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"Seagrasses of the World" revisited: "A Guide to Southern Temperate Seagrasses" published

"Seagrasses of the World" revisited: "A Guide to Southern Temperate Seagrasses" published ... Seagrass science was largely influenced by the seminal book " Seagrass of the World ", written by Cornelis den Hartog in 1970. P...

6th anniversary of the IAN symbol libraries

...hy Waterways campaign in SE Queensland. The first symbols were subtropical in nature, and there were lots of Australian seagrasses and mangroves as well as various Australian animals. When the Integration and Application Network was created in 2002...

A Day Trip to Horn Point Lab

...some of the history of this lab. What struck me the most was the role that the lab played in determining the decline of seagrass in the Chesapeake Bay in the 1970s. As we were told, scientists had theorized that only two things could have caused it...

A future for global biological ocean monitoring networks

...experts on the state of observation technology, monitoring, and networking for key living resource groups that included seagrass, kelps and seaweeds, plankton, fish, turtles, seabirds, marine mammals, invertebrates, corals, and microbes. Learning a...

A New IAN Science Communication Course on Ecosystem Health Report Cards in Adelaide, Australia

...ne, freshwater, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments, reporting on elements like pest species, soil health, reefs, seagrass, salt marsh, and dunes. These report cards use conceptual diagrams and the IAN symbol libraries . Conceptual diagram fo...

A new special journal issue on water education

...of scholarship about education. In the past, I have enjoyed learning new topics as I was involved in publications about seagrasses, corals, mangroves, macroalgae, phytoplankton, microbes, etc., but this foray into education was a bigger jump than t...

A new version of the song 'Memphis Tennessee' released

...nal score and sang and recorded it from his studio in Perth , Australia. Gary was also my musical partner on the song ' Seagrass Blue Carbon Blues ', which has gone 'bacterial' (not quite viral, but popular among a select group of marine biologists...

A picture is worth a thousand words… but what about a conceptual diagram?

...produce this diagram: Increased nutrients from farming limit the light that can penetrate the water, limiting growth of seagrass beds. Credit: Christina Goethel With this quick, but productive game behind us, we reviewed our own conceptual diagrams...

A visit to the Australian Institute of Marine Science

...opkinson and Bowl Reefs). I had a wonderful time at AIMS in 1985-1986. I had been interested in water motion effects on seagrasses and Dave Barnes and I investigated the effect of water motion on coral calcification and photosynthesis. I ended up s...

Aegean Sea field trip: Egyptian sand, seagrass, marine sanctuaries, cruising

Aegean Sea field trip: Egyptian sand, seagrass, marine sanctuaries, cruising ... We drove from our Marmarsis hotel on the south side of the Marmasis peninsula frontin...

All about the Bay: Exploring history, heritage, and habitat at the Chesapeake Studies conference

Assessing the vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change

...y to climate change. The Great Barrier Reef components used in this assessment of climate impacts included coral reefs, seagrass meadows, mangrove forests and catchment runoff. A group of experts representing each of these components and Integratio...

Association for Science of Limnology and Oceanography in San Juan, Puerto Rico

...ut the phenomenon of “ocean darkening” referring to the reduction in light penetration into oceanic waters. Seagrasses were a theme at this conference, if only because of the impacts of an introduced seagrass species, Halophila stipulac...

Atlantic Estuarine Research Society 70th anniversary conference

...RS meeting. Photo credit: Danielle Kreeger My longtime colleague, Bob “JJ” Orth , gave a plenary talk about seagrasses that highlighted our collaborative efforts to synthesize seagrass trajectories globally through the National Center f...

Attending the 2023 C-StREAM Symposium

...ty) talked about the inter-agency blue carbon policy brief that she worked on. At the lunch break, I alerted her to my “Seagrass Blue Caron Blues” song. Hannah Brown (Binghamton University) provided data on the salinization of groundwater in Norfol...

Australia reflections

...ralian Institute of Marine Science , and the team of resource managers at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Seagrass and mangrove research, the other major tropical marine ecosystems, is also particularly strong in Australia. ... Bill D...

Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis workshop: "Australian seagrass habitats: Condition and threats"

Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis workshop: "Australian seagrass habitats: Condition and threats" ... I participated in a week long seagrass working group meeting at the Moreton Bay Re...

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

Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus

Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus ... On May 11, replicas of two of the three ships that Christopher Columbus sailed across...

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...

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