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Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus
...be able to walk around the Niña and gain a sense of one of the vessels that did so much to change the course of human history. R/V Calanus docked in the Bahamas. We had some wonderful experiences during our visits to San Salvador Island. We visit...
Being inspired by Cousteaus: An evening with Jean-Michel Cousteau
...cular audience. Underwater habitat, Hydrolab, in Salt River Canyon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1984. Given this history of the Cousteau's calling for better environmental stewardship and not being afraid to directly address those responsibl...
Believe it or not, maps are still useful!
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 1 - Science Communication
...t I get will be bloodshot. So, I'll just go on autopilot, because I'm going to ignore your bloodshot eyes and tell you a story about what we are doing with our Integration and Application Network . Hopefully as the caffeine kicks in, you might be...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards
...ee big reasons. One is they are a really good peer pressure motivator, because peer pressure motivates human change. The story I'll give here is the Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Over on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay; there was a grade of "D m...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 5 - Report card examples
...a. Other posts in this series: 1. Part 1 - Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report c...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards
...a. Other posts in this series: 1. Part 1 – Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 7 - O Canada!
...a. Other posts in this series: 1. Part 1 – Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step p...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 8 - Communicating Science Effectively poster
...me, as the plenary talk was being delivered, Dr. Charlotte Young from Envision Synergy quietly recorded the seminar as a story board on a large colorful poster in the back of the room. Following the seminar, I was able to view her graphical interp...
Bill Dennison's 500th Blog
...eries of blogs about the cities and their iconic waterways. This blog about Brisbane was one that I knew the most about. Story Bridge over the Brisbane River. Note, the most popular blogs in terms of number of views is skewed toward the blogs that...
Bill's Belmont Forum Song
...ut, Helô Pinheiro , later became a celebrity and still lives today. This song is one of the most recorded pop songs in history and it won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1964. Sao Paulo's highest peak Jaraguá Peak. Image credit here Kat Parsons...
Billion Oyster Conference and New York City Part 2: Shifting Baselines in America
...rk the end of 20 th century America. Their borders dusted with flowers, and thousands of names. Everyone has a different story: “I was in the grocery store, I was at school, I was driving in to work, I was on a train, I was asleep…” Personally, I...
Biscayne Bay Marine Health Inaugural Summit
...t their river was palpable. LESSON 2: Environmental restoration can be a source of civic pride. Because of the amazing story of the River Mersey, we were hoping for some good local media coverage, but the headlines of the Brisbane Courier Mail l...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 10- Progress in Monitoring and Management
... of this flood and the impacts on the natural resources, which translate into Moreton Bay. And I'm going to start with a story about the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is the best-studied estuary in the world. It is 300 kilometers top to botto...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 11- Monitoring of the Moreton Bay
.... The Brisbane River catchment soils were heavily eroded, and several folks from Healthy Country helped us assemble this story. We saw large-scale sediment erosion, and we can see boulders that rolled down the stream like pebbles. In some places t...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 13- Conclusion
...a little bit of vision towards the future and a ray of hope and optimism. And that comes from an analysis I did of the history of paradigm shifts that have occurred in societies starting in the 1500's. Paradigm shift can lead to a sustainability r...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar
...category. From your experience, can you give us a little guidance as to how we convert that flood event into a good news story. BILL: I think one thing that Southeast Queensland does better than the U.S. is celebration. You have the festival of th...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 2- A Learning Moment
...basement during 1893. It didn’t make it up here until 2011, but you can see a few other landmarks, and it was before the Story Bridge, but you can see how much of the system was affected. A flood map of Brisbane prepared in 1893 Kangaroo Point in...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 6- Global Initiatives in Response to Flooding
... From "Isabel and Sea-level Rise" newsletter and IAN image library. So that allowed us to really get into this sea-level story, and then take it to climate adaptation. Here we weren't arguing about the causes of climate change, and we weren't talk...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 7- Examples of Flooding in the United States
...ff talking about how to reduce flood damage, and then we moved into enhancing the landscape integrity, so basically, the story there is that about a kilometer and a half of lateral marsh results in about thirty centimeters less storm surge. So, th...