This document discusses the challenges of environmental pollution and climate change, and proposes putting youth in charge as a solution. It summarizes the work done by the UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station and other field stations, including research on water quality, harmful algal blooms, fisheries, climate change impacts like rising seas and stronger storms. The document advocates for youth leadership on environmental data collection and policy changes to address issues like runoff, invasive species, and plastic pollution.
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How You Can Be the Change You Envision
1. HOW YOU CAN BE THE
CHANGE YOU ENVISION
SARAH OKTAY, PHD
DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
NANTUCKET FIELD STATION
PRESIDENT, ORGANIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL FIELD
STATIONS
Martha’s Vineyard
Youth Leadership
Summit
July 1 2015
2. OUR CHALLENGES
• We are polluting the planet and harming the oceans, our
land, and the animals and habitat
• Big issues like increased carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere are causing planet-wide chaos
• Small issues like septic system runoff, introduction of
invasive species, and plastic pollution are causing algae
blooms, reducing biodiversity, and contaminating the
ocean while choking larger creatures
• Big governments and “adults” are slow moving and
sometimes overly concerned about the bottom line, they
don’t always understand a cleaner earth and ocean
saves money
3. UMASS BOSTON NANTUCKET FIELD
STATION
Placed Based Research doing
science in the field at the
point where research and
the public meet
4. FIELD STATIONS AND MARINE LABS
GLOBALLY900+ international field stations
Interactive Map
8. WATER DEFENSEINSPIRING THE NEXT
GENERATION
HARMFUL ALGAE BLOOM
TESTING
Designing easy to deploy
passive water samplers
9. THE NANTUCKET FIELD
STATIONS WORKS
WITH THE
PROVINCETOWN
CENTER FOR COASTAL
STUDIES: HIGH
RESOLUTION MAPPING
OF SEA FLOOR
10. WATER QUALITY PROGRAMS
Surface Water
• Freshwater
• Salt (Harbors, Sound and Ocean)
• Brackish (salt marsh studies)
• Groundwater
Salinity, dissolved oxygen,
Nutrients:
too much from fertilizers
septics
boats
Coliforms, etc.
11. • Collaboration with Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
Shearwater Excursions, UMB-NFS, Nantucket Marine Mammal
Conservation Program
• Marine Mammal Science & Education
• Extends range of observations for right and humpback
whales
• Enhances experience on whale watches
14. Ocean acidification is already
causing changes to bivalves and
coral reefs everywhere
Rising sea surface temperatures
are accelerating algal blooms and
driving some fish further offshore
20. HOW DO WE CHANGE POLICY AND
MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
• Fertilizer regulations
• Docks and piers
• Balloons now banned on Nantucket
• Styrofoam and plastic bags
• Protecting wetlands and the harbor
• Fisheries regulations
• Education public about marine mammals
• Showing people effects of climate change