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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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  From Walden to Now: A Look at the Environmental Movement in the USA

  ... to be be devoted to the topic of religion in the future. One more discussion topic I will highlight is the importance of birds in the environmental movement and conservation efforts. This topic was initiated by Emily's question asking about the si...
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  Field Trips in Puerto Rico…. with a mission
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  Maryland’s inaugural State of the Coast conference

  ... Chincoteague Island . I highlighted several restoration efforts that are underway, including island creation for nesting birds using sediments from navigational dredging. In addition, mosquito ditch filling to reduce marsh erosion and the removal...
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  Exploring "Down Under"

  ...age for me – it made the limited encounters I had with animals all the more memorable. I was fortunate to see bower birds and pademelons, colossal spiders and yes, macaws. The camp was even raided by bush turkeys which, as far as tomorrow...
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  Environmental literacy for the Assabet, Sudbury and Concord Rivers

  ...ter quality. The rivers have been, and continue to be highly valued for recreation. Currently, paddling, fishing, biking, bird watching and hiking are popular recreational activities. The Assabet, Sudbury and Concord Rivers are challenged by signif...
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  You Can’t Spell Earth Without Art
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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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  Talking about the Tennessee River report card in Chattanooga: Part 1

  ...ecause it is largest freshwater aquarium in the world, with excellent displays of many types of freshwater fish, turtles, birds and salamanders. They also had a specific regional focus on the Tennessee River fauna, which I appreciated. The aquarium...
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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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  "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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  What are these data trying to tell us?

  ... the shifting mosaic of wetland and submerged aquatic vegetation communities, and the health and behavior of  wading birds , oysters , alligators and crocodiles . History of Everglades monitoring on display at the South Florida Water Managemen...
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  Dogfish, farmland and toast – what’s culture got to do with them?

  ...omplex phenomena. Credit: jcpag2012 Why are these models important? Last week we discussed nature and culture, but from a bird’s eye view. This week we discussed how certain groups of people relate to specific natural phenomena and environmen...
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  Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink, unless something is done: How science is used in legal cases to improve the environment

  ...derately to heavily oiled coastal marshes and mangroves, including the insects, crabs, shrimp, and fish that inhabit them Birds, sea turtles and dolphins exposed to oil slicks While a settlement was made for the criminal activities that led to the...
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  Exploring Hawaii: arid zone ecology, vog and volcanoes

  ...roup conservation efforts. Edith showed us the resident nēnē geese ( Branta sandvicensis ), the iconic Hawaiian bird which is the rarest goose on the planet. When Captain Cook arrived in the ' Sandwich Islands ' in 1778, there were an est...
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  Moana Revisited

  ...the workshop, we enjoyed sitting outside at the campus pub, drinking local Kona Longboard beer and listening to the mynah birds in the trees. The sound of the mynahs and the sight of pandanus trees made me recall my stint at the University of Queen...
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  You’ve got to crack a few eggs to make an omelet: Balancing differing worldviews and appealing to stakeholders in environmental management

  ...e Poplar Island, giving industry a cheap place to dispose of dredge material and creating robust nesting areas for native birds3. A dump truck moves around material on Poplar Island. (Photo: Chesapeake Bay Program) However, most environmental manag...
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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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  Rachel Carson versus the Zombie Horde

  ...6, which makes it comparable to books written by Charles Darwin a century earlier but less engaging than To Kill a Mockingbird , the popular novel from the same time (NI 24). It also falls short of the NI of ~20 that appears to be the lower limit f...
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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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  Mission Aransas Pilot Project

  ...y areas) as nesting areas. Although other issues were discussed, it was decided that marsh habitat for all colonial water birds was the overarching value that we would pursue in this exercise. The first afternoon was spent really trying to figure o...
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  How to create conceptual cross-section diagrams

  ...and bridges can be identified from Google Earth. 8. Site descriptions are consulted to identify iconic species like fish, birds and other wildlife which can be used in the cross-section diagrams. In addition, runoff from impervious surfaces, submar...
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  Environmental literacy of the Texas coastline

  ...g., brown tide) and hypersalinty. There are significant fisheries, oyster and serpulid worm reefs, resident and migratory birds in Texas coastal lagoons and embayments (aka "Nature's Playground"). Climate change effects are manifested along the Tex...
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  EcoHealth Metrics for the Texas Coast Workshop

  ...ings to measure to evaluate stress to ecosystem condition. We did this for four groups of indicators related to Seagrass, Birds, Oysters, and Fisheries. At the end of Day 2, each group had completed the matrix and identified data sources for these...
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  Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view

  ...e of the Chesapeake Bay indicators, it is much too low to be able to view the system as a whole. Another altitude is the 'bird's eye' view, so I learned that bald eagles have been observed to fly to 15,000 feet (4.57 km), still too low to gain a wh...

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