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Dr. Marco Hatch: Merging Ocean Science and Community-Driven Environmental Restoration

Washington Nature

By Anya Blaney Ocean scientist and TNC in Washington trustee Marco Hatch creates opportunities for under-resourced students to pursue higher education while revitalizing ancestral clam gardens. His connection to the ocean and marine ecology began in early life.

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Stanford’s Sustainability School: A Good Model?

Legal Planet

I’ll talk about some more mundane considerations next, but the fundamental issue is really whether there’s enough commonality among people like energy economists, conservation biologists, and civil/environmental engineers to make it useful to put them and their students under one roof. Intellectual Coherence.

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Stanford and Beyond

Legal Planet

For example, the Department of Conservation Biology and Ecology is in the School of Life Sciences. The School will incorporate the existing departments that cover geology, environmental engineering, and energy science and engineering. Notably, other departments like Ecology remain separate.

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What is eDNA and Why is it Important?

Academy of Natural Sciences

Andrew Weber/National Park Service Environmental DNA analysis is a key tool that enables critical insights into aquatic biodiversity. Now and in the future, researchers or scientists from across the nation can access all this data to better understand the regional impacts of climate change, sustainability and environmental conservation needs.

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NOAA Grant To Chesapeake Bay Foundation Will Boost Environmental Education In Harrisburg Region Intermediate Unit

PA Environment Daily

Harrisburg area teachers and students will engage in hands-on learning around local environmental issues and solutions, and the unique nature of their communities thanks to a grant from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

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Carnegie Museum Of Natural History: We Get Questions - Climate Change, Hope And Action

PA Environment Daily

The student’s question during a high school environmental science class in March left me scrambling to deliver a clear and honest answer. Ten students had just listened to me explain the cascade of negative effects associated with the increasing acidification of ocean waters.

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Ester Dias – Choose what you love because you may end up doing that for the rest of your life

Frontiers

In celebration of World Ocean Day, we speak with marine scientist Dr Ester Dias , who is currently a research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research in Portugal, focusing on coastal and estuarine species and their ecosystems. Were you interested in the ocean and science from a young age?

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