Blog posts categorized by Science Communication
A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II
Bill Dennison ·
30 January 2018
| Science Communication |
Sixteen years ago, in 2002, I returned to UMCES as Vice President for Science Application. I was shocked at how much the Chesapeake Bay had degraded in my ten-year absence. In addition to the “Pfiesteria Hysteria,” chronic dead zones occurred each summer, mahogany tides were recurrent, crab harvests were down, oysters were virtually gone, and the water was visibly turbid. In the following year, 2003, three books were published that chronicled the woes of Chesapeake Bay:
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A Long Love Affair With Chesapeake Bay Part I
Bill Dennison ·
26 January 2018
| Science Communication |
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Love, fifteen, thirty, and forty are tennis scores, but they also represent my relationship with Chesapeake Bay. On November 29, 2017, I gave a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) as part of a four-part series about the Chesapeake photographer Robert de Gast (1936-2016). Through April of this year, CBMM is exhibiting 80 photographs curated from more than 10,000 by de Gast in their collection. My talk was titled “After de Gast:
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You Can’t Spell Earth Without Art
Emily Nastase ·
5 January 2018
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It was really encouraging to see the room fill up for my session at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum on the Friday afternoon of November 3rd. The room seated 46 people, and nearly every chair was taken. I was holding not only the first session of the conference, but the first session I’ve ever taught, at the first conference I’d ever visited. I really wasn’t sure what to expect.
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Talking Science Communication With the Knauss Fellows
Bill Dennison ·
27 December 2017
| Science Communication |
On 2-3 Dec 2017, fourteen Knauss Fellows had a science communication training retreat on the Horn Point Laboratory campus. The Integration and Application Network (IAN) has been training Knauss Fellows annually since 2013 and each year has been a lot of fun. The IAN team this year included Emily Nastase, Jamie Currie, Dylan Taillie, Caroline Donovan, and Bill Dennison. Emily Nastase worked hard at the Knauss Course.
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Science of Science Communication IV: What Future Conferences Should Consider
Bill Dennison ·
18 December 2017
| Science Communication |
Suzi Spitzer, Vanessa Vargas and I attended the Science of Science Communication III conference hosted by the National Academy of Sciences in November 2017. The conference tackled many relevant concepts and brought social scientists into the conversation. But there were a few topics that a conference focusing on the science of science communication could have included. For future conferences there are three topics that I would like to see covered in the future:
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Five principles of holistic science communication
Suzanne Webster ·
15 December 2017
| Science Communication |
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Last month, Bill, Vanessa, and I attended the Science of Science Communication III Sackler Colloquium at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. This blog follows Vanessa’s previous post, and is the second in a series of three blogs reflecting on our experiences at this event. The conference was very information-rich and thought-provoking, and it is difficult to distill everything into even three blogs!
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