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SER in the News
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CEER Call for Abstracts - Due January 10, 2014!
Abstracts for the Conference on Ecosystem and Ecological Restoration (CEER) are due January 10, 2014. CEER will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 28- August 1, 2014. CEER is a Collaborative Effort of the leaders of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) and the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER). It will bring together ecological and ecosystem restoration scientists and practitioners to address challenges and share information about restoration projects, programs, and research from across North America.
SER Seeks Managing Editor for Restoration Ecology
The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of ecological restoration, is seeking a Managing Editor for its journal, Restoration Ecology, the leading peer-reviewed science journal in this field.
Important SER Membership Updates:
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SER Sections: We are pleased to announce the launch of SER Sections. Sections are groups of members organized to focus on a particular interest, such as the study of an ecosystem, function, technique, or management strategy. In October the Society increased its capacity for engaging diverse partners in restoration by launching its Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration Section (LERS). Click here to learn more.
- Online-Only subscription to Ecological Management & Restoration (EMR): SER Members will now have access to a 1-year online only subscription for $45 USD. Our current Print & Online subscription offering will be discontinued.
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People in the News
Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change - Choice 2013 Best Academic Publication
SER Board member Stuart Allison's book Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change: Renewing Damaged Ecosystems was listed as one of the outstanding academic publications of 2013 by Choice. His book is listed as one of the most outstanding publications in Biology. Choice systematically reviews new books for the purposes of recommending them to libraries. Congratulations, Stuart!
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New Books & Articles
Click here to read the full January issue of Restoration Ecology.
Don't forget! SER members have access to a discounted subscription rate to RE - $85 Online Only, $110 Print & Online, or $350 Group subscription. Visit our website to learn more.
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Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that pummeled the U.S. northeast in October 2012, ranks as the second-costliest hurricane in American history, causing an estimated $68 billion in damages. So a city or company looking to safeguard its water supply, for example, could invest in protecting or restoring lands instead of building a new water treatment plant. But is this kind of green infrastructure approach generally as effective? Is it cost competitive?
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Forest Restoration
Large-Scale Reforestation in Indigenous Michoacán, Mexico
On December 17 the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (NCDIP) in Mexico announced the start of a reforestation program in the Purepecha community of Angahuan, Michoacán. It marks the second large-scale reforestation effort in the heavily indigenous state of Michoacán since 2012.
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Wetland Restoration
Less Is More When Restoring Wetlands
Wetlands across the U.S. and the world continue to disappear at a rapid rate. Projects to revive wetlands have largely failed and wasted millions of dollars, primarily because they have attempted to fully engineer all aspects of an ecosystem to their original conditions. Instead scientists should attempt to achieve one or two benefits, such as boosting fish populations or improving water quality, leaving the rest alone. A growing number of restorations built on that principle are succeeding in Delaware Bay, in coastal Louisiana and around the globe.
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River & Watershed Restoration
Indonesia, Korea Cooperate to Restore Ciliwung River
Indonesia and South Korea have established cooperation to restore the quality of Ciliwung River that flows through the Jakarta metropolitan area and ends up in the sea of Jakarta Bay.
From Britain to the Czech Republic, European nations have been restoring rivers to their natural state - taking down dams, removing levees, and reviving floodplains. For a continent that long viewed rivers as little more than shipping canals and sewers, it is a striking change.
It's been almost eight years since the US Bureau of Reclamation began its program to restore the San Joaquin River. This January is the deadline for the program to restore enough water to the San Joaquin to eventually allow runs of Chinook salmon. But as Amy Quinton reports from Sacramento, the restoration program has been plagued by delays and increased costs.
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Wildlife Restoration
Rewilding Chile's Savanna with Guanacos Could Increase Biodiversity And Livestock
Local extinctions have occurred across a variety of habitats on every continent, affecting a gamut of species from large predators such as the wolves of North America, to tiny amphibians like the Kihansi spray toad of Tanzania. The long trek toward reversing such extinctions has begun, but it is not without its challenges, both ethical and logistical.
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Urban Restoration
Urban Nature: How to Foster Biodiversity in World's Cities
As the world becomes more urbanized, researchers and city managers from Baltimore to Britain are recognizing the importance of providing urban habitat that can support biodiversity. It just may be the start of an urban wildlife movement.
There are lots of creative Christmas tree recycling programs around the country, and in keeping with the holiday spirit, here are a few of them - set to verse.
The restoration of salmon and steelhead habitat in the Pacific Northwest has focused largely on rural areas dominated by agricultural and forested lands, but researchers increasingly are looking at the impact of urban areas on the well-being of these fish.
One of America's hottest cities and one of its coldest may have more in common than you would guess. In places like Phoenix and Minneapolis, scientists think that cities are starting to look alike in ways that have nothing to do with the proliferation of Starbucks, WalMart or T.G.I Fridays. It has to do with the flowers we plant and the fertilizers we use and the choices we make every spring when we emerge from our apartments and homes and descend on local garden centers.
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Get Involved
- January 10, 2014
SER Mid Atlantic will hold their 2014 Regional Conference in Ambler, PA at Temple University from March 20-22, 2014.
SER-New England Chapter Conference - Call for Papers - Due January 31, 2014
SER New England will hold their first Chapter conference in partnership with the Conway School Master of Science Program in Ecological Design April 25 & 26, 2014, at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. The conference theme is Designing for Success: Ecological Restoration in Times of Change.
