GWS News

Learning center at Acadia NP to name building after Wright

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 16:36

The Schoodic Education and Research Center at Acadia National Park, one in a network of learning centers throughout the national park system, will be honoring the GWS' namesake by naming its first brick-and-mortar building after him. George M. Wright Hall will be an anchor of the SERC's planned campus.

According to Bill Zoellick of SERC: Read more

Park Break Perspectives: Prioritizing cultural and natural resources in complex sites

Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 10:24

(March 5, 2010) — The third paper in the GWS's Park Break Perspectives Series considers the challenges park managers face when they must plan for a site whose significance is a mixture of natural and historic attributes. Read more

Park Break Perspectives: Integrating natural and social sciences for effective management

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 12:56

(February 23, 2010) — The second paper in the GWS's Park Break Perspectives Series, published today, uses case studies from Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the San Francisco Bay to look at how the natural sciences, social sciences, values, and management come together in the search for solutions to real-world issues. Read more

2010 Young Conservationist Award goes to innovator in MPAs

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 12:08

A young British conservationist has won an international award for helping to create a new model of community- run Marine Protected Areas, which both saves marine diversity and helps to feed marine dependent communities.

Alasdair Harris, 30, was selected as winner of the 2010 Young Conservationist Award, an award by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and the International Ranger Federation which honours outstanding achievements by young people in the world’s protected areas. Read more

USNPS launches Wright fellowships on climate change research

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 11:58

The US National Park Service has created a George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship "to support new and innovative research on climate change impacts to protected areas and to increase the use of scientific knowledge toward resource management." Awards will be made in the range of $5,000 to $20,000 per fellowship for research to be undertaken in calendar year 2010. Read more