Captured, a tool created by Kelly Heber and Ian Dunning, was awarded the Venture Hive Virtual Accelerator Prize at the 2014 US Department of State sponsored Fish Hackathon, that ran concurrently with the Our Oceans 2014 Conference convened by Secretary John Kerry. The prize includes three months…
PhD candidate, Kelly Heber, is the subject of an article by the MIT Press, focusing on her work with Balinese fishing-communities and their attempts to build coral reef management systems. The article does a wonderful job describing and explaining Kelly’s…
Kelly Heber, a DUSP PhD student working with the Science Impact Collaborative, and Iain Dunning, a PhD student in MIT Operations Research were finalists in the State Department’s 2014 Our Ocean Conference fisheries data competition known as the “Fish Hackathon.”…
Given the rapidly changing status of the Arctic sea ice, which may disappear for entire summers as soon as mid-century, the world is presented with an unprecedented opportunity to access virgin resources and areas. However, this emerging situation is fraught…
The Chilean government has rejected a 8 billion US dollar proposal to dam Patagonia rivers. To read more details please visit the New York Times and NPR articles, both written by the Associated Press.
Thirty years ago, Roger Fisher and Bill Ury wrote the groundbreaking book Getting to Yes. It established the mutual gains approach to negotiation, or what the popular media likes to call ”win-win negotiation.” But there are few, if any, negotiating situations in…
A team of DUSP graduate students and faculty won the Best Poster Award at the 2014 Local Solutions: Northeast Climate Preparedness Conference for their poster on the New England Climate Adaptation Project. The Local Solutions Conference, which was hosted by Antioch University New England and…
Danya Rumore, nominated by Professor Susskind for her work in sustainable development and the use of role-play simulations to communicate the scientific information needed for lay audiences to effectively participate in collaborative risk management efforts, has been named a 2014-2015…
NECAP’s Barnstable risk assessment, published in March of 2014, was featured in April 4th’s Cape Cod Times. The risk assessment is one of several individual risk assessments NECAP produced for the New England region. The risk assessments are designed as scientific…
How should California respond to its water challenge? The California drought, now in its third year, looks to be a significant test of the capacity of residents, farmers, businesses and governments to ensure the state’s water security. Add your voice:…
