BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:91ed4493aa68c7ebd7fe5a5a07a2c24a115 CATEGORIES:CERF Events & Webinars SUMMARY:2020 CERF Webinar: COVID-19 and Estuarine Research: Impacts and Responses DESCRIPTION:
The global pandemic has led to significant disruptions in the plans for and practice of estuarine researc h. For students and early career professionals, the circumstances are parti cularly challenging. In this webinar, a panel of three estuarine scientists will provide overviews of their observations and experiences from their un ique institutional research perspectives in academia, government, and manag ement. What happens when access to the field is blocked, or when the lab is closed in the middle of a thesis project? How does one complete a project for which the funding was once available but now is not? What is the impact of an unintended “gap year”?
Listen to real-world accounts from the coasts and join the conversation online with your questions for our experts .
This webinar has passed. If you are a member of CERF, you can access this past webinar in our Webi nar Library.
Autumn Oczkowski currently is a researcher at the U.S. Environmen tal Protection Agency’s Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division in Narragansett, RI. She is a systems ecologist whose research often focuses on how anthropogenic nutrient loads impact coastal and freshwater ecosystem s. She uses tools such as stable isotopes (natural abundance and tracer), laboratory and greenhouse mesocosms, long-term field datasets, and fixed-si te monitoring stations to examine the links between upstream nutrient runof f and riverine and estuarine food webs. Much of her current work also looks at the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems and the net impact of these changes on nutrient dynamics. She also works across scales, from i ndividual organisms to entire estuaries, and across climatic zones, from te mperate to tropical. Dr. Oczkowski earned a B.S. in Geology from Washington and Lee University, an M.S. in Earth Sciences, Geochemical Systems from th e University of New Hampshire, and a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.
Jace Tunnell is the director of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Resear
ch Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute where he has
been since 2014. Prior to the Reserve, Tunnell worked as the director of r
esearch and planning for the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program for
nearly a decade on water quality and large scale wetland restoration. His c
onservation efforts include educating the public about plastic pollution, e
stuarine science, and the protection of our natural resources. We were name
d conservationist of the year in 2017 by the Coastal Conservation Associati
on, and the 2020 Coastal Icon by Texas Sea Grant. He was president of the C
oastal Bend Bays Foundation from 2016 to 2018 and is the founder of Nurdle
Patrol, a national citizen science project tracking plastic pellet pollutio
n to make policy changes. Tunnell received an M.S. in marine biology from T
exas A&M University-Corpus Christi in 2001.
Karen McGlathery
Karen McGlathery is Professor of Envi ronmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, Lead PI of the Virginia C oast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research Program, and Director of UVA’s E nvironmental Resilience Institute. Her research focuses on the effects of e nvironmental change, including climate, sea-level rise, eutrophication, and species invasions on coastal marine ecosystems. Her collaborative work wit h NGOs, universities and regional stakeholders addresses the resilience of coastal habitats, especially in the context of decisions for coastal adapta tion to sea-level rise and storms. McGlathery’s group was the first to show the role of restoration in reinstating seagrass ‘blue carbon’ storage in c oastal ecosystems. In addition to Virginia’s Eastern Shore, she and her stu dents have worked in New England, Florida, Bermuda, Denmark, New Zealand, a nd Mozambique. She teaches courses in Global Coastal Change, Coastal Resili ence, Water and Watershed Resilience, Estuarine Ecology, Coastal Oceanograp hy, and Conservation. She serves on the Board of the Foundation of the Virg inia State Arboretum and the Research and Education Advisory Committee of V irginia Sea Grant. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University.< /p> DTSTAMP:20240328T230920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR