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Bill Dennison's 500th Blog (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
.... 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 12- Charismatic Environmental Initiatives (Blog Post)
...reefs or any other coastal systems. We got to thinking "Why don't more people know about this? Why is this such a hidden story?" We then started thinking that we might have a charisma gap. So we analyzed that by going around the world and getting...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 13- Conclusion (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
...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...
Building coastal resilience through stories (Blog Post)
...now works with other scientists improve their communication skills. His advice to scientists centers on telling stories. Story-telling is a sure way to connect with a broad audience, as the success of Hollywood blockbuster movies shows. Randy Olso...
Building Dinosaurs (Blog Post)
...o credit: Emily Nastase Now, Michael is the proprietor of Michael Holland Productions , a company that creates natural history exhibit “features”, AKA fossil reconstructions. Michael and his team are experts when it comes to molding and casting, s...
Capturing Nature on the Job (Blog Post)
...ewsletters that we develop towards this mission are, as a result, highly visual, often employing conceptual diagrams and storytelling strategies to highlight the universal themes we find in a particular set of data. Whenever we are cre...
Chesapeake Bay restoration: Are we headed in the right direction? (Blog Post)
Chesapeake Bay restoration: Are we headed in the right direction? ... The Chesapeake Bay Program has a long history of setting goals, and unfortunately an equally long history of NOT reaching these goals. The initial Chesapeake Bay Prog...
Chesapeake Bay Science and Management: A need for more effective scientific communication and adaptive management (Blog Post)
...reach the necessary pollution reduction goals. It has been described as a “ladder without rungs” (NRC 2011). Given the history of missed deadlines and unclear strategies regarding restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, it makes one wonder about the wa...
Chesapeake literacy (Blog Post)
... drivers for Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. Chesapeake Bay supports unique human cultures and livelihoods. American history has been shaped by Chesapeake Bay. Chesapeake Bay is extremely well studied and intensely managed. Chesapeake Bay is a l...
Chickens in Tanzania, rabid dogs in Indonesia, and road-killed pigs in Samoa: Exploring ethnographies of environmental knowledge in indigenous, local, and traditional cultures, to assess agreement between actions, perceptions, and values (Blog Post)
...mplar of collaboration between Maori knowledge (IK/LEK) and western science. Dennison then reprised his Australian dingo story: fire suppression -> altered vegetation succession -> intense fire -> reduced prey availability -> dingos -> opportunist...
CMC Data Interpretation Course in Richmond, VA and Carlisle, PA (Blog Post)
... to science communication and individual product development. Caroline introduced the "and, but, therefore" framework in storytelling, followed by an activity where we guided participants as they drafted an ABT statement of their own to accompany...

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