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... is on elevated land, not exposed to high water and flooding (right). Photos by Ashley C. Silver. Also, links to the backstory of the mural and statue of Harriet Tubman: http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2019/05/mural-artist-selected-for-church.html htt...

Labor Unions and Environmental Justice

...CC BY-NC 2.0 . Unions in the United States The struggle for workers' rights across industry and agriculture has a long history in the United States. Immigrants , women , Black people , Indigenous people , and other people of color have always been...

Black Lives (And Environmental Journalism) Matter

...access to healthy environmental spaces The main journal that covers the Chesapeake Bay region has an all-white staff The story told by these statistics is that even though communities of color represent a significant portion of the Chesapeake Bay...

Environmental (In)Justice in Rural Communities

...The Eastern Shore, particularly Dorchester County, prides itself as being the birthplace of the Underground Railroad - a story that when retold by white residents often omits the fact that Ms. Harriet Tubman was escaping the inhumane conditions of...

Looking through the Lens of Environmental Justice

...hout a system becoming a defining structure 2 within which society develops, such as we have seen throughout America's history 3 . Five decades later, the struggle for a racially just America continues, though the dimensions of which are expanded...

Chickens in Tanzania, rabid dogs in Indonesia, and road-killed pigs in Samoa: Exploring ethnographies of environmental knowledge in indigenous, local, and traditional cultures, to assess agreement between actions, perceptions, and values

...mplar of collaboration between Maori knowledge (IK/LEK) and western science. Dennison then reprised his Australian dingo story: fire suppression -> altered vegetation succession -> intense fire -> reduced prey availability -> dingos -...

The Search for Common Ground: A Case for Cultural Models

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...

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....

Building an online presence in a day

...te both spatial and quantitative data Before creating your website (or scientific poster or newsletter, etc.) creating a storyboard will allow you to visualize your ideas and make changes before you put in the time to create your final product. A...

Cooks River virtual workshop

...ue Burton conducted the virtual tour using images, video clips and maps, and the tour included elements of Cooks River history, geography, economy, society, ecology, and variability. Fortuitously, on a visit to Sydney a couple of weeks prior to th...

How to build a website that looks better than your Myspace when you were younger

... Using the web can help you transform your data into an easy to digest format, and it gives you the ability to tell your story and reach multiple audiences regardless of who you are and where you are. Our task last week was to build a website foll...

Putting it all together

.... Prior to getting started with InDesign, students were assigned to watch video tutorials on how to use InDesign, and to storyboard documents related to their research. These documents included brochures, posters, and fliers for a range of audienc...

Learn how to storyboard your next visualization publication

Learn how to storyboard your next visualization publication ... What comes to mind when you think of storyboarding? Maybe you think of a film storyboard that uses a series of ordered images and directions to visually outline a...

Get Your Science Out There!

Get Your Science Out There! ... Lauren Jonas, on the storyboarding unit of Science Visualization ... If you want to communicate your science well, you need to people to see it! A...

Dr. Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen successfully defends her dissertation

...nse for the Marine Environmental Estuarine Science (MEES) Program. All previous dissertation defenses for the 40+ year history of the MEES program had been done in person. The COVID-19 situation precluded an in-person defense, hence the switch to...

Stakeholder workshop for Darwin Harbour report card

...hresholds and potential data sources. We brainstormed the environmental literacy principles for Darwin Harbour and did a storyboard session to mock up the workshop newsletter. At the end of the workshop, we ended with a song that Simon and I compo...

Engaging with the Belyuen people and Larrakia people, Traditional Owners of Darwin Harbour, Australia

...assed on to the next generations of indigenous people. They stressed the importance of indigenous language, song, dance, story, ceremony and country. The impacts of climate change were a topic that they raised throughout our conversation. The Larr...

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...

A "flash" course in photography

...were a few major themes: Fidelity comes first ; it affects the credibility of the content Shoot with intent . What's the story? Think about the composition beforehand! Change your perspective . Walk around the subject, get down low, figure out the...

Developing a Focus - A Guide to Practical Photography/Videography

...rocessing editing features and filters to chose from Simpler and user-friendly Can be done remotely on iPhone Cons: no history panel, no brush adjustments, no radial or graduated filters, no way to share presets, no plugin architecture for third-p...

Map It Out: from Babylonian Clay to GIS

...) There are vast numbers of tutorial videos, shapefiles, and data sets available online. References: Aber, J.S.,"Brief History of Maps and Cartography". 2008. http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm Thompson, Clive. "From Ptolemy...

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 Susan Williams Session at 2019 CERF: I Heard it Through the Grapevine

...eedee Shideler send along high resolution electronic images and I found a print shop in downtown Mobile. I told them the story and they printed off two large photos, backed with foam board and when I went to pay, they said there was no charge. I t...

Let your data speak! Less is more…

...ancement in science and engineering, humans have more data to show what they want people to see. The data need to tell a story through simple figures of illustration (Kirk, 2012). There are many pioneers of data visualization and their practices a...

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