Blog: Switzer Innovation Proposals Posts

April 27, 2012 - 4:10 PM

We invite Switzer Fellows to participate in a full day of events surrounding the use of film to communicate conservation science to a broad audience. These events—organized in concert with the Society for Conservation Biology North American Congress in Oakland, California—will include a workshop on conservation filmmaking best practices, offering opportunities to interact with many experts during a panel discussion and break-out group activities (see biographies of several panelists, below). The workshop will be followed by a networking reception and a showcase of films that are exemplary of collaboration between filmmakers and conservation practitioners.

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March 21, 2012 - 5:19 PM

Hi everyone,

Nancy L. C. Steele (Council for Watershed Health) and I (Christine Lee - Caltech-Jet Propulsion Laboratory) would like to submit a Switzer Network Innovation Proposal for consideration.  We would love to hear your feedback on how to make this proposal not just a standalone project - but one that has far-reaching benefits and lessons learned that would be applicable to other water quality monitoring and protection efforts. This undertaking is particularly timely and important, given that the BEACH Act is on the chopping block for Obama administration's budget FY2013, which would eliminate all federal support for beach water quality monitoring.  ...

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December 22, 2011 - 6:36 PM

The relationship between flood risk and environmental justice has received increasing media and scholarly attention in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, drawing the nation’s attention to the potential for inequitable distribution of flood risk along lines of race, class, and other markers of social marginality.  Despite the national attention directed towards southeastern Louisiana, very little research or public awareness exists regarding flood risk and environmental justice within one of the nation’s most flood-prone regions: California’s Central Valley.  Preliminary, but limited, data and research suggest that a significant correlation may exist between social...

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November 21, 2011 - 3:01 PM

Innovation Grant idea: Learn how filmmakers and conservationists connect people, nature and climate

Video is a powerful communication tool with a global reach. For example, An Inconvenient Truth (2006) generated much debate in the public arena while shedding light on conservation science for a mass audience. Since then, a digital revolution in the tools of video production and distribution has enabled virtually anyone to work in this medium. The work of conservation scientists and practitioners deserves the attention of the public. When their research findings and potential solutions to solve global problems are not shared in a format that can be easily accessed, conservationists...

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