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Science Cafe and science communication training in Boston

...ying and communicating effectively to your primary audience. On Day 2, we focused on the graphical elements, using paper storyboards or mockups before investing in actual graphics creation, aspects of color to keep in mind, how to declutter the...

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...

Science Communication Course

...designed to develop active titles—short declarative statements that summarize the issue being communicated, and 3) Storyboarding, a game designed to design a layout of integrating visual elements and text for printed communication products....

Science communication in southern Maine

...vocate for the Chesapeake Bay. When science jobs were hard to come by in 1932, Rachel wrote articles about the natural history of the Bay for the Baltimore Sun. So when we had the chance to visit a National Wildlife Refuge bearing her name and a N...

Science of Science Communication IV: What Future Conferences Should Consider

...covered in the future: cognitive studies of information processing, science visualization techniques and approaches, and storytelling analysis and interpretation. Dr. Marsha McNutt, President of the National Academies of Science, opening the Scien...

Science, communication, and story-telling for social change

Science, communication, and story-telling for social change ... Last weekend I attended a workshop that gave me a different perspective on communicating t...

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

...ocio-Environmental Synthesis Center , funded by the National Science Foundation . But more importantly, throughout its history, beginning in 1925, UMCES scientists have been integrating (and applying) scientific results in Chesapeake Bay and throu...

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

...on of those results. IAN-led synthesis involves typically bringing together relevant experts in a series of workshops to storyboard the science communication product(s), and then have the team of Science Integrators and Science Communicators work...

Scientific synthesis paper shows Chesapeake Bay nutrient diet is working

...acts of population growth and climate change on the planet. This PNAS paper, however, which is fundamentally a good news story about management inventions that are working to improve Chesapeake Bay, is receiving broad attention. My interpretation...

Scientists in Media: “Give me a microphone, and I shall waken the world”

... them to explain a complicated concept in a short time. In addition, reporters have a great desire to get the attractive story first to scoop the competition among peers. They might sacrifice the accuracy for expediency running contrary to the rig...

Scientists underwater: Reginald Truitt, Gilbert Klingel, the Bentharium and the Aquascope

...um. Klingel wrote "Dr. Truitt offered the facilities of his, then new, laboratory and the men of the society [ Natural History Society of Maryland ] contributed materials suggestions and labor." He also wrote the following about the launch of the...

Scott Nixon nourished our ecological souls

...ty of Rhode Island), Ivan Valiela (Marine Biological Laboratory) Scott led off the seminar and began to talk about the history of society’s relationship with the sea. He was eloquent and captivating as a speaker, drawing upon well researched...

Sea turtles, dugong and a major city skyline

..., healthy seagrass meadows supporting turtles and dugong, and a city skyline easily visible from Moreton Bay. There is a story of encountering dugong in Moreton Bay which was recounted by Thomas Welsby in his book ' Sport and pastime in Moreton Ba...

Seas on the Rise: Extreme Flooding Impacts

...up, sea levels rise, significantly affecting our coastal regions. ... Hurricane Helene is a storm that will go down in history books. The devastation Helene brought to the people of the Florida Big Bend region was extensive, and was shortly follow...

Sharing Water event in Washington, D.C.

...t was hearing about the incredible challenges that the Mayor of Flint, MI -- Dr. Karen Weaver -- shared with us. Flint's story of lead contamination in a municipal water supply provided a sobering reminder of the consequences of 'getting it wrong'...

She blinded me with science! But data visualization is here to help

...ay also help you better define your message. Defining the key message – Make sure you give this some thought. What story do you want to tell? Does your data visual do this on its own? There may be opportunities to better frame your data by p...

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...

So you think you can couple systems? Reviewing our research proposals

...d: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature . New York, NY: Norton, 1996. Print. Dahlstrom, M. F. 2014. Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(Supplement...

Solving "Wicked Problems" at the Chesapeake Studies Conference

...he smell of delicious catered cuisine and the company of some of the region’s top experts on its ecology, culture, and history. The front of the Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Learning Commons Building, where the Chesapeake Studies Conference was...

Some Healthy Waterways history

Some Healthy Waterways history ... The Healthy Waterway Partnership started out as the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay Wastewater Management Study (BR...

South East Queensland 2011 flood newsletter

...s from 1893, it demonstrates that this is a regular occurrence for the Brisbane River. As an interesting footnote to the story of the Paluma is that a contract was tendered for relocating the ship back into the Brisbane River, but instead of havin...

Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference

... indicators that can be used to measure the health of four types of resources: built environment, meanings and values, history, and communities. She used the Mentimeter platform to share the results of our team’s efforts thus far, and to ask...

Speaking (scientific) truth to power through storytelling: using lessons from the past and examples from the present to plan for the future

Speaking (scientific) truth to power through storytelling: using lessons from the past and examples from the present to plan for the future ... Kavya Pradhan and Alterra S...

Stakeholder workshop for Darwin Harbour report card

...hresholds and potential data sources. We brainstormed the environmental literacy principles for Darwin Harbour and did a storyboard session to mock up the workshop newsletter. At the end of the workshop, we ended with a song that Simon and I compo...

Story telling tools - The history of communicating well

Story telling tools - The history of communicating well ... Melissa Merritt Have you ever wondered if there's a secret formula for how to speak more effec...

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