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Upcoming Webinar Events
2024 Coastal and Estuarine Summit hosted by Restore America’s Estuaries
October 6-10, 2024
Arlington, VA
Plants Get Sick Too: Monitoring Seagrass Wasting Disease in a Changing Climate
Title: Plants Get Sick Too: Monitoring Seagrass Wasting Disease in a Changing Climate
Presenter(s): Serina Moheed, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Davis and a Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar
Sponsor(s): NOAA/NOS Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
Seminar contact: Claire.Fackler@noaa.gov, (805) 570-1113
Location: Webinar
Remote Access: Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7392774674420476757
Abstract: With climate change, disease outbreaks are increasing in our ocean and it's crucial to understand how they are affecting foundationally important marine species such as seagrasses. Seagrass meadows provide habitat for an extraordinary number of different organisms, can protect coastlines against storms, and have the ability to store harmful greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere into the soil. Tomales Bay estuary in northern California holds an estimated 9% of the state's seagrass population, and while disease is present in the area, not much is known about if there are different pathogen strains within seagrass meadows. Join Serina Moheed as she talks about how she monitors seagrass wasting disease in the field (spoiler- it's muddy!), methods for analyzing the effects of the disease, and how in her opinion growing a marine pathogen in the lab can be much harder than taking care of a houseplant.
Are our seminars recorded? Yes, you can find them here: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/webinar-series-archives.html
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Navigating Difficult Conversations
Navigating Difficult Conversations
Date/Time: March 8, 2024 | 10:00 am PST – 1:00 pm PST
Many science topics are increasingly difficult to discuss due to rising polarization. Opinions on climate change, vaccine use, and more may be aligned with identities and values that are hard to work through, particularly when your own values appear to be different from, or even conflict with, those of your audience.
During this 3-hour virtual workshop, you’ll learn about the connection between partisanship and views on science, the types of audiences to focus your efforts on, and steps to making progress in a difficult conversation. You’ll have the opportunity to practice listening to your audience to identify values, and to develop messages with those values in mind.
The workshop will be a combination of facilitated group discussion, content presentation, and activities in breakout rooms. By registering for this workshop, you are committing to active participation in the workshop, for the benefit of both yourself and the group. Please also plan to use a webcam whenever possible during discussion and breakout room portions of the workshop. Due to the progression of materials presented and the paired exercises, we cannot admit participants who are more than 15 minutes late. More information can be found in the FAQ section below.
Who could benefit from this workshop?
This workshop is open to anyone who uses science to understand the world and would like to discover tips for communicating science topics across ideological differences.
Technology
The workshop will be held on the video conferencing platform Zoom. If you are unfamiliar with the platform, this one-minute video explains how to join a meeting. You will need a webcam, microphone, and stable internet connection. Recommended upload/download speed is 5Mbps/5Mbps. Test your internet speed here by clicking “run speed test.” This workshop will also incorporate the browser-based whiteboard program called MURAL.
A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Blue Carbon Research and Data Applications (Part 2): Blue Carbon Data Applications
NOAA Science Seminar Series Date & Time: 7 March 2024, 2-3 pm ET
Title: A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Blue Carbon Research and Data Applications (Part 2): Blue Carbon Data Applications
Presenter(s):
Craig Cornu, Institute for Applied Ecology
Chris Janousek, Oregon State University
Jazmin Dagostino, Pew Charitable Trusts
Lisa Beers, Silvestrum Climate Associates
Adrian Laufer, Sea & Shore Solutions
Sponsor(s): This webinar is sponsored by the NERRS Science CollaborativeSeminar Contacts: Doug George (douglas.george@noaa.gov) or Nick Soberal (nsoberal@umich.edu)
Remote Access: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RJfvzrFjQ-uhN02Uznm2bA Abstract
For nearly a decade, the Pacific Northwest Blue Carbon Working Group (Working Group) has provided a forum for regional natural and social scientists and policy makers to identify and collaboratively fill priority blue carbon data gaps for Pacific Northwest coastal wetlands and apply those data to regional climate mitigation initiatives. Through the collaboration of researchers, planners, policy professionals and others from universities, nonprofits, and governmental agencies throughout the region, the Working Group has systematically collected and analyzed new"and compiled existing"regional data on carbon stocks, carbon sequestration, and methane emissions and archived them in an easily accessible Northeast Pacific Regional Blue Carbon Database.This two-part webinar series will cover the Working Group's latest research, including data collection to support blue carbon comparisons across different natural and land use types, as well as the ways these data are used in the development of climate mitigation policies and blue carbon tools. Learn more about each session below.Blue Carbon Data Applications (Part 2): This session will highlight the Working Group's and partners' application of regionally specific blue carbon data for the development of climate mitigation policies and blue carbon tools, including an emissions inventory supporting Oregon's new Natural and Working Lands legislation, blue carbon mapping, and the development of a regional blue carbon calculator.
