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Communicating science with marine laboratory and field station directors at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

...do not know who in the audience was the culprit (although I have my suspicions) but someone who was not in our group of seagrass scientists at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis project on Seagrass Trajectories possessed some...

Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network

...he report card process. A diverse set of examples can be found in a previous blog, “ Top ten conceptual diagrams: Seagrasses, streams, eco-rhythms ”. One of the strengths of using conceptual diagrams is the ability to depict historical...

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...

Data Visualization 101: Simple changes can make a world of difference

...ur audience what you are talking about, rather than depending on text alone. (Would I know that Zostera and Ruppia were seagrasses without seeing the seagrass symbols in the first slide above? Definitely not.) Sample recommendations that can be mad...

Developing a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef: Part 1

...ide in surface waters of the ocean. Katharina has observed the decline in sensitive tabular and plate corals, with lush seagrasses and one type of coral ( Porites ) remaining at the highest carbon dioxide concentrations. She uses three seep sites a...

Developing a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef: Part 2

...workshop was that I was able to visit with two former Marine Botany members following the workshop. Catherine Collier , seagrass scientist at James Cook University , and her husband Dieter Tracey, who worked with me producing the book ' Where river...

Developing a strategy for Long Island Sound embayment report cards

...Whoa, whoa, whoa It comes down to sampling reality And it's fine with me 'cause we can't do it all I don't care if it's seagrass or macroalgae I do have some reasons That I left some indicators behind I'm in a Long Island Sound state of mind. Oh ye...

Developing a Swan River report card

...k swans and has dolphins that regularly swim up to the foreshore of the central business district of Perth. It supports seagrasses (black swan food), prawns and fish, but has some severe water quality problems. For example, the dissolved oxygen lev...

Developing an Index of Resilience to Climate Change Impacts to the Great Barrier Reef – Workshop 3, Townsville, Australia.

...ient coral reef include high calcification rates, high coral and fish structural and community composition, and healthy seagrass communities (McLanahan et al. 2012). As part of research funded by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation , scientists are d...

Developing scientific stories for Chesapeake Bay submerged aquatic vegetation

...c Vegetation Synthesis . The SAV team during the second meeting in Solomon's Island. Bob Orth and I co-chaired a global seagrass trajectories synthesis effort at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) . We saw the utility...

Developing video techniques for science communication

... music video using relevant slides and scrolling text to follow the lyrics. An example of this type of music video is " Seagrass Blue Carbon Blues ". Video interviews: We occasionally will interview people and produce a short video to use in educat...

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...

Discussing jellyfish with scientific colleagues and Diane Rehm

...portray the ' Rise of Slime ' during the increasing phase, and then ignore the decreasing phase. And Carlos Duarte , my seagrass colleague who is also in Rob's jellyfish group, co-authored a 2013 paper ' Is global ocean sprawl a cause of jellyfish...

Discussing science communication at CERF2013

...ation Network implemented in the State of the Estuary 2012 report. State of the Estuary 2012. Bob Virnstein , a retired seagrass colleague, who has been studying the Indian River lagoon on Florida's east coast for many decades talked about how seag...

Drawing sketches and creating conceptual diagrams to communicate science

...as a sketch of the sun reflectors and floating shade screens that I used to increase and decrease light availability to seagrasses in Izembek Lagoon, Alaska . During my PhD research, I drew the seagrass depth transect from Great Harbor in Woods Hol...

Dugong Rock; Using iconic creatures in conservation

...ey remain globally significant. A conservation icon in northern Australia is the dugong , a marine mammal that feeds on seagrass. Several years ago, Dr. Peter Oliver wrote a song called "Dugong Rock". One of the reasons that Peter chose a dugong fo...

EcoHealth Matrix Songbook

...in kept pourin', fallin' on my ears And I wonder, still I wonder Larry'll stop the rain. Larry stopped the rain! In the seagrass group breakout, chaired by Patrick Biber , Holly Greening who runs the Tampa Bay Estuary Program , told us about how th...

EcoHealth Metrics for the Texas Coast Workshop

...titute. In 2013, we created a vision document for a Gulf of Mexico Report Card with example indicators for pelicans and seagrass. Although it’s a few years old, it’s still a great document that provided us a framework to begin this proc...

Encountering Former Students

...is student Mitch Lyons. Chris and Mitch, who are part of Professor Stuart Phinn's remote sensing group, had worked up a seagrass risk map for Moreton Bay, based on light attenuation from the flood plume, bathymetry and knowledge of seagrass light r...

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...

Environmental literacy of the Texas coastline

...ient along the Texas coast in precipitation/evaporation and temperature resulting to gradients in relative abundance of seagrass, salt marsh and mangrove habitats. Texas lagoons and embayments are affected by hurricanes, nutrient loading, harmful a...

Erasmus Mundus thesis defense in Faro, Portugal

... 50 m away and the inlet lapping at the hotel wall. Ria Formosa has large tides (up to 3 m) and extensive salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and supports an active aquaculture industry (mainly small, tasty clams, but also finfish). Historically, there...

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...

Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club

...e Choptank River and transited the Bay from top to bottom. I talked of swimming on the extensive oyster reefs and seagrass meadows, learning about the 132 recipes for crab cakes from watermen, and watching skipjacks ply the oyster reefs of th...

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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