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2013

Law Center Leads Efforts to Draft Model Law Addressing Aquatic Invasive Species in Western States

The  National Sea Grant Law Center and partners recently embarked on an innovative project that is bringing together individuals from three professional communities that rarely interact – Assistant Attorneys General, law enforcement personnel, and aquatic invasive species coordinators to improve management of the primary vector for the spread of aquatic invasive species, the trailered boat.

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Knauss Lecture Series

Santhiska Pather, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology presenting: Ammonium cycling in the rocky intertidal: remineralization, removal and retention

Leslie Irwin, NOAA OAR Office of Communications presenting: The value of communicating science: Lessons from the Fellowship

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Fishery Management and Information Sharing Networks: The Association between Sector Management and Social Capital by Gabe Dunham

Plastic pollution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre by Miriam Goldstein, Ph.D

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Jay Tanski speaking. Credit Hank Hodde

NOAA’s
 Role 
in
 Supporting 
Coastal
 Communites

 Before, During
 and
 After
 a Coastal Storm

Staff and stakeholders of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) held a congressional briefing on NOAA’s role in supporting coastal communities before, during, and after Sandy’s impact.

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 Before, During
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Knauss Lecture Series

Trophic structure in the Marginal Ice Zone in the Weddell Sea Antarctic by Erica Ombres, Ph.D.

Incubation temperature effects on hatchling performance in the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) by Leah Fisher

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NOAA Fisheries Service and Sea Grant Announce 2013 Fellowship Awards

NOAA’s Fisheries Service and the Sea Grant program announce the recipients of a specialized joint fellowship program. Multi-year fellowships are awarded annually to students pursuing doctorates in Population Dynamics (stock assessments and ecosystem modeling) and Marine Resource Economics (value and economic relevance of fisheries).

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University of Hawai’i Sea Grant Helps Coastal Communities Prepare for Hazards

Dennis Hwang, Coastal Hazard Mitigation Specialist at University of Hawai’i Sea Grant  developed the Hawai’i Coastal Hazard Mitigation Guidebook to address the lack of widely publicized, reliable guidance for building along the coast to reduce vulnerability. Due to the wide spread popularity, 7 states across the country developed similar books specific to their community.

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LaDon Swann Appointed to National Academy of Sciences’ Gulf of Mexico Program

The National Academy of Sciences' Gulf of Mexico Program has appointed Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Director LaDon Swann to an advisory group that will create a strategic vision and guide the program’s development and implementation. The program will focus on human health, environmental protection and oil system safety in the Gulf of Mexico and the United States' Outer Continental Shelf.

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The Sustainable Working Waterfront Toolkit – Sea Grant Brown Bag Lecture Series

Join us for a Sea Grant Brown Bag Lecture Series on Friday May, 17 from Noon-1:00 p.m. EDT at the NOAA Central Library SSMC3, 2nd floor, Silver Spring, MD
Topic: The Sustainable Working Waterfronts Toolkit:  
Connecting Decision-makers, Landowners, and Users with Information and Tools for Preserving and Enhancing our Nation’s Working Waterfronts.

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Waterfront in Valdez

Introducing a New Resource to Help our Nation’s “Working Waterfront’s” Flourish

Imagine Boston, Charleston, San Francisco or Seattle without fresh seafood, pleasure boats or shipping vessels. It is an impossible task. The history, culture and identity of these communities are inextricably linked to their “working waterfronts,” which are places for active, water-related commerce and desirable areas in which to live and work. Unfortunately, many of these working waterfronts face a growing number of challenges. 

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Create a Rain Garden with new NOAA Sea Grant-funded app

Rain Garden, a new free iPhone app, guides users on how to create and install rain gardens that curtail runoff of pollutants, prevent erosion, and provide wildlife habitat. Development of the app was funded by the NOAA Sea Grant Climate Change Adaptation Capacity Building Initiative and developed by Connecticut Sea Grant and the University of Connecticut Center for Land Use Education and Research.

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