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Comment on Streamlining environmental reporting in the Pacific region by Samoa State of the Environment 2012 « IAN/EcoCheck Blog

Samoa State of the Environment 2012 « IAN/EcoCheck Blog — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:49:47 +0000

[...] In collaboration with the Secretariat for Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP), Heath Kelsey, Tracey Saxby, and Adrian Jones traveled to Samoa (Tracey and Adrian will be there until the end of this month) to help develop an environmental assessment framework for Pacific Island Countries. This current work follows on from a workshop in Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji, in March this year. [...]

Comment on Creating a global symbol language by How to trace a photo in Illustrator into a vector symbol – an interactive tutorial « IAN/EcoCheck Blog

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:31:03 +0000

[...] have been developed over many years by various science communicators. In our attempts to build a global symbol language, we also welcome high quality contributions from anyone with relevant, high quality vector [...]

Comment on Discussion following Bill Dennison’s seminar on Challenges and advantages of using citizen scientists for environmental monitoring by Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 8 – Environmental Report Cards « IAN/EcoCheck Blog

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:00:44 +0000

[...] a protocol manual, and got some real momentum going on that. So I’m really excited about using citizen science water quality data to help generate these report [...]

Comment on Creating a global symbol language by Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 5 – Innovations in Science Communication « IAN/EcoCheck Blog

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:01:42 +0000

[...] ago, and people really started grabbing on to it and it started creating, slowly but surely, a global symbol language. We have 2500+ symbols currently in our library that have been downloaded from virtually every [...]

Comment on Remembering Randy Alberte by Barbara Duke Guinn

Barbara Duke Guinn — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:45:07 +0000

I so appreciate you comments regarding Randy Alberte. I did not know that he died until I stumbled upon your post. My first husband, Dr. Stephen O. Duke, and I had the privilege of knowing Randy as a doctoral student at Duke University in Durham, NC from 1970-1975. I was not a student, only the wife of one, but I was always taken with Randy because he was such a decent guy, and a good friend. He made the most wonderful food–best salads ever–and he allowed me to occasionally suggest spices for some of his dishes. He was a consumate host and a good listener. I miss him.

Comment on IAN Symbol Libraries reach 2500 symbols by Riya

Riya — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:38:28 +0000

Really nice collection it is. This kind of tool helps to create conceptual diagrams. Really appreciate you.

Comment on Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 5- Preparing for Floods by kellio48

kellio48 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:29:43 +0000

A good post about an unpleasant time.
Fortunately I was looking from afar at the time of the Brisbane floods as I was north of Mackay where peole had similar problems but for different reasons. Namely Tropical cyclone Yasi which devestated the northern regions of the state.
However, similar efforts from both volunteers and local and state governments produces similar results in helping to clean up the mess which are still ongoing a year later.
There was no looting to my knowledge but the enviromental impact left it’s own form of stealing in that many home and business owners lost almost everything as did many of the farmers and particularly those involved in banana production.
In these days of modern weather forcasting technology, we generally have time to make preparations for the onslaught of such natural disasters but in the light of what’s been revealed over the past few weeks relating to the release of water from the Ivanhoe dam and the human error factor, how can we possibly be prepared for similar events in the future?

Comment on Coastal Louisiana Master Plan released by Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 7- Examples of Flooding in the United States « IAN/EcoCheck Blog

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:01:03 +0000

[...] Interestingly, they’re now turning their attention, in the next year, to developing this master plan. This is where they take the Mississippi River water, which is sediment laden, because it drains [...]

Comment on Creating a global symbol language by Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 4- The Brisbane River Renaissance « IAN/EcoCheck Blog

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:32 +0000

[...] with the community, we used conceptual diagrams extensively. So now we’ve formulated this into a global symbol language. We have twenty-five hundred symbols on the website that have been downloaded by sixty-five [...]

Comment on The perspective from Australia’s Top End; fishing, international waters, and invasive species by John Andrews

John Andrews — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:46:36 +0000

I know there is a massive effort to improve conservation in this area, but when you say the effort has been expanded, do you mean trawling or fishing in general? Ie game fisherman?