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...faculty member at Louisiana State University . Robert gave a wonderful seminar at Horn Point Laboratory , covering the history of coastal Louisiana wetland loss, Mississippi River diversions and provided the context for the 2012 Master Plan. The I...

What’s the problem? Why should I care? Using Media to Bring Science to the Public

...it newsworthy and timely ? If it is interesting to you, it may or may not be interesting to an editor or a reader. For a story to be picked up by a news agency, it must actually be new , something no one knows about, or an angle that no one has co...

Everything Down the Drain - Why?

...ciferous social reformer, also opposed the move. Hugo used his novel "Les Miserables" to make his case, interrupting the story of Jean Valjean and Cosette to do so. Human waste collected from Paris' cesspits provided the raw material for an indust...

What is the role of science in managing fisheries?

...a 5 year moratorium set in place to protect a dwindling population, the species recovered. Most hailed this as a success story, but the underweight and often lesion covered fish that are now being caught tell a different story. Striped bass rely o...

We're all connected to the Big Easy: Beyond Science into BIG Management of Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem

...ston: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. Saucier, R. 1994. Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS), Vol. 1. Britsch. L, and J. Dunbar. 1993....

Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis workshop: "Australian seagrass habitats: Condition and threats"

...serving to enhance the extent and biomass of seagrasses. These reefal systems also contribute to the diversity of life history and morphology traits of Australian seagrasses, which encompass the global diversity of seagrass life histories and morp...

Top ten conceptual diagrams: Seagrasses, streams, eco-rhythms

... guideposts when discussing new projects and working in a new region. In addition, these diagrams represent a scientific story that connects science to environmental management. The graphical approach differs, with two dimensional vs. three dimens...

Top ten human symbols: People, buildings and boats

... in Palau was created by Jane Thomas during our visit to Palau in 2007. These buildings were beautifully decorated with 'storyboards' which used various symbols to depict historic events (many were X-rated). Apart from the content, the Micronesian...

Top ten tree and shrub symbols: Cypress, agave, weeping willows and gums

...uo; by Murray Bail which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999 and weaves the classification of Eucalyptus trees into the story of a young Australian woman. This symbol was created by Lana Heydon. 2) The Pisonia ( Pisonia spp.) tree is a really biz...

Resilience of Coastal Communities Depends on Maintaining Social Infrastructure

...ing, "What can be done to sustain coastal communities in the face of climate change and accelerated sea level rise?" The story of Holland Island , a once-thriving fishing community, reveals the importance of maintaining social infrastructure to su...

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...

Managing for Sustainable Ecosystems: Our Human Role

...and storms or sea-level rise. The EBM approach is place-based, and implementation must be mindful of local culture and history. The initial wake-up call to the Chesapeake Bay region was Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972 which caused a large disturbance...

Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay

"Raising the bar" vs. "Dumbing it down" for science communication

... that the Heath brothers describe in "Made to Stick" is what IAN Science Integrators and Science Communicators do in our storyboard sessions to develop science communication products. We establish a primacy of information and establish the most im...

Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter

...tural Resources and NOAA. Caroline Wicks, Heath Kelsey, Russell Callender, Bill Dennison, and Ken Barton with a framed history of EcoCheck's first phase. Eleven scientists worked for EcoCheck over the course of the partnership with NOAA. EcoCheck...

International RiverFoundation remarks

...the Riverprize journeys, I am going to select two stories that illustrate the paradigms shifts that can occur. The first story is the River Mersey restoration, illustrated by a poster that read "This is Manchester, not Venice". The River Mersey wa...

Willamette Through Film festival

Within Our Reach conference

...iversity, David Hulse, University of Oregon at Within Our Reach Conference. Stan Gregory gave an excellent abbreviated history of some of the giants in Oregon conservation that preceded the current recipients of the Theiss International Riverprize...

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...

Assessing the vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change

...f these components and Integration and Application Network staff gathered in downtown Brisbane, Australia to develop the storyboard design for this publication. The workshop attendees were Bill Dennison, Health Kelsey and Jane Thomas (Integration...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 12 - Questions From the Seminar

...now is truly into scientific literature, but we actually did this from start to finish in six months, and we did it in a storyboard fashion. The way we do it is we mock them up as a story board so we try to say to ourselves “What’s the...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 11 - Conclusion

...d positive results. John Snow's map of Cholera outbreaks help to identify the contaminated pump If we look back at the history of science and its effectiveness to change the world we see that the Copernican revolution started in 1543 when he wrote...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 9 - Innovations in Governance

...ance: Part 9 - Innovations in Governance ... The last thing I want to talk about is innovations in governance. This is a story I want to start in New York City, where there was a guy called Jack Maple . He always had a bow-tie and a bowler. He was...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 7 - Innovations in Environmental Reporting

...edia attention I will argue that the Chesapeake Bay is probably the best studied estuary in the world. It has had more history of science and practically invented estuarine science. Chesapeake Bay has more labs and student theses and insights gene...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 3 - National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

...resolve the charisma gap. So we got to thinking how we can create more charismatic ecosystems? And if you think of the history of environmental movement, we started with charismatic megafauna. For example, the World Wildlife Fund has adopted a pan...

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