Alison Green
Alison Green is senior marine scientist with The Nature Conservancy's Tropical Marine Conservation Program in the Asia Pacific Conservation Region. She is also the Marine Protected Areas Strategy Lead for the Conservancy's Coral Triangle Program. Her areas of expertise include coral reef ecology, monitoring, and the design and implementation of Marine Protected Areas. Alison lives in Brisbane, Australia, where she blogs for Cool Green Science on issues related to marine conservation, particularly coral reefs.
(Photo Credit: Emre Turak)
Posts by Alison Green:
Listening to Coral Reefs: It’s Loud
Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her posts from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and climate [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Coral Reefs, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, Science, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Alison Green, coral audio, coral reef sounds, coral sound, Coral Triangle, Coral Triangle coral, Coral Triangle Nature Conservancy, Ecological Acoustic Recorder, healthy coral, healthy reef, Kimbe Bay, NOAA, NOAA audio, Papua New Guinea, reef audio, reef sound, snapping shrimp sound, stressed coral, stressed reef, University of Hawaii
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Cryptic Coral Reef Organisms! (What Are Those?)
Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her first post from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 under Animals, Asia Pacific, Australia, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Alison Green, Australia, Australia coral animal, Australia reef animal, Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures, Census of Marine Life, climate change reef, coral animal, coral climate change, coral monitor, coral reef organism, Coral Reefs, Coral Triangle, cryptic coral reef organism, cryptic reef organism, Hawaii, Hawaii coral animal, Hawaii reef animal, Kimbe Bay, Mark Eakin NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, NOAA ARMS, ocean acid, ocean acidification, octopus, Papua New Guinea, reef animal, reef monitor, sea snail, sea sponge, sea squirt, sea star, The Nature Conservancy, Walindi Plantation Resort
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Beam Me Up, Scotty! First Satellite Buoy to Monitor Ocean Temps in the Coral Triangle
What can a buoy in the ocean do in the fight against the effects of climate change? A lot, as I found out last week in the Coral Triangle — the most biodiverse marine region in the world.
I visited Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea with three scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Coral Reefs, Oceans & Coasts, Science, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Alison Green, Australia coral reef, Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, climate change science, coral bleaching, coral reef bleaching, coral science, Coral Triangle, CRED, Danny Merritt NOAA, Kimbe Bay, Mark Eakin NOAA, NOAA, NOAA climate, NOAA coral reef, NOAA Coral Reef Watch, Papua New Guinea, Rusty Brainard NOAA, satellite climate, satellite climate monitor, sea surface temperature, sea surface temperature buoy
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The Coral Triangle: a Refuge from Climate Change?
The Nature Conservancy contributed to the ground-breaking report “The Coral Triangle and Climate Change: Ecosystems, People and Societies at Risk”, which was released in May at the World Oceans Conference and Coral Triangle Initiative Summit in Manado, Indonesia.
Compilation of the report was led by WWF and Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland, who [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Coral Reefs, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: biodiversity, climate change refuge, Coral Triangle, Coral Triangle Iniative Summit, Indonesia, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, resiliency, University of Queensland, World Oceans Conference, wwf
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What the Coral Triangle Initiative Means to Me
There has been much excitement recently regarding the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) — a pathbreaking commitment by the governments of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Philippines, East Timor and Malaysia to protect marine resources in the region known as the Coral Triangle, which is the most biodiverse marine area on the planet.
Since [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Coral Reefs, Fish, Indigenous Communities, Oceans & Coasts, Protected Areas.
Tags: Alison Green, Coral Triangle, Coral Triangle Initiative, Derek Sikua, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Marine Protected Areas, Melanesia, MPA, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, tambu
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Expedition to Mozambique: Weird Mass Coral Bleaching
Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, helped conduct an assessment of a proposed marine reserve in Mozambique. In this series of blog posts, she explains why the area is so special and what the Conservancy is doing to help preserve the marine resources here and the livelihoods that depend on them.
Climate change [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2009 under Africa, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Environmental Science, Oceans & Coasts, Protected Areas, Science, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Alison Green, archipelago, Climate Change, coral bleaching, CORDIO, Indian Ocean, mass coral bleaching, Mozambique, Mozambique expedition, reef resiliency, rising sea temperature, Rod Salm
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Expedition to Mozambique: Measuring Conservation Success
Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, recently helped conduct an assessment of a proposed marine reserve in Mozambique. In this series of blog posts, she explains why the area is so special and what the Conservancy is doing to help preserve the marine resources here and the livelihoods that depend on them. [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2009 under Africa, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Alison Green, CARE, fisheries management, marine protected area, Mozambique expedition, Mozambqiue, MPA, Primeiras and Segundas Reserve, The Nature Conservancy, wwf
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Expedition to Mozambique: Protecting Marine Resources and Improving Livelihoods
Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, helped conduct an assessment of a proposed marine reserve in Mozambique. In this series of blog posts, she explains why the area is so special and what the Conservancy is doing to help preserve the marine resources here and the livelihoods that depend on them.
Recently [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2009 under Africa, Coral Reefs, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: archipelago, CARE, illegal fishing, marine protected area, Mozambique, Mozambique expedition, wwf
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Expedition to Palmyra Atoll: Farewell…and What’s Next?
(Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, has just finished two weeks diving and exploring Palmyra Atoll as part of the first marine assessment of the atoll. Read all her posts from Palmyra on Cool Green Science…and learn more about the expedition.)
Our excellent adventure at Palmyra Atoll is now over, and [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Birds, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Oceans & Coasts, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Alison Green, atoll, Christmas Island, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, dive, diving, Fanning Island, fisheries, Invasive species, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Kiribati, Line Islands, manta ray, Pacific Ocean, Palmyra, Palmyra Atoll, Palmyra expedition, shark, The Nature Conservancy, Washington Island
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Expedition to Palmyra Atoll, Day 9: Shark!
(Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, is spending the next two weeks diving and exploring Palmyra Atoll as part of the first marine assessment of the atoll. Follow her posts from Palmyra on Cool Green Science…and learn more about the expedition.)
Shark: Just the word seems to strike fear in the [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Coral Reefs, Oceans & Coasts, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Alison Green, black tipped reef shark, dive, diving, grey reef shark, hammerhead shark, Kydd Pollock, Palmyra, Palmyra Atoll, Palmyra expedition, shark, white tipped reef shark
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