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Brisbane 2011: Living with floods and dancing with dugongs

...e of the January floods was the increased turbidity of Moreton Bay. Dugongs, a conservation icon of Queensland, rely on seagrasses that grow in shallow waters of eastern Moreton Bay. Seagrass require adequate light to survive and turbid flood water...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 10- Progress in Monitoring and Management

...ake Bay had done some sewage upgrades, and some quiet engineering to reduce the overflows. It had a resurgence in seagrass, which created a large nutrient and sediment sponge with what was essentially a large filter feeder. The classic waterm...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 11- Monitoring of the Moreton Bay

...s deposited in Moreton Bay from flood. Why do we care about the light getting down to the bottom? Because we care about seagrasses. Seagrasses are the coastal canary for light attenuation and that's because seagrasses need more light than any other...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 12- Charismatic Environmental Initiatives

...risbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 12- Charismatic Environmental Initiatives ... Globally, seagrasses are a good indicator of ecosystem health, and so we have gone and put a global database together and started analyzin...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar

...We're both working on that front. QUESTION: You did have a focus very briefly on the model of organization of worldwide Seagrass-Watch . I'd like to know what your thoughts are in regards to citizen science, and recognition. One particular movement...

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...

Change of science and management in ecosystems along size gradient

...ical balance of Florida Bay. Similar to the Chester River, eutrophication and algal blooms have threatened the habitat. Seagrass die-off, phytoplankton blooms, sponge mortality and lobster declines [5] occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Th...

Chesapeake Bay Science and Management: A need for more effective scientific communication and adaptive management

...lf way home” because of the previous efforts that have reduced nutrient pollution to slightly over 20%. Also, the seagrasses in the Susquehanna Flats have re-emerged over time (Figure 2) from needed light conditions, absence of storm events,...

Citizen Science Programs

...inventories through the National Park Service’s ‘Bio-Blitz’, low tide benthic assessments through the Seagrass Watch program, or bird surveys conducted during Audabon’s Christmas counts, just to name a few. These citizen sci...

Climate Change and resilience create new challenges in tracking ecosystem health status

...ction or form: a system can change form but provide the same ecological function. For example, species composition in a seagrass bed may change as a result of changing temperature or salinity, but the habitat function of the seagrass bed may remain...

Coastal Bays report card launch

...port Bays). Chincoteague Bay has historically been our jewel of the East coast, with improving conditions and expanding seagrasses throughout the 1990s. However, seagrasses are now declining in Chincoteague Bay, but the good news is that water qual...

Commemorating Bob Menzer at Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences

.... In collaboration with Drs. Michael Kemp and Laura Murray , I was investigating the interactions between nutrients and seagrasses. Mike and I had a Water Resources grant and Laura had a grant from Salisbury University where she was teaching and we...

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...

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