Bio(s): Please visit here for more information about the webinars.Subscribe to the OneNOAA Science Seminar Series weekly email:Send an e-mail to OneNOAAscienceseminars-request@list.woc.noaa.gov with the word 'subscribe' in the subject or body. Visit the NOAA Science Seminar Series website for more information. We welcome your suggestions and ideas!
The 10th Turning A New Leaf sustainable landscaping conference
The 10th Turning A New Leaf sustainable landscaping conference. will be held at the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club in Kent Island, MD. Optionally, participants may join us for a welcome dinner or one of our field days.
The conference is appropriate for landscape architects, designers, and contractors, horticulturists, arborists and tree care companies, lawn care companies, nurseries, botanical gardens, natural resource managers, developers, civil engineers, planners, stormwater professionals, master gardeners, and homeowners.
27th Biennial Conference CERF 2023
We come together in an inclusive and welcoming space to network, celebrate our work, learn from each other, and grow within our amazing field as we endeavor to connect science and society in the collective goals of preserving coastal and estuarine habitats, resources, and heritage. We hope you will join the large international group of scientists and researchers who will be attending the event in Portland, Oregon 12–16 November 2023.
The 11th Annual Delaware River Watershed Forum
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 & 29, 2023 AT THE CHASE CENTER ON THE RIVERFRONT IN WILMINGTON,DE
The Delaware River Watershed Forum serves as a fun and meaningful opportunity for Coalition members, legislators, watershed advocates, environmental and community organizations, agencies, foundations and charitable trusts, constituents and residents, businesses, and students to convene and collaborate on protecting the Delaware River Watershed. Together, this working conference provides a platform to brainstorm solutions, identify gaps, improve skills, and build relationships to advance our shared goals.
2023 VWMC CONFERENCE
SAVE THE DATE: 2023 VWMC CONFERENCE
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Henrico County Training Center
7701 East Parham Road, Henrico, VA 23228
Chesapeake Studies: Bringing Communities Together Conference
The conference is scheduled for September 15-16, 2023. Panels, posters, and other sessions will be on Friday, September 15, with optional field trips on September 16. The deadline for proposals for individual and group presentations and panels was midnight Eastern time on March 15, 2023, BUT WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING POSTER PROPOSALS with a May 31 deadline (sooner rather than later is better). If you have any questions, please contact the chair of the Program Committee, Creston Long, at cslong[at]salisbury.edu https://salisbury.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PXpkqhRKC3PB9X
National Climate Educators Retreat in Maine
Date: July 31 – August 4, 2023
The Climate Initiative’s National Climate Educators Retreat is a professional development opportunity designed to support high school classroom teachers in incorporating climate education in their curriculum to educate, empower, and inspire students and community members to take action to adapt to or to mitigate climate change. The organization offers educational materials free of charge: Learning Labs, Policy Toolkits, Climate Action Toolkits, and Ambassador Network.
Webinar: Strengthening Blue Carbon Solutions in US Ocean Policy
Webinar: Strengthening Blue Carbon Solutions in US Ocean Policy
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 01:00 PM EST
Presented by: Anne Christianson of the Center for American Progress
Description: The ocean is gaining prominence in climate change policy circles as a tool for addressing the climate crisis. Blue carbon, the carbon captured and stored by marine and coastal ecosystems and species, offers the potential as a “nature-based solution” to climate change. However, some blue carbon interventions may not be suitable as a climate mitigation response. This presentation will present results from a recent paper that gives context to numerous blue carbon sequestration pathways, quantifying their potential to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, and comparing these sequestration pathways to point-source emissions reductions. The applicability of blue carbon will be discussed in terms of multiple international policy frameworks, to help individuals and institutions utilize the appropriate framework to reach ocean conservation and climate mitigation goals.
Host: OCTO
Data Puzzle Virtual Teacher Workshop - Megafires
Join us on Tuesday, July 18th from 8 - am - 12 pm PT, 9 am - 1 pm MT, 10 am - 2 pm CT, 11 am -3 pm ET as developer Jon Griffith describes the latest Data Puzzle, "Megafires: Rare Occurrences or the New Normal?", a 2-day MS/HS resource in which students analyze megafire frequency data to explain how and why the number of megafires has changed over time.
About Data Puzzles
Inspired by our friends at Data Nuggets, Data Puzzles combine classroom-friendly scientific datasets with the research-backed pedagogical practices of Ambitious Science Teaching to give your students the ultimate inquiry-based learning experience.
Megafires: Rare Occurrences or the New Normal? overview
"Megafire" is a term that is used frequently by the media but can have many different meanings to describe wildfires. You may be surprised to learn there is no one accepted definition of the term. Scientists who study megafires are developing their own definition of a megafire that typically describes extreme fire events characterized by their intensity, speed, duration, impact, and size. In considering the size of megafires, Dr. Natasha Stavros of the Earth Lab Analytics Hub at the University of Colorado, Boulder, describes megafires as wildfires that are larger than 95% of all of the fire events being studied in a 1984-2019 dataset. Using these parameters, megafires are larger than 20,000 football fields in size! In this Data Puzzle, students will engage with an interactive reading before analyzing authentic datasets to discover how and why the number of megafires has changed over time.
