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A visit to the Australian Institute of Marine Science

...opkinson and Bowl Reefs). I had a wonderful time at AIMS in 1985-1986. I had been interested in water motion effects on seagrasses and Dave Barnes and I investigated the effect of water motion on coral calcification and photosynthesis. I ended up s...

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 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...

Moreton Bay and Catchment

... to print some fifteen years ago, if we could add a dedication at the front of the book, it would be to Jack Greenwood. Seagrass species composition in grazed and ungrazed areas of Moreton Bay. ... Bill Dennison...

Long Island Sound: Environmental Literacy

...arbor. Long Island Sound once supported abundant oysters, scallops, birds and lobsters with widespread salt marshes and seagrasses. The Long Island Sound watershed is large, extending north to Canada and western portions are highly developed, suppo...

Moreton Bay, Australia: Environmental Literacy

...ton Bay is a shallow productive embayment formed by large sand barrier islands on the east coast of Australia Extensive seagrass meadows support large populations of green sea turtles and dugong The Moreton Bay watershed has an extensive network of...

Presentation dialog

...mportant message? B: Well, let's see, I was going to tell everyone how we established that there is a global decline in seagrasses. R: How big a decline? B: I'm not sure I can remember, I need my PowerPoint. R: Why are you even talking about this s...

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...

Aegean Sea field trip: Egyptian sand, seagrass, marine sanctuaries, cruising

Aegean Sea field trip: Egyptian sand, seagrass, marine sanctuaries, cruising ... We drove from our Marmarsis hotel on the south side of the Marmasis peninsula frontin...

Being inspired by Cousteaus: An evening with Jean-Michel Cousteau

...ghout. 1) Scuba gear: I used scuba gear extensively in my research on marine plants. In fact, during my PhD research on seagrasses in Woods Hole, MA , I used an old fashioned double hose regulator, Mistral, developed by Cousteau and Gagnan. 2) Unde...

John Bertram's legacy

... lives he touched over the many years that John was associated with the University of Queensland. Histology sections of seagrasses that John Bertram helped prepare. ... Bill Dennison...

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...

Dugong dugon (Dugong) 2

Dugong dugon (Dugong) 2 ... Illustration of dugong (Dugong dugon) ... marine mammal, sirenians, seagrass, lady of the sea, sea cow, sea pig, sea camel, Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Sirenia, Dugongidae, Dugonginae, Dugong, D...

Awakening Environmental Passion

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...

2012 Maryland Coastal Bays report card

...ater quality indicators (total nitrogen, total phosphorus, 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...

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...

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...

Top ten books about science that influenced my career

... I was attracted to the book The Forest and the Sea because of the evocative title. I was studying the leaf canopies of seagrasses and became intrigued by comparisons with leaf canopies of forests, thus my interest in the title. What I found in rea...

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...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 4--Moving beyond synthesis

... the use of scientific synthesis which led to a science application effort, I will recount our efforts regarding global seagrass trajectories. Beginning in 2005, Tim Carruthers , Bob Orth and I initiated a seagrass synthesis effort through the Nati...

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...

A new special journal issue on water education

...of scholarship about education. In the past, I have enjoyed learning new topics as I was involved in publications about seagrasses, corals, mangroves, macroalgae, phytoplankton, microbes, etc., but this foray into education was a bigger jump than t...

Seagrass Blue Carbon Blues

Seagrass Blue Carbon Blues ... As one of the outputs of the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis workshop on...

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...

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