Understanding Causes to Understand Remedy: Above Else, Do No Harm
Curtis and Edith Munson Marine Conservation Lecture Series
Dr. Eugene Turner, Professor, Coastal Ecology Institute, Louisiana State University
To understand the remedies, as in medicine, one should understand the causes of the disease. Further, the minimum demonstrable outcome of restoration (treatment) should be to cause no harm to the marsh (patient). Data and results should preoccupy our attention or we will end up with models confirming our expectations, rather than testing hypotheses (garbage in, gospel out) and effecting a cure.
To understand the remedies, as in medicine, one should understand the causes of the disease. Further, the minimum demonstrable outcome of restoration (treatment) should be to cause no harm to the marsh (patient). Data and results should preoccupy our attention or we will end up with models confirming our expectations, rather than testing hypotheses (garbage in, gospel out) and effecting a cure.
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River.
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall
205 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Light refreshments will be served.
Lectures open to the university community and public.
For more information, contact Martha Smith, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems.
Email: martha.smith@yale.edu or
Phone: (203) 432-3026
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall
205 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Light refreshments will be served.
Lectures open to the university community and public.
For more information, contact Martha Smith, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems.
Email: martha.smith@yale.edu or
Phone: (203) 432-3026
