Sarah Corman, a student in the joint Brown-MBL Program and member of the Leslie Lab, recently received a graduate research fellowship from the National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERRS) Program. She proposes to use latitudinal variation in salt marsh ecosystems to help forecast responses of components of these vital coastal ecosystems to climate change. Congratulations, Sarah!
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Richard Pollnac and colleagues just published a paper in PNAS on how the ecological performance of 56 marine reserves throughout the Philippines, Caribbean, and Western Indian Ocean is related to both reserve design features and the socioeconomic characteristics in associated coastal communities. As the authors demonstrate, comparative research of this type is important for uncovering the […]
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On December 14, 2009, President Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force released its Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (Interim Framework) for a 60-day public review and comment period. With competing interests in the ocean, our coasts and the Great Lakes, the Interim Framework offers a comprehensive, integrated approach to planning and managing […]
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On December 10, 2009, NOAA released the draft NOAA Catch Share Policy. The draft policy encourages and supports the evaluation of catch share programs as authorized under the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The draft policy is the result of months of careful consideration by the agency, which received input from the NOAA Catch Share Task Force and from a range of […]
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Don’t shun the ocean – IUCN tells climate leaders ** This information was provided by Dorothée Herr, Marine Programme Officer, IUCN Global Marine Programme via the MARINE listserve of The Society for Conservation Biology ** The IUCN recently released The Ocean and Climate Change – Tools and Guidelines for Action, to help decision-makers […]
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Online applications for the Brown Environmental Fellows Program are due January 15, 2010. Contact potential faculty mentors or student partners now! For more information, contact Prof. Leslie via email. The Brown Environmental Fellows (BEF) Program will introduce undergraduate environmental scientists to the dynamic interface between environmental science, policy, and practice. Working with Brown faculty and […]
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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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