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Growth and the future of Chesapeake Bay conference at Hood College (Blog Post)
...o set a max And we heard about a Genuine Progress Indicator and the controversial rain tax. Rob Dietz 16 told us a scary story about his little daughter Linking to lessons about food, land and water Bill Ryerson 17 had a compelling story of using...
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 2018 Annual Conference (Blog Post)
... , Senior Graphics Editor for Scientific American , Dr. Kirk Johnson , Sant Director at the National Museum of Natural History , and Liz Neeley , Executive Director of The Story Collider . In addition to these plenaries, there were smaller worksho...
Gulf of Thailand Study Tour (Blog Post)
...igure in establishing the preserve. Photo credit: Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen We visited the Thai Island Air and Sea Natural History Museum , started in 1999 and now including five buildings with nice displays of various natural history features of the...
Hawaii ecodrought workshop; trade wind invasions, ridge to reef, endemic species (Blog Post)
...eather events, and forest fires. Elliott Parsons introduced us to the Pu'u Wa'awa'a Conservation Area . Elliott told the story of his arrival in 2010 in the midst of a severe drought and raging forest fires. He was able to show us photographs of t...
Healthy Waterways Champion Award speech (Blog Post)
Healthy Waterways Healthy Catchments: Making the connection in South East Queensland, Australia (Blog Post)
...earch results, instead of almost exclusively research results. The process of developing the outline for this book was a storyboard workshop held at the Moreton Bay Research Station on Stradbroke Island . The lead authors for each chapter develope...
How Big Chicken Stole Chesapeake Bay (Blog Post)
...he Christmas classic, “ How the Grinch Stole Christmas ” by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) . I consider the best part of the story to be when the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes, representing his redemption. I look forward to when the poultry in...
How can we include and legitimize other voices in science? (Blog Post)
...ions. Dr. Sonia Stephens and Dr. Daniel Richards shared an excellent example of this kind of integration with their esri Story Map , which combines maps of sea level rise projections with stories and images from residents of coastal areas in order...
How environmental report cards can democratize science (Blog Post)
...p with the analysis and interpretation of the data. A consensus approach is used with the expert scientists so that the 'story' being developed is based on sound science. This rigorous scientific process is typical for scientists, but it is the ne...
How maps can lie: Chesapeake watershed stream health (Blog Post)
...tle of this blog post, "How maps can lie" refers to the ability of someone to choose 'green dots on top' for a good news story vs. 'red dots on top' for a bad news story, depending on their intent. The Chesapeake Bay Program chose the 'green dots...
How the past influences the future: Understanding the maturity gradient in environmental science and management (Blog Post)
...mparison to both Western Samoa and coastal Louisiana, the New York harbor and Long Island Sound have a relatively long history of environmental science and management (Figure 1). The New York harbor does not resemble the body of water that existed...
How to help your audience feel comfortable: Four steps in creating clean, colorful and welcoming graphs (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
...of Fish, Benthic Condition, Climate, and Communities...
IAN's First Ever Strategic Plan (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
...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...

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