salt marshes ameliorate climate change
A warming climate and rising seas will enable salt marshes to more rapidly capture and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, possibly playing a role in slowing the rate of climate change, according to a new study led by a University of Virginia environmental scientist and published in the Sept. 27 issue of the journal […]
degrading salt marshes
Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and other highly developed coastlines without anyone fully understanding why. This week in the journal Nature, scientist Linda Deegan of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Mass., and colleagues report that nutrients–such as nitrogen and phosphorus […]
songs about floods
Songs about flooding, climate, tides, harbors, marshes, islands, pirate radio When the levee Breaks – Led Zeppelin Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson “Drowned” and “Water in the Sky” — Phish. “God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters” – Moby ‘Down in the Flood’ ~ Sandy Denny ‘Cloudbusting’ ~ Kate Bush when it rains, it […]
the project
Marsh Radio Island Community Supported – Salt Marsh Flotant – Communication Station Marsh Radio Island is a project that activates the interconnectedness of humans and plants in the urban port city ecosystem of Boston by deploying designed flotants (modular salt marsh habitats) for growing salt marsh plant species of the future. It offers a practical […]
rhizomes and crochet
Image culled from here still thinking about rhizomes as a mode of knowledge and model for engagement and visualizing them as crochet… …multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.. A rhizome, on the other hand, is characterized by “ceaselessly established connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to […]