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.
Tag Archives: collaboration
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…
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.
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.
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!
‘ia ora na!
When you stop and listen, there’s a constant rumbling around Moorea’s coastline – it’s where the ocean waves are crashing against the reef on the edge of the shallow lagoon.
Historic landscape, uncertain future
The New Forest, where a national park is home to grazing animals, and the name ‘New’ is almost a century old.
Dr Emma J McIntosh 