Details:
WHO: 7-12 science teachers
WHAT: Virtual workshop focused on the latest Data Puzzle resource, "Megafires: Rare Occurrences or the New Normal?"
WHEN: Tuesday, July 18th from 8 - am - 12 pm PT, 9 am - 1 pm MT, 10 am - 2 pm CT, 11 am -3 pm ET
WHY: Engage with the Data Puzzle framework in the context of contemporary research!
HOW: Register for the teacher workshop to receive an invitation and Zoom link for the event.
Career Pathways to Collaborative Science Success
Date/Time: Thursday, June 22, 2023 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
The NOAA RESTORE Science and NERRS Science Collaborative programs are back at it, teaming up to bring you the voices of project teams from the field through our Collaborative Science Conversations webinar series. These sessions dig into the unique value of collaborative science, what it feels like in practice, and tips and strategies for success.
Curious about collaborative science but unsure how to get started? Maybe you’re an early career scientist and you’re worried that collaborative science goals won’t align with the metrics and rewards of the academic tenure-track system. Or maybe you’re a resource manager or steward who is intrigued about the advantages of a collaborative approach but you’re not sure how it could fit into your work.
No matter your career track or level of experience, we believe collaborative science should be accessible and that there are countless entry points and pathways to success. If you are – or are working with – someone wondering how to get started doing collaborative science, this webinar is for you. Hear from collaborative science practitioners at different moments in their careers to discuss what it takes to do collaborative science, how it’s different, and why it makes a difference.
Speakers:
Julie Gonzalez, University of California – Davis
Chris Peter, Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Kelly Darnell, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
CHESAPEAKE BAY ECOSYSTEMS
EVENT DETAILS
NATH8216E, 3 CEUs
Class night and time: Thursdays, 6-8 pm
Class meetings: June 15-Aug 17
Field trip dates: Friday, July 14, University of Maryland’s Horn Point oyster hatchery. Saturday, July 29: Anacostia River boat tour ($25 suggested donation to Riverkeeper); Saturday, August 5: Survey native mussel species in lower Anacostia; Saturday, August 19: Patuxent River Park
Location: Online via zoom
Members $420, nonmembers $470
Instructor: Terry McTigue
Discover how physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes come together to shape the diverse ecosystems within the Chesapeake Bay. Learn the history of the Bay, its current condition, and what people are doing to conserve and restore habitats and ecosystem function to the well-loved and well used watershed and estuary. REGISTER
Required Books and Materials (available at the Woodend Nature Shop):
Textbook: Life in the Chesapeake Bay. Third Edition. 2006, Author(s): Lippson, A.J. and R.L. Lippson, Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN: 0801883385
ELI Summer School: Clean Water Act (WEBINAR)
See event page: https://www.eli.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1168
Marine Science Day
Location:
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Watermen’s Hall, Campus-wide
1375 Greate Rd.
Gloucester Point, VA
VIMS’ annual open house is a fun-filled event for the whole family. Join us in Gloucester Point for exhibits, family-friendly crafts and activities, seining and collecting animals in the York River, tours of our labs and facilities, seafood cooking demonstrations, mini-lectures, and much more. All activities are free, as is parking. The event proceeds rain or shine.
Advance registration is greatly encouraged and appreciated. More Info & Register Here…
Webinar: Strengthening Blue Carbon Solutions in US Ocean Policy
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 01:00 PM, EST
Presented by: Anne Christianson of the Center for American Progress
Description: The ocean is gaining prominence in climate change policy circles as a tool for addressing the climate crisis. Blue carbon, the carbon captured and stored by marine and coastal ecosystems and species, offers potential as a “nature-based solution” to climate change. However, some blue carbon interventions may not be suitable as a climate mitigation response. This presentation will present results from a recent paper that gives context to numerous blue carbon sequestration pathways, quantifying their potential to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, and comparing these sequestration pathways to point-source emissions reductions. The applicability of blue carbon will be discussed in terms of multiple international policy frameworks, to help individuals and institutions utilize the appropriate framework to reach ocean conservation and climate mitigation goals.
Host: OCTO
Capitol Hill Ocean Week 2023: Ocean x Climate
Join us in Washington, DC and virtually for Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) from June 6 – 8, 2023 to explore the ocean-climate connection and how we can make ocean conservation part of climate strategies and nationally determined contributions to address climate change.
The CHOW 2023 program is slightly different from past CHOWs. We will host a day on Capitol Hill on June 6 then move to the Ronald Reagan Building for the conference on June 7 and 8. The week will culminate with the Ocean Awards Gala on the evening of June 8, World Oceans Day.