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EcoCheck transition
...ck global products and b) Caroline Wicks, Heath Kelsey, Russell Callender, Bill Dennison, and Ken Barton with a framed history of EcoCheck's first phase. ... EcoCheck was formed in 2004 as a partnership between UMCES and NOAA to develop ecological...
Empowering Scientists to Become Better Communicators
...earch. The principles and skills they are learning will help them share their work through compelling visualizations and storytelling. ... Conor Keitzer...
Engaging the public to help preserve the unique natural and cultural resources of two National Parks in Hawaii
... the island of Molokai, a poster designed for resident and off-island audiences features both the cultural and natural history of this remote peninsula, and highlights the unique native plants and animals found here that are currently challenged b...
Engaging with the agricultural community in Fredericksburg
...zations involved in conservation. The site also featured the Patawomeck Museum and Cultural Center , an outdoor Living History Village, and gardens. ... Lili Badri...
Enhancing scientific storytelling at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum
Enhancing scientific storytelling at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum ... The weekend of November 7th was the 20th annual Chesapeake Watershed Forum...
Environmental justice stories through cinema
...eening and panel discussion as part of IMET’s Winter Series on January 24th. The screening featured two films: Eroding History by André Chung, focusing on two Black communities in Deal Island, MD, grappling with sea level rise and cultural preserv...
Exploring online opportunities in scicomm with Dr. Sheryl Hosler
...aming project, Nature Check , which integrates science communication and role-playing games (RPG). We also explored this storytelling approach by playing a table-top RPG. It was refreshing and fun to learn about these unique approaches to science...
George Wright Society meeting in Portland, Oregon.
...yton Duncan, historians and documentary producers, presented previews of a spectacular public television series on the history of national parks which will air in September 2009....
HAPPENING NOW: Hack the Bay
...ng the health of the watershed. From August 3–September 14, data scientists, developers, designers, problem solvers, and storytellers are invited to explore CMC's data and create solutions to address some of their core challenges. Registration is...
Healthy Waterways journey
Highlighting USGS's Critical Bird Monitoring Programs
...n Flight: USGS Bird Programs Support Conservation, Culture, and a Thriving U.S. Economy." The fact sheet describes the history and critical impacts of the Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL) and the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), two national bird monitori...
Highlights from the Inclusive Science Communication Symposium
...f Institution at the University of Rhode Island. While there, they attended sessions on data accessibility, inclusionary storytelling, community building through trust, and new dissemination techniques. They also hosted a session on stakeholder en...
IAN learns new science visualization techniques at the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators annual conference in DC
..., Senior Graphics Editor of Scientific American, Dr. Kirk Johnson , Sant Director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (SMNH), Liz Neeley from The Story Collider, among others! Conference days also included small workshops on various scien...
IAN provides remote science communication course to IMET summer interns
...rns will work together to analyze microbial data specific to Baltimore Harbor. The science communication course included storytelling strategies, designing theme statements, and a crash course in Adobe's Creative Cloud products, providing tools th...
IAN speaks at Blacks of the Chesapeake event in Annapolis
...hools attended a series of events designed to connect them with their environment, including African American cultural history in the bay region. IAN’s role was to summarize the Coastal Environment and Community Health course that Vanessa and Heat...
IAN Strategic Plan released
...areas: partner engagement, social impacts, and ecological outcomes. The Strategic Plan also reviews IAN's fifteen year history in five phases: initiation (2002-2004), partnership (2005-2009), engagement (2010-2014), globalization (2014-present), a...
IAN team gathers for 2017 IAN Report Card Re-vamp Workshop
...N team met on February 20, 2018 in Annapolis, MD for the 2017 IAN Report Card Re-vamp Workshop. Staff received a brief history of the IAN report card initiative as well as priorities for the future informed by UMCES and IAN strategic plans . The g...
IAN welcomes Nicole Lehmer
...nison, helped with the Missouri River Basin report card workshop newsletter, and populated content on the Chesapeake Bay Story website. In the future, she hopes to write environmental policies for the state of Maryland and looks forward to expandi...
IAN welcomes Trish Summers
International River Prize awarded to Willamette River, Oregon
...Progress Towards a Healthier Willamette," and along with Johnny Sundstrom (IRF Ambassador), will present a talk on the history and significance of the International RiverPrize. The conference will be in Portland, Oregon on December 11-12. A new Eu...
Louisville, KY
...sion as an Ecological Imperative." Annie presented on her thesis research, participated in a session on National Parks history , and met colleagues from across the country. ... Annie Carew...
Mackay Report Card
...ment and Heritage Protection . Discussion was related to report card design and development issues, and we developed the storyboard for the Mackay Report Card. Jane Hawkey has been creating the draft from those sketches. The Mackay report card is...
Maryland Climate Tech+ Conference
... is a powerful example of how climate change will impact so many different aspects of our lives, including eroding our history. Much of Harriet Tubman’s world will be underwater before the end of the century. The last stop was a tour of the oyster...
Meet the Scientist: Ann Foo
...I don’t have an educational background in environmental science—I got dual degrees in cell biology and Greek and Roman history, with a big focus on art and language—but I’ve always been a nature kid. During undergrad, I worked in a food science la...
Monsoon School science communication course
...he evaluation of transdisciplinary projects using metrics to analyze concepts and challenges. A discussion on the art of storytelling and narrative to achieve great science communication followed, which included some exercises. The class concluded...

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