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Sustainable Agriculture Matrix workshops

...a see us be brave With what we want to say And let the words fall out Honestly I wanna see us be brave Innocence, your history of silence Won't do you any good Did you think it would? Let our words be anything but empty Why don't we tell them the...

Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries

...storical and recent underwater seagrass photos. Lyn Beazley used paintings and beautiful photographs to illustrate the history and science of the Swan River. At the end of the day, I provided one sentence summaries of each of the talks. Professor...

Take off your blindfold. There’s an elephant in front of you.

... the SES model is an elephant. Let me explain. There is an ancient Hindu parable about blind men and an elephant. In the story, a group of blind men who have never encountered an elephant are led to the animal and allowed to study it by touching o...

Teaching with a ‘flipped classroom’ over an interactive video network

Teams compete to design a sustainable Louisiana Coast

...ple recognize that something must be done soon to prevent " the greatest environmental and economic disasters in [...] history " from coming to a catastrophic conclusion. A coastal restoration master plan developed by state authorities outlines a...

Tell a compelling story: Talking about science communication to landscape ecologists in Baltimore

Tell a compelling story: Talking about science communication to landscape ecologists in Baltimore ... The 2017 annual meeting of the US chapter...

Telling the River Story

Telling the River Story ... Kennedy Onyango Last week the Healthy Rivers For All class held its sixth session, during which our discussion cente...

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...

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 recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 2

...3, pg. 25. Recommendation 7. Use science communication to tell stories An ancient and valued form of human expression is story telling. Since science is often focused on gathering and interpreting facts, the art of story telling is often lost. How...

The 21st International Riversymposium

The Billion Oyster Conference and New York City: Part 1

The Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Spectacle of Climate Change

...rwhelmed the flood control levees all along the Mississippi River and still ranks as the most destructive flood in the history of the US. This year’s flood reached a maximum level 0.08 feet higher than the 1927 flood level at the confluence...

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...

The Chesapeake Bay and the Baltic Sea: Adapting to Changing Climates in the New World and the Old

...et al. 2014) Maybe the answer as scientists to adapt to these changing climates, literally and figuratively, is not just storytelling, but also marketing. Both HELCOM and the CBP have faced issues with budgets for monitoring3,4. Scientific marketi...

The Chesapeake Bay and the Changing Times: Beyond Science and Management

... a diverse and dynamic ecosystem which displays not only remarkable evolutionary traits but also a reflection of human history. The Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, once populated with submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) and covered with forested...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Role in Environmental Education

...nd their digestible Bay Reports are now a publicly anticipated release (3). Throughout the meeting, we heard about the history and theory behind these environmental report cards, and how the teams responsible for them have had international succes...

The Chesapeake Bay Trust: Protecting and Restoring a Vital Ecosystem

... Bay Trust. (2024b). Annual report 2023 . https://cbtrust.org/annual-report Chesapeake Bay Trust. (2024a). Mission and History . https://cbtrust.org/mission Chesapeake Bay Trust. (2024c). Impact of our work . https://cbtrust.org/impact-of-our-work...

The complementary colors of environment and society

... on either end is not irreparable but rather complementary. This week we learned about the environmental movement thru history and had a discussion about the works of Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson. In this post, I will try t...

The Debut of the Riversymposium Club Band

... What will you think when I sing out of tune Will you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I’ll tell you a story And I’ll try not to make it hard to see Oh I get by with a little help from my friends Mmm, I can see why with a little...

The Die of the Storm

...is particular example to emphasize the importance of understanding disaster outcomes in the context of an area’s history of disasters. “There really is this interplay between how people and infrastructure behave in disasters,” Dr...

The first thing people ask: Where is Guam, anyway?

...kshop. The bigger the word, the more times participants mentioned that threat. While threats and values tell part of the story, more key messages came to the surface during the report card storyboarding on the second day. The key takeaways about c...

The Future of Future Earth Coasts

...ot involved with the next iteration, Future Earth Coasts (FEC) which started in 2015. LOICZ and FEC have an impressive history of scientific contributions in biogeochemistry, coastal vulnerability and sustainability, focusing on hotspots in the Ar...

The future of managing fisheries: what can we expect?

...s and are used as an ecosystem approach to fisheries management. While MPAs have the potential to protect certain life history stages of fish, enhance the productivity of adjacent fishing grounds, as well as protect habitat and biodiversity, they...

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