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    621 results for "story":

    • Coastal Bays report card launch
      Coastal Bays report card launch (Blog Post)
      ...sses are now declining in Chincoteague Bay, but the good news is that water quality was up a bit last year. The seagrass story is not just water quality, it also involves climate variability. We have had some very hot summers which are essentially...
    • Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Conference in Portland, Oregon
      Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Conference in Portland, Oregon (Blog Post)
      ...ith set-up and manning the booth. The UMCES booth. IAN's session, convened by Bill Nuttle, was titled Successful science story-telling for coastal resilience . I gave Caroline Donovan's talk during this session, which was about challenges of telli...
    • Colonial National Historic Park visit
      Colonial National Historic Park visit (Blog Post)
      ...nal Historic Trail offshore 'New Town'. We called the buoy to access weather and hydrological data and listen to short history segments. Mini-Symposium : The mini-symposium was held in the first LEEDs ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Desig...
    • Combating climate change in the floating city
      Combating climate change in the floating city (Blog Post)
      ...ible to see St. Mark’s square flooded, but currently, it floods more than 60 times a year. The worst flood in Venice’s history occurred in 1966 , when the tide in St. Mark’s square reached chest height. During that flood, 97% of Venice was under w...
    • Combining visuals with narrative for effective science communication
      Combining visuals with narrative for effective science communication (Blog Post)
      ...ve. Both narrative structure and visual processing are hard wired into the human brain. Brain scans of people watching a story unfold on videos show their brains are highly activated and they display the same activation as a group, compared to peo...
    • Commemorating Bob Menzer at Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences
      Commemorating Bob Menzer at Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences (Blog Post)
    • Communicating science effectively: one-day course with EPA Region 1
      Communicating science effectively: one-day course with EPA Region 1 (Blog Post)
      ...a lot of material packed into the one-day course. We covered data visualization, conceptual diagrams, and narratives and storytelling. Using the course workbook, participants worked in groups to explore the main concepts for each: the importance o...
    • Communicating Science to Effect Social Change
      Communicating Science to Effect Social Change (Blog Post)
      ...science communication can actually make you a better scientist for the following reasons: 1) By envisioning the complete story; you can pick up missing elements. An example is putting together a conceptual diagram relating to the causes of a harmf...
    • Conceptionary in action: Learning through play
      Conceptionary in action: Learning through play (Blog Post)
      ...teaching using a blackboard, talking while drawing can be quite effective, so adding illustrations can greatly augment a story. Finally, the team building aspect of working together in groups can be important, particularly with groups of people wh...
    • Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network
      Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network (Blog Post)
      ...ou don't understand well enough to draw: "If you can't draw it, you don't understand it". Diagrams can be used to tell a story, just as words can be used to tell a story. Symbols can be equated to words in a story and assembling these symbols into...
    • Conceptual Diagrams Can Get You Places
      Conceptual Diagrams Can Get You Places (Blog Post)
      ...out two dozen places in the US named in honor of a 19 th century Prussian aristocrat and darling of Parisian salons. The story of how Alexander von Humboldt came to be acclaimed in America revolves around his career as scientist and explorer and e...
    • Conceptual diagrams in a chapel
      Conceptual diagrams in a chapel (Blog Post)
      ...d the ancient use of symbols that humans have used to depict the world around them. From cave drawings to Pacific Island storyboards to woodcuts used by Victorian Englishmen like Charles Darwin, people have been using symbols to represent objects...
    • Conceptual Diagrams: Turning Science into Graphic Art
      Conceptual Diagrams: Turning Science into Graphic Art (Blog Post)
      ... concept best illustrated in a 2D cross-section? In a 3D landscape? Choose an ecosystem that will assist in telling your story by selecting appropriate landscapes, water bodies, geographic formations, etc. Look to the PDF “ Creating Conceptual Dia...
    • Conference on New Ideas to Accelerate Chesapeake Bay Restoration
      Conference on New Ideas to Accelerate Chesapeake Bay Restoration (Blog Post)
      ...ng). He also encouraged participants to keep investing in technology for innovative solutions. Ben mentioned that "the history of the land is written in the water" and used a great quote from Pogo: "We are confronted with insurmountable opportunit...
    • Cork conference on coastal sustainability
      Cork conference on coastal sustainability (Blog Post)
      ...ting a SNAP session. Image credit: Bill Dennison On Day 2, we focused on the outputs and outcomes of the meeting through storyboarding and beginning to populate our workshop newsletter. Armed with the priorities gained from the SNAP activity, we s...
    • Countdown to elevator pitch 3…2…1 “GO”
      Countdown to elevator pitch 3…2…1 “GO” (Blog Post)
      ... way we communicated science in order to be successful. We had two options for our presentation: 1) Follow the narrative story telling method (practical; place based) or 2) the logical science communication method ( theoretical ; not place based)....
    • Creating a global symbol language
      Creating a global symbol language (Blog Post)
      ...ng "Conceptionary". Conceptual diagrams tap into three ancient and global aspects of human expression; art, symbols, and story telling. Cave paintings that are 30,000 years old have been found which represent a primitive art form. These paintings...
    • Creating the Texas Coast Ecosystem Health Report Card
      Creating the Texas Coast Ecosystem Health Report Card (Blog Post)
      ...l areas like Baffin Bay , storm water runoff also can be high in nutrients and sediments from farm fields. Overlying the story of ecosystem condition on the Texas Coast is natural variation in temperature, precipitation, and storms. This high vari...
    • Dashboard books on fire: Communicating fire management creatively
      Dashboard books on fire: Communicating fire management creatively (Blog Post)
      ...oduction, and conservation, often illustrated with carefully chosen photographs. Andrew and I had read " Fire: A Brief History" by Stephen Pyne , a wonderful book about the relationship of humans with fire and the different cultural perspectives....
    • Data is the Centerfold:  Illustrating statistical data to communicate your research
      Data is the Centerfold: Illustrating statistical data to communicate your research (Blog Post)
      ...isualization. Emily Nastase said it best; she described data visualization as a way to effectively reveal trends, tell a story, and represent things that are not easily observed from words and numbers alone. However, producing a visual representat...
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