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    65 results for "seagrass":

    • 2010 Maryland Coastal Bays report card
      ...Bays health is defined as the progress of four water quality indicators (TN, TP, Chl a , DO) and two biotic indicators (seagrass, hard clams) toward scientifically derived ecological thresholds or goals. The six indicators are combined into one ove...
    • 2023 Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card Release
      ...-, which is the highest score that the Coastal Bays have ever received. This increase was driven by improvements in the seagrass and hard clam scores, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. Congratulations to the Maryland Coastal Bays Pr...
    • A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems; Orth et al 2006
      A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems; Orth et al 2006 ... Conceptual diagrams for (a) tropical and (b) temperate seagrass ecosystems, detailing key ecosystem services and major mechanisms of seagrass loss. (c) Temperate and tropical seagrass...
    • A new Program Manager for IAN
      ...at North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia, with fiancee Courtney Schupp. ... Tim Carruthers has a background in seagrass research in Australia, Panama, and Mexico. Tim has worked with IAN since 2001 working on many regional, national, and i...
    • A vision for the Gulf of Mexico Report Card
      ... policy-makers, stakeholders, scientists, and, most importantly, the general public. The vision document uses birds and seagrass ecosystems as prototypes for two components of the report card. The Report Card prototype was unveiled on December 7 at...
    • Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems
      Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems ... Global map indicating changes in seagrass area plotted by coastline regions ... This global assessment of 215 studies found that seagrasses have been disappearin...
    • AERS 70th anniversary conference
      ...lanie Jackson , a Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science student from Horn Point Laboratory, performed Bill's song "Seagrass Blue Carbon Blues" with the CERFtones....
    • An integrated assessment approach described in recent publication
      ...e used to create maps of each ecosystem health indicator (phytoplankton concentrations, nutrient levels, water clarity, seagrass distribution, harmful algal bloom distribution and sewage plumes mapped through stable isotope incorporation into bioin...
    • Annapolis, MD
      Annapolis, MD ... In August 2020, IAN will be hosting the fourteenth biennial International Seagrass Biology Workshop (ISBW14). The conference's theme is "Signs of Success: Reversing the Course of Seagrass Degradation."...
    • Blog and Video Highlights
      ...inald V. Truitt in his own words: A visit to the Maryland Room archives In memory of Jay Zieman, University of Virginia seagrass ecologist Willamette River Report Card - I can see the light at the end of the tunnel...
    • Blog highlights from June
      .... Visiting the Great Lakes to talk report cards and communication ideas Chesapeake Research and Modeling Symposium 2018 Seagrass recovery in Chesapeake Bay: A success for Chesapeake Bay research and restoration River Rally 2018...
    • Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence Coastal Trends hosts researcher, educators, and students
      ...ooms. Through lectures, activities, and field trips, the orientation program introduced the teams to research trends in seagrass and dead zones and educational trends in inquiry and critical thinking. During the program, the teams discussed how to...
    • CERF Conference in Mobile, Alabama
      ...ile, Alabama. Staff chaired several sessions on topics including coastal environmental management, citizen science, and seagrasses. IAN also led two conference workshops on science communication and data synthesis. Presenters included Bill, Heath,...
    • COAST Card team's Tokyo experience: Amamo2023 and J-COAST Conference insights
      ...rence and meeting hosted at the Sasikawa Peace Foundation. While there, team members listened to and presented talks on seagrass, blue carbon, youth engagement, science communication, and the COAST Card Project. The conference highlighted the impor...
    • Coastal Bays Report Card 2011
      ...water quality indicators (total nitrogen, total phoshorus, Chlorophyll a , dissolved oxygen) and two biotic indicators (seagrass, hard clams) toward scientifically derived ecological thresholds or goals. The six indicators are combined into one ove...
    • Coming soon: the International Seagrass Biology Workshop
      Coming soon: the International Seagrass Biology Workshop ... The 14th International Seagrass Biology Workshop and 2022 World Seagrass Conference will be held at The Graduate Annapolis Hotel in Annapolis, MD, USA...
    • Conceptual diagrams used in publication on nutrient dynamics of seagrass meadows.
      Conceptual diagrams used in publication on nutrient dynamics of seagrass meadows. ... Conceptual diagram of processes of nutrient input in the Yucatan Peninsula published in Estuarine, Coastal...
    • ConversatIANS with Ed Sheldon
      ... scientist and leader of the nonprofit Fenit Coast Conservation (FCC) in Ireland. Ed spoke about his efforts to collect seagrass data along Ireland’s coast and led an interactive discussion about mapping the seagrasses and how these efforts could b...
    • Development of water transparency criteria for Florida seagrass
      Development of water transparency criteria for Florida seagrass ... The workshop resulted in a 4-page newsletter. ... The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is devel...
    • Erasmus Mundus Scicomm instruction
      ...rogram is a joint Masters delivered by an international partnership of European universities. Bill presented modules on seagrass research, conservation and management; Coupled human and natural systems; Environmental management; Science communicati...
    • Extinction risk assessment of the world's seagrass species
      Extinction risk assessment of the world's seagrass species ... Global distribution of (a) seagrass species richness; (b) distribution of the 15 Threatened or Near Threatened seagrass species; (c) number of seagrass spe...
    • Florida Bay conference
      ...ractions between Florida Bay and the Everglades, Gulf of Mexico, and Florida Keys, unraveling the cause of a mysterious seagrass die-off in the 1980s, Hurricane Katrina impacts, and benthic biofiltration by sponges....
    • Global seagrass distribution and diversity: A bioregional model
      Global seagrass distribution and diversity: A bioregional model ... Conceptual diagrams depicting two of the global seagrass regions; the 'Tropical Altlantic' and the 'Mediterranean' ... In this paper, seagrass bioregions at the scale of ocean...
    • Global seagrass trajectories project launched
      Global seagrass trajectories project launched ... 'Global Seagrass Trajectories' working group at the February 2006 NCEAS meeting. ... A working group of a dozen scientists from Australi...
    • Great Barrier Reef Foundation workshop
      ...coralline algae, stress biomarkers in corals, habitat monitoring by automated image analysis, 3D reefscape mapping, and seagrass productivity and temperature sensitivity. This project is part of a joint project of UMCES and Charles Darwin Universit...