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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...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar

...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...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 13- Conclusion

...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...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 12- Charismatic Environmental Initiatives

...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...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 11- Monitoring of the Moreton Bay

.... 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...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 10- Progress in Monitoring and Management

... 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...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 7- Examples of Flooding in the United States

...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...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 6- Global Initiatives in Response to Flooding

... 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

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...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 2- A Learning Moment

...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...

Australian cities and waterways: Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River

Australian cities and waterways: Brisbane, Moreton Bay and the Brisbane River

...n's Bay after Lord Morton , President of the Royal Society , but a subsequent misspelling, Moreton, became the standard. Story Bridge over the Brisbane River. Matthew Flinders sailed into Moreton Bay in 1799 but did not find the mouth of the Brisb...

Australian cities and waterways: Connections, crossings, celebrations, and culture

... are simply utilitarian like the Clem Jones tunnel in Brisbane. The historic bridges like Princes Bridge in Melbourne or Story Bridge in Brisbane are very attractive and the City Cats plying the a Brisbane River have helped rejuvenate the riverfro...

Healthy Waterways Champion Award speech

Flooding in Queensland: The story of the Paluma

Flooding in Queensland: The story of the Paluma ... The story of the naval survey ship Paluma that was cast up into the Botanic Gardens in February 1893 and refloated two weeks later...

Darwin: Captain Wickham, Harriet the Tortoise, Alaskan similarities, and Darwinian art

...win Harbour as part of a survey of Australia's top end. Charles Darwin went on to become one of the most famous men in history, based on his theory of natural selection, the basis of evolutionary thought. However, when Port Darwin was named, Darwi...

Developing a Swan River report card

...of water quality parameters to be used as indicators, we developed thresholds and calculated report card scores. We then storyboarded a layout for the report card pamphlet and Kate worked with the Dept. of Water staff, particularly Catherine Thoms...

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...

Sugar, Coca-Cola, WWF, clickers and scorecards

Riparian Rhapsodies in Customs House

...fice , which now houses a wine bar. One of the fellows in the tour used to work in The Port Office building and told the story of commuting to work via boat in the 1974 flood. We visited some historic buildings in the financial district, intersper...

Walking tour of Brisbane (Part 3): Parliament, World War II and beyond

...fessors of the Botany Department, University of Queensland . When Professors Trevor Clifford and Ray Specht told me that story, and mentioned that General MacArthur kept his beer in that cold room, I promptly went out and bought a carton of beer....

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