SER-Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter Conference -Call for Abstracts March 28-30, 2014
The SER MWGL Chapter meeting will be held at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, Minnesota. The theme of the meeting will be "Building on the Midwest Legacy of Restoration: Linking Theory and Practice".
SER Northwest & Great Basin Joint Chapter Conference - October 6-10, 2014
The SER Northwest and SER Great Basin chapters are joining forces to hold a join conference at the Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond, Oregon from October 6-10, 2014. The conference theme is
Collaborative Restoration: From Community Efforts to Landscape Scales.
New Orleans: Conference on Ecological & Ecosystem Restoration - July 28- Aug 1, 2014
CEER is a Collaborative Effort between the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) and the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER). It will bring together ecological and ecosystem restoration scientists and practitioners to address challenges and share information about restoration projects, programs, and research from across North America.
SER-Europe: European Conference on Ecological Restoration - August 3-8, 2014
9th European Conference on Ecological Restoration, Oulu (Finland), from August 3-8, 2014. The theme is Restoration, Ecosystem Services and Land Use Policy. Ecological, economic and socio-cultural values of restoration will be discussed.
SER-Australasia 2014 Conference - New Caledonia - August 2014
For more listings, visit SER's Calendar of Events. Posting to the Calendar is a member benefit.
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Funding Opportunities
Whole Watershed Restoration Initiative - Due January 9, 2014
Each year the WWRI supports restoration projects with between $1 and $2 million in grant funds. Projects funded to date range from dam and culvert removal to re-establishing river flow patterns and restoring riparian areas to road decommissioning. Successful projects improve the health of streams and anadromous fish while engaging and building capacity in local communities. Grantees include tribes, local governments, non-profit organizations such as watershed councils and Soil and Water Conservation Districts, educational institutions, and other non-governmental community groups. Federal agencies also receive grant funds, often in partnership with non-federal local organizations. Proposals for 2014 funding are now being accepted. Applications are due by January 9, 2014 at 5:00 pm PST.
The Midwest Great Lakes SER Chapter has established a student research grant to support student research in ecological restoration. The grant will be competitive and available in 2014 to student Chapter members at any institution of higher education occurring within the region of MWGL SER Chapter. Grant information including requirements, guidelines for the application, deadline for submission, and award amount will be announced soon. The award will be presented at the Chapter's Annual Meeting at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul Minnesota (March 28 to 30, 2014).
The Freshwater Trust, a nonprofit, is seeking habitat restoration proposals for conservation projects in Oregon. The organization has $150,000 to allocate for conservation and restoration projects in the state. Proposals are due January 17. According to a press release, the grants will pay for project elements essential for on-the-ground restoration, including project design, engineering required for permits, implementation, monitoring and outreach.
Federal matching grants are available for projects that help clean up polluted streams, rivers, lakes, and groundwater and for projects that protect water resources. The grants are for watershed restoration projects and for water-shed plan development as well as for other projects that reduce and prevent runoff pollution. To be considered for this competitive 2014 funding, a project proposal form must be submitted by the Feb. 3, 2014, deadline.
Through this solicitation, NOAA seeks to openly compete funding available for habitat restoration in U.S. Great Lakes Areas of Concern (http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/aoc/) under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative as anticipated in the President's FY2014 Budget. NOAA anticipates up to $4 million may be available for Great Lakes coastal habitat restoration; typical awards for on the ground implementation are expected to range between $500,000 and $2 million. NOAA will also accept proposals for engineering and design of habitat restoration projects; typical awards are expected to range between $75,000 and $350,000. Funds will be administered by the Great Lakes Region of NOAA's Restoration Center (RC).
NOAA awards grants and cooperative agreements to support research and conservation initiatives coordinated by state and local governments, non-profits, colleges and universities.
USDA's CRP has a 25-year legacy of successfully protecting the nation's natural resources through voluntary participation, while providing significant economic and environmental benefits to rural communities across the United States. Rather than wait for a general sign-up (the process under which most CRP acres are enrolled), producers whose land meet eligibility criteria can enroll directly in this "continuous" category at any time.
The USDA Farm Service Agency's (FSA) Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) provides payments to eligible owners of nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) land in order to carry out emergency measures to restore land damaged by a natural disaster.
Through the Small Grants Program, Earth Island Institute has been able to support locally based restoration efforts to do just that. Small grassroots efforts to restore the coastal habitats of Southern California, which have been depleted by an astounding 98%, have been slowly working to bring our wetlands back from the brink of extinction. By supporting and empowering the new restoration leaders, we are ensuring the collective success of restoring some of the earth's most fragile ecosystems.
The Gulf of Mexico Foundation's Community-based Restoration Partnership
Funding for the 2012 cycle of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation's Community-based Restoration Partnership (CRP) is now available. The CRP has reached a milestone by providing grants for more than 75 different projects in coastal areas throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. By restoring a total of about 15,000 acres over the past decade, these CRP projects have improved a wide variety of habitat types, including coastal dunes, coral reefs, oyster reefs, marshes, seagrass beds, mangrove forests and artificial reefs.
Terra Viva Grants Directory develops and manages information about grants for agriculture, energy, environment, and natural resources in the world's developing countries.
Grant funding applications are accepted on a year-round basis. The WCB meets four times each year, normally in February, May, August, and November to consider approval of funding for projects.
Tamarisk Related Grant Opportunities
Tamarisk Coalition, a non-profit advancing the restoration of riparian lands throughout the American west, posts current funding and training opportunities applicable to riparian restoration on the Riparian Restoration Connection.
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