Hilary is interested in developing innovative conservation tools for the lands and waters in the Western United States using applied science, policy, and community engagement.
The only cloud on his horizon is geopolitical: the Philippines' increasingly acrimonious confrontations with China and Taiwan over disputed territories and waters in the South China Sea.
In order to preserve for the benefit, use, education, and inspiration of present and future generations certain lands and waters in the State of Alaska that contain nationally significant natural, scenic, historic, archeological, geological, scientific, wilderness, cultural, recreational, and wildlife values, the units described in the following titles are hereby established.
"During La Niña events … when waters in the western Pacific are even warmer than normal and waters in the eastern Pacific are even colder, it is like someone turned the normal Walker Circulation 'up to 11,'" writes climate.gov's Tom Di Liberto.
To maintain the resilience of biotopes in urban areas, we argue that organisations responsible for implementing any active plan regarding biodiversity should more fully consider comprehensive reference data in their analysis programme, i.e. biotope and species data with a time-span that covers all land and waters in the given municipality.
Beijing is also staking its claim to disputed territories and waters in the South China Sea in more concrete ways.
