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Top ten quotes that influenced my career (Blog Post)
...r for anyone with aspirations to really make a difference. Margaret Mead was an interesting scientist and her personal history makes the source of this quote meaningful. " It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credi...
Top ten tree and shrub symbols: Cypress, agave, weeping willows and gums (Blog Post)
...s ” by Murray Bail which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999 and weaves the classification of Eucalyptus trees into the story of a young Australian woman. This symbol was created by Lana Heydon. 2) The Pisonia ( Pisonia spp.) tree is a really biz...
Two halves of a whole: the natural and cultural resources of the National Park Service (Blog Post)
... integrity, landscape dynamics, and air are the natural resources buckets, and built environment, meanings and values, history, and contemporary communities are the cultural buckets. Our challenge in this class is to develop a research proposal th...
UMCES Soiree at CERF 2013 (Blog Post)
...n device touted at CERF2013 of constructing sentences with ____AND____BUT____THEREFORE____: "UMCES has a long and rich history of attracting and training environmental leaders AND tackling the most important environmental issues BUT the future env...
Uncovering five values of citizen science at CitSci2019 (Blog Post)
...es, such as pop-culture references, memes, and comic strip art. Several workshops were offered on diverse topics such as storytelling, science communication, and improvisation theater. Alex, Caroline, and I presented a workshop called “ Best pract...
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science faculty convocation: Bill Chameides, President's Award, new joint degree program, remembering Debbie Morrin-Nordlund (Blog Post)
...o talked about the transitions between 'pure' science, policy-relevant science, normative science and advocacy. Bill's history of the environmental movement was remarkably similar to one that I developed for the Science for Environmental Managemen...
Untangling the web of stakeholders (Blog Post)
... and solve larger problems related to coupled human and natural systems. References 1. Christina Prell (2012), A Brief History of Social Network Analysis . Social Network Analysis. London U.K.: SAGE. 2. Bodin et al. (2011), Social Networks and Nat...
Upper Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy (Blog Post)
... recreational areas, with popular boating, swimming, fishing and hunting areas. The Upper Mississippi River has a rich history of human settlement, with Native American paleo-Indians, hunters and gathers, potters and mound builders, and farmers, f...
USAUS-H2O Canberra workshop (Blog Post)
...e were doing thirteen years ago. Trev Gilmour was based at the Australian embassy in Washington, D.C. and had an amazing story of his experiences with the visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard . The teachers came from schools in each of t...
Visiting the Nickel Preserve in eastern Oklahoma (Blog Post)
...rve. The Ozarks support a high biological diversity, enhanced by the diverse landscapes and the long stable geological history of the region. We hiked a nature trail along Pine Ridge where we could view the oak dominated forest on the north facing...
Walking tour of Brisbane (Part 2): Financial district, riverside and botanic gardens (Blog Post)
...rounds to Charlotte Street and walk over to Eagle Street Pier , with shops and restaurants. There is a great view of the Story Bridge , built in 1940, connecting Kangaroo Point with the city. The Story Bridge is named after J.D. story , a man resp...
Walking tour of Brisbane (Part 3): Parliament, World War II and beyond (Blog Post)
...fessors of the Botany Department, University of Queensland . When Professors Trevor Clifford and Ray Specht told me that story, and mentioned that General MacArthur kept his beer in that cold room, I promptly went out and bought a carton of beer....
Want to be a better science communicator? Start with the title and the abstract. (Blog Post)
...a better title and abstract for a scientific paper in a few simple steps. ... By Amanda Rockler Dr. Bill Dennison says, “storytelling and visualizations are part of our DNA,” and good storytelling engages the audience, improves retention, and shor...
Water, food webs, and production on the Kakadu floodplains (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...
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink, unless something is done: How science is used in legal cases to improve the environment (Blog Post)
We're all connected to the Big Easy: Beyond Science into BIG Management of Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem (Blog Post)
...ston: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. Saucier, R. 1994. Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS), Vol. 1. Britsch. L, and J. Dunbar. 1993....
Webstock 2015: One day of Peace & the Internet (Blog Post)
...edman provided an interesting analogy of the paradigm shift that occurred with the growth of automobile travel in U.S. history with the paradigm shift that is occurring with the growth of the Internet. He observed that 141 million Americans own a...
Western Lake Erie environmental literacy (Blog Post)
...ly. Western Lake Erie was the site of prominent naval battles in the War of 1812. Lake Erie figures prominently in the history of the environmental movement in the United States. The Cuyahoga River fire in 1969 was widely publicized and the Lake E...
What are these data trying to tell us? (Blog Post)
...oring operations of the South Florida Water Management District . Visitors are greeted by a display that documents the history of hydrologic monitoring from the 1940s until the present day. Everglades restoration encompasses four regional ecosyste...
What is the role of science in managing fisheries? (Blog Post)
...a 5 year moratorium set in place to protect a dwindling population, the species recovered. Most hailed this as a success story, but the underweight and often lesion covered fish that are now being caught tell a different story. Striped bass rely o...

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