Guidelines for Tributes to Desceased Wetlanders

services (i.e., ecosystem services). Ecosystem services benefit humanity by purifying air and water, regulating climate, providing extractable resources, and maintaining healthy human communities. To improve the quality of disturbed habitats, restoration ecology assists the recovery of ecosystems that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed to mend soils and waters to support plant and animal life. This research proposal will investigate restoration land management tools (i.e., biochar application and plant harvesting) to address road salt pollution and invasive species dominance in freshwater ecosystems.

ASSESSMENTS OF SHORELINE CHANGES AND THEIR ASSOCIATED IMPACTS ON MANGROVE ENVIRONMENT AT GAZI BAY, KENYA

Pauline Mwangi, Chuka University, Nairobi, Kenya paulinenyamburamwangi@gmail.com

Coastal zones are naturally dynamic and vulnerable to sediment erosion and accretion from natural processes and anthropogenic interventions causing shoreline change. Shoreline change is classified as either retreating (where the shoreline erodes towards the land) or accreting (where there is a seaward extension of the shoreline). The study will be carried out in Gazi Bay, Kenya where changes in the area covered by the nearshore marine environment and shoreline change will be. quantified. Satellite data combined with ground-truthed data will be used to delineate and analyze shoreline change from 1990 to 2020. The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), a software extension within the Environmental System Research Institute (ESRI) ArcGIS will be used to measure, quantify, and estimate historical shoreline positions by calculating shoreline change rates of various statistics. The results obtained in DSAS software will forecast future shoreline positions using the Kalman filter model. Hybrid supervised, and unsupervised classification methods will then be used in mapping and analyzing the nearshore marine environment change over the study period 1990-2020 using ArcMap, an application in ArcGIS software. High-resolution Google Earth images and primary data collected during fieldwork will be used in validation stages. An independent t-test will be used to determine whether there is a significant change between the calculated area covered by the nearshore marine environment in 1990 and 2020. The results obtained from the GIS and remote sensing combined with fieldwork survey will further be analyzed through description and test statistics. Statistics in DSAS will include linear regression rate, net shoreline movement, and end point rate that will be used to calculate the shoreline change rate over time. Data will be finally presented using maps, photographs, frequency distribution, and percentage tables to present the results more efficiently. The study will show the magnitude of shoreline change, rates, trends, and hotspot points of change that will offer useful information to Mikoko Pamoja community-based organization and residents within and outside Gazi Bay.

SWS Establishes Guidelines for Tributes to Deceased Wetlanders

Those wanting to honor recently deceased members of SWS and/or renown wetland scientists should contact the editor of WSP requesting that a remembrance be published. “Recently” is defined as within the last calendar year. If not specified, the remembrance will consist of a listing of the name of the individual in a "In Memoriam" table on the SWS website. The nominator will also have the option of preparing a short tribute about the deceased for publication in Wetland Science & Practice (WSP). For this, the text for the tribute and a photograph or two of the individual must be provided, along with a statement providing reasons for why such a tribute should be published (e.g., significant contributions to wetland science, management, and conservation, or to SWS leadership). These materials should be sent to the editor of WSP who will forward them to SWS leadership for review. The final decision on the submitted nomination will be made by the President of SWS and the chair of the Publication Committee. The committee also has the right to make any editorial changes, in terms of grammar, suitability and/or length, deemed necessary.