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    146 results for "seagrass":

    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Flood newsletter on seagrasses, turtles and dugongs
      Flood newsletter on seagrasses, turtles and dugongs ... This newsletter was interesting to assemble, as it involved talking with lots of active scie...
    • From the Toxic Algal Blooms of Australia's Coast to the Oil-soaked Shores of the Gulf of Mexico: The Role of Science in Environmental Crisis
      ...gbya is a toxic, filamentous, marine cyanobacterium capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen and is commonly epiphytic on seagrass, coral, and macroalgae. Blooms of Lyngbya can uproot whole seagrass beds and create hypoxic zones beneath the floating...
    • Going from "Aha!" to "Well, Duh" in the Great Barrier Reef, with beer coasters and Burdekin Gold
      ...t Barrier Reef was divided into six reporting regions and we selected a variety of independent water quality, coral and seagrass indicators to generate scores for each region. David Haynes sailing to Magnetic Island near Townsville, Australia Our "...
    • Great Barrier Reef literacy
      ...t coral reef complex in the world. The Great Barrier Reef complex is comprised of over 2,900 coral reefs, and extensive seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, and inter-reefal hard and soft substrates. The reef extends over 2,600 km (1,600 miles) alon...
    • Great Barrier Reef report card workshop
      ...ption and effectiveness (paddock scale), catchment condition and loads (catchment scale), marine water quality, inshore seagrass and coral indicators (reef scale). The shorthand for the Paddock to Reef program is P2R. Grahame Byron from Queensland...
    • Gulf of Kachchh field trips: Birds, mangroves, corals, macrotides, industries
      ... of organisms in the various shallow tide pools, including octopus, sea stars, brittle stars, holothurians, pufferfish, seagrasses, seaweeds, live coral, sponges, sea hares, anemones and oysters. Mangrove restoration seedlings. Coral restoration nu...
    • Gulf of Mexico Summit 2011
      ...zing that many more will be necessary. The two indicators are birds (represented by Brown Pelican in the prototype) and seagrass abundance. These two indicators were chosen because of their importance and for their recognition – both are wide...
    • 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...
    • How to create conceptual cross-section diagrams
      ...t, mud, sand and gravel. Various key habitats are also important and various habitat maps are consulted (e.g., marshes, seagrasses, oyster reefs). Water quality maps are an important source of information as well, so that water-color can be inferre...
    • 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...
    • IAN in American Samoa
      ...pecies of fish, living in crystal clear waters that range from 82 up to 86 °F. In some of the more sandy areas, the seagrass Halophila (paddle weed) can be found, and both green sea turtles as well as hawksbill turtles can be occasionally found...
    • In memory of Jay Zieman, University of Virginia seagrass ecologist
      In memory of Jay Zieman, University of Virginia seagrass ecologist ... Joseph "Jay" C. Zieman (1943-2015), my seagrass ecology colleague, died recently. I first met Jay in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1980 when my Master's thesis advisor C. Pet...