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To get the grade: Collaborate! Stakeholder engagement and the missing link between research and action

...enous village from the forested upper valley and maintaining the integrity of the community and the ecosystem. The above story is only hypothetical and somewhat simplistic in nature. Yet, it models a plausible real-world scenario, which was based...

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 quotes that influenced my career

...r for anyone with aspirations to really make a difference. Margaret Mead was an interesting scientist and her personal history makes the source of this quote meaningful. " It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credi...

Top ten science communication booklets

...an exciting challenge since Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) an emerging management paradigm that does not have a long history. The diagrams ended up playing a central role in communicating EBM. Tracey Saxby was the Science Communicator and i...

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...

Towards improved understanding of human-environment interactions through cultural anthropology – building on the legacy of past scholars to overcome current challenges

...ific Northwest ( Eskimo , Inuit , and Kwakiutl ).4,5 Boas believed cultures need to be evaluated based on their unique history set within a given environment, and he, therefore, focused on gathering empirical data to inform deductive analyses grou...

Training local teams in report card creation

...e indicator discussion. Image credit Heath Kelsey. Highlights of the training for me were SNAP , Get the Grade , and the storytelling component of the science communication section . SNAP is an interactive activity that solicits input from partici...

Transdisciplinary Research: Champion Approach to Achieve Sustainability?

... CAES combines research and Extension efforts to develop climate solutions. Retrieved from https://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story/8793/changing-world.html SESYNC About. Retrieved from https://www.sesync.org/about Who: Stakeholder Engagement? Retrieve...

Two halves of a whole: the natural and cultural resources of the National Park Service

... integrity, landscape dynamics, and air are the natural resources buckets, and built environment, meanings and values, history, and contemporary communities are the cultural buckets. Our challenge in this class is to develop a research proposal th...

UMCES Soiree at CERF 2013

...n device touted at CERF2013 of constructing sentences with ____AND____BUT____THEREFORE____: "UMCES has a long and rich history of attracting and training environmental leaders AND tackling the most important environmental issues BUT the future env...

Uncovering five values of citizen science at CitSci2019

...es, such as pop-culture references, memes, and comic strip art. Several workshops were offered on diverse topics such as storytelling, science communication, and improvisation theater. Alex, Caroline, and I presented a workshop called “ Best...

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science faculty convocation: Bill Chameides, President's Award, new joint degree program, remembering Debbie Morrin-Nordlund

...o talked about the transitions between 'pure' science, policy-relevant science, normative science and advocacy. Bill's history of the environmental movement was remarkably similar to one that I developed for the Science for Environmental Managemen...

Untangling the web of stakeholders

... and solve larger problems related to coupled human and natural systems. References 1. Christina Prell (2012), A Brief History of Social Network Analysis . Social Network Analysis. London U.K.: SAGE. 2. Bodin et al. (2011), Social Networks and Nat...

Upper Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy

... recreational areas, with popular boating, swimming, fishing and hunting areas. The Upper Mississippi River has a rich history of human settlement, with Native American paleo-Indians, hunters and gathers, potters and mound builders, and farmers, f...

USAUS-H2O Canberra workshop

...e were doing thirteen years ago. Trev Gilmour was based at the Australian embassy in Washington, D.C. and had an amazing story of his experiences with the visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard . The teachers came from schools in each of t...

Visiting the National Press Club to talk about Chesapeake Bay

...re effectively leveraged by the watershed states, local municipalities and community groups. Chesapeake Bay has a long history of high quality research and comprehensive monitoring. Thus, we have access to excellent time course data sets that allo...

Visiting the Nickel Preserve in eastern Oklahoma

...rve. The Ozarks support a high biological diversity, enhanced by the diverse landscapes and the long stable geological history of the region. We hiked a nature trail along Pine Ridge where we could view the oak dominated forest on the north facing...

Walking tour of Brisbane (Part 2): Financial district, riverside and botanic gardens

...rounds to Charlotte Street and walk over to Eagle Street Pier , with shops and restaurants. There is a great view of the Story Bridge , built in 1940, connecting Kangaroo Point with the city. The Story Bridge is named after J.D. story , a man resp...

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....

Want to be a better science communicator? Start with the title and the abstract.

...er title and abstract for a scientific paper in a few simple steps. ... By Amanda Rockler Dr. Bill Dennison says, “storytelling and visualizations are part of our DNA,” and good storytelling engages the audience, improves retention, an...

Water, food webs, and production on the Kakadu floodplains

...on Kakadu National Park floodplains, I am interviewing scientists to begin distilling the key messages for the synthesis story. These researchers are contributing to the developing picture of the connections between the floodplains, water movement...

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink, unless something is done: How science is used in legal cases to improve the environment

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....

Webstock 2015: One day of Peace & the Internet

...edman provided an interesting analogy of the paradigm shift that occurred with the growth of automobile travel in U.S. history with the paradigm shift that is occurring with the growth of the Internet. He observed that 141 million Americans own a...

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