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How to help your audience feel comfortable: Four steps in creating clean, colorful and welcoming graphs
...These symbols are very user-friendly and can be edited using Adobe Illustrator to match your local species, ecosystem or storyline. You may choose to include a symbol for all your data elements or perhaps just one single image to draw in the crowd...
How to organize and run short, productive and fun scientific workshops
...p facilitators to adjust the activities and schedules as needed, and for interim synthesis, conceptual diagram creation, storyboard and mock-up to take place. IAN workshops are interactive and productive. 3. Workshop approach. The IAN approach is...
IAN as a Boundary Organization
...ersonnel forming boundary organizations (e.g., Hodge Environmental , Chesapeake Environmental Communications , My Sea My Story) or participating in them (e.g., Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub , The Water Institute of the Gulf ). The...
IAN attends CommOcean 2016 in Bruges, Belgium
... political backing . There were also a lot of examples of different campaigns used to raise awareness, for instance, the story of how the name Boaty McBoatface became trending in Europe. Paul Rose's keynote presentation. Credit: Vanessa Vargas One...
IAN Returns to Honolulu for the Hawaiian Islands and the Remote Pacific Islands Coral Reef Report Cards Workshops
...of Fish, Benthic Condition, Climate, and Communities...
IAN's First Ever Strategic Plan
... our vision, mission, and values. It was helpful to define these aspects of IAN. We also reflected on our fifteen-year history and summarized it in specific phases: initiation (2002-2004), partnership (2005-2009), engagement (2010-2014), globaliza...
If the river's not flowing, is it still a river? Learning about the Verde River Watershed
...s producing local barley for beer in the Verde Valley. We were able to see the interesting machinery and hear the unique story of how barley is prepared to be used in beer production. Learning about the barley process. Photo: Alexandra Fries. Barl...
In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 1
... shops. Directly to the side of the government house is the National Museum of Mongolia . I enjoyed learning about the history of Mongolia from this museum from exhibits such as the Mongol Empire and the ger (rhymes with air) or Mongolian yurt. Ge...
In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 2
...d trips before our Tuul River report card workshop, we headed downstream to visit two mines: one recently built with a history of environmental protections, the other an old soviet mine with no apparent environmental regulation. On our way, we pas...
Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 11 - Conclusion
...d positive results. John Snow's map of Cholera outbreaks help to identify the contaminated pump If we look back at the history of science and its effectiveness to change the world we see that the Copernican revolution started in 1543 when he wrote...
Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 12 - Questions From the Seminar
...now is truly into scientific literature, but we actually did this from start to finish in six months, and we did it in a storyboard fashion. The way we do it is we mock them up as a story board so we try to say to ourselves “What’s the message?” A...
Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 3 - National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
...resolve the charisma gap. So we got to thinking how we can create more charismatic ecosystems? And if you think of the history of environmental movement, we started with charismatic megafauna. For example, the World Wildlife Fund has adopted a pan...
Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 7 - Innovations in Environmental Reporting
...edia attention I will argue that the Chesapeake Bay is probably the best studied estuary in the world. It has had more history of science and practically invented estuarine science. Chesapeake Bay has more labs and student theses and insights gene...
Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 9 - Innovations in Governance
...ance: Part 9 - Innovations in Governance ... The last thing I want to talk about is innovations in governance. This is a story I want to start in New York City, where there was a guy called Jack Maple . He always had a bow-tie and a bowler. He was...
Integrating science, message, and design
...ciences, rhetoric, art, psychology, public administration, publishing, and digital technology - each with its own rich history and strikingly different culture. We reach optimistically across the divide between research and practice, hoping to shi...
Integration and Application Network in 2015: The year in review
...er 88,000 people have downloaded the symbol library to date. IAN staff released two new websites in 2015: Chesapeake Bay Story and EcoHealth report cards . Three apps were also produced in 2015: How's the Beach? (South Carolina beach water quality...
Integration and Application Network retreat: June 2014
...editing, computer coding), graphic design skills (e.g., Adobe creative suite, photography, video production, web design, story boarding), stakeholder engagement skills (e.g., developing and maintaining collaborations, workshop facilitation, social...
International RiverFoundation remarks
...the Riverprize journeys, I am going to select two stories that illustrate the paradigms shifts that can occur. The first story is the River Mersey restoration, illustrated by a poster that read "This is Manchester, not Venice". The River Mersey wa...
Invasive grasses pose a threat to natural and cultural resources in Kakadu National Park
...on Kakadu National Park floodplains, I am interviewing scientists to begin distilling the key messages for the synthesis story. These researchers are contributing to the developing picture of the connections between the floodplains, water movement...
It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work

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