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Exploring online opportunities in scicomm with Dr. Sheryl Hosler
...aming project, Nature Check , which integrates science communication and role-playing games (RPG). We also explored this storytelling approach by playing a table-top RPG. It was refreshing and fun to learn about these unique approaches to science...
George Wright Society meeting in Portland, Oregon.
...yton Duncan, historians and documentary producers, presented previews of a spectacular public television series on the history of national parks which will air in September 2009....
Healthy Waterways journey
Highlighting USGS's Critical Bird Monitoring Programs
...n Flight: USGS Bird Programs Support Conservation, Culture, and a Thriving U.S. Economy." The fact sheet describes the history and critical impacts of the Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL) and the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), two national bird monitori...
IAN learns new science visualization techniques at the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators annual conference in DC
..., Senior Graphics Editor of Scientific American, Dr. Kirk Johnson , Sant Director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (SMNH), Liz Neeley from The Story Collider, among others! Conference days also included small workshops on various scien...
IAN provides remote science communication course to IMET summer interns
...rns will work together to analyze microbial data specific to Baltimore Harbor. The science communication course included storytelling strategies, designing theme statements, and a crash course in Adobe's Creative Cloud products, providing tools th...
IAN speaks at Blacks of the Chesapeake event in Annapolis
...hools attended a series of events designed to connect them with their environment, including African American cultural history in the bay region. IAN’s role was to summarize the Coastal Environment and Community Health course that Vanessa and Heat...
IAN Strategic Plan released
...areas: partner engagement, social impacts, and ecological outcomes. The Strategic Plan also reviews IAN's fifteen year history in five phases: initiation (2002-2004), partnership (2005-2009), engagement (2010-2014), globalization (2014-present), a...
IAN team gathers for 2017 IAN Report Card Re-vamp Workshop
...N team met on February 20, 2018 in Annapolis, MD for the 2017 IAN Report Card Re-vamp Workshop. Staff received a brief history of the IAN report card initiative as well as priorities for the future informed by UMCES and IAN strategic plans . The g...
IAN welcomes Trish Summers
Louisville, KY
...sion as an Ecological Imperative." Annie presented on her thesis research, participated in a session on National Parks history , and met colleagues from across the country. ... Annie Carew...
Mackay Report Card
...ment and Heritage Protection . Discussion was related to report card design and development issues, and we developed the storyboard for the Mackay Report Card. Jane Hawkey has been creating the draft from those sketches. The Mackay report card is...
Maryland Climate Tech+ Conference
... is a powerful example of how climate change will impact so many different aspects of our lives, including eroding our history. Much of Harriet Tubman’s world will be underwater before the end of the century. The last stop was a tour of the oyster...
Meet the Scientist: Ann Foo
...I don’t have an educational background in environmental science—I got dual degrees in cell biology and Greek and Roman history, with a big focus on art and language—but I’ve always been a nature kid. During undergrad, I worked in a food science la...
Monsoon School science communication course
...he evaluation of transdisciplinary projects using metrics to analyze concepts and challenges. A discussion on the art of storytelling and narrative to achieve great science communication followed, which included some exercises. The class concluded...
New EcoCheck Intern - Melissa Andreychek
... University of Pittsburgh, Melissa spent several years working as an interpretive writer at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, with major projects related to the renovation of the museum's dinosaur hall and the exhibition development of Powdermil...
New online course available
...ion tools to best express this knowledge in a way that is accessible and actionable. Synthesis of data into a compelling story is the solution. You will develop your own toolbox of science advisory techniques while growing your environmental manag...
New Science Visualization course
...iagrams , data visualizations , maps and photographs in the initial section. The second section of the course focuses on storyboarding and assembling posters, reports, web materials and oral presentations. Course materials (recorded lectures and b...
New UMCES/CBPO Water Quality Analyst
...kgroup. Jeni has a M.S. in sustainable development...
New York Harbor: Resilience in the face of four centuries of development
... by present and former IAN personnel and partners our NSF-STEM-C Billion Oyster project . The publication features the history and trajectory of similar environmental issues for global partner cities within the World Harbour Project....

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