National Ocean Council meets for the first time
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/11/12/national-ocean-council-principals-hold-inaugural-meeting
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Read Eric’s op-ed on Cape salt marshes
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!
Read moreSarah Corman receives NPS funding!
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 […]
Read moreWWF to host MPA Webinar
MPAs have been an integral component of local, national, and international strategies for fisheries management and biodiversity conservation for decades, yet many aspects of MPA implementation and impacts remain uncertain. WWF is hosting a one-day international symposium on November 5, where we will review knowledge of Marine Protected Areas as a foundation for both science-based […]
Read moreScience to Action ocean publications released
Conservation International just released 3 major publications on a solution to the global ocean crisis. Produced by the Science-to-Action partnership, which includes more than 75 organizations led by Conservation International’s Marine Management Area Science Program, the publications are based on 5 years of natural and social science research in over 70 marine managed areas in 23 […]
Read moreSheila’s research at Change.org
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
Read moreScience communication and translation featured in Frontiers
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 […]
Read moreNature feature on marine careers
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.
Read moreLeslie op-ed on new ocean policy
Prof. Leslie published an op-ed on the new ocean policy and the prospects for New England ecosystem-based management in The Providence Journal. For a PDF version of the print article, click here.
Read moreLeslie featured in article on the new ocean policy
Click here for Peter Lord’s piece in The Providence Journal on the new national ocean policy.
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