• All
  • People
  • Publications
  • Media Library
  • Blog Posts
  • Enewsletter Articles
  • Projects
  • Programs
  • Courses
  • Pages

    • All results

    597 results for "story":

    • 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...
    • Dancing with dugongs
      ...n burn out trying to balance their desire to protect the environment with a wide variety of demands. This book tells the story of Prof. Bill Dennison and Dr. Peter Oliver, two men who have between them spent 60 years of their lives better understa...
    • 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...
    • Ten classic scientific maps
      ...cholera and water supply, as he also plotted the location of the water pumps on the map. A nice book, The Ghost Map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic - and how it changed science, cities and the modern world , was written by Ste...
    • Ten classic conceptual diagrams: Powerful examples of communicating knowledge
      ... Ocean supported Darwin's theory. Atoll formation in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Credit: California Academy of Sciences 5. History: Napoleon's March . This diagram was created by Charles Joseph Minard in 1869 to depict the march of Napoleon's army fro...
    • Presentation dialog
      ...isn't scientific. R: Aren't you trying to communicate the science, not show us how smart you are? B: I have an important story to tell here. If you take the annual rates of seagrass loss, extrapolate into the future, you can . . . R: Maybe what yo...
    • UMCES Soiree at CERF 2013
      ...n device touted at CERF2013 of constructing sentences with ____AND____BUT____THEREFORE____: "UMCES has a long and rich history of attracting and training environmental leaders AND tackling the most important environmental issues BUT the future env...
    • Aegean Sea field trip: Egyptian sand, seagrass, marine sanctuaries, cruising
      ...ir Island , which is named for the Sedir (cedar) trees. A boardwalk took us to Cleopatra Beach, which has an interesting story or theory as to its origin. Cleopatra sailed from Egypt with her Roman lover Marc Anthony to this region of present day...
    • Science communication and integration with Environment Canada
      ...t we had come up with following each of the science communication activities we conducted (conceptionary, title pursuit, storyboarding, assessment). Each activity demonstrated the power of effective teamwork. Each activity followed a sequence of a...
    • Being inspired by Cousteaus: An evening with Jean-Michel Cousteau
      ...cular audience. Underwater habitat, Hydrolab, in Salt River Canyon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1984. Given this history of the Cousteau's calling for better environmental stewardship and not being afraid to directly address those responsibl...
    • John Bertram's legacy
      ... head of the department administrative officer, John was the first person I told, because I knew that he would enjoy the story so much. I also enjoyed watching John with his son Julian when John would bring him along at the end of the day. I loved...
    • Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card
      ...data collected in connection with various management activities already active in the basin, many of which have a long history. For example, the Mississippi River Commission  was established in 1879 to manage flood control and navigation in t...
    • Peter Oliver's top ten books about science
      ...different places in the world where this approach is being used. Shouldn't Our Grandchildren Know? An Environmental Life Story , Graham Chittleborough Chittleborough was a scientist with CSIRO in Western Australia who wanted to show his grandchild...
    • 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...
    • Moreton Bay Study: A Scientific Basis for the Healthy Waterways Campaign
      ...nd maintain momentum for the Healthy Waterways campaign. The book was initiated in the early part of 1999, with half-day storyboard sessions on the Healthy Waterways whiteboard. My co-author, Eva Abal , and I completed it in six months, relying on...
    • Top ten science communication booklets
      ...an exciting challenge since Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) an emerging management paradigm that does not have a long history. The diagrams ended up playing a central role in communicating EBM. Tracey Saxby was the Science Communicator and i...
    • Let’s Start By Talking About Ecosystem Services
      ... agree that estimating the values of ecosystem services is useful as a guide to decision-making, but it is not the whole story. Scientific models and benefit-cost analysis do not substitute for the messy process of engaging stakeholders, forging a...
    • Maryland releases a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan
      ...s state with a diverse, well-educated citizenry that has responded to many foreign and domestic threats throughout its history. It is entirely consistent with Maryland’s character that we respond to this newest threat with decisive and appro...