We are also pleased to announce a collaboration with FAU Assistant Professor of Music Matt Baltrucki and music majors Zachary Binder, Brendan Lyons, and Matt Bielasiak, who created the music and sound design for the episode.
Georgia salt marsh
In 2017, CES began a 4-year, multi-institutional project that took researchers into three salt marsh communities up and down the east coast. In each community, they were investigating:
How do we value an environment?
CES Coastal Resilience Research Lab team members (left to right) Jeanmarie Steckler, Vince Edwards,Dr. Colin Polsky, and Alyssa Jones-Wood in a Massachusetts salt marsh during a focus group trip in May 2017
Virginia salt marsh
This is a question scientists and economists have been studying for decades through what's known as ecosystem services, a term researchers use to describe what ecosystems provide to humans.
But what about the things that aren’t quite as tangible? What if there are ecosystem services that the market doesn’t put a price tag on? What if those services are so fundamental to our daily lives and to our culture, we don’t even have the words to articulate their value? It might be more of a feeling: our mind or body feels healthier when we are in that space, it’s our home, or a part of our identity.
What is the cost of not having a complete picture of ecosystem services? And, how can we create space for these missing pieces?
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