On 27 April 2023, University System of Maryland Jay Perman announced that I would be serving as Interim President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) at an event held at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Science in Baltimore, MD. Following the Chancellor’s announcement, I made the following remarks: Thank you Chancellor Perman.

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.

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.

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!

Ken Barton retired last year after acting as IAN's business manager for many years. Read more about Ken and find the lyrics to his retirement party songs in this post.