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Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?
...... By: Kayle Krieg In the Disney animated movie, “The Little Mermaid,” adapted from Hans Christian Andersen 's original story,1 there is a scene in which Ariel sits down to dinner with Prince Eric and Grimsby. She is very excited to see a fork at...
Louisiana Sea Grant Discovery, Integration and Application initiative (LA DIA)
...gnettes of their experiences in science communication in a session entitled 'Lessons from the field'. Rusty Gaude told a story about his efforts in the catfish aquaculture industry. A mysterious 'black hole' disease was killing the fingerling catf...
Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy
...l hubs. The land along the Lower Mississippi River has been settled by a diversity of converging cultures. The complex history of various settlers, with various waves of immigration, has led to a rich diversity of architecture, music, literature a...
Mackay Report Card Workshop – Mackay, Queensland Australia 24 February 2015.
...on about report cards, discuss issues related to report card development, and help sketch out the draft report card in a storyboard exercise. The Mackay report card is the third in a series of report cards that aim to increase the resolution of re...
Making connections to ensure a clean and healthy Chesapeake Bay
...Currey, Director of the Water...
Managing for Sustainable Ecosystems: Our Human Role
...and storms or sea-level rise. The EBM approach is place-based, and implementation must be mindful of local culture and history. The initial wake-up call to the Chesapeake Bay region was Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972 which caused a large disturbance...
Maps and Legends, Are We Really Understood?
...s the “meat and potatoes” of my map it is important to get it right. As we have seen earlier in class the data tells the story. In my map you might be able to see an attractive blue color for Chesapeake Bay, this is a grid. And those sometimes wei...
Me and Bobby Twilley
...faculty member at Louisiana State University . Robert gave a wonderful seminar at Horn Point Laboratory , covering the history of coastal Louisiana wetland loss, Mississippi River diversions and provided the context for the 2012 Master Plan. The I...
Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Planning
... and defining a clear understanding of what are you trying to accomplish will allow a report card to share the authentic story of a place with the local community and with the world....
MEES goes to Annapolis
...S alumni Led a session on making science easy on the eye Drawing chickens, tulips and thermometers upside down To make a story of those things that make fish frown. We heard the Bernie Fowler sneaker story An indicator of Chesapeake Bay clarity An...
Meet Saipan, one of America’s forgotten territories
...fying thresholds and scoring of indicators, and drafting the layout of the report card. We also talked a lot about the history and culture of Saipan and CNMI and the effects those things have had on coral reefs. Determining values and threats for...
Mississippi report card video
...on. This is accomplished by choosing the right images and sequence, carefully editing the narration, and having a strong storyline. The process used to develop this powerful video is 'storyboarding'. Conversant convened a series of conference call...
More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science
...son about the use of narratives in science ... James Shannon Building at the National Institutes of Health. I attended a Story Circles session at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland on 7 Feb 2019. My friend and colleague Randy...
Moreton Bay and Catchment
...s published in 1998. Moreton Bay and Catchment The book is divided into nine major sections covering the environmental history of the region, geology and geomorphology, catchment rivers and lakes, water quality, marine plants, marine animals, cora...
Moreton Bay Study: A Scientific Basis for the Healthy Waterways Campaign
...nd maintain momentum for the Healthy Waterways campaign. The book was initiated in the early part of 1999, with half-day storyboard sessions on the Healthy Waterways whiteboard. My co-author, Eva Abal , and I completed it in six months, relying on...
My four decade friendship with Susan Williams
Narrative literacy for science communication
...Handbook for Integrating Visual Elements ". The seventh principle is from a paper by M. Dahlstrom " Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences ", published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienc...
Nature and Culture as Star-Crossed Lovers: Can we have one without the other?
New York Harbor NSF STEM Project Design Week, Part 2
...al group ‘ Superhero Clubhouse ’. This one act musical, with original songs and script incorporated accurate science , history, as well as Shakespeare . It appeared to be a hit for both the students and adults. Students gather for burgers, hot dog...
Northern Australia floodplains research workshop in Brisbane
... under the National Environment Research Program Northern Hub (NERP Northern) . Our goal is to piece together the larger story being told by individual research components. As always, it was exciting to learn more about a new ecosystem - although...

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