Jessica Reilly: Climate Change and Adaptation 2015-2017

Jessica Reilly: Climate Change and Adaptation 2015-2017

reilly_route_optimIn a first for ICWA, Jessica Reilly and her partner Josh Moman are conducting a seafaring Fellowship, exploring adaption to climate change in coastal communities in México, Central America and the Caribbean. Sailing the Pacic coast through the Panama Canal and into the Caribbean on her 39-foot sailboat Oleada, Jessica will focus on how communities experience climate change impacts.

  • Update from La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

    Update from La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

    • Jessica Reilly
    • March 7, 2016
    We are nestled into the tropical marina here in La Cruz, a slice of civilization like we haven’t seen in quite a while. We are tucked into beautiful Banderas Bay, which is surrounded by tall, jungle clad mountains–a real treat after seeing only coastal plane for the past few months. There is a big sailing ...
  • Under the Surface of Sea Level Rise: the Fisherman’s Secret Plight

    Under the Surface of Sea Level Rise: the Fisherman’s Secret Plight

    • Jessica Reilly
    • February 9, 2016
    ‘Its beauty has been compared with the Greek isles,’ the guidebook waxed—followed by the incongruous statement that Topolobampo is primarily a cargo port. “Sounds good to me,” Jon said with a grin as we sat around the table on Oleada, discussing our trip through 400-plus nautical miles of coastline mostly unexplored by sailors. Beginning from our ...
  • What Paris and Guaymas Have in Common: Lessons in the Long-term Nature of Climate and Diplomacy

    What Paris and Guaymas Have in Common: Lessons in the Long-term Nature of Climate and Diplomacy

    • Jessica Reilly
    • December 22, 2015
    Guaymas, Mexico, is an industrial and shrimp-fishing port in the desert state of Sonora. Giant cargo ships nose past steep, uninhabited islands in the bay crowded with saguaro cacti. Every morning for the past month I have lived here, Guaymas has held two certainties: the shriek of an Osprey that patrols the harbor waters, and a ...
  • The Echoes of Hurricanes

    The Echoes of Hurricanes

    • Jessica Reilly
    • December 21, 2015
    Last week, 195 nations meet in Paris to decide the fate of the systems that support life on earth. Again. Since 1995, a majority of the world’s countries has met every year but failed to reach a lasting agreement to figure out what to do about the warming planet. This annual event, which weighs heavier every ...
  • The Sinister Effects of Warmer Water

    The Sinister Effects of Warmer Water

    • Jessica Reilly
    • December 18, 2015
    “At night, it looked like another city,” Isabel tells me as she gestures out her office window toward the sea. “There were hundreds of lights. But now, what do you see?” she asks me. “Nada,” I reply. Isabel Soto Gonzalez runs the daily operations at the marina in Santa Rosalía. She tells me that the harbor (where ...