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    146 results for "seagrass":

    • Pigs in Water: living underwater with Susan Williams
      ... regulate their physiology. Susan had done her PhD research on a large macroalga Caulerpa and I was finishing my PhD on seagrasses. Both of these green underwater plants live side by side in soft sediments, and as Susan found in her thesis, they ca...
    • Planning a Conference in Unprecedented Times
      ...again—all during “unprecedented times.” In early 2020, we here at IAN made the difficult decision to postpone the World Seagrass Conference and International Seagrass Biology Workshop (WSC/ISBW14) until 2022. When we finally arrived at the conferen...
    • Players and Problems: Socio-Environmental Management in the Chesapeake Bay
      ...more fertilizers into the Bay. 14 Climate change amplifies everything Warmer temperatures changes are pushing crabs and seagrass farther north, while setting the stage for more intense storms and flooding events similar to Hurricane Agnes (1972) an...
    • Population and Environment Case Studies: Local Approaches to a Global Challenge
      ...d a sustainable tourism-based economy. They are looking for ways to increase the resilience of their diverse mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs to promote high-end ecotourism and manage development to protect its unique ecosystem. However, manag...
    • Practical visual literacy for science communication
      ...p: A photo of a kayaking trip, which can be used to enhance written information. Bottom: a video discussing the role of seagrass in sequestering blue carbon. Visual credit: Integration and Application Network A diversity of visual elements enhances...
    • 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...
    • Previewing NY Harbor exhibit at the New York Aquarium on Coney Island
      ...in while watching them in this exhibit, serving as a testament to its authenticity. To top it off, they even had a nice seagrass tank, complete with cute seahorses hanging onto the blades. Any aquarium with seagrasses gets my vote! Seagrass and sea...
    • Queenscliff, Bellarine peninsula and Victoria embayments
      ...en roof and slanting windows to obtain winter solar heat but to avoid summer heat. The location on Swan Bay overlooking seagrass meadows with wading birds and raptors was stunning. The ocean beach on Bass Strait is a short walk across the narrow pe...
    • Reef Resilience in Townsville
      ...-based trajectories of reef structure Deploying calcification stations and staining crusty algae Measuring and modeling seagrass productivity All to better assess reef resilience The IAN 11 team helped consolidate the results Drawing diagrams, writ...
    • Remembering Bob Simon: A class act
      ...he fact that my Marine Botany group at the University of Queensland had been documenting the expansion of mangroves and seagrasses in the nearshore reefs, which we attributed to increased coastal inputs of sediments and nutrients. 60 Minutes’...
    • Remembering Randy Alberte
      ...gy). I told Randy that I was interested in pursuing a PhD following my Master's degree from the University of Alaska on seagrasses and he invited me to visit his research group at Barnes Laboratory, The University of Chicago. On that visit a few mo...
    • Resilience based management of the Great Barrier Reef
      ...arrier Reef Foundation, providing workshop overview Another example from the Caribbean was Florida Bay , when a massive seagrass dieback led to an ecological cascade which included phytoplankton blooms, sponge mortalities and spiny lobster declines...
    • Rich Batiuk’s retirement from the Chesapeake Bay Program
      ...he powerpoint also included some historic photos of Rich. My favorite was a photo of a smiling sea otter cavorting in a seagrass meadow, which reminded me of Rich. We featured this photo in the video. Rich Batiuk lured scientists to the 'Fish Shack...
    • Samoa; tsunamis, coral reefs, fishing, dredging
      ...c islands are dispersal limited. Extensive live coral cover on north shore Samoan reefs There were small patches of the seagrass Halophila spp. in shallow water inshore of the coral. The fish life of the coral reef was rather disappointing, as ther...
    • SAV SYN One Last Time
      ...vened to make progress on our two remaining publications, using Structural Equation Modeling (led by Jon Lefcheck ) and seagrass trait analysis (led by Chris Patrick ). The other major effort was to develop a segment analysis of SAV trends, drivers...
    • Savai'i Island, Samoa; lava, blowholes, pigs, churches
      ...t had destroyed the forest, with a new tree canopy forming below. This park was created by Dr. Paul Alan Cox , a former seagrass colleague of mine who has had a long standing conservation role in Samoa. Rainforest in Savai’i We saw many small...
    • Science Cafe and science communication training in Boston
      ..., MA , and was organized by graduate students and Bob Chen from the University of Massachusetts , Boston. I spoke about seagrasses and their lack of coastal charisma, Brian Card from Amazon Web Services talked about an amazing visualization of Bost...
    • 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...
    • Scientific synthesis paper shows Chesapeake Bay nutrient diet is working
      ...rgy editor Jennifer Weeks to publish this article titled "Cutting pollution in the Chesapeake Bay has helped underwater seagrasses rebound." The Conversation is an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community. SAV-S...
    • Scientists Alone Won’t Save the Earth
      ...ty of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). Professor Dennison started his career as an ecologist studying seagrass and discovered a novel phytoplankton bloom (brown tide). Later, his career path was influenced by his postdoctoral fell...
    • Scott Nixon nourished our ecological souls
      ... of “ Global loss of coastal habitats: Rates, causes and consequences ”.  Nuria Marba and I focused on seagrass meadows, Terry Hughes focused on coral reefs and Ivan Valiela focused on mangrove forests and salt marshes. Originally...
    • Sea turtles, dugong and a major city skyline
      ...s large populations of green sea turtles ( Chelonia mydas ) and dugong ( Dugong dugon ). The turtles and dugong feed on seagrasses growing on the shallow sand banks of Eastern Moreton Bay. These shallow sand banks are flushed with clean ocean water...
    • Seagrass Blue Carbon Blues
      Seagrass Blue Carbon Blues ... As one of the outputs of the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis workshop on...
    • Seagrass recovery in Chesapeake Bay: A success for Chesapeake Bay research and restoration
      Seagrass recovery in Chesapeake Bay: A success for Chesapeake Bay research and restoration ... Raleigh Hood asked Bob “JJ...
    • Seagrasses and a little girl lost their greatest champion: Evamaria Koch (1961-2014)
      Seagrasses and a little girl lost their greatest champion: Evamaria Koch (1961-2014) ... Evamaria Koch died last week from lung...