Episode 19. Emily Howe – Nature Conservancy – Aquatic and Estuarine Ecologist

In this episode, Annika interviews Emily Howe, an aquatic and estuarine ecologist at The Nature Conservancy of Washington.   She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, with a focus on estuarine restoration and food web ecology in tidally-influenced ecosystems.  Emily’s work integrates across ecosystem boundaries, investigating how landscape configuration and management shapes cross-boundary relationships for food webs, organisms, and ecosystem processes.  She is currently working at the nexus of forest management impacts on snow, stormwater pollution and green infrastructure, and freshwater and marine restoration ecology- all with an eye towards the impacts of climate change.  

Enjoy!  

Weblinks:

Estuaries:

Deep in the marsh, an ecologist untangles aquatic food webs | Crosscut

Port Susan Bay Preserve: Where have all the Chinook gone? (Part 2) — The Nature Conservancy in Washington (washingtonnature.org)

Port Susan Bay Visit from Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves — The Nature Conservancy in Washington (washingtonnature.org)

Urban Stormwater:

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/first-of-its-kind-stormwater-heat-map-lights-up-pollutants-fouling-waters-in-washington-state/

The Nature Conservancy StormwaterHeatmap | The Nature Conservancy StormwaterHeatmap

Mountain Snowpack:

Allocating Water as Snowpack Declines (nature.org)

Watch the Video: Frozen Frontiers — The Nature Conservancy in Washington (washingtonnature.org)