Leslie lab member Courtney Mattison is featured on the Brown News page this week! Courtney, a Brown University master’s candidate, unites her interests in art and environmental studies in her large-scale ceramic coral reef wall installation, on display this spring at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters in Washington, D.C. Under Secretary of Commerce […]
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Leila Sievanen, Leslie Lab postdoc, and Heather Leslie will be speaking at the annual meeting of AAAS in Washington, DC later this week on the need to better understand the ocean’s varied habitats and how they change over time, as well as the need to involve all constituencies in conservation and management discussions. Heather’s talk […]
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Leslie Lab postdoc Sheila Walsh has a new article on her Kiribati ecological-economic research in Marine Biology. For more on the research, and related work in the Leslie Lab, see http://today.brown.edu/articles/2010/12/reefs
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Caribbean and Atlantic coral reefs suffered record losses due to extreme heat in 2005. In the most comprehensive assessment of regional coral bleaching, scientists from over 22 countries, including Brown’s Sheila Walsh, report that over 80% of corals bleached and 40% died. These losses are especially alarming because Caribbean corals are already in peril due […]
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/11/12/national-ocean-council-principals-hold-inaugural-meeting
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Lab member Eric Van Arsdale, Brown Environmental Fellow and Brown University Class of 2011, published an opinion piece in The Cape Cod Times last week on the causes and consequences of salt marsh die-off in the region. Well done, Eric!
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Leslie lab member and Brown-MBL PhD student Sarah Corman was awarded the National Park Service’s George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship this summer, to support her regional studies of productivity and phenology of the salt marsh foundation species Spatina alterniflora The goals of this student fellowship program are to support new and innovative research on […]
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Leslie lab postdoc Sheila Walsh recently was interviewed about Kiribati, where she conducted her doctoral research, by The Yale Globalist and Change.org. Congrats, Sheila! See: http://environment.change.org/blog/view/theres_no_pro_side_to_sea_level_rise_in_kiribati http://tyglobalist.org/index.php/20091230246/Focus/The-Tides-of-Change.html
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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment recently published a special issue on science communication and translation. The issue features a guest editorial by Brown alum Andrew Revkin, an overview of how ecologists can more effectively engage in communication and translation of their science by Groffman et al., and a very useful piece on how assessment […]
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Marine biologists are developing an appreciation for conservation, a change that is creating new jobs. Emma Marris reports…. In an article for naturejobs.com, Prof. Leslie and others describe the growing trend in marine conservation science jobs in academia, non profits and the government. For a PDF copy of the article, click here.
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