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Biophilia on a coral cay: Reflections from Lady Elliot Island
Standing on the coral rubble of a small cay in the Great Barrier Reef (Lady Elliot Island) is a biophilia experience. Biophilia, defined as ‘love of life’, is an appreciation that everything that you...
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Great Barrier Reef literacy
The concept of environmental literacy derives from a series of programs that have established various literacy principles, for example, ocean literacy and Chesapeake Bay literacy. These distillations...
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Developing a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef: Part 1
Heath Kelsey and I traveled to Townsville, Australia to facilitate a workshop to develop a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef. The workshop, sponsored by the Great Barrier Reef...
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Developing a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef: Part 2
Following a day of scientific talks where the various climate change resilience indicators were presented, we had dinner at a nice restaurant on The Strand, a popular Townsville promenade overlooking...
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Climate Change and resilience create new challenges in tracking ecosystem...
Understanding resilience to climate change effects is critical to the future of environmental assessment and reporting. Changing air and water temperature, precipitation patterns and storm frequencies,...
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Remembering Bob Simon: A class act
Bob Simon’s untimely death is a cause for sadness. I had the good fortune of spending some time with him when I was living in Australia and Bob was there to film a story on the Great Barrier Reef. I...
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Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort – difficulties of science in...
Cara Schweitzer, Rebecca Peters, Fan Zhang Watershed size can be very important in the determination and implementation of environmental monitoring and management strategies of coastal systems. Figure...
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Resilience based management of the Great Barrier Reef
This is part one of a three-part series of blog posts about developing a reef resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef at a workshop in Townsville in March 2015. ‘Resilience Based Management’ was...
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Developing an Index of Resilience to Climate Change Impacts to the Great...
This is part two of a three part series of blog posts about developing a reef resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef at a workshop in Townsville in March 2015 The Great Barrier Reef Resilience...
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Reef Resilience in Townsville
This is part three of a three part series of blog posts about developing a reef resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef at a workshop in Townsville in March 2015 Reef HQ walk through aquarium tank...
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Going from “Aha!” to “Well, Duh” in the Great Barrier Reef, with beer...
This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Catherine Blancard,...
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When to Go Big with Report Cards
Jodie Mehrtens In the last of the lecture series for the IAN Healthy Rivers for All course we reviewed a number of report cards targeted for external and internal assessment and communication. What...
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