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Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club (Blog Post)
...vided three handouts regarding Chesapeake Bay issues, and asked three questions of the Vansville Farmers Club. The first story regarded my experiences sailing into Chesapeake Bay in 1977 aboard a tall ship and meeting watermen of Smith Island , ca...
Fatos importantes sobre a Baía de Guanabara (Blog Post)
...eld, Jenny. When Rio fails, sister city shows sewage cleanup possible. Associated Press. Online. June 6, 2016. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d3943de029894db390f7acea156918c7/when-rio-fails-sister-city-shows-sewage-cleanup-possible ... Bill Dennis...
Field Trips in Puerto Rico…. with a mission (Blog Post)
...the workshop, Jamie Currie worked closely with Aranzazu Lascurain and Melody Hunter-Pillion to record a series of oral history interviews on experiences with the extreme 2015 drought in Puerto Rico . These interviews documented topics and perspect...
Final challenge: Environment and Society (Blog Post)
...istoric views. Threats to park resources may also impact stakeholders. For example, increasing deer density reduces understory and increases the threat of Lyme disease to park visitors. Students giving presentations Stakeholders were identified as...
Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach (Blog Post)
...zation is therefore necessary in determining the scores. On drawing the balance in choosing indicators when crafting the story. It is good to have some constraints in choosing the indicators. The journey of a story was likened to an "And-But-There...
Finding the value of Transdisciplinary Research on Food Security and Land Use Change (Blog Post)
... see people doing wherever I go. I get to travel to some amazing places in this job, and I always come back with another story about what great passion people have for improving things. I’m encouraged that, in every place I’ve ever been, there are...
Fish and energy movement in Kakadu National Park (Blog Post)
...rch conducted as part of the National Environment Research Programme (NERP) . When you put the many pieces together, the story that emerges is all about connections. The floodplain ecosystem including the rivers, water holes, and billabongs as wel...
Five principles of holistic science communication (Blog Post)
...e attendees of the Colloquium exhibited and embraced the growing diversity and interdisciplinarity of science. 2. Tell a story a) Great science and great stories have something in common—as Frank Sesno explained, both involve “Compelling character...
Forests, floods, and fisheries… Houston, do we have a problem here? (Blog Post)
...previously in the course . For example, a strong narrative structure emerged from Wilmelie’s talk as she described the history of artisanal fishermen in Puerto Rico and the challenges they face today. Killian opened her presentation with a series...
Four interesting books from the 2014 International Riversymposium: River Journeys 3, Chasing Water, Blue Mind, and Finnley's Great Escape (Blog Post)
...ren's book written and illustrated by thirteen children, facilitated by Emma Mactaggart from Child Writes . It tells the story of a little Australian smelt named Finnley who, along with several other fish, is exposed to the dangers of polluted wat...
Friends of the Bay go to Washington, D.C. (Blog Post)
...eous spring day and the Department of Agriculture building is directly on the Mall across from the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Bill Dennison, Gerald Winegrad, Fred Tutman and Dan Coulhoun in front of White House The Department of Agricultu...
From the mountains to the prairies—discussing ecological drought in the North Central United States (Blog Post)
...uded the importance of water quantity, and water quality, the biodiversity and wildlife present in the region, and the history of climate variability response in the region. The Missouri River is one of largest managed river systems in the world,...
From Walden to Now: A Look at the Environmental Movement in the USA (Blog Post)
...tually happened somewhere in the world, and many communities have already suffered a substantial number of them" 4 . Her story, similar to Leopold's, draws the reader in and immediately captures their imagination and attention. Some of my fellow s...
Future Earth Coasts Goes to Bremen! (Blog Post)
...ifferent IPO partners, grows the network of scientists and practitioners (old and new), all while building on the long history of work that FEC and LOICZ have already created. FEC is poised to have practical impact on coastal sustainability and in...
Get the grade - Worldwide WWF-IAN partnership launches in Stockholm (Blog Post)
...he middle of Stockholm in 1628. It was salvaged 333 years later in 1961 and has been slowly restored ever since. Now the story of why it was built, how it sank, and how it was recovered is why there is a whole museum dedicated to it. Let’s just sa...
Going from "Aha!" to "Well, Duh" in the Great Barrier Reef, with beer coasters and Burdekin Gold (Blog Post)
...ave selected one of these stories to relate here. Great Barrier Reef workshop participants in Townsville, Australia This story is about the initial development of the Great Barrier Reef report card . Ben Longstaff , Jane Thomas and I traveled to T...
Goldilocks: The Unheralded Mapping Guru (Blog Post)
...n designing a map. Don’t make the map too simple or too complex, but provide just the right amount of detail to tell the story. Bad map examples Credit: cartastrophe.wordpress.com What’s the story? Well, that’s really the first step. As we learned...
Governor Harry Hughes and his sweet dream of the Chesapeake Bay Program (Blog Post)
...e: Hughes, Harry Roe with John Frece. 2006. My Unexpected Journey: The autobiography of Governor Harry Roe Hughes. The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina. 224 pp. ... Bill Dennison...
Grading basin or ecosystem health to track and address change (Blog Post)
...onthly or site-based means or medians . This observation raised the question of how we can analyze data so it “tells the story that needs to be told” in a report card, while still honoring our ethical responsibility of objectivity when it comes to...
Growing minds through growing oysters (Blog Post)

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