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Remembering Bob Simon: A class act
...e he was interviewing and then letting them tell their stories. Bob Simon was a class act and I will miss him. ... Bill Dennison...
Report card days of Christmas
...rch Institute , Texas A...
Representing UMCES at the 12th International Conference on the Environmental Management of the Enclosed Coastal Seas
... and the UNESCO-IOC/WESTPAC . Jane Nishida and Bob Summers --both former Maryland Secretaries of the Environment-- Bill Dennison , Dave Nemazie , and I made up the only contingent from the United States present at the event. 2nd International Confe...
Research Experience for Undergraduate students arrive at UMCES
...ollowed by a short walking tour of Maryland’s historic capital. This year, due to an overseas travel commitment by Bill Dennison, his talk "Proposal Writing: A Key to Success" was videotaped ahead of time and posted here. Obtaining the resources ne...
Resilience based management of the Great Barrier Reef
...Reef HQ and to be able to wander through the aquarium following our workshop. Workshop participants at Reef HQ ... Bill Dennison...
Returning to My Ohio Roots: Scoping Out A Lake Erie Report Card
...sive spectrometer that could be used by citizen science groups to measure nitrogen and phosphorus levels in water. Bill Dennison and Kelly Siman at reception following the Lake Erie Foundation board meeting. All in all, it was a great experience an...
Reunited with Integration and Application Network alumni in Canada
... a Science Communication course provided an opportunity for two current Integration and Application Network staff, Bill Dennison and Caroline Wicks and two former IAN staff, Ben Longstaff and Emily Nauman to work together. Following the theme of be...
Review: “Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age,” by Martin O’Malley
...nment effective. Governor O'Malley signing the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement in Annapolis (Photo Credit: Bill Dennison) Many politicians use ghost-writers or staffers to draft content. In contrast, in “Smarter Government”, I can actually...
Rich Batiuk’s retirement from the Chesapeake Bay Program
...d everyone to continue the journey of Chesapeake Bay restoration. Susan Batiuk and Sarah Batiuk Wang. Image credit Bill Dennison. Bob and I produced a powerpoint presentation reviewing multiple SAV synthesis efforts with Rich. We highlighted the ro...
Ricky Arnold to speak at MEES Colloquium
... raised in Bowie, Maryland, Richard Arnold earned his M.S. from the MEES program in 1992 under the guidance of Dr. Bill Dennison. He was part of the crew on Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-119 in March 2009 which delivered the final pair of pow...
Riparian Rhapsodies in Customs House
...urn of large numbers of people to the riverside venues after the January flood is a positive sign of recovery. ... Bill Dennison...
Roebling Bridge in Cincinnati--the predecessor to the Brooklyn Bridge
...lt of the open grate deck that the cars drive over and the resulting 'singing' sound of the tires. Bill Nuttle and Bill Dennison on the Roebling Bridge. John A. Roebling went on to design the Brooklyn Bridge but did not see it to completion due to...
Sabbatical in Queensland
...cts of flooding as well as provide better planning for the future. While on sabbatical, my email will remain the same ( dennison@umces.edu ) and even my US phone will still work, albeit with the time difference (currently east coast US time +15 hou...
Sabbatical reflections
...le to work closely with my long time friend and colleague Dr. Peter Oliver on a book that we are writing together. Bill Dennison and Peter Oliver at the International WaterCentre The other thing that became evident during the course of my sabbatica...
Sailing around the world: Sea Semester and Rich Wilson
...ad a lot of discussion about how to continue to evolve Sea Semester to adapt to the new educational playing field. Bill Dennison and Al Hickey reunited long after our 1988 R/V Westward cruise. We enjoyed an amazing talk by Rich Wilson, who at the a...
Samoa; tsunamis, coral reefs, fishing, dredging
...catan peninsula, where nutrient transport has been linked to the freshwater flows ( Carruthers TJB, van Tussenbroek BI, Dennison WC. 2005. Influence of submarine springs and wastewater on nutrient dynamics of Caribbean seagrass meadows. Estuarine C...
SAV SYN One Last Time
... efforts that target both scientists and non-scientists. SAV SYN team at the UMCES Annapolis Office. Image credit: Bill Dennison Our core SAV SYN team gathered: Bob Orth , Ken Moore , Dave Wilcox and Jon Lefcheck ( Virginia Institute of Marine Scie...
Savai'i Island, Samoa; lava, blowholes, pigs, churches
...nineteenth century. One of the many churches on Savai’I with the public transportation buses in the foreground ... Bill Dennison...
Scaling Up: Future of Environmental Decisions workshop
...ood. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) was heavily involved in the program, with Bill Dennison , Andrew Elmore , Steven Guinn , and Jane Thomas included in the planning and teaching of the undergraduate/graduate st...
School’s Out
...e artifacts that I’d heard about from other students. Instead of our awe-inspiring instructors, Michael Paolisso , Bill Dennison and Suzi Spitzer , teaching us, we gave them a break by lecturing in their place. Each student presented a five-minute...

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