by Danica Warns | Mar 20, 2015 | Education, News, Research
As part of their training in the Marine Conservation and Policy (MCP) program, MCP students take a field course to gain hands-on field experience in marine science. This past January, a group of MCP students traveled to Belize as part of their course on Marine...
by Danica Warns | Mar 20, 2015 | Education, News
The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science (CCS), part of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism, held a workshop in February to help scientists to communicate their research to the public. The workshop, featured in the Science section of The New York...
by Danica Warns | Dec 28, 2014 | MCP Graduates, News, Student Accomplishments
Carolyn Weis, a graduate of the MCP program, is applying the skills she acquired from the program to her job with the International Conservation Caucus Foundation (ICCF), where she is the Program Manager for the Oceans Caucus Program. Working closely with congressmen...
by Danica Warns | Dec 5, 2014 | News, Speakers
Marine Conservation and Policy students had an exciting opportunity to meet with the current Policy Program Manager, Noah Chesnin, for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) New York Seascape Program, which operates out of the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn. Chesnin...
by Danica Warns | Dec 5, 2014 | News, Speakers
Marine Conservation and Policy students recently had the pleasure of meeting Liz Smith, an environmental economist who works with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), an international non-profit organization dedicated to environmental conservation. Smith described the unique...
by Danica Warns | Dec 4, 2014 | News, Student Accomplishments
Two current Marine Conservation and Policy (MCP) students, Katie Flowers and Danica Warns, published a Letter to the Editor in Newsday on November 18th, 2014. The letter can be accessed here. The letter was written as an exercise for Journalism 501: Distilling Your...