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Sharing Water event in Washington, D.C.
...t was hearing about the incredible challenges that the Mayor of Flint, MI -- Dr. Karen Weaver -- shared with us. Flint's story of lead contamination in a municipal water supply provided a sobering reminder of the consequences of 'getting it wrong'...
She blinded me with science! But data visualization is here to help
...This may also help you better define your message. Defining the key message – Make sure you give this some thought. What story do you want to tell? Does your data visual do this on its own? There may be opportunities to better frame your data by p...
ShorePower project launched
...tance of civic leadership. Jake portrayed Salisbury as the unofficial capital of the Eastern Shore, and chronicled the history of Salisbury's recent energy policies. He was very proud of the conversion of traffic lights and parking garage lights t...
So you think you can couple systems? Reviewing our research proposals
...d: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature . New York, NY: Norton, 1996. Print. Dahlstrom, M. F. 2014. Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(Supplement...
South East Queensland 2011 flood newsletter
...s from 1893, it demonstrates that this is a regular occurrence for the Brisbane River. As an interesting footnote to the story of the Paluma is that a contract was tendered for relocating the ship back into the Brisbane River, but instead of havin...
Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference
... indicators that can be used to measure the health of four types of resources: built environment, meanings and values, history, and communities. She used the Mentimeter platform to share the results of our team’s efforts thus far, and to ask the c...
Striving for synthesis: Overcoming environment and society obstacles
...e suite of environment and society issues, including wetland restoration, nitrogen and phosphorus management, cultural history of salt marshes, and urban stormwater management. All of these issues are incredibly complex, both scientifically and so...
Sugar, Coca-Cola, WWF, clickers and scorecards
Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries
...storical and recent underwater seagrass photos. Lyn Beazley used paintings and beautiful photographs to illustrate the history and science of the Swan River. At the end of the day, I provided one sentence summaries of each of the talks. Professor...
Take off your blindfold. There’s an elephant in front of you.
... the SES model is an elephant. Let me explain. There is an ancient Hindu parable about blind men and an elephant. In the story, a group of blind men who have never encountered an elephant are led to the animal and allowed to study it by touching o...
Teaching with a ‘flipped classroom’ over an interactive video network
Ten classic conceptual diagrams: Powerful examples of communicating knowledge
... Ocean supported Darwin's theory. Atoll formation in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Credit: California Academy of Sciences 5. History: Napoleon's March . This diagram was created by Charles Joseph Minard in 1869 to depict the march of Napoleon's army fro...
Ten classic scientific maps
...cholera and water supply, as he also plotted the location of the water pumps on the map. A nice book, The Ghost Map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic - and how it changed science, cities and the modern world , was written by Steven J...
Ten recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 2
...3, pg. 25. Recommendation 7. Use science communication to tell stories An ancient and valued form of human expression is story telling. Since science is often focused on gathering and interpreting facts, the art of story telling is often lost. How...
The 21st International Riversymposium
The Billion Oyster Conference and New York City: Part 1
The Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Spectacle of Climate Change
...rwhelmed the flood control levees all along the Mississippi River and still ranks as the most destructive flood in the history of the US. This year’s flood reached a maximum level 0.08 feet higher than the 1927 flood level at the confluence of the...
The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards
...eans, Louisiana this July. Much of the conference focus was in Mississippi River restoration, management, ecology, and history, from the upper Missouri to the Mississippi River Delta and the Gulf of Mexico . Restoring Mississippi River environment...
The Chesapeake Bay and the Baltic Sea: Adapting to Changing Climates in the New World and the Old
...et al. 2014) Maybe the answer as scientists to adapt to these changing climates, literally and figuratively, is not just storytelling, but also marketing. Both HELCOM and the CBP have faced issues with budgets for monitoring3,4. Scientific marketi...
The Chesapeake Bay and the Changing Times: Beyond Science and Management
... a diverse and dynamic ecosystem which displays not only remarkable evolutionary traits but also a reflection of human history. The Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, once populated with submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) and covered with forested...

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