The delight in systems thinking is that it provides novel opportunities to observe interactions that would not be revealed in reductionist evaluation of data targeted at a specific hypothesis.
Big Data and the assembly of reality
Second field report from Washington DC
Typically, when we hit Washington DC, there is some pending legislation or policy reauthorization taking place. These events are usually timed to coincide with “Capitol Hill Ocean Week” (CHOW) which draws a parade of ocean conservation interests to argue and inform lawmakers and regulators about the attendant issues.
First field report from Washington DC
We’ve just returned from Washington DC, where the first week of June is “Ocean Week” with the question “Will NOAA ever become independent of the Department of Commerce?”
Report from Louisville ASA meeting
I spent the better part of last week at an Acoustical Society conference in Louisville, Kentucky. I am glad that the conference was interesting because as cities go, Louisville isn’t. (Having a museum of baseball bats as a major cultural…
Oiling up for the Long Game
Frustrated by the lack of subservience by many states, the oil administration is attempting to roll back our Constitutional rights on a number of fronts to advance their “American Energy Dominance” agenda. It has become abundantly clear that quite a…
Marin City Students Take Sail with OCR
One-by-one Marin City students joyously stepped aboard Sausalito’s finest sailboat, the Freda B. For most of the children, this was their first time experiencing life out on the waters of the San Francisco Bay. There was a palpable sense of…
Happy (and Hopeful) Earth Day
The suspense is killing me!
While there seems to be a lot of Regulatory Agency activities these days – with changing of directors, indictments of outgoing directors, and also indictments of incoming directors, there are also a lot of monumental actions pending, and have…
Things are heating up on the OCS
Representative Joe Cunningham (D-SC) and his Air Horn demo There are a lot of moving parts right now on the proposal to open up the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to oil and gas leasing. The issue has been…