De Leo Lab at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University

Great webinar "Eat for the Climate" from Planetary Health Collective - learn how diet impacts the climate crisis and how policy changes can help people shift towards more healthful, sustainable eating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGiVAJ45q0

Heating of the oceans, which reached a record level in 2020, has led young great white sharks to move 600km (373 miles) northwards off the coast of California since 2014, into waters that were previously too cold. Over that time there was a dramatic rise in sea otters killed by white sharks, with the number in Monterey Bay dropping by 86%. https://www.msn.com//climate-crisis-pushing-gr/ar-BB1dwBrC

In an introductory seminar course, students explored how vector-borne diseases have influenced history and found that they often most heavily impacted marginalized communities.

Using water samples and environmental data gathered over 48 hours or less, Stanford engineers develop a new predictive technique for forecasting coastal water quality, a critical step in protecting public health and the ocean economy.

Madagascar reckons with an invasive crayfish https://harpers.org//2021/02/stowaways-crayfish-madagascar/

Students for a Sustainable Stanford invite you to join Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson at a fireside chat moderated by Dr. Emily Polk for the 9th annual Schneider Memorial Lecture on February 18, 2021 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. PST. Register here for Zoom link: bit.ly/schneider2021

New paper by Jennifer O'Leary and Maurice Goodman "Opportunities and challenges in achieving co- management in marine protected areas in East Africa: a comparative case study" just published in Journal of the Indian Ocean Region! Full text: https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1825201

The sustainability initiative that arose out of the Stanford Long-Range Vision has awarded 17 seed grants providing one year of funding to faculty pursuing groundbreaking ideas for sustainability solutions. Hopkins faculty are involved with 4 of the 17 seed grants

Thousands of ducks have been set loose in rice paddies in Thailand for a regular clean-up that benefits rice and duck farmers alike. https://www.abc.net.au//ducks-clean-pests-from-ri/12668428

The Office of the Vice President for the Arts invites proposals for the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning, to support virtual visiting artists for the winter, spring, or summer quarters in 2021. All academic departments and programs at Stanford are invited to submit proposals; proposals that include two or more departments and/or programs working in collaboration are encouraged. Applications are open now until October 16. For more information please visit: https://ecohealthsolutions.stanford.edu//stanford-visiting

Check out the latest High Tidings Blog article, written by De Leo Lab 5th year PhD student Richard Grewelle about his research on wildlife disease and parasites in sea otters: https://hightidings.stanford.edu/2020/09/08/disease/

Incredible achievement in this pretty dire times, (wild) polio extirpated from Africa! https://www.cdc.gov//why-i/africa-kicks-out-wild-polio.htm

New paper "Cost-effectiveness of combining drug and environmental treatments for environmentally transmitted diseases" by Sanna Sokolow, Giulio De Leo, and collaborators published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B!

New paper "Abalone recruitment in low-density and aggregated populations facing climatic stress" by Maurice Goodman, Peter Shum, Jim Watanabe, Jennifer O'Leary and collaborators just published in Journal of Shellfish Research!

If you are a fire evacuee in need of supplies, or if you have supplies to donate, there is a donation station at Seaside High School now until 6pm tonight.

Be prepared and stay safe everyone!

Hilarious tutorial for those of you teaching online this fall

We had some wild weather this past weekend with extreme temperatures, a big heat lightning storm, a wildfire on Mt. Toro, and bioluminescence as well. Incredible photo by George Krieger https://www.georgekrieger.com/

Free online courses from Monterey Bay Aquarium have already enrolled more than 25K students in all 50 states. They're available for pre-K through Grade 12, in English and Spanish: mbayaq.co/31Gqah8 Course link: mbayaq.co/2WLpplX

Congratulations to Isabel Jones, our newest PhD! Izzy successfully defended her dissertation last week "Human Health and Environmental Sustainability in Pathogenic Landscapes: Feedbacks and Solutions"