In this paper I explored the effectiveness of signature Australian conservation planning policies – the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park rezoning and NE NSW Forestry Agreements.
Conservation giving
Next week I will be starting a new role as an Environmental Grants Manager with Arcadia Fund and I’m thrilled about supporting ambitious conservation projects around the globe.
Monitoring the health of Gladstone Harbour in the Great Barrier Reef
Every year, the Gladstone Harbour Report Card summarises the 'health' of the largest harbour in the Great Barrier Reef. Our new publication in Ecological Indicators outlines how we designed the underlying monitoring and reporting program, including social, cultural, economic and environmental dimensions of harbour health.
Extended ocean reading list
Thanks to an incredible response to my earlier blog on ocean books, here is a longer list of salty tales to enjoy!
Ocean reading list
This last year I have been devouring books on the ocean. Here are snapshots of the books I’ve particularly enjoyed...
Little Blue Letter
In this week's Little Blue Letter I teamed up with Glen Wright to compile marine stories of particular interest in 2018.
A Sri Lankan sea
The sun has just set over a coconut fringed headland on our last night in Sri Lanka. These few weeks have offered a fantastic contrast to the short, chilly days in London at this time of year, and have also highlighted the incredible biological riches this country has to offer.
Extended acknowledgements
A hell of a lot of wonderful people have been cheering me on for the last four years, and I didn't have room to mention them all in my actual thesis, so here goes...
Impact evaluations rare in conservation planning
Our review of over 10,000 articles relating to systematic conservation planning resulted in us identifying only three high quality evaluations of implemented plans.
Thesis writing resources
Here are some gems I've come across recently which I hope will be as useful to others.
Planning for implementation
Vanessa Adams and colleagues have published a fantastic guide to designing implementation strategies alongside conservation plans.
Protecting Great British Oceans
Today I am starting as Coordinator of the Great British Oceans campaign with the Marine Reserves Coalition.
Bridging the evidence synthesis gap
Our latest paper on using technology to enhance evidence syntheses is out today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, ‘Software support for environmental evidence synthesis’.
The taming of the review
Our review of software to aid end-to-end management of systematic reviews or systematic maps is now available open access via Environmental Evidence.
Results and reflections
With an eye to the future, our fieldwork in French Polynesia ended last week with project lead Yadvinder Malhi joining us for a whirlwind tour of Moorea and Tetiaroa.
Sharing science
One of the best things about studying forests is that our research subjects (the trees!) are easy for other people to work with too.
The thousand trees of Tetiaroa
One thousand tree tags later (well it was actually 1003, but who’s counting?!) and our forest monitoring on Tetiaroa is complete. So far we’ve used up 100 metres of pink flagging tape, 56 PVC pipes and eight litres of paint to mark the trees... as well as two bottles of mosquito repellent.
This is not a holiday…
To borrow Rob Whittaker's favourite saying on Oxford Geography field trips - "this is not a holiday"... despite what it looks like!
But it’s all just coconuts, isn’t it?!
We are regularly asked – ‘Why are you studying forests on Tetiaroa? It’s just all coconuts trees isn’t it?’, and it’s easy to understand why people are surprised!
Crabs & coconuts… the forests of Tetiaroa
So ends our first week monitoring forests on the stunning atoll of Tetiaroa, 3 hours boat ride from Tahiti. Hosted by the Tetiaroa Society, Heipoe and I are living and working with the Tetiaroa Society rangers, guides and other staff of The Brando hotel on Onetahi, the only inhabited motu (islet) on the atoll.
Dr Emma J McIntosh 
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