O time em frente ao Museu do Amanhã.

Quão rápido pode se criar e completar uma newsletter? No Rio, você só tem até amanhã!

Alexandra Fries ·
1 June 2016
Environmental Report Cards | 

"How fast can you create and complete a newsletter? In Rio, you only have until tomorrow" (Portuguese translation by João Paulo Coimbra) Depois do nosso primeiro workshop com as partes interessadas no INEA na segunda-feira, 25 de Abril, Bill Dennison, Dave Nemazie e eu tivemos que nos preparar para nosso workshop mais abrangente com 200 pessoas na sexta-feira, 29 de Abril, no Museu do Amanhã.

Read more

The team outside the Museum of Tomorrow.

How fast can you create and complete a newsletter? In Rio, you only have until tomorrow!

Alexandra Fries ·
26 May 2016
Environmental Report Cards | Science Communication | 

After our first stakeholder workshop at INEA on Monday April 25th, Bill Dennison, Dave Nemazie, and I had to prepare for our expanded workshop of 200 people on Friday April 29th, at the Museum of Tomorrow. This meeting brought together stakeholders from all around Guanabara Bay, and served to not only discuss the report card, but also to talk about governance, management, and restoration in the Bay. The team outside the Museum of Tomorrow. Participants at the workshop.

Read more

Chesapeake Bay Program Director of Communications Rachel Felver leads a group exercise at WebStock 2016. Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program.

WebStock 2016 Brings Chesapeake Bay Program Partners into the Creative Process

Catherine Krikstan ·
24 May 2016
Science Communication | 

This month, the Chesapeake Bay Program Creative Team hosted a one-day symposium on all things web for an audience of friends and colleagues. Known as WebStock, the annual event was revitalized last spring as a way for the Creative Team to introduce others to the work they do and the methods they use to do it. Indeed, participants gained an understanding of how the Creative Team can help them and how they can use the team’s own tools and processes to improve their work.

Read more

O Rio de Janeiro e da Baía de Guanabara vistos do Pão de Açucar.

Bem vindo ao Rio! O primeiro workshop com as partes interessadas da Baía de Guanabara

Alexandra Fries ·
19 May 2016
Environmental Report Cards | 

"Welcome to Rio! The Guanabara Bay first stakeholder workshop" (Portuguese translation by João Paulo Coimbra) O Rio de Janeiro é um estado brasileiro com cidades vibrantes (incluindo a cidade de mesmo nome) vizinhas à zona costeira da Baía de Guanabara e o Oceano Atlântico. A Baía de Guanabara é um sistema intensamente degradado em virtude da grande população, relacionada com a poluição por lixo e esgotos.

Read more

The view of Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara Bay from Sugarloaf Mountain.

Welcome to Rio! The Guanabara Bay first stakeholder workshop

Alexandra Fries ·
13 May 2016
Environmental Report Cards | 

Rio de Janeiro is a Brazilian State with vibrant cities (including the one with the same name) along the shore of Guanabara Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Guanabara Bay is highly impacted system due to a large population leading to sewage and trash pollution. The State of Rio and State of Maryland have a partnership of learning between their similar bays, Guanabara Bay and Chesapeake Bay, in order to promote opportunities for restoration to achieve economic, social, and environmental benefits.

Read more

Praxis depicted by ‘The Thinker” sculpture for the thoughtful component, and “Two Hands” sculpture for the practical component.

The praxis of science visualization

Bill Dennison ·
11 May 2016
Science Communication | Learning Science |     2 comments

The Integration and Application Network (IAN) staff recently completed teaching a new course in Science Visualization. This course was part of the Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Science (MEES) Program through the University System of Maryland. Praxis, the word that Aristotle used to mean "thoughtful, practical doing", refers to the emphasis that this course had on developing the practical skills of science visualization.

Read more

Wooden boats guide tourists on the Mekong River in search of Irrawaddy dolphins. Photo: Brianne Walsh

Talking report cards in Kratie, Cambodia

Brianne Walsh ·
9 May 2016
Environmental Report Cards | Science Communication | Applying Science | 

This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) In March, Simon Costanzo and I traveled to Cambodia for the third workshop in the Linked Indicators for Vital Ecosystem Services (LIVES) Project, an initiative of the Luc Hoffman Institute. This five-day workshop brought us to the province of Kratie, a five-hour drive north of the capital, Phnom Penh.

Read more

The Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve Headquarters is located inside the The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute Campus in Port Aransas, Texas. Credit: richterarchitect.com (top) and K. Dunton/missionaransas.org (bottom)

Mission Aransas Pilot Project

Heath Kelsey ·
6 May 2016
Environmental Report Cards | Applying Science | Learning Science | 

The Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve Headquarters is located inside the The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute Campus in Port Aransas, Texas. Credit: richterarchitect.com (top) and K. Dunton/missionaransas.org (bottom) On April 27-28 I participated in another workshop related (indirectly) to the Texas Coast Report Card Pilot Project at Harte Research Institute in Corpus Christi Texas.

Read more

NOAA Coastal Services Center. Credit: coast.noaa.gov

The NOAA Coral Reef Report Card - Reflections on the report card process

Heath Kelsey ·
29 April 2016
Environmental Report Cards | Science Communication | Applying Science | 

Caroline Donovan and I facilitated a mini-workshop in Charleston, South Carolina this week to advance the NOAA Coral Reef Monitoring Program Report Card Pilot projects in American Samoa and Florida. The meeting went very well – we had some difficult things to work out, and everyone came together to do just that.

Read more