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  "In this room, it’s playtime!" Creative inspiration at the Citizen Science conference (part 1)

  ... clicking 'buttons' to turn on data layers containing information about average wingspan and migration distance for three bird species. Later that evening, we attended a book panel discussion featuring three authors of recently published books: Cit...
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  2018 IAN Retreat at the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center

  ...Creek. Some of us buddied up for a tandem, while others rode solo. Katie May and I were able to catch glimpses of wetland birds, a terrapin, and my first ever  bald eagle. Heath, Katie May, and me kayaking in Marshy Creek. Photo credit: Sky Sw...
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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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  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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  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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  A visit to Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, India

  ...roves and a bit of interior rainforest to the heron rookery. We saw saltwater crocodiles (largest being around 3 meters), birds and, although I didn't see it personally, a King Cobra. Our boat and skilled pilot. The national park has been managed v...
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  Across and through the Bay: Rio, Niteroi, and Guanabara expeditions

  ...here there had recently been an oil spill. Large oil company operation (left), and recent oil spill orange booms (right). Birds such as cormorants are plentiful in Guanabara Bay. After one oil spill in the Bay that caused a lot of pollution, the co...
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  All about the Bay: Exploring history, heritage, and habitat at the Chesapeake Studies conference
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  Ancient culture and unique biodiversity - Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

  ...freshwater fish species, more than 2,000 plants and over 10,000 species of insects. It provides habitat for more than 290 bird species (over one third of Australia’s birds). Some of these species are threatened or endangered. Many are found n...
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  Awakening Environmental Passion

  ...petitions, membership, demonstrations HEART Artistic ; songs, paintings, sculptures, poetry Nature ; observe biota (fish, birds, flowers), phenomena (bioluminescence, night sky) Acknowledgement ; indirect (see or hear your words repeated), direct (...
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  Baltimore’s Annual Healthy Harbor Report Card

  ...gress followed by more rapid progress. He mentioned that he lives and works adjacent to Baltimore Harbor and can see more bird life than ever before, an early sign of progress. He also pointed out the new water wheel, installed 3 weeks ago has alre...
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  Beautiful Blackwater

  ...nal Wildlife Refuge Covering more than 27,000 acres of mostly tidal marsh, Blackwater is a well-known haven for migratory birds in the winter, but still offers much to see during the summer, including the endangered Delmarva fox squirrel and any nu...
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  Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 5 - Report card examples

  ...hey've been measuring a bunch of things. We had density of exotics, presence of insect paths, presence of forest dwelling bird species, the over population of deer, native seedling regeneration, forest connectivity and percent impervious. So each o...
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  Billion Oyster Conference and New York City Part 2: Shifting Baselines in America

  ...n, and global warming. Before being hunted into extinction, passenger pigeons were thought to be one of the most populous birds in the US. Image credit Tim Hough, Wikimedia As I watched the sun go down over Manhattan, I thought about how the city w...
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  Biophilia on a coral cay: Reflections from Lady Elliot Island

  ...y land created by the accumulation of calcium carbonate then becomes an oasis for additional life amid an oceanic desert. Birds roost on the island and concentrate nutrients that they gather from the surrounding sea by catching fish and other marin...
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  Biscayne Bay Marine Health Inaugural Summit

  ...oduced every year. So the fertilizer used to grow the chicken feed (corn and soy) and the chicken manure from 600 million birds was causing water quality degradation. When the Eastern Shore counties found out that they were in almost as bad a shape...
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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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  Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar

  ...Some of you might have seen the guy from Cornell [ Steve Kelling ] who came over a couple months ago, talking about this eBird project. They have twenty million data points at the end of the year on their website--all volunteers, and their data int...
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  Calculating a Lake Health Index for the Great Lakes

  ...particular, Total Phosphorus, b) toxicants in offshore waters, c) contaminants in whole fish and d) contaminants in water birds. The fish and bird contaminants are used as integrated bio-indicators of water column concentrations. The aquatic-depend...
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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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  Citizen Science Programs

  ...ational 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 efforts require coor...
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  Coastal Bays report card launch

  ...on In conclusion, the Coastal Bays are fairly intact ecosystems with abundant marshes and seagrass meadows, colonial waterbirds, fish and shellfish. The Coastal Bays also support rare, threatened and endangered plants and animals, which actually be...
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  Council for Environmental Deans & Directors summer conference; Boulder, Colorado

  ...on for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. The Executive Director of CEDD is Dr. David Blockstein , an avid birder who conducts early morning bird walks in the different conference locations. The current CEDD President is Dr. Bill Sul...
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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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