{"id":3353,"date":"2016-10-24T10:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/prof-carlos-garcia-quijano-featured-in-usa-today-copy\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:47:37","slug":"maf-graduate-student-rennie-meyers-publishes-in-the-journal-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2016\/10\/24\/maf-graduate-student-rennie-meyers-publishes-in-the-journal-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"MAF Graduate Student, Rennie Meyers, Publishes in the Journal, Resilience."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3351\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3351\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Rennie-Meyers-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Rennie Meyers\" width=\"187\" height=\"249\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rennie Meyers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rennie Meyers, a recent graduate of Reed College, will join the MAF graduate program this Spring.\u00a0 Her first article has just been published online by\u00a0<i>Resilience<\/i>.\u00a0 The article describes Rennie&#8217;s research in Thailand as part of her year long Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.<\/div>\n<div>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #b59322\">An aesthetics of resilience: design and agency in contemporary coral restoration<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div>If the Anthropocene points to how human action can destabilise earth\u2019s systems, then it also implies that human agency can refurbish and redesign those same systems in the name of mutual survival. On Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand, a cohort of tourists and conservationists collect, cultivate, and propagate coral species on artificial reef structures. Koh Tao&#8217;s economy is dependent on its local reefs to support scuba tourism, but only the New Heaven Restoration and Conservation Program (NHRCP) maintains conservation efforts to support reef resilience and the island\u2019s economic health. Its students and instructors re-form their relationship to global climate change as doubly active agents in the Anthropocene: first, claiming responsibility for the ecological impacts of anthropogenic climate change; second, reforming the life-path of coral fragments under new scientific and aesthetic paradigms. As scientists, participants prioritise coral species\u2019 genetic diversity and ecological needs. As conservationists, they create narratives that perpetuate investment in resilience. From coral nurseries to underwater sculptures, NHRCP\u2019s participants rework their relationship to global climate change and their own sense of agency made manifest through ecological design. They imagine new livelihoods by fashioning resilient, genetically diverse coral species. Their choices become an aesthetic of resilience.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The article can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/eprint\/iknrfZuNj6XqTqhw9wVq\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/eprint\/iknrfZuNj6XqTqhw9wVq\/full<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rennie Meyers, a recent graduate of Reed College, will join the MAF graduate program this Spring.\u00a0 Her first article has just been published online by\u00a0Resilience.\u00a0 The article describes Rennie&#8217;s research in Thailand as part of her year long Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. An aesthetics of resilience: design and agency in contemporary coral restoration If the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}