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Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 11 - Conclusion (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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...
Integrating science, message, and design (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 a Political World…Even in Nature (Blog Post)
...gh the field of political ecology is only about 40 years old 3 , the concepts can be applied to communities throughout history. Dr. Orr took us on a journey back in time through U.S. history, to the period before European settlement when Native Am...
It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work (Blog Post)
It’s Your Time: Make It Count (Blog Post)
...nning out of time, but with the right prompt you can avoid those situations. You are setting the stage to help tell your story. Your poster or PowerPoint should be doing your legwork, while you focus on any extra material. There are some tips and...
Jamie's Australian Adventures (Blog Post)
...ent. My assignment was to assist IRF with the production of a short documentary detailing their organization’s 20-year history, to be shown at this year’s annual Riversymposium in Brisbane, Australia. International River Foundation Logo After depo...
Jane Thomas, Science Communicator Extraordinaire, heading Down Under (Blog Post)
... diving with sharks and in caves and snorkeling in Jellyfish Lake . We enjoyed the Palauan culture, with the Micronesian storyboards serving as the original conceptual diagrams. We also traveled to Bangkok , Thailand to teach a Science Communicati...
John Bertram's legacy (Blog Post)
... head of the department administrative officer, John was the first person I told, because I knew that he would enjoy the story so much. I also enjoyed watching John with his son Julian when John would bring him along at the end of the day. I loved...
Joining Chesapeake Bay Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (Blog Post)
...n various parts of the world. Thus I bring a fresh perspective, but without a deep appreciation of Chesapeake Bay STAC history and dynamics. There are some important elements of what I consider a successful STAC: 1) strong and committed leadership...
Journalists and scientists: Forever at odds, or a perfect pairing? (Blog Post)
...vya Pradhan Ask a scientist, and they might tell you that journalists are more interested in selling news than getting a story right, are overly concerned with conflict and scientific outliers, and will miss the point or twist information to fit a...
Ken Barton Sails Into Retirement (Blog Post)
...s spark his memory Some happy, some sad He thinks of IAN friends and the dreams we had IAN lived happily forever, so the story goes But somehow IAN missed out on that pot of gold But we’ll try best that we can to carry on A gathering of angels app...
Kick off workshop for Western Lake Erie report card project (Blog Post)
Kiss me, I'm a scientist (Blog Post)
...ientists are not robots— we are people, too. Like every other human, each scientist was raised in a specific moment of history, in a specific country, in a specific culture, and this socio-cultural context influences our way of thinking and behavi...

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