Explorations in River Deltas and Coastal Wetlands.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wet feet.
Yesterday, when I arrived in Chioggia--a city on the southern end of the Venetian Lagoon in northeastern Italy--the main boulevard was underwater. Caused by a combination of light rain and high tide, life at sealevel.
For the next twelve months I will be traveling to river deltas around the world as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. I am a human ecologist who has worked with plants, law makers, loggers, stone flies, and rivers in Coastal Maine; children, salt marshes, fishermen, land trusts, and Quakers in Southern New Jersey; and tortoises in the Mojave desert. During my year abroad I will be combining these interests and experiences by living in and meeting researchers, managers, and community members in the Venetian lagoon, Mackenzie, Ganges/Brahmaputra, Mekong, and Colorado river deltas.
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