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  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...
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  Returning to My Ohio Roots: Scoping Out A Lake Erie Report Card

  ...ommunication. At the reception following the board meeting, I told a couple of stories and introduced a guest. The first story was the 1913 flood in Dayton, Ohio that my grandmother told me about. This flood was and still is the biggest natural di...
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  Rich Batiuk’s retirement from the Chesapeake Bay Program

  ... with the promise of donuts. Painted ceramic doughnut presented to Rich Batiuk. Image credit Bill Dennison. I shared the story of when Rich and I were sharing a hotel room in West Palm Beach in November, 1990 at a seagrass workshop. When I arrived...
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  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...
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  River Rally 2018

  ... Organizations, and Coalitions. I chose to attend workshops highlighting indicator approaches, community engagement, and storytelling. Each session I attended was fun, educational, and most utilized interactive approaches. I especially enjoyed the...
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  Sailing around the world: Sea Semester and Rich Wilson

  ...e current S.E.A. ships, the S/S Corwith Cramer, had just finished a major refit in Maine. David Bank told us a fantastic story of the “sweat equity” invested by S.E.A. staff and volunteers in the Cramer yard period in a Maine shipyard....
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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...
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  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...
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  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....
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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'...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...

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