Engaging with the Belyuen people and Larrakia people, Traditional Owners of Darwin Harbour, Australia ... Bill Dennison and Simon Costanzo led a Darwin Harbour workshop recently. Notable attendees included indigenous groups local to the Da...
...h, whether it be depicting sample site locations, research data, or both. At the end of the week, our instructors (Bill Dennison, Steven Guinn, and Dylan Taillie) took the time to give us some constructive criticism and expert advice on how to impr...
Tony Larkum's 80th Birthday Party ... After attending a former colleague's birthday party, Bill Dennison recounts fond memories of time he spent with Tony Larkum in Australia and the United States that spanned from the 80...
...message. Small changes can enhance the readability and message of the graph. As stated by the class instructor Dr. Bill Dennison, "Little tweaks collectively make a big difference". Below are three students before and after scientific figures follo...
...F: I Heard it Through the Grapevine ... Susan Williams was a marine biologist at UC Davis who passed away in 2018. Bill Dennison, a good friend of hers, pays tribute to her in this blog post. ... Susan Williams For the 2019 Coastal & Estuarine...
...hrough the Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program at the University System of Maryland. Bill Dennison and a team of IAN Science Communicators are teaching the course as a 'flipped' classroom so that class time is spent on...
...hrough the Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program at the University System of Maryland. Bill Dennison and a team of IAN Science Communicators are teaching the course as a 'flipped' classroom so that class time is spent on...
Facilitating a Great Barrier Reef partnership workshop in Brisbane ... Bill Dennison details the 2020 Great Barrier Reef partnership workshop in Brisbane. Bill's adaptation of the song, "Sounds...
...hrough the Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program at the University System of Maryland. Bill Dennison and a team of IAN Science Communicators are teaching the course as a 'flipped' classroom so that class time is spent on...
...s how to write a better 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, im...
...heet that we performed at his retirement party. Ken Barton giving a speech regarding his retirement. Photo credit: Bill Dennison Ken Barton has been sailing his whole life. As a small boy, he sailed in dinghies. As a young man, he attended the Stat...
...ed Report Card workshop, a convening to discuss development of a comprehensive new report card. Includes a song by Bill Dennison! ... Group photo of the workshop participants. Photo credit: Sky Swanson On 7-8 Jan 2020, several IAN staff traveled to...
Its Still Flowing: Verