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Coastal Restoration
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Coastal management and restoration of our planet's coastlines with a particular focus on California, Louisiana and the Pacific. Emphasizing wetland restoration, aspects of agriculture in the coastal plain, fisheries, dealing with coastal hazards, and effective governance.
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It’s hard to escape the prevailing media narrative that student loan debt is destroying an entire generation’s financial future. The New York Times' David Leonhardt reported on a new Brookings Institution study on education debt, in an article titled “The Reality of Student Debt is Different from the Cliches”—an assertion that cuts against conventional wisdom. Bob speaks to David Leonhardt to get to the bottom of what his reporting reveals about the state of student loan debt.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Great discussion on the reality of student debt. 
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For the third time in his 17-year career as a Los Angeles County lifeguard, Dusty Wiggins recently found himself making his way through rough surf along the Malibu coastline to rescue a panicked deer.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Wow: this is a merging of so much of our work here in Southern California: wildlife movements, sandy beach ecology, human perceptions of/behavior in the coastal zone, etc. If only this deer was on fire and had walked through Malibu Lagoon we would have a perfect sweep!
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Hmmmmmm...I wonder if Daffy is in the lead.
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Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday he would seek public opinion and assistance from privacy groups before using two unmanned aerial systems the department said it received from the Seattle Police Department.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Powerful new tools need powerful standards and clear discussion of what is appropriate whenever they are unleashed upon our society. I hope these new aerial tools will be both effective and prescribed/limited. The potential for improving coastal management is amazing, but their potential downsides are great as well.
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Just to be clear: our salt marshes should be growing birds and fish and plants....not sheep.
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BOEM awards first Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases (subject to US–Mexico ...
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Here we go...
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Change the Course, a freshwater restoration movement, will restore 1 billion gallons of water to the Colorado River Delta to support the revitalization of wetland habitats in what was once one of the planet's great desert aquatic ecosystems. Change the Course is spearheaded by the National Geographic ...
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The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble—with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere.
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The global potential of tidal and wave power is tremendous, and major projects are underway worldwide. On the coast of California, two companies vying for a shuttered natural gas plant's transmission lines offer the latest indication of an industry coming of age.
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A new analysis suggests unconscious sexism causes people to take hurricanes with female names less seriously than hurricanes with male names.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
New evidence that sexism can cause real consequences for how seriously we take a storm warning.
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It was just after a January storm in 1953, and the waves were epic.
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A loss. A great explorer and advocate for our global ocean.
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California's drought has at least one upside: Record-low rainfall has resulted in cleaner water up and down the coast, a new report says.
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Less non-point pollution translates into improved near-shore water quality. Not a particularly surprising result, but important nevertheless.
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Once againThe shark that bit a swimmer near the Manhattan Beach pier Saturday morning was hooked by a fisherman on the pier for nearly an hour and had become increasingly annoyed as it tried to free itself, authorities said.
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Once again, the issue here is poor choices by humans rather than some "vicious" animal threatening human beings.
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A State Parks ranger on routine patrol discovered an abandoned panga boat on the Central Coast, which had been possibly used to smuggle both drugs, and people into the United States from Mexico.
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Having just finished another integrated federal-state monitoring exercise, it is disappointing that another boat got through to California beaches. Only a post-landing routine ranger patrol found this vessel.
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Reports that Griffith Park's famous four-legged resident became ill from exposure to rodenticides have heightened concerns about the use of the poisons in California.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Second Generation Rodenticides have become a huge problem globally and we are only really getting a handle upon this situation in a few places. Here in Southern California, our National Park Service colleagues have spearheaded the charge in trying to figure out what has been going on with wildlife in and around the wild lands urban interface.
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President Obama launched a plan to create the world's largest marine preserve by adding to the existing national monument in the Central Pacific. Drilling, fishing and other activities would be off limits. Joshua Reichert of the Pew Charitable Trusts and Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post join Jeffrey Brown to discuss the impetus and potential opposition for the proposed expansion.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
A good discussion of the decision, process, and overall story of the expansion of this MPA.
This is an example of effective lobbying of Secretary Kerry and John Podesta. I note with some irony how most Congressional Republicans didn't raise much of a stink when President Bush started this process, but now there seems to be some sort of kerfuffle about this Presidential Action. In any event, President Obama has simply pushed the Protected Area boundary designation from 50 to 200 nm offshore of the seven small islands than anchor the American territories.
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liforniaOver the last two decades, the conservancy that owns nine-tenths of this island has shot, trapped and shipped out thousands of goats, pigs and bison that were literally eating away the island.
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Scientists watch in amazement at shark Katharine's trek
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Photographer documents Dismal Swamp recovery
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The hope is that these new rules will restore protection for about 20 million wetland acres and two million miles of streams whose legal status was thrown into uncertainty during the Bush era.
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June 3, 2014 10:03 AM
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A rash of road construction is causing widespread change in the world's largest tropical forest — with potentially global consequences.
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June 2, 2014 4:00 AM
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By Harold R.Wanless, University of Miami It is amazing for me to see the very aggressive building boom underway &helip; (RT @jricole: Global Warming Threat: Florida could be overwhelmed by Sudden Sea Rise - http://t.co/6VFFKjvf6Z...
Via Whats New In The WORLD , Marian Locksley
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I don't think coastal real estate is the best thing to be investing in these days...
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May 31, 2014 8:47 PM
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ianEvery two weeks, a swath of Louisiana the size of this city's French Quarter vanishes into the Gulf of Mexico. Since the 1930s, the state has lost nearly 1,900 square miles, a quarter of its coastal land area.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
When we were last in New Orleans (March 2014), we were hosted at the law offices of the firm who filed the lawsuit. While lawsuits are always regrettable and it would be wonderful if we could settle our disagreements outside of this confrontational arena, this suit has been a long time in coming.
The oil and gas industry have themselves agreed in the past that their operations were responsible for at least 32% of the wetland loss via not meeting their agreed to mitigation actions post-drilling (primarily filling in excavation channels/ripped up segments of wetland).
The political opposition to this has been massive and overwhelming with multiple laws being proposed to legally ban the lawsuit before the plaintiffs have a chance to have their say in court. If those same actors put as much energy into effective coastal management and restoration, we would all be better off.
