Part of the inaugural cohort for Sea Grant’s Community Engaged Internship, Delandra Clark interned with North Carolina Sea Grant’s Barbara Doll during fall 2020 and winter 2021. In this blog, Delandra offers reflections on what resilience means, her work with Sea Grant and her career aspirations.
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By: Maggie Beetstra. As a social scientist in the Midwest, I spent hours and hours having conversations with farmers, visiting their farms, meeting their families, and trying to understand how they make conservation decisions. Now, as a Knauss fellow, I’ve traded the corn and soybean fields for community resilience and marine education, but the same approaches still hold true. Here are some of the lessons I learned in science communication while out in the fields.
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New research, led by Minnesota Sea Grant Director John A. Downing, demonstrates why keeping local lakes and other waterbodies clean produces cost-effective benefits locally and globally. The authors found that adding up global financial benefits of clean water shows that keeping water clean can help slow climate change, saving trillions of dollars.
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