What is a Bio Blitz? A Strategy for Stewardship
By Kevin FitzPatrick, Conservation Photographer, iLCP Senior Fellow Bio Blitz: a short, intense team effort to discover as many different life forms as possible in one location; shorter-duration,...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Forests of Egypt
By Joannah Otis for NWNL This is the sixth of our blog series on the Nile River in Egypt by NWNL Researcher Joannah Otis, sophomore at Georgetown University. Following her blogs on the Nile in Ancient...
View ArticleLake Erie: A Solution to Vulnerability
By Judy Shaw, with Wil Hemker and John Blakeman for NWNL (Edited by NWNL Director, Alison Jones) Judy Shaw, professional planner and NWNL Advisor, and Wil Hemker, entrepreneurial chemist, are...
View ArticleDay Zero – A Water Warning
By Stephanie Sheng for No Water No Life (NWNL) Edited by NWNL Director, Alison Jones Stephanie Sheng is a passionate strategist for environmental and cultural conservation. Having worked in private and...
View ArticleBuzz Numbers
By NWNL Director, Alison Jones As NWNL plans its website redo (to launch this fall), we envision “Buzz Numbers” on the home page. What? Well, “Buzz Numbers,” are our Project Manager Sarah’s take-off...
View Article50 Years of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act
Written by NWNL Project Manager, Sarah Kearns with Research by Jenna Petrone “An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too...
View ArticleHappy Earth Day 2018!
Every year, Earth Day is celebrated internationally on April 22. In 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated across thousands of college campuses, primary & secondary schools and communities in...
View ArticleSmall but Critical / Our Invertebrates
This blog contains several references to invertebrates in northern Kenya’s Lake Turkana Basin, the arid terminus of Ethiopia’s Omo River and world’s largest desert lake. Within this “Cradle of...
View ArticleCape Buffalo, Bison and Water
By Bianca T. Esposito, NWNL Research Intern (Edited by Alison M. Jones, NWNL Director) NWNL research intern Bianca T. Esposito is a senior at Syracuse University studying Biology and minoring in...
View ArticleSurprisingly Similar: Deer and Elephant
By Bianca T. Esposito, NWNL Research Intern (Edited by Alison M. Jones, NWNL Director) NWNL research intern Bianca T. Esposito is a Syracuse University senior studying Biology and Economics. Her...
View ArticleThe Evolution of NWNL
by Alison M. Jones, Director of NWNL My photographic career began in 1985 on my first visit to Africa. After years of photographing landscapes, wildlife and cultures for magazines, exhibits and stock...
View ArticleThe Clean Water Act: Its Beginnings in the Mississippi River
By Isabelle Bienen, NWNL Research Intern (Edited by Alison M. Jones, NWNL Director) Isabelle Bienen is a junior at Northwestern University studying Social Policy with minors in Environmental Policy...
View ArticleThe Clean Water Act Addresses Health Issues
By Isabelle Bienen, NWNL Research Intern (Edited by Alison M. Jones, NWNL Director) All photos © Alison M. Jones unless otherwise noted Isabelle Bienen is Northwestern University junior studying...
View ArticleThe Clean Water Act: Analysis
By Isabelle Bienen, NWNL Research Intern Edited by Alison M. Jones, NWNL Director All photos © Alison M. Jones Isabelle Bienen is at Northwestern University studying Social and Environmental Policy and...
View ArticleFrom Natchez: The Mississippi Is A-Rising
Written by Alison M Jones Photographs by Peggy Pierrepont and Alison M. Jones This blog stems from 2 months of photographs and commentary shared by Peggy Pierrepont. A former TV producer, Peggy has...
View ArticleThe Lower Mississippi’s Meanders
Written by Mark River Photos © photographer/naturalist Keith Benoist Based in Clarksdale Mississippi, in the Yazoo Mississippi Delta, Mark River is chief guide and youth leader for the Quapaw Canoe...
View ArticleClark County Wetlands Park
Written by Michael McGuire Photos © Michael McGuire Edited by Alison M Jones Michael McGuire is a wildlife and nature photographer from Kenosha, Wisconsin. At Univ. of Vermont (Class of 2020), he...
View ArticleSummer Signage Synergy
Written by Alison M Jones, NWNL Director Photos © Alison M Jones The significance of signage hit me during a 2008 stroll with Walter Volovsek in Castlegar, British Columbia. This Columbia River Basin...
View ArticleSummer 2019 – River Reading
Written by Alison M Jones, NWNL Director Photos © Alison M Jones I wonder why there are more summer reading lists than winter reading lists? With more daylight hours in the summer to be enjoying the...
View ArticleClimate Change in Small Island Developing Countries
A NextGen Blog by Samantha Singh, Ryerson University This is the last post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging...
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