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A tour of the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma during an extreme weather day
...Twister " as well as the real device that was deployed to attempt to gather information on tornados. We were told a cute story about the university logo on the movie props. The movie producers had requested that the University of Oklahoma logo be...
A Trip to The Queen City
...unctioning brewery to be retrofit into an existing grain silo. Grain elevators are an important part of Buffalo’s port history—standing at the intersection of several important water routes—the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal—grain could be shipped...
A visit to New York Harbor School on Governors Island
Adventures in producing an eBook: Dancing with dugongs eBook released
...ling book materials. Dancing with Dugongs book cover. The typical way that IAN develops a printed product is to create a storyboard mock up of each page of the printed product. This storyboard organizes the various visual elements (photographs, ma...
Aegean Sea field trip: Egyptian sand, seagrass, marine sanctuaries, cruising
...ir Island , which is named for the Sedir (cedar) trees. A boardwalk took us to Cleopatra Beach, which has an interesting story or theory as to its origin. Cleopatra sailed from Egypt with her Roman lover Marc Anthony to this region of present day...
An Array and a Ray
... ... Photo credit: SERC This blog post is the second of a two-post series examining cownose ray ( Rhinoptera bonasus ) history and ecology in the Chesapeake Bay. Hauled aboard a fishing vessel on the Chesapeake Bay, most of the creatures caught in...
Ancient culture and unique biodiversity - Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
...ears. The rock art represents one of the longest historical records of any group of people in the world. Their ancient history is evidenced by the fascinating rock art at Ubirr . Long-necked turtle (Chelodina rugosa) and a fisherman with his catch...
Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas
...project. ABT – And, But, Therefore The point of this exercise is to deliberately think about a narrative that tells your story in a few short sentences. IAN has adopted the ABT model and has already written We have great people doing impactful thi...
Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card
...data collected in connection with various management activities already active in the basin, many of which have a long history. For example, the Mississippi River Commission was established in 1879 to manage flood control and navigation in the ent...
Assessing bacteria in South Carolina: redesigning the "How's the Beach?" app
...or of Graduate Studies in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. He is relaxed, fun, and he likes to make up history for South Carolina (something he admitted about himself). I also met Dwayne’s team that works on synthesizing the data a...
Assessing the vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change
...f these components and Integration and Application Network staff gathered in downtown Brisbane, Australia to develop the storyboard design for this publication. The workshop attendees were Bill Dennison, Health Kelsey and Jane Thomas (Integration...
Assessment of Small Watersheds in China
Atlantic Estuarine Research Society 70th anniversary conference
...ch Federation (CERF) and now has seven affiliate societies 1 . Welcome sign. Photo credit: Danielle Kreeger Given this history, I was very glad that could join in the celebration of AERS’s 70 th year, since its founding was the genesis of such an...
Atlantic Estuarine Research Society conference in Ocean City, Maryland
...y beach. I gave the opening keynote talk 'Eutrophication processes in Chincoeague Bay', which was focused on telling the story of identifying early stages of eutrophication, tracking down nutrient sources and observing an ecological phase shift in...
Atlantic Estuarine Research Society meeting at St. Mary's College of Maryland
... Maryland , and Walter Boynton from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Walter told a hilarious story about his first scientific talk at an AERS conference. After Walter finished his career-first presentation, he stepped b...
Attending the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference
...ral, also known as Dom Church . During the opening remarks, Dr. Steve Borgatti , the president of INSNA shared a brief history of the Sunbelt Conference, to celebrate the twenty years of Network Science . The Keynote Speaker was Dr. Emmanuel Lazeg...
Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis workshop: "Australian seagrass habitats: Condition and threats"
...serving to enhance the extent and biomass of seagrasses. These reefal systems also contribute to the diversity of life history and morphology traits of Australian seagrasses, which encompass the global diversity of seagrass life histories and morp...
Australian cities and waterways: Brisbane, Moreton Bay and the Brisbane River
...n's Bay after Lord Morton , President of the Royal Society , but a subsequent misspelling, Moreton, became the standard. Story Bridge over the Brisbane River. Matthew Flinders sailed into Moreton Bay in 1799 but did not find the mouth of the Brisb...
Australian cities and waterways: Connections, crossings, celebrations, and culture
... are simply utilitarian like the Clem Jones tunnel in Brisbane. The historic bridges like Princes Bridge in Melbourne or Story Bridge in Brisbane are very attractive and the City Cats plying the a Brisbane River have helped rejuvenate the riverfro...
Australian cities and waterways: Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River

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