, it can also have bottom-up effects on humans and other animals in the food chain, such as cows eating grass and birds eating fish. For example, birds have experienced their eggs shells thinning, potentially lessening their population. " A...
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  Black Lives (And Environmental Journalism) Matter

  ...ices. The result of this is policies and news stories that serve some, yet silence others. Stories of crabs, sailing, and birds are often told, and stories that point out issues of equity tend to get left behind. Journalists like Rona point out tha...
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  Chickens in Tanzania, rabid dogs in Indonesia, and road-killed pigs in Samoa: Exploring ethnographies of environmental knowledge in indigenous, local, and traditional cultures, to assess agreement between actions, perceptions, and values

  ...referred to differently by men and women). Cecil Brown articulated a theory of universal life-form categories, e.g. tree, bird, snake, in 1984.6 Berlin assessed that nomenclatures were non-arbitrary and often having a basis on either distinguishing...
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  Stakeholder workshop for Darwin Harbour report card

  ...n 1770. The highlight of the cruise was when Jim took us into the mangroves where we watched a beautiful sunset among the birds, anchored yachts, and crocodile traps. Beautiful Darwin Harbour sunset. On the following day (17 Mar 2020), Simon and I...
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  Ken Barton Sails Into Retirement

  ...n sands And watches the ships that go sailing Somewhere beyond UMCES He’s there watching for me If I could fly like birds on high Then straight to his arms I’d go sailing It’s far beyond the stars It’s near beyond the moon I...
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  Jamie's Australian Adventures

  ...icy allowing visitors to have close contact with many of the animals. I spent an electrifying day wandering past tropical birds, venomous snakes, large land predators, adorable otters who chirped and squeaked, and russet-colored kangaroos who would...
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  “Are you watching closely?”

  ... three parts, or acts. The first part is called the pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird, or a man... The second act is called the turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extra...
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  All about the Bay: Exploring history, heritage, and habitat at the Chesapeake Studies conference
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  The Second Verde River Report Card Workshop

  ...ons, forests and shrublands support diverse communities dependent on reoccurring wildfire. Riparian zones support diverse bird communities, frequented by bird watchers of all ages. And the river itself supports native and introduced fish, many of w...
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  A future for global biological ocean monitoring networks

  ...ng, and networking for key living resource groups that included seagrass, kelps and seaweeds, plankton, fish, turtles, seabirds, marine mammals, invertebrates, corals, and microbes. Learning about Zooplankton from Sonia Batten. Photo credit Heath K...
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  A global hotspot for crocodiles, turtles, migratory birds, and mangroves – Bhitarkanika Conservation Area, Odisha, India

  A global hotspot for crocodiles, turtles, migratory birds, and mangroves – Bhitarkanika Conservation Area, Odisha, India ... Let us start this blog by saying that whenever we tra...
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  Dottie Samonisky retirement party

  ...de troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the UMCES labs That's where you'll find me Somewhere within the UMCES hummingbirds fly Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? If happy little hummingbirds fly Beyond the rainbow. Why, oh,...
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  A Time to Krill

  ...mangrove forests, these stock ecology textbook phrases seemingly quicken in the cries and shocks of color that decorate a bird and primate-filled canopy. Thick trunks diverge into a rigid tangle of stilt-like roots that plunge into blue-green salin...
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  Creating the Texas Coast Ecosystem Health Report Card

  ... Ecosystem 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 m...
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  Parramatta River Study Tour
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  The Nitrogen Cycle is Seizing Up Globally and Scientists Might Not Be Ready to Hear It

  ... have otherwise and their leaves are less nutritious to insects, thus suppressing population sizes. The same goes for the birds and bats that eat those insects. When nitrogen is less available, every living thing holds on to the element for longer,...

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