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Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card (Blog Post)
...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 en...
Assessing the vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
Association for Science of Limnology and Oceanography in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Blog Post)
...as titled “Creating and communicating environmental intelligence for Chesapeake Bay research and management”. I told the story of our Submerged Aquatic Vegetation synthesis effort ( SAV SYN ) in Chesapeake Bay, which was timely in that less than 2...
Atlantic Estuarine Research Society 70th anniversary conference (Blog Post)
...h 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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
...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" (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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: Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River (Blog Post)
Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 1 - Science Communication (Blog Post)
...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 2 - Incorporating visual elements (Blog Post)
...ctively communicated their concerns. But, that's kind of hindsight, and it was ultimately tragic. I would like to tell a story of good science communication that really worked out. There was a physician called John Snow who lived in London in the...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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! (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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...

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