...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...ly. Western Lake Erie was the site of prominent naval battles in the War of 1812. Lake Erie figures prominently in the history of the environmental movement in the United States. The Cuyahoga River fire in 1969 was widely publicized and the Lake E...
...oring operations of the South Florida Water Management District . Visitors are greeted by a display that documents the history of hydrologic monitoring from the 1940s until the present day. Everglades restoration encompasses four regional ecosyste...
...a 5 year moratorium set in place to protect a dwindling population, the species recovered. Most hailed this as a success story, but the underweight and often lesion covered fish that are now being caught tell a different story. Striped bass rely o...
What makes a port city iconic? ... What makes a port city iconic? Geography, history, sense of place, water everywhere, economic engines, melting pots and vistas. My first visit to Rio de Janeiro convinced...
...lly white and environmentally racist field. He shared that a common association entering a place of such structure and history can lead to a mindset of one needing to acculturate or assimilate – highlighting the lack of settings and work places th...
...it newsworthy and timely ? If it is interesting to you, it may or may not be interesting to an editor or a reader. For a story to be picked up by a news agency, it must actually be new , something no one knows about, or an angle that no one has co...
What’s the Story in Your Report Card? ... By Jodie Mehrtens story . Since we first learned to communicate, humans have shared our hopes, dreams, fears, knowledge, experiences, and values...
...gs Happen to Good Rays ... This blog post is the first of a two-post series examining cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) history and ecology in the Chesapeake Bay. In 2007, an article appeared in the reputable scientific journal Science asserting th...
...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...
...he average water loss rates, and record rainfall and flooding in the North. The South Central US has a strong cultural history. Within the tribal cultures throughout the region, crops are not just used for food, but also part of ceremony and cultu...
