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...e were doing thirteen years ago. Trev Gilmour was based at the Australian embassy in Washington, D.C. and had an amazing story of his experiences with the visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard . The teachers came from schools in each of t...

Failte gu Alba! (Welcome to Scotland!)

...nt to MPAs but diverse in design, scope, and topics. This was what the audience was there to see. The IAN table and storyboard area of our session. Furthermore, on the wall, I set up sketched butcher paper that showed the progression from new...

Insights on story-telling from the salmon in the tree

Insights on story-telling from the salmon in the tree ... I first heard the story of the salmon in the tree while visiting in Haida Gwaii this summer. Haida Gwaii is a set of islands along the northwest...

Louisiana Sea Grant Discovery, Integration and Application initiative (LA DIA)

...gnettes of their experiences in science communication in a session entitled 'Lessons from the field'. Rusty Gaude told a story about his efforts in the catfish aquaculture industry. A mysterious 'black hole' disease was killing the fingerling catf...

The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards

...eans, Louisiana this July. Much of the conference focus was in Mississippi River restoration, management, ecology, and history, from the upper Missouri to the Mississippi River Delta and the Gulf of Mexico . Restoring Mississippi River environment...

Large Marine Ecosystems – An Australian in Paris

...o behold. This was followed by a tour of the artwork in the building including “ The Fall of Icarus ”, a two story sized painting by Picasso , and “ Walking Man” by Giacometti worth an estimated £60 million! We also w...

Integration and Application Network retreat: June 2014

...editing, computer coding), graphic design skills (e.g., Adobe creative suite, photography, video production, web design, story boarding), stakeholder engagement skills (e.g., developing and maintaining collaborations, workshop facilitation, social...

Upper Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy

... recreational areas, with popular boating, swimming, fishing and hunting areas. The Upper Mississippi River has a rich history of human settlement, with Native American paleo-Indians, hunters and gathers, potters and mound builders, and farmers, f...

Visiting the Nickel Preserve in eastern Oklahoma

...rve. The Ozarks support a high biological diversity, enhanced by the diverse landscapes and the long stable geological history of the region. We hiked a nature trail along Pine Ridge where we could view the oak dominated forest on the north facing...

Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus

...alk 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...

Ohio River basin: Environmental Literacy

...Cumberland, Kentucky, Wabash, Great Miami, Allegheny, and Monongahela Rivers. The Ohio River has been important in the history of the United States, particularly as a transportation corridor (connecting to the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico)....

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science faculty convocation: Bill Chameides, President's Award, new joint degree program, remembering Debbie Morrin-Nordlund

...o talked about the transitions between 'pure' science, policy-relevant science, normative science and advocacy. Bill's history of the environmental movement was remarkably similar to one that I developed for the Science for Environmental Managemen...

Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy

.... The land along the Lower Mississippi River has been settled by a diversity of converging cultures. The complex history of various settlers, with various waves of immigration, has led to a rich diversity of architecture, music, literature a...

The Los Angeles River: Geography, vistas and restoration

...e park will include an orange grove, an outdoor amphitheater, large open green spaces and various natural and cultural history exhibits. A visitor center and ranger station will be constructed as well. We observed a beautiful little hummingbird fl...

The Los Angeles River: Geography, vistas and restoration

...WH). The Council for Watershed Health is headed by Nancy Steele , and she orchestrated a very nice crash course on the history, geography, hydrology and restoration of the Los Angeles River. Mike Antos , a geographer/hydrologist with CWH was a fon...

Atlantic Estuarine Research Society conference in Ocean City, Maryland

...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...

The Ohio River’s Split Personality

...e east coast and the central plains of North America, and efforts to re-engineer the river have a nearly 200-year history. That means that this river basin has been the focus of efforts to re-engineer it for a long time. Construction of...

A visit to New York Harbor School on Governors Island

Conceptual Diagrams Can Get You Places

...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...

Long Island Sound: Prospects for the Urban Sea book synopsis

...he Sound, including dolphins and harbor seals. Gray seals have observed since 2001 as well. There is a rich scientific history in benthic geochemistry and biology in Long Island Sound. The hypoxia on Long Island Sound bottom waters is well documen...

Developing a climate change resilience index for the Great Barrier Reef: Part 2

...ng the harbor. On the second day, we sketched a few conceptual diagrams, generated a prototype reef resilience index and storyboarded a trifold document. In addition, all of the scientists drafted text and Emily Saeck was able to quickly pro...

Adventures in producing an eBook: Dancing with dugongs eBook released

...ling book materials. Dancing with Dugongs book cover. The typical way that IAN develops a printed product is to create a storyboard mock up of each page of the printed product. This storyboard organizes the various visual elements (photographs, ma...

Moreton Bay and Catchment

...s published in 1998. Moreton Bay and Catchment The book is divided into nine major sections covering the environmental history of the region, geology and geomorphology, catchment rivers and lakes, water quality, marine plants, marine animals, cora...

ShorePower project launched

...tance of civic leadership. Jake portrayed Salisbury as the unofficial capital of the Eastern Shore, and chronicled the history of Salisbury's recent energy policies. He was very proud of the conversion of traffic lights and parking garage lights t...

Environmental Literacy: Determining the essential elements necessary for understanding a topic or a place

... drivers for Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, 5) Chesapeake Bay supports unique cultures and livelihoods, 6) American history has been shaped by Chesapeake Bay, and 7) Chesapeake Bay is extremely well studied and intensively managed. Chesapeake B...

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