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Category: Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

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Virginia Coastal Policy Clinic
Decision Support Tools

Virginia Coastal Policy Clinic, William & Mary Law School

Virginia Sea Grant has a legal program now and they have been focusing on resiliency issues—conducting legal and policy research for local community clients on issues such as flood insurance, community rating systems, potential disclosure issues, potential local community liability risk associated with not taking adaptation steps. They have also provided analysis to the Governor’s Climate Commission that is currently underway and the General Assembly’s Secure Commonwealth Panel that finished up work last month.

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December 6, 2014
The Texas Coastal Citizen Planner program (TCCP)
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

The Texas Coastal Citizen Planner program (TCCP)

The Texas Coastal Citizen Planner program provides elected and appointed officials the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed land use decisions that lead to long-term hazard management, natural resource conservation, safer neighborhoods, and improved quality of life.

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November 14, 2014
The Watershed Game
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

The Watershed Game

The Watershed Game is an interactive tool that was developed by Minnesota Sea Grant as part of the Northland Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) program to help participants understand the connection between land use and water quality, as well as the degree to which implementing best management practices across land uses and sectors within a watershed is critical for reaching a water quality goal.

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October 28, 2014
Connecticut Climate Adaptation Academy
Climate

Connecticut Climate Adaptation Academy

Climate Adaptation Academy is a one-day session on topics relevant to municipal commission members (Planning and Zoning, Inland Wetlands, Conservation), municipal officials, coastal engineers and other interested professionals.

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October 23, 2014
Shelby Walker
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Knauss Fellowship: A life-changing experience

For Shelby Walker, a 2002 Knauss Fellowship seemed like a chance to take a break from the lab and consider her future. It wound up being a life-changing experience, one that would put her at the heart of groundbreaking ocean observation efforts and national ocean priority-setting, a key role in the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster – and in 2014, at the helm of Oregon Sea Grant.

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October 20, 2014
B-WET proogram
Education

Great Teachers Explore the Great Lakes

Through the The Bay Watershed Education or B-WET program Pennsylvania Sea Grant and Ohio Sea Grant provide critical support for formal and in-formal educators through an extensive three-day teacher education workshop on the importance of the natural resources in the Great Lakes.

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October 15, 2014
Elwha River Restoration Site
Announcements

Announcing the 2014 class of NOAA Fisheries/Sea Grant Fellows

The NOAA Fisheries/Sea Grant Fellowship Program selected 12 new fellows in 2014 from 8 universities around the country.  This is the largest combined class of fellows selected since the fellowship program began in 1999 and includes fellows for the first time from University of California Santa Barbara and Princeton.

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August 7, 2014
2014 Great Lakes Regional Meeting
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Words of Wisdom from the Great Lakes

Sea Grant greats were honored with Sunset Career Awards at the Great Lakes Regional Sea Grant Meeting in Erie, PA June 16-18, 2014.  They all plan to retire before the next Great Lakes Regional Meeting so they were asked to each share some words of wisdom.

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June 25, 2014
Hurricane Sandy
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Hurricane Preparedness Week: Spotlight on New York Sea Grant Communications Specialist Paul Focazio

As New York Sea Grant's Web Content Manager, Paul Focazio oversees the development and production of New York Sea Grant's Web site, e-newsletter (Currents) and all social media platforms. The program's virtual presence not only includes downloads of NYSG's Coastlines newsletter, for which Focazio writes, but also features sub-sites for all extension staff and a number of special research and education initiatives.

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May 26, 2014
Alabama

Safe Boating Week: Spotlight on Sea Grant Extension Agent Peter Nguyen

Peter Nguyen works very closely with Vietnamese-speaking fishermen to offer them technical assistance, such as providing information about new regulations and proposed legislation. Peter, a former commercial shrimper, has been with the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Outreach Program since 2006. He works at Mississippi State University’s Coastal Research Center in Biloxi and works on fishing gear research, seafood marketing and other outreach efforts.

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May 20, 2014
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Safe Boating Week: Spotlight on Extension Agent Lauren Land

Lauren is an Extension Agent at Louisiana Sea Grant. She was a recipient of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship in 2011 where she worked at the National Sea Grant Office. She has a masters in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences with a Minor in Applied Statistics from Louisiana State University.

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May 20, 2014
Alaska

Safe Boating Week: Spotlight on Marine Advisory Program Agent Torie Baker

Torie Baker is the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program agent for the Prince William Sound region and is based in Cordova. As a MAP agent, she works with fishermen in marine safety training, business assistance and collaborative applied research. She is also a 20-year commercial salmon harvester in Prince William Sound, Copper River and Bristol Bay, and has worked extensively in Copper River salmon marketing initiatives. She holds a master's degree in adult education from the University of Alaska Anchorage.

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May 20, 2014
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Safe Boating Week: Spotlight on Sea Grant Extension Agent Sarah Orlando

Sarah Orlando is an Extension Educator based in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Office of Coastal Management in Sandusky. She is the coordinator for the Ohio Clean Marinas and Clean Boaters programs,  voluntary, incentive-based programs to help maintain and improve coastal and Lake Erie

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May 19, 2014
Announcements

Safe Boating Week

It is Safe Boating Week! Whether it’s fresh, salty, or somewhere in between, the allure of water attracts people for fun in the sun and summertime memories.  Sea Grant programs are working hard to manage the delicate balance between the nation’s diverse boating needs and the protection of its coastal resources.

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May 19, 2014
Announcements

Earth Day

NOAA Sea Grant celebrates Earth Day by sharing scientific knowledge and the wonders of our ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes environments with our citizens.

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April 18, 2014
Announcements

Knauss Lecture Series

MEASURING AT RELEVANT SCALES: HOW WHELKS RESPOND TO DIFFERING PREY LEVELS ACROSS REGIONS AND YEARS

Will Tyburczy, NOAA Policy, Planning and Integration

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January 25, 2014
Announcements

NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship Lecture Series

Changing vessel routes to open areas for offshore wind development could generate significant societal benefits by Katya Samoteskul
Influence of predator identity on the strength of predator avoidance response in lobster by Erin Wilkinson

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December 16, 2013
Announcements

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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December 10, 2013
Announcements

Knauss Lecture Series

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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December 3, 2013
Announcements

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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November 18, 2013

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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September 12, 2013
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