February 2022 Director's Corner “We don't need an evolution of how we're doing this, we need a revolution.” The January CRC Roundtable webinar centered on the human dimension of Chesapeake Bay restoration and discussed the incorporation of more social science into the restoration effort. Conservation, policy, and practice can and should [...]
January 2022 Director's Corner Welcome to a new format of the Director’s Corner and of Streamlines! Over the last year, we have enjoyed building a space for collective musing, vexing, and connecting via our webinar series (Roundtable) and the expanded readership of this newsletter. What we hoped would happen has, indeed, [...]
November 2021 Director's Corner in·va·sive /inˈvāsiv/ adjective (especially of plants or a disease) tending to spread prolifically and undesirably or harmfully. To most people, the operative and memorable terms in the above definition are “undesirably” or “harmfully”. If we are considering one species at a time, we have time to reflect [...]
October 2021 Director's Corner My husband and I recently joined my daughter and her husband for a day of flyfishing on Yellow Breeches, a beautiful limestone and well-known trout stream in south-central Pennsylvania. It was a remarkable Fall Day; the air was dry, the sky blue and clear, a slight breeze [...]
August 2021 Director's Corner Beyond Pipelines What do diversity in the workforce, the infrastructure bill, and natural gas have in common? All have been described as complex interplays of pipelines, leaks, and capacity. In all instances, there is something of value being carried from one point to the next, whether talent, [...]
May 2021 Director's Corner Inflection Points I have been thinking a lot about inflection points lately - changes in direction, changes in slope. ScienceDirect provides a useful definition as, “Inflection points are spots where the growth of the curve begins to slow (going from concave up to concave down), or increase [...]
Think Globally, Act Locally The phrase is a familiar call to action, used in a variety of contexts from mathematics to corporate social responsibility to a wide range of environmental issues. At first glance it seems entirely pragmatic and appropriate to all of the instances in which it is utilized, reminding us to see the [...]
‘Tis a season of lists: Zoom calls, errands, year-end reports, gifts. In the spirit of trying to let as few spinning plates drop as possible, I requested, and received, my father’s Christmas list. He’s a well-read, independent, widowed, and talkative 87-year old native New Yorker, and so the list is always thoughtful and intentional, a [...]
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” Mary Oliver, American poet Paying attention. What an almost overwhelming thought at this point in 2020. And yet, we are generally in this line of work because we do pay attention to things that are unseen for many: movement of organisms and constituents; presence or [...]
It’s a turbulent time, waters once calm are now swirling, and footing is harder to come by. We can’t work in the usual way, can’t communicate in the manner we’re accustomed to, can’t assume that the trajectories of programs and efforts will continue on the same path. But we still have work to do, we crave [...]
