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From the mountains to the prairies—discussing ecological drought in the North Central United States
...uded the importance of water quantity, and water quality, the biodiversity and wildlife present in the region, and the history of climate variability response in the region. The Missouri River is one of largest managed river systems in the world,...
From Walden to Now: A Look at the Environmental Movement in the USA
...tually happened somewhere in the world, and many communities have already suffered a substantial number of them" 4 . Her story, similar to Leopold's, draws the reader in and immediately captures their imagination and attention. Some of my fellow s...
Get the grade - Worldwide WWF-IAN partnership launches in Stockholm
...he middle of Stockholm in 1628. It was salvaged 333 years later in 1961 and has been slowly restored ever since. Now the story of why it was built, how it sank, and how it was recovered is why there is a whole museum dedicated to it. Let’s just sa...
Going from "Aha!" to "Well, Duh" in the Great Barrier Reef, with beer coasters and Burdekin Gold
...ave selected one of these stories to relate here. Great Barrier Reef workshop participants in Townsville, Australia This story is about the initial development of the Great Barrier Reef report card . Ben Longstaff , Jane Thomas and I traveled to T...
Goldilocks: The Unheralded Mapping Guru
...n designing a map. Don’t make the map too simple or too complex, but provide just the right amount of detail to tell the story. Bad map examples Credit: cartastrophe.wordpress.com What’s the story? Well, that’s really the first step. As we learned...
Governor Harry Hughes and his sweet dream of the Chesapeake Bay Program
...e: Hughes, Harry Roe with John Frece. 2006. My Unexpected Journey: The autobiography of Governor Harry Roe Hughes. The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina. 224 pp. ... Bill Dennison...
Grading basin or ecosystem health to track and address change
...onthly or site-based means or medians . This observation raised the question of how we can analyze data so it “tells the story that needs to be told” in a report card, while still honoring our ethical responsibility of objectivity when it comes to...
Growing minds through growing oysters
Growth and the future of Chesapeake Bay conference at Hood College
...o set a max And we heard about a Genuine Progress Indicator and the controversial rain tax. Rob Dietz 16 told us a scary story about his little daughter Linking to lessons about food, land and water Bill Ryerson 17 had a compelling story of using...
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 2018 Annual Conference
... , Senior Graphics Editor for Scientific American , Dr. Kirk Johnson , Sant Director at the National Museum of Natural History , and Liz Neeley , Executive Director of The Story Collider . In addition to these plenaries, there were smaller worksho...
Gulf of Thailand Study Tour
...igure in establishing the preserve. Photo credit: Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen We visited the Thai Island Air and Sea Natural History Museum , started in 1999 and now including five buildings with nice displays of various natural history features of the...
Hawaii ecodrought workshop; trade wind invasions, ridge to reef, endemic species
...eather events, and forest fires. Elliott Parsons introduced us to the Pu'u Wa'awa'a Conservation Area . Elliott told the story of his arrival in 2010 in the midst of a severe drought and raging forest fires. He was able to show us photographs of t...
Healthy Rivers for All: December 2017 retreat
...sentation and include a suite of interactive exercises. Heath Kelsey and Michele Thieme discussing the training handbook storyboard. During this workshop, we also: Filmed a session of our team playing the ‘Get the Grade’ report card game in order...
Healthy Waterways Champion Award speech
Healthy Waterways Healthy Catchments: Making the connection in South East Queensland, Australia
...earch results, instead of almost exclusively research results. The process of developing the outline for this book was a storyboard workshop held at the Moreton Bay Research Station on Stradbroke Island . The lead authors for each chapter develope...
Hello and Goodbye: The brief in-person encounter with my online class
...el to explore nutrient load timing effects on water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. Nichole used a powerpoint to tell her story. Tom Butler – Problem solving with computer models in Chesapeake Bay . He used video format to explain models, how they...
How Big Chicken Stole Chesapeake Bay
...he Christmas classic, “ How the Grinch Stole Christmas ” by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) . I consider the best part of the story to be when the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes, representing his redemption. I look forward to when the poultry in...
How can we include and legitimize other voices in science?
...ions. Dr. Sonia Stephens and Dr. Daniel Richards shared an excellent example of this kind of integration with their esri Story Map , which combines maps of sea level rise projections with stories and images from residents of coastal areas in order...
How maps can lie: Chesapeake watershed stream health
...tle of this blog post, "How maps can lie" refers to the ability of someone to choose 'green dots on top' for a good news story vs. 'red dots on top' for a bad news story, depending on their intent. The Chesapeake Bay Program chose the 'green dots...
How the past influences the future: Understanding the maturity gradient in environmental science and management
...mparison to both Western Samoa and coastal Louisiana, the New York harbor and Long Island Sound have a relatively long history of environmental science and management (Figure 1). The New York harbor does not resemble the body of water that existed...

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