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The Integration and Application Network facilitates virtual workshops

...nd Application Network (IAN) was established by UMCES in 2002 to accomplish positive environmental change through scientific synthesis, engagement and communication. Over the years, IAN scientists have developed a suite of interactive tools and str...

Chesapeake Bay SAV Watchers: A new citizen science program for monitoring Bay grasses

...create a map of SAV in the Bay, and this map directly informs policy and management decisions. Furthermore, a SAV scientific synthesis team was formed to closely investigate how long-term trends in Bay SAV distribution are related to human activiti...

The Integration and Application Network in 2018

...ealth of Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bays with our annual report cards. In addition, the publication of a scientific synthesis paper that IAN staff helped generate was able to reach a broad audience. This paper identified that the nutrient...

Scientists Alone Won’t Save the Earth

...ferred to as the Anthropocene , experts and their scientific narratives should no longer be "at the center of... career to not only natural research, but also to scientific integration and application . Before discussing a...

Maryland’s inaugural State of the Coast conference

...very personal connection to the Bay. I provided a scientific overview of the state of the Maryland coastal reg...ure of the Maryland Coastal Bays is the series of scientific syntheses that have been occurring since 2004. Ch...

Atlantic Estuarine Research Society 70th anniversary conference

...Rehoboth Beach , DE. AERs was the first estuarine scientific society created, and this conference marked the 7...its founding was the genesis of such an important scientific society. We had 70 students attend and present, o...

Visiting the National Press Club to talk about Chesapeake Bay

...ing out just when the Chesapeake Bay Program funding is under attack. Did you plan this? We initiated this scientific synthesis without a clear goal of what we wanted to find. We only knew that we wanted to better understand the changes in n...

Scientific synthesis paper shows Chesapeake Bay nutrient diet is working

Scientific synthesis paper shows Chesapeake Bay nutrient diet is working ... As part of our Submerged Aquatic Vegetation synthesis eff...

Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum

...cience is a way to involve non-researchers in the scientific research process. Citizen science projects a...

More lessons on how to synthesize science

...age that the top three elements to consider with a property are "location, location, and location" holds true for scientific synthesis. We held three of our four workshops in Annapolis , which was a popular choice for several reasons. The walkable...

Leonardo da Vinci's scientific visualizations: 'Saper verdere' or knowing how to see

Leonardo da Vinci's scientific visualizations: 'Saper verdere' or knowing how to...rds, Da Vinci felt that his drawings were to be a synthesis . He defined synthesis as being the combination o...

Creating quality spaces of scientific synthesis

Creating quality spaces of scientific synthesis ... We recently held an open house in our new University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Annapolis O...

A unique partnership between World Wildlife Fund and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

...my career, I have needed to invoke tenure, not as job security, rather as independent academic freedom to produce scientific synthesis (e.g., nutrient effects on the Great Barrier Reef) or to produce report cards (e.g., Chesapeake Bay). This indepe...

Talking about moose and climate change in snowy Massachusetts

...se and climate change in snowy Massachusetts ... Brianne Walsh and I traveled to Westborough, Massachusetts for a scientific synthesis workshop on climate change and moose in the North Woods of Northeastern U.S. The workshop was located at an amazi...

Atlantic Estuarine Research Society conference in Ocean City, Maryland

.... The final keynote was Walter Boynton , who provided an entertaining, interesting and insightful talk about scientific synthesis, with a case study of Mattawoman Creek , Maryland. Walter made the point that he spent many decades studying envi...

Using the integrated ecosystem assessment framework to build consensus and transfer information to managers

...ansferring this knowledge into management actions. Integrated ecosystem assessment is a framework to conduct this scientific synthesis and transfer information to resource managers. Portions of the framework were applied to build consensus on the f...

Discussing science communication at CERF2013

...re are many different ways to communicate science effectively, 2) a team approach is useful for brainstorming, 3) scientific synthesis is a part of science communication, 4) there is an increasing recognition of the importance of effective communic...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 4--Moving beyond synthesis

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 4--Moving beyond synthesis ... This post is...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 3--Integration and Application Network approach to synthesis

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 3--Integration and Application Network appro...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 2--Faculty discussion about creating a 'Synthesis Addiction'

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 2--Faculty discussion about creating a 'Synt...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 1--Overview

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 1--Overview ... This post is part one of a f...

Tim Carruthers moves to Samoa

...ence communication and writing. Tim also initiated various science communication products that developed from the scientific synthesis. IAN staff (Dottie Samonisky, Kate Bentsen, Joanna Woerner, Tim Carruthers, Caroline Wicks, Jane Thomas, Melissa...

Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries

...Communicate their results. Bill Dennison, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Innovations in scientific synthesis, communication, reporting and governance can be used to solve environmental problems. Professor Chari Pattiaratch...

TERN workshop

... where disparate data are combined in unique combinations was very exciting. My talk was entitled "Innovations in scientific synthesis, reporting and governance" and elicited discussion of how to communicate uncertainty, how to maintain quality con...

Report Card Course

...the report card to make real change. Students will obtain foundational knowledge of core theories and practice of scientific synthesis and communication of ecosystem status. This course will be taught using free interactive video software (bluejean...

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