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    609 results for "story":

    • The Chesapeake Bay and the Baltic Sea: Adapting to Changing Climates in the New World and the Old
      ...et al. 2014) Maybe the answer as scientists to adapt to these changing climates, literally and figuratively, is not just storytelling, but also marketing. Both HELCOM and the CBP have faced issues with budgets for monitoring3,4. Scientific marketi...
    • 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...
    • The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Role in Environmental Education
      ...nd their digestible Bay Reports are now a publicly anticipated release (3). Throughout the meeting, we heard about the history and theory behind these environmental report cards, and how the teams responsible for them have had international succes...
    • The Chesapeake Bay Trust: Protecting and Restoring a Vital Ecosystem
      ... Bay Trust. (2024b). Annual report 2023 . https://cbtrust.org/annual-report Chesapeake Bay Trust. (2024a). Mission and History . https://cbtrust.org/mission Chesapeake Bay Trust. (2024c). Impact of our work . https://cbtrust.org/impact-of-our-work...
    • The complementary colors of environment and society
      ... on either end is not irreparable but rather complementary. This week we learned about the environmental movement thru history and had a discussion about the works of Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson. In this post, I will try t...
    • The Debut of the Riversymposium Club Band
      ... What will you think when I sing out of tune Will you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I’ll tell you a story And I’ll try not to make it hard to see Oh I get by with a little help from my friends Mmm, I can see why with a little...
    • The Die of the Storm
      ...is particular example to emphasize the importance of understanding disaster outcomes in the context of an area’s history of disasters. “There really is this interplay between how people and infrastructure behave in disasters,” Dr...
    • The first thing people ask: Where is Guam, anyway?
      ...kshop. The bigger the word, the more times participants mentioned that threat. While threats and values tell part of the story, more key messages came to the surface during the report card storyboarding on the second day. The key takeaways about c...
    • The Future of Future Earth Coasts
      ...ot involved with the next iteration, Future Earth Coasts (FEC) which started in 2015. LOICZ and FEC have an impressive history of scientific contributions in biogeochemistry, coastal vulnerability and sustainability, focusing on hotspots in the Ar...
    • The future of managing fisheries: what can we expect?
      ...s and are used as an ecosystem approach to fisheries management. While MPAs have the potential to protect certain life history stages of fish, enhance the productivity of adjacent fishing grounds, as well as protect habitat and biodiversity, they...
    • The great equalizer: Using the web to communicate science
      ...mmunication platform. With over 3 billion Internet users all over the world, the web gives us the capability to tell our story to a wide range of audiences. Guy Stephens gave the class a great overview on how to use the web in communicating scienc...
    • The importance of narrative in science communication
      ...mmunication ... I recently posted a blog about Randy Olson's new book, " Houston, we have a narrative: Why science needs story ". I contacted Randy about his book and learned that he is experiencing push back from some quarters, including some sci...
    • The importance of university child care: Attending the dedication of Munro Center, University of Queensland
      ...niversity of Queensland Vice-Chancellor who we met when he was visiting Washington, D.C. and we met the Chancellor, John Story and his wife Sally. We shared the story that our daughter, now nineteen years old and attending St. Mary's College of Ma...
    • The Integration and Application Network facilitates virtual workshops
      ...workshops. Virtual workshops Students give virtual presentations at a meeting hosted by IAN. The combination of a rich history in using video technologies with experience in workshop facilitation, makes the IAN UMCES team particularly well suited...
    • The Integration and Application Network in 2018
      ...of videos. Short report card documentary videos for the Chesapeake Bay and Tuul River, Mongolia were produced. An oral history video was produced with USGS on island drought in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. A Horn Point graduate student, Mel...
    • The Los Angeles River: Geography, vistas and restoration
      ...e park will include an orange grove, an outdoor amphitheater, large open green spaces and various natural and cultural history exhibits. A visitor center and ranger station will be constructed as well. We observed a beautiful little hummingbird fl...
    • The Los Angeles River: Geography, vistas and restoration
      ...WH). The Council for Watershed Health is headed by Nancy Steele , and she orchestrated a very nice crash course on the history, geography, hydrology and restoration of the Los Angeles River. Mike Antos , a geographer/hydrologist with CWH was a fon...
    • The message behind scientific figures
      ...figure on weekly nitrogen rates in a mesocosm with and without a floating wetland. Rule #5 Graph + symbols/map/diagram = story . Combining a conceptual diagram with a graph can tell a story. If it's relevant with the graph data, a map or symbols c...
    • The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released
      ...e Summit in St. Louis to help take the idea to a larger audience, and the commitment to launch the report card was born. Story board of the report card vision. Photo Credit: Heath Kelsey Over the next two years we worked with the newly renamed Ame...
    • The New Romantics: Unpacking the Human Relationship to Nature
      ...cu-lnu-... 4 K. Jan Oosthoek. (2015, August). Romanticism and nature. Retrieved September 13, 2020, from Environmental History Resources website: https://www.eh-resources.org/romanticism-and-nature/ 5 Leopold, Aldo. (1949). A Sand County Almanac....
    • The Nitrogen Cycle is Seizing Up Globally and Scientists Might Not Be Ready to Hear It
      ...times resulting in eutrophication, low-oxygen dead-zones, and harmful algal blooms. But this is clearly just part of the story because, everywhere else, nitrogen is limiting to plant growth. Communicating this new result requires us to convince sc...
    • The Ohio River’s Split Personality
      ...e east coast and the central plains of North America, and efforts to re-engineer the river have a nearly 200-year history. That means that this river basin has been the focus of efforts to re-engineer it for a long time. Construction of...
    • The Power in Soft Power: The Chesapeake Bay Commission
      ...on was created in the early 1980s by three key states that are part of the Bay: Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania (“History,” n.d.) Although formed in the early 1980s, the commission’s formation traces back to a 1978 joint study composed of the...
    • The praxis of science visualization
      ...le, Guy Stephens, Jane Hawkey and Dylan Taillie partnered for the photography and videography module, Alex Fries led the story boarding and Adobe In Design module, Guy Stephens led the web design module, Jane Hawkey led the presentation module. Bi...
    • The real art of the deal: Lessons in effective science advising
      ... and an equal hunger for learning and communicating. Science advisers have to learn to combine their knowledge and their story-telling skills to reach a broad audience. (Image Source: Carbon Dating) References 1. Feliú-Mójer, M. (201...