The Psychology of Climate Change Communication: A Guide for Scientists, Journalists, Educators, Political Aides, and the Interested Public is available! It’s published by the the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University, a really interesting group. CRED is an interdisciplinary center that studies individual and group decision making under climate uncertainty […]
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Two Leslie Lab members just returned from meetings of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) in Portland, Oregon. Sarah Corman, first year PhD student in the Brown-MBL Program, and Keryn Gedan, a new postdoc, presented their work on salt marsh ecosystem responses to mosquito ditching. See http://www.sgmeet.com/cerf2009/ for more on CERF.
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Prof. Leslie provided public comment to the U.S. Ocean Policy Task Force during their ‘East Coast’ public meeting, held last month in Providence, Rhode Island. Her comments focused on the importance of building on the local and state-level innovations in ecosystem-based management already underway, and in ensuring that marine spatial planning proceeds in a way […]
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