Courtney Mattison’s thesis project was featured in the News section of Science magazine earlier this spring (pdf, p. 4). Mattison, a master’s candidate in environmental studies with an ecology and arts background and member of the Leslie Lab, created a ceramic wall installation modeling a Pacific coral reef for her Masters thesis. During remarks at the […]
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On behalf of its partners, the Northeast Regional Ocean Council is pleased to announce the launch of the Northeast Ocean Data Portal –www.northeastoceandata.org. The data, map viewer, and other tools included with the Northeast Ocean Data Portal are the result of over a year’s worth of extensive effort of multiple organizations with data development experience […]
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The National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, our Coasts, and the Great Lakes prioritizes nine objectives to address some of the most pressing challenges facing these precious resources. The National Ocean Council is overseeing development of strategic action plans for each of the nine objectives. As a first step the National Ocean Council […]
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Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services, by Peter Kareiva, Heather Tallis, Taylor H. Ricketts, Gretchen C. Daily, and Stephen Polasky, Eds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011. 391 pp. ************************************************* The taste of fresh strawberries. The sounds of the surf and kids playing on a packed shoreline. Warm sun on your back as you kayak across the bay. These visceral summer experiences, just ahead […]
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Read a recent interview with former Leslie Lab postdoc Sheila Walsh. Sheila’s now an ecosystem-services analyst on The Nature Conservancy’s Analysis Team in Central Science and talks with the interviewer about her emerging research and science application work on ecosystem services. Nice work, Sheila! http://www.conservationgateway.org/news/sheila-walsh-ecosystem-services-biodiversity-dow-collaboration
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Marine scientists at Brown University have determined that the size of rocks in rocky intertidal areas is important to the survival of a common marine animal, the acorn barnacle. The bigger the rock, the less its temperature fluctuates during hot spells. That’s better for the barnacle, which needs rock temperatures to not exceed a certain […]
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A team of experts led by Brown University has a plan to advance President Obama’s directive to manage the nation’s waters better. In a paper in Conservation Letters, Leila Sievanen and Heather Leslie – along with a number of other natural and social scientists – offer several recommendations based on a two-year investigation of marine management efforts […]
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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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Download the 2011 application (due February 15th) and read about the 2010 fellows’ projects at the new Brown Environmental Fellows website. BEF is directed by Heather Leslie and is open to all Brown juniors interested in environmental science and policy.
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