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Meagan Knowlton
March 10, 2016 Meagan Knowltonsustainability, travel, water, WRM

Sustainability in the Desert

Two weeks ago on a cool night in the desert, I wandered through mazes of sand and squinted up at some of the brightest stars I’d ever seen. These crazy aliens called “cacti” waved their stiff arms at me and I giggled every time I saw one that looked like a foot pouf.

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Meagan Knowlton
January 14, 2016January 13, 2016 Meagan Knowltonforests, marine studies, students, travel, water, WRM

4 Things I Ate in the Wetlands

What is a trip into the field if you don’t take advantage of all the sensory opportunities that nature has to offer? I went on the Wetlands Ecology & Management field trip to the OuterContinue reading

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Meagan Knowlton
November 2, 2015November 3, 2015 Meagan Knowltonforests, students, sustainability, travel, water, WRM

500 Miles of NC

In the space of 1.5 weeks this October, I had the pleasure of both hiking up mountains and mucking around salt marshes. I would like to recount some of my (mis-)adventures from traveling all across the wilds of North Carolina.

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Meagan Knowlton
October 9, 2015 Meagan Knowltonenvironmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, forests, students, water, WRM

What is a Water?

How can we translate between water and regulatory decisions when water speaks so many languages?

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Meagan Knowlton
September 3, 2015 Meagan Knowltonconservation, faculty, forests, students, Uncategorized, water, WRM

Chase Discomfort, Not Elephants: Reflections from Summer

I’m creeping through a forest in Gabon. Chasing elephants. Dangerous, enormous elephants.

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Meagan Knowlton
April 1, 2015 Meagan Knowltonclimate, environmental policy, students, water, WRM

Word of the Day: Stationarity

One of the lessons that I’ve been learning at the Nic School has been how to manage water resources that are changing in their availability, their dynamics, and their uses. I look forward to the chance to help forge a new path for water managers.

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Meagan Knowlton
March 19, 2015 Meagan Knowltonconservation, students, travel, water, WRM

Swan Storms and Bird Friends

Plants and birds

Being a caring nature-lover, I figured it would be a good idea to sneak up on the swans and scare them.

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Meagan Knowlton
February 20, 2015 Meagan Knowltonconservation, forests, students, travel, water, WRM

Duck Tornadoes and Cypress Knees

Goose closeup

The bald eagle would swoop down toward the lake, in pursuit of duck confit, and all the ducks would start squawking and circling up into the air. The sky looked like it was full of swirling, squawking pepper flakes.

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Meagan Knowlton
January 29, 2015 Meagan Knowltonfaculty, students, sustainability, travel, Uncategorized, water, WRM

6 Things I Never Thought I’d Do

“I’d like to highlight some of the weird or exciting activities and habits that have come along during my first five months at the Nicholas School.”

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Meagan Knowlton
January 8, 2015January 12, 2015 Meagan Knowltonconservation, forests, students, Uncategorized, water, WRM

Happy New Year from 5 Happy Lemurs

The Duke Lemur Center is a magical oasis of Madagascan paradise (which just means it’s a nice spot in Duke Forest that happens to have some lemurs in it) where I get to spend some of my time.

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In Water & Peace, Meagan discusses climate change issues, especially relating to water resources; adventures in navigating the MEM program; and explorations of the great outdoors of NC (or really any place that is out of some doors).

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