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Well, it’s been a while! I admit that keeping up with the blog has been harder than I expected it to be. We’ve had quite a few things going on here at Sea Grant – we hosted the 2009 Sea Grant Climate Network (SGCN) workshop, “Climate Adaptation in Coastal Communities: A Network Approach to Outreach.” [...]
What a busy month! I got in a little vacation time, but more recently I’ve been on the road. First, last week I attended a meeting for several university researchers who have projects funded under the North Carolina Pilot Project portion of the Ecological Effects of Sea Level Rise (EESLR) Program, under NOAA’s National Centers [...]
OK, so I know I promised to catch up on stuff I did a couple of months ago, but this is too good to pass up for a quick post. Last week, we had an all-hands meeting for the NC/SC climate extension team – so me, Bob Bacon (SCSG extension director), Jack Thigpen (NCSG extension [...]
It’s a funny thing, trust. Without building a reputation in a community as a trusted source of information, a Sea Grant extension agent is pretty much sunk. And I find that saying I work for SG gains me a little trust, now that I’ve started getting out into the community a bit more. But what [...]
I haven’t talked to Dr. Fragile about his class, but it looks like a big part of the class is blogging. He introduces a film through a blog entry, and his physics students respond with their film analyses as blog comments or posts in their own blogs. The students have some great responses on TDAT, [...]
John Tribbia and Susan Moser address this issue in their 2008 Environmental Science and Policy paper on California coastal managers’ needs for climate information. Although this paper focuses on research done in California, I suspect that many of their conclusions apply broadly. For example, only about 30% of the coastal managers surveyed reported using scientific [...]