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Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries (Blog Post)
...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. (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
Teams compete to design a sustainable Louisiana Coast (Blog Post)
...ple recognize that something must be done soon to prevent " the greatest environmental and economic disasters in [...] history " from coming to a catastrophic conclusion. A coastal restoration master plan developed by state authorities outlines a...
Ten classic conceptual diagrams: Powerful examples of communicating knowledge (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 Billion Oyster Conference and New York City: Part 1 (Blog Post)
The Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Spectacle of Climate Change (Blog Post)
...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 Chesapeake Bay and the Baltic Sea: Adapting to Changing Climates in the New World and the Old (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
... 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...
The complementary colors of environment and society (Blog Post)
... on either end is not irreparable but rather complementary. This week we learned about the environmental movement thru history and had a discussion about the works of Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson. In this post, I will try t...
The Debut of the Riversymposium Club Band (Blog Post)
... What will you think when I sing out of tune Will you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I’ll tell you a story And I’ll try not to make it hard to see Oh I get by with a little help from my friends Mmm, I can see why with a little...
The Die of the Storm (Blog Post)
...sed this particular example to emphasize the importance of understanding disaster outcomes in the context of an area’s history of disasters. “There really is this interplay between how people and infrastructure behave in disasters,” Dr. Reilly exp...
The first thing people ask: Where is Guam, anyway? (Blog Post)
...kshop. The bigger the word, the more times participants mentioned that threat. While threats and values tell part of the story, more key messages came to the surface during the report card storyboarding on the second day. The key takeaways about c...
The Future of Future Earth Coasts (Blog Post)
...ot involved with the next iteration, Future Earth Coasts (FEC) which started in 2015. LOICZ and FEC have an impressive history of scientific contributions in biogeochemistry, coastal vulnerability and sustainability, focusing on hotspots in the Ar...
The future of managing fisheries: what can we expect? (Blog Post)
...s and are used as an ecosystem approach to fisheries management. While MPAs have the potential to protect certain life history stages of fish, enhance the productivity of adjacent fishing grounds, as well as protect habitat and biodiversity, they...
The great equalizer: Using the web to communicate science (Blog Post)
...mmunication platform. With over 3 billion Internet users all over the world, the web gives us the capability to tell our story to a wide range of audiences. Guy Stephens gave the class a great overview on how to use the web in communicating scienc...
The importance of narrative in science communication (Blog Post)
...mmunication ... I recently posted a blog about Randy Olson's new book, " Houston, we have a narrative: Why science needs story ". I contacted Randy about his book and learned that he is experiencing push back from some quarters, including some sci...
The importance of university child care: Attending the dedication of Munro Center, University of Queensland (Blog Post)
...niversity of Queensland Vice-Chancellor who we met when he was visiting Washington, D.C. and we met the Chancellor, John Story and his wife Sally. We shared the story that our daughter, now nineteen years old and attending St. Mary's College of Ma...

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