...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...category. From your experience, can you give us a little guidance as to how we convert that flood event into a good news story. BILL: I think one thing that Southeast Queensland does better than the U.S. is celebration. You have the festival of th...
...a little bit of vision towards the future and a ray of hope and optimism. And that comes from an analysis I did of the history of paradigm shifts that have occurred in societies starting in the 1500's. Paradigm shift can lead to a sustainability r...
...reefs or any other coastal systems. We got to thinking "Why don't more people know about this? Why is this such a hidden story?" We then started thinking that we might have a charisma gap. So we analyzed that by going around the world and getting...
.... The Brisbane River catchment soils were heavily eroded, and several folks from Healthy Country helped us assemble this story. We saw large-scale sediment erosion, and we can see boulders that rolled down the stream like pebbles. In some places t...
... of this flood and the impacts on the natural resources, which translate into Moreton Bay. And I'm going to start with a story about the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is the best-studied estuary in the world. It is 300 kilometers top to botto...
...ff talking about how to reduce flood damage, and then we moved into enhancing the landscape integrity, so basically, the story there is that about a kilometer and a half of lateral marsh results in about thirty centimeters less storm surge. So, th...
... From "Isabel and Sea-level Rise" newsletter and IAN image library. So that allowed us to really get into this sea-level story, and then take it to climate adaptation. Here we weren't arguing about the causes of climate change, and we weren't talk...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 3- History of Flooding in Brisbane ... You can take a walk down the street to the Botanic Gardens ; you can find a little park ther...
... " Water: Learn it for Life " program, provides teachers with a detailed lesson plans to take their students through the story of a river to identify the positive and negative features that most influence the health of the waterway. The lesson cul...
...nt during 1893. It didn’t make it up here until 2011, but you can see a few other landmarks, and it was before the Story Bridge, but you can see how much of the system was affected. A flood map of Brisbane prepared in 1893 Kangaroo Point in...
