Events - Sara Mason

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Blue Carbon as Natural Infrastructure: Funding Protection and Restoration of Coastal Habitats

Blue carbon habitats—such as tidal marshes, seagrasses, and mangroves—play a critical role in sequestering carbon, buffering storm impacts, supporting wildlife, and improving water quality. Reliable financing is essential to protecting these habitats; without such investment, there can be major barriers between idea generation and project implementation. 

Date and Time
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Location
Virtual

Webinar: Update and New Directions: The Department of Interior Nature-based Solutions Roadmap External link

Over the past two years, The Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) has collaborated with the Department of Interior's Nature-based Solutions (NBS) Working Group to develop the DOI NBS Roadmap – a comprehensive resource designed to help integrate NBS throughout DOI’s work (but also relevant to a broad audience interested in NBS). In this webinar, you'll hear updates on the Roadmap’s development, including new components in progress, such as a tools and resources assessment to help users find relevant materials for NBS project planning, design, implementation, monitoring, and benefits assessment.

Duke University is a Southeast CASC consortium partner.

Date and Time
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Location
Online via Zoom

Community Building through Collaborative Science: Evolution of the Mangrove Coast Collaborative External link

The Mangrove Coast Collaborative (MCC) project (2020 – 2024) began in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria (September 2017). In this webinar, the project team will describe how the mangrove science-to-management community developed as an integral part of the MCC and will share an overview of how the ongoing results of the MCC have responded to the needs of this growing community.

Date and Time
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
Webinar

ACES: A Community on Ecosystem Services Conference

Lydia Olander, program director, will be a plenary closing speaker at the 2024 ACES: A Community on Ecosystem Services conference. She and other experts from Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability will present some of their latest work on nature-based solutions.

Date
Monday, December 9, 2024 to Thursday, December 12
Location
Austin, TX

2024 National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration

Nicholas Institute experts Sara Mason, Lydia Olander, and Katie Warnell are participating in the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER) this year. NCER is a premier gathering of ecosystem restoration professionals from across the country, featuring four days of presentations dedicated to both small and large scale ecosystem restoration. 

Date
Sunday, April 14, 2024 to Friday, April 19
Location
Albuquerque, NM

The Infrastructure Sustainability Learning Model: Building Capacity for the Next Generation of Sustainable Infrastructure

Virtually attend this conference (7-8:30 a.m. ET) that will explore innovative approaches to build capacity for sustainable infrastructure. Nicholas Institute experts Elizabeth Losos and Sara Mason, will present the Infrastructure Sustainability LEarning (ISLE) model as a capacity building approach for sustainable infrastructure.

Date and Time
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (ET)
Location
Virtual & in-person (International Environment House II 7-9 Chemin de Balexert 1219 Vernier Switzerland)

2022 A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) Conference

Nicholas Institute experts will present some of their latest work and discuss the National Ecosystem Services Partnership during the ACES conference.

Date
Monday, December 12, 2022 to Thursday, December 15
Location
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA

Policy Perspectives: Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure at Home and Abroad

Duke students, join Nicholas Institute experts Lydia Olander, Sara Mason, and Elizabeth Losos for an informal conversation about climate resilience policy in the United States and internationally.

Date and Time
Friday, March 25, 2022 - 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Location
Gross Hall, The Generator (Room 100C)

Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models and Socio-Economic Indicators (GEMS) Webinar

The Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models and Socio-Economic Indicators (GEMS) project was a three-year effort to advance standardized socio-economic metrics. The project team will discuss the models, metrics, protocols, and web-based tools that were developed.

Date and Time
Friday, September 10, 2021 - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (CDT)
Location
Webinar

GEMS Project and Products

This webinar will share results of the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models and Socio-Economic Indicators (GEMS) project, which aims to advance standardized socio-economic metrics that encompass the broad environmental, social and economic goals of restoration success shared by many institutions across the Gulf. We will discuss the models, metrics, protocols, and web-based tools that were developed throughout this 3-year project with input from a large group of experts and stakeholders.

