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    621 results for "story":

    • A Gestalt of 0s and 1s: The Tips and Tools of Web Design
      A Gestalt of 0s and 1s: The Tips and Tools of Web Design (Blog Post)
      ...e. It is much easier to fix something on paper than further down the line! Here is another student’s (Natalie Peyronnin) storyboard (left). You can see how it mirrors the finished website fairly closely (right). Image credit Natalie Peyronnin. Now...
    • A great pot does not necessarily make a great dinner: photography techniques to take your science communication to the next level.
      A great pot does not necessarily make a great dinner: photography techniques to take your science communication to the next level. (Blog Post)
      ...ibility (bad photos can greatly decrease credibility) Communicate across languages and cultures Evoke emotion and tell a story Provide context Visually draw readers in A photo of a Dungeoness Crab rather than a Blue Crab would drastically decrease...
    • A Long Love Affair With Chesapeake Bay Part I
      A Long Love Affair With Chesapeake Bay Part I (Blog Post)
    • A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II
      A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II (Blog Post)
      ...but did not have long term negative effects on the Bay. Cover photos of three books published in 2003, chronicling the history and current issues with the Chesapeake Bay1,2,3. Hurricane Isabel over the East Coast4. In 2004, Maryland Governor Rober...
    • A look at the "Earth in Perspective" with Ricky Arnold
      A look at the "Earth in Perspective" with Ricky Arnold (Blog Post)
      ...Photo by Brianne Walsh. Bottom: Ricky addresses his audience. Photo by Vanessa Vargas. Ricky has a very interesting life story and I very much enjoyed speaking with him over dinner and asking him about his exciting path towards becoming an astrona...
    • A nautical listening session to kick off the summer
      A nautical listening session to kick off the summer (Blog Post)
      ...rginia-waterway-threaten-livelihoods-and-ignite-calls-for-dredging-funds/2018/04/21/41a4a652-4196-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html Todd, V. L. G., Todd, I. B., Gardiner, J. C., Morrin, E. C. N., MacPherson, N. A., DiMarzio, N. A.,...
    • A picture is worth a 1,000 words
      A picture is worth a 1,000 words (Blog Post)
      ...e. Sketching your conceptual diagram, from pen to paper. Image by Amanda Mueller You want to make sure that you know the story you are trying to tell, and that you find the best way to illustrate that story in a diagram, or series of diagrams if n...
    • A pleasant day of Oysters and STEM learning
      A pleasant day of Oysters and STEM learning (Blog Post)
      ...’ that contained marine organisms for students to identify, and finally the National Park site, Fort Jay, for a little history lesson about Governors Island and the War of 1812. Judy and I remained at our station at the Admiral’s House in order to...
    • A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems
      A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems (Blog Post)
      ...“packaging” report cards so that public has more interest. For example: Discussing the health of systems as a historical story. Examples of Environmental Report cards References : Longstaff BJ, Carruthers TJB, Dennison WC, Lookingbill TR, Hawkey J...
    • A Time to Krill
      A Time to Krill (Blog Post)
      ...re deconstructing levees and manually removing huge quantities of toxic sediment. Loss Dr. Hamilton has documented the history and trajectory of Ecuadorian mangrove deforestation by assembling and comparing a roughly sixty-year sequence of topogra...
    • A tour of the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma during an extreme weather day
      A tour of the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma during an extreme weather day (Blog Post)
      ...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
      A Trip to The Queen City (Blog Post)
      ...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
      A visit to New York Harbor School on Governors Island (Blog Post)
    • Adventures in producing an eBook: Dancing with dugongs eBook released
      Adventures in producing an eBook: Dancing with dugongs eBook released (Blog Post)
      ...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
      Aegean Sea field trip: Egyptian sand, seagrass, marine sanctuaries, cruising (Blog Post)
      ...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 Adventure Along the Potomac
      An Adventure Along the Potomac (Blog Post)
      ...Hilderbrand for a discussion on the environmental biome of the Potomac. As we all sat outside, he told us the miraculous story of the once plentiful chestnut and hemlock forests that graced the region, histories of acid mine drainage, the iconic l...
    • An Array and a Ray
      An Array and a Ray (Blog Post)
      ... ... 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
      Ancient culture and unique biodiversity - Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia (Blog Post)
      ...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...
    • Annapolis walking tour
      Annapolis walking tour (Blog Post)
      ...as the Alex Haley monument. The harbor side of historic Annapolis has a statue to Alex Haley, the author of "Roots", his story of tracking his genealogy to his African slave forefather, Kunta Kinte, who arrived in Annapolis in 1767. Alex Haley als...
    • Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas
      Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas (Blog Post)
      ...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...
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