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Office of the Director — John Muir Institute of the Environment
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Faculty and Research Affiliates. Office of the Director. Office of the Director. Office of the Director. Mark W. Schwartz. Additional Research and Academic Staff:. Amber C. Kerr. Postdoctoral Researcher - USDA Southwest Regional Climate Hub. Academic Coordinator - Environmental and Community Outreach. Researcher - Policy Development; SFEWS Editor-in-Chief. The Environment: Epidemiology and Policy. Aug 22, 2016. 2017 Wilburforce Fellowship in Conservation Science. Aug 22, 2016. Aug 22, 2016. Aug 22, 2016.
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Science Communication | Civic Ecology
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Over the last year, I’ve taught a couple of workshops on scientific presentations. Eventually I plan to flesh out this page, but for now it’s a good spot to put up some of the resources I’ve already written. Four main things to keep in mind:. 1) Tell a good story. If you remember only one thing, this is it. 2) Display your data clearly. Because this is the heart of most scientific presentations. (I’ve got a whole page of advice. 3) Harness the power of pictures. For maximum attention and retention. On Un...
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Heating with electricity vs. gas? | Civic Ecology
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The costs of being green →. January 19, 2015 · 1:24 pm. Heating with electricity vs. gas? Here in Seattle, we have some of the cheapest and cleanest electricity in the country (hydroelectric dams cause their share of environmental problems, but don’t produce greenhouse gases). This got us thinking about the common wisdom, which says that it’s more efficient to heat your home with natural gas than electricity. But does that still hold for the Pacific Northwest? OK, so electricity costs about a third more&...
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Are you a lawn lemming? | Civic Ecology
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March 17, 2015 · 3:01 pm. Are you a lawn lemming? Do you fertilize your lawn? More importantly — do you know. You do these things? The Washington Post recently ran an article highlighting the role of social pressure. In people’s decisions about fertilizing their lawns. One of the studies they highlighted was just published by some of my urban-ecology sociology colleagues at the University of Minnesota (Nick Martini and Kristen Nelson):. Dr Nelson has pointed out that taking care of our lawns is a very.
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Civic Ecology | Ecology of the city, for the city | Page 2
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Newer posts →. July 24, 2012 · 11:23 pm. When I don’t know what I’m doing. 8220;Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” — Wernher von Braun. Yep, it’s been one of those days with novel mistakes and general fumbling-about-ness. I can’t even claim that I was doing anything new and exciting — ti should have been routine but wasn’t. Ah well, that’s science. July 12, 2012 · 4:15 pm. Continue reading →. July 4, 2012 · 6:21 pm. July 2, 2012 · 9:54 pm. What if we stopped apologizing? And it...
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Fertilizing streams to save salmon? | Civic Ecology
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April 7, 2015 · 4:37 pm. Fertilizing streams to save salmon? It’s not often I read a technical report that’s jaw-dropping, but this one sure was. It’s the Fraser Valley Stream Nutrient Enrichment. Effort, where they’ve been adding phosphorus fertilizer to salmon-bearing streams. Much of my work focuses on keeping excess phosphorus (and nitrogen). Of lakes and streams — and here’s a big effort dumping it directly in? What’s up with that? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Unleaded, please! | Civic Ecology
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Are you a lawn lemming? Fertilizing streams to save salmon? April 6, 2015 · 10:08 am. The last place I expected to find worrisome amounts of lead is in something designed to pipe water around the home — like a garden hose. But HealthyStoff.org (a project of the Michigan-based Ecology Center) tested 21 hoses. There is no federal oversight of hose water. The reps I contacted at the Environmental Protection Agency’s media relations couldn’t even figure out who I should be talking to who might. In hindsight,...
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Don’t panic! | Civic Ecology
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The costs of being green. Compost conjectures →. March 2, 2015 · 9:15 am. We were up on Mount Rainier last weekend, doing some snowshoeing up at Paradise and hiking a bit lower down. There is a lot. Less snow than usual, both a thinner snowpack and a higher snowline. And around here, snow = drinking water…. So back home today I took a look into the SNOTEL data and it’s pretty bleak:. Wow, the central Cascades have only nine percent. The WA Department of Ecology’s current drought watch. Farmers will know ...
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Notes to my younger self | Civic Ecology
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Favorite commute of the year! Civic Ecology →. April 23, 2013 · 8:57 pm. Notes to my younger self. I recently found myself articulating something I wish I could have told my younger grad-student self:. Go to your advisor even with problems you know she can’t solve. To bring some of my struggles to her. For starters, it would have forced me to wrap words around my fears. In order to tell her about them, I’d have to shrink the bogeyman in the shadows into something I could actually name and d...Fill in you...