The Potomac River workshop was a success
The COAST Card project made great progress in June with a small workshop held at Hood College in Frederick, MD. The project will focus on assessing the Potomac River Watershed through the lens of the COAST Card framework, which combines environmental report cards, social network analysis, and system dynamics modeling. The trip also consisted of meetings with scientists at the Appalachian Laboratory and field visits across different areas of the Potomac River Watershed. In hopes of engaging more stakeholders, there will be an open house workshop on July 21st from 12–8 pm at the Whitaker Community Commons building at Hood College. If you are interested in attending, you can register here.
Summer interns learned science communication
This summer’s interns at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) took part in a two-day science communication course lead by various IAN science communicators on June 23rd and 29th. Throughout this course, they learned about the foundation of science communication and the how to apply these principles to their own work. The students are each conducting research on different aspects of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, and by the end of the course, each student applied what they learned in the course to designing and presenting a
conceptual diagram about that research to their peers.
Seagrass biology workshop next month in Annapolis
Next month, IAN is hosting the 14th biennial International Seagrass Biology Workshop (ISBW14) and World Seagrass Conference. The theme of the conference is "Signs of Success: Reversing the Course of Seagrass Degradation." Visit the ISBW14 website for more information. We are still looking for conference sponsors; you can view our sponsorship prospectus here.