Date and Time
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. (CDT)
Location
Webinar

GEMS Metrics Webinar: Funding

This webinar is one of a 3-part series to share results of the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models and Socio-Economic Indicators (GEMS) project, which aims to advance standardized socio-economic metrics that encompass the broad environmental, social and economic goals of restoration success shared by many institutions across the Gulf. In a set of three webinars, we will discuss the models, metrics, protocols, and web-based tools that were developed throughout this 3-year project with input from a large group of experts and stakeholders.

Date and Time
Monday, May 3, 2021 - 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (CDT)
Location
Webinar

GEMS Metrics Webinar: Monitoring

This webinar is one of a 3-part series to share results of the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models and Socio-Economic Indicators (GEMS) project, which aims to advance standardized socio-economic metrics that encompass the broad environmental, social and economic goals of restoration success shared by many institutions across the Gulf. In a set of three webinars, we will discuss the models, metrics, protocols, and web-based tools that were developed throughout this 3-year project with input from a large group of experts and stakeholders.

Date and Time
Friday, April 30, 2021 - 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (CDT)
Location
Webinar

GEMS Metrics Webinar: Planning

This webinar is one of a 3-part series to share results of the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models and Socio-Economic Indicators (GEMS) project, which aims to advance standardized socio-economic metrics that encompass the broad environmental, social and economic goals of restoration success shared by many institutions across the Gulf. In a set of three webinars, we will discuss the models, metrics, protocols, and web-based tools that were developed throughout this 3-year project with input from a large group of experts and stakeholders.

Date and Time
Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (CDT)
Location
Webinar

Creating Conceptual Models to Systematically Think About Ecosystem Services

Nicholas Institute policy associate Sara Mason will lead a two-day workshop on how conceptual models can be applied to establish a common but flexible ecosystem services management approach to help ensure consistency in consideration of ecosystem services, standardization in monitoring, transparent sharing of ecosystem services outcomes, and stakeholder engagement for ecosystem services management decisions.

Date
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 to Thursday, October 22
Location
Virtual Workshop

RESCHEDULED – Gulf of Mexico Alliance Virtual Tools Cafe

The Gulf of Mexico Alliance's virtual tools cafe, “Tool Time with Dave,” offers an opportunity to learn about the latest tools and resources for the Gulf of Mexico through interactive demonstrations.

Date and Time
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (CT)
Location
Online webinar

NESP Ecosystem Services Toolkit Tour

The National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) was formed over a decade ago to create a national network for sharing ecosystem services information, to establish pathways for implementation of ecosystem services concepts, and to help integrate ecosystem services information into decision-making.

Date and Time
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
Online webinar

Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference

The 25th Biennial CERF Conference takes places in Mobile, Alabama on 3-7 November, 2019. CERF endeavors to connect science and society in the collective goals of preserving coastal and estuarine habitats, resources, and heritage.

Date and Time
Sunday, November 3, 2019 - 9 a.m. to Thursday, November 7 - 5 p.m.
Location
Mobile, AL, USA

Exploring Applications of Ecosystem Service Conceptual Models for Coastal Habitats

Dr. Lydia Olander and Sara Mason of Duke University will share their approach to using Ecosystem Services Conceptual Models as a framework to think about ecosystem services and how they can be considered within the National Estuarine Research Reserve System.

Date and Time
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
Online webinar

Quantifying the Health Benefits of Nature, Part 2

Sara Mason, policy associate at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak during the session "Quantifying the Health Benefits of Nature, Part 2" on Wednesday, December 5, at the 2018 A Community on Ecosystem Services Conference (ACES).
Date and Time
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 5:10 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location
Grand Ballroom Salon H, Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22202

Ecosystem Service Conceptual Models

Learn about the National Ecosystem Services Partnership’s (NESP) new Conceptual Model Series in a webinar, Friday, September 28, 3-4 p.m. ET.  

Date and Time
Friday, September 28, 2018 - 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
Online Webinar