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This image was taken from inside my car while driving, and without looking through the viewfinder. Along the crack in the windshield are small pockets of water that collects during the wet Pacific Northwest winters. The brown areas at the base of the water bubbles are what I believe to be small colonies of algae. They turn green in the spring when the light and temperature is right, and brown when it gets too hot, to dry, or too cold.
It's my mobile ecosystem.
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The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
26 January 2016, European Innovation Ecosystems: Good governance and effective support for smart specialisation
Belgium - Brussels - January 2016
© European Union / Nuno Rodrigues
Created by youth at Sandwich Teen Action Group (STAG) in Windsor
Displayed at Royal York Subway Station
The ‘Ecosystem-based Adaptation South’ project seeks to help the Seychelles, Nepal and Mauritania to adapt to climate change, in part by restoring natural habitats across all types of ecosystems. In the Seychelles, on-the-ground ecological restoration will rehabilitate 29 hectares of mangrove and wetland forests, thus providing natural flood barriers. Learn more about UNEP's work on adaptation: www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/cli...
Photo credit: UNEP
26 January 2016, European Innovation Ecosystems: Good governance and effective support for smart specialisation
Belgium - Brussels - January 2016
© European Union / Nuno Rodrigues
A tidepool inhabited by ochre sea stars, giant green anemones, surfgrass, and many species of algae. Photographed on Frank Island near Chesterman Beach.
June 2009.
Each spring, remote areas in Oregon's sagebrush steppe attract scores of greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) for elaborate mating rituals. These areas - called leks - provide wildlife biologists a golden opportunity for census-taking, because they host the largest annual gathering of male and female sage grouse.
Since the males are in full display - strutting their uniquely shaped pin-like tail feathers, inflating and deflating distinctive golden throat sacs, and cooing and clucking a range of sounds - they stand out in the landscape and are more easily identified and counted.
This counting is critical. The BLM and its partners are taking steps to protect the greater sage grouse and more than 350 other species that rely upon the sagebrush steppe landscape for their survival, and these annual censuses - called lek counts - provide vital information about sage grouse population health.
At one of many lek counts in the spring of 2016, wildlife biologists from the Bureau of Land Management and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife teamed up near Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon to count and record the population of greater sage grouse in two nearby leks.
The biologists traveled several hours to the lek site, arriving to begin their count at first light - a time when the birds are most active. Using spotting scopes, the biologists meticulously counted sage grouse and recorded them for later study.
The biologists also noted the presence of forbs favored by the birds, including some of the 17 species of buckwheat found near Steens Mountain. In addition to sagebrush, greater sage grouse rely upon many plants within the sagebrush steppe environment for food. Forbs - herbaceous plants (excluding grasses) with flowers and nutritious leaves - provide important seasonal alternatives to the sage grouse's year-round sagebrush fare.
Oregon is home to 6.3 percent of the nation's sage grouse population, but the effect of rangeland fire and invasive plants on sagebrush habitat continue to threaten the bird's survival. In 2015, following concerted efforts by the BLM and partners to address these and other threats, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that protection for the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act was no longer warranted, and they withdrew it from the candidate species list.
This decision was not an end to conservation measures, though. Within the next five years, the USFWS will conduct a status review to evaluate the greater sage grouse conservation efforts. That's where the importance of lek counts factors in. It is critical that the BLM has the capacity to document how greater sage grouse plans are being implemented and can demonstrate that they're effective at conserving the bird's habitat by reducing threats, minimizing new surface disturbance, and improving habitat integrity.
Lek counts are like a blood pressure monitor for the greater sage grouse and the sagebrush ecosystem: they provide important data that indicate health, and also inform prescriptive paths toward recovery.
- Story and photos by Greg Shine, BLM, gshine@blm.gov
For more information on greater sage grouse, visit www.fws.gov/greatersagegrouse/
30 April 2018; From left, Moderator, Arnobio Morelix, with Jim Brisimitzis, Lais De Oliveria and John Marshall during Ecosystem Summit prior to the start of Collision 2018 at Launch Pad in New Orleans. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Collision via Sportsfile
Revegetation of the wetland in Port Clinton, OH, September 8, 2021.
Due to raising lake levels, shoreline erosion, and sedimentation issues, the quality of the coastal wetlands has deteriorated over the past 50 years, putting a strain on many of fish populations of the Lake.
For 18 years, TBLI Group has been building the ecosystem for the Impact Investing and Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) community, providing advisory, educational services and networking events.
TBLI Group’s signature event TBLI CONFERENCE™ is the longest-running global forum bringing together investors, asset managers and thought leaders in sustainable finance.
TBLI events are for networking, peer-to-peer learning and finding new business opportunities.
More than 30 TBLI events have been held in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America.
This year TBLI CONFERENCE is returning to Zurich, Switzerland to hold its longest-running event on 19-20 November.
The conference offers an extensive program addressing the latest trends in ESG and Impact Investing across asset classes in the European sustainable finance community.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Development of an environmental prediction capability will require incorpo-ration of additional components of the Earth System beyond the physical climate system. The core elements and expertise needed in this regard include atmospheric general circu-lation models, ocean circulation models, land surface models, interactive vegetation models, marine ecosystem models, atmospheric chemistry models, global carbon cycle models, assimilation techniques for atmosphere-ocean-land, population dynamics, crop models, and infectious disease models, to name a few. The challenge now is to bring these core elements together within a common infrastructure and with a central focus on sub-seasonal to decadal prediction of the Earth System in the broadest sense. Further-more, the prospect of Earth System prediction has unique policy relevance at both the national and international levels.
Antonio J. Busalacchi is President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Re-search (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Prior to his appointment at UCAR, he was the Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor, Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), and Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in oceanography from Florida State University in 1982 and began his professional career that year at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. He has studied tropical ocean circulation and its role in the coupled climate system. His research on climate variability and predictability has sup-ported a range of international and national research programs dealing with global change and climate, particularly as affected by the oceans. He previously served as a UCAR Board of Trustees member. Among his awards and honors, in 1991, Busalacchi was the recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award. In 1999, he was awarded the NASA/Goddard Excellence in Outreach Award and the Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2006, he was the AMS Walter Orr Roberts Interdisciplinary Science Lecturer and in 2016, he was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.