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  Players and Problems: Socio-Environmental Management in the Chesapeake Bay

  ...more fertilizers into the Bay. 14 Climate change amplifies everything Warmer temperatures changes are pushing crabs and seagrass farther north, while setting the stage for more intense storms and flooding events similar to Hurricane Agnes (1972) an...
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  Humanity’s Place in the Environment: How Social Indicators Strengthen Ecological Report Cards

  ...s. Since the beginning of report card evaluations, factors such as water quality, benthic organisms, phytoplankton, and seagrasses have been commonly used to measure the overall health of marine and estuarine bodies. While these factors are effecti...
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  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...
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  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...
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  On the River with Darion and Tre

  ...e multiple species of plants and animals throughout the journey. There were loblolly pine, some oak trees, and a lot of seagrass in the water we were floating above. We also noticed there was a high presence of invasive grass that was along the riv...
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  Planning a Conference in Unprecedented Times

  ...again—all during “unprecedented times.” In early 2020, we here at IAN made the difficult decision to postpone the World Seagrass Conference and International Seagrass Biology Workshop (WSC/ISBW14) until 2022. When we finally arrived at the conferen...
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  Engaging with the Belyuen people and Larrakia people, Traditional Owners of Darwin Harbour, Australia

  ...ed as to why healthy habitats and animals did not make the list even though we had a lot of discussion about mangroves, seagrasses, rocky reefs, and mud flats as well as fish, shellfish, turtles and dugong. But on reflection, focusing on clean wate...
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  Tony Larkum's 80th Birthday Party

  ...rd my boat named Adohr in Bluepoint, Long Island and traveling to Woods Hole during the summers to continue researching seagrasses. Tony was attending the VII International Congress on Photosynthesis at Brown University in 1986. So we arranged via...
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  The Susan Williams Session at 2019 CERF: I Heard it Through the Grapevine

  ...l & Estuarine Research Federation conference in Mobile, AL, Bob "JJ" Orth and Ken Heck organized a special session "Seagrasses: A tribute to Susan Williams ". This special session went for 2.5 days with 56 oral papers and innumerable posters as...
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  Facilitating a Great Barrier Reef partnership workshop in Brisbane

  ...d boat users. I appreciated that fish, sharks, manta rays, sea turtles and dugongs were depicted, as well as mangroves, seagrasses and corals. Simon led a session of SNAP! , in which the participants identified and then voted on indicators for the...
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  All about the Bay: Exploring history, heritage, and habitat at the Chesapeake Studies conference
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  Sweet Kenny Moore is retiring

  ...‘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 thro...
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  Celebration of Susan Williams’ life and impact at UC Davis and Bodega Marine Laboratory

  ... Washington, D.C. to testify on her ‘own dime’ and her regular participation on the advisory committee. The seagrass and seaweed session was chaired by Megan Dethier , from the University of Washington. Megan read a quote by William Jam...
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  Gulf of Thailand Study Tour

  ...ow including five buildings with nice displays of various natural history features of the Gulf of Thailand. I liked the seagrass and mangrove exhibits, which emphasized the high species diversity in Thailand. The museum was on a hillside with nice...
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  Creating the Texas Coast Ecosystem Health Report Card

  ...m 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 met at the...
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  Scientists Alone Won’t Save the Earth

  ...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...
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  Previewing NY Harbor exhibit at the New York Aquarium on Coney Island

  ...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...
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  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...
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  Rich Batiuk’s retirement from the Chesapeake Bay Program

  ...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...
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  Seagrass recovery in Chesapeake Bay: A success for Chesapeake Bay research and restoration

  Seagrass recovery in Chesapeake Bay: A success for Chesapeake Bay research and restoration ... Raleigh Hood asked Bob “JJ...
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  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...

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