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FSU grad student, alumna earn NOAA’s prestigious Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships
January 25, 2021 | 2:24 pm | SHARE:
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science doctoral candidate Renee Richardson and recent Department of Biological Science doctoral graduate Abbey Engleman have received the Knauss Fellowship.
Two Florida State University graduate students have received the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2021 John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.
The fellowship, part of the National Sea Grant College Program, has provided educational and professional experiences for graduate students interested in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and policy decisions affecting these resources since 1979.
NERC launches scoping project for Net-Zero Oceanographic Capability
2 October 2020
With UKRI’s commitment to achieve net-zero by 2040, NERC has launched a 12-month scoping study to move towards a net-zero oceanographic capability.
NERC’s current marine infrastructure contributes over two thirds of its carbon emissions, largely through the operation of three large research ships:
RRS James Cook
RRS Discovery.
While the ships, other marine infrastructure, and support services provide the UK environmental science community with a world-leading oceanographic capability, it does so with a high carbon cost.
The Net-Zero Oceanographic Capability (NZOC) scoping project will look to the future of marine science and provide a series of infrastructure, research, and development options that could reduce the carbon emissions of the UK’s oceanographic infrastructure towards net-zero, while maintaining its world-leading capability.
Disney helps fund shark research at Mote
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium is pleased to announce that support from the Disney Conservation Fund (DCF) will aid Mote’s mission of studying white sharks, their life cycle and habitat use, through collaboration with the nonprofit OCEARCH.
Support from DCF will allow Mote to deploy an additional 12 satellite tags used to collect key data about white shark movements and habitats.
Building on years of successful missions with the group OCEARCH, these additional Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags (PSATs) will allow scientists to gather information necessary for understanding white shark migration patterns, critical habitats, and vulnerability to environmental threats. The PSAT is applied near the base of a shark’s dorsal fin, and continuously collects the shark’s location and depth, as well as the water temperature. After a programmed time of usually one year, the tag “pops off” and transmits its data via satellite to scientists on l
Renyung Ho: The second-gen leader of Banyan Tree on the importance of mindfulness Share
“Mindfulness” has been all the rage in the last five years and should need no explanation.
Yet I googled it anyway. “The quality or state of being conscious or aware of something,” Google Dictionary tells me. It says everything and nothing, because mindfulness has come to mean many things. It’s about being fully present. It’s having a relaxed-alert state of mind. It’s compassion. It’s meditation, both Buddhist and secular. It’s mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), which helps people better understand and manage their thoughts and emotions. It’s a lifestyle.