The Cooks river is a small, urbanized river in Sydney, Australia. IAN recently hosted a report card workshop with the Cooks River Alliance as part of efforts to improve its health.

Students in the Science Visualization course at UMCES learned how to use InDesign last week.

Title slide from Vanessa's dissertation defense. On 14 April 2020, Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen defended her dissertation over Zoom, the first remote dissertation defense for the Marine Environmental Estuarine Science (MEES) Program. All previous dissertation defenses for the 40+ year history of the MEES program had been done in person. The COVID-19 situation precluded an in-person defense, hence the switch to Zoom.

IAN helped facilitate a workshop for the recurring Darwin Harbour Report Card in Australia.

Bill Dennison and Simon Costanzo led a Darwin Harbour workshop recently. Notable attendees included indigenous groups local to the Darwin Harbour.

As a result of extensive experience facilitating synthetic workshops and familiarity of video conferencing for teaching and collaboration, the Integration and Application Network is poised to facilitate virtual workshops to co-produce science communication products.

I arrived in Davos hopeful of finding a refuge from the impending chaos of climate change, but what I learned there broke my heart.

After attending a former colleague's birthday party, Bill Dennison recounts fond memories of time he spent with Tony Larkum in Australia and the United States that spanned from the 80's through early 2000's.

Susan Williams was a marine biologist at UC Davis who passed away in 2018. Bill Dennison, a good friend of hers, pays tribute to her in this blog post.

Bill Dennison details the 2020 Great Barrier Reef partnership workshop in Brisbane. Bill's adaptation of the song, "Sounds of then," by GANGgajang, is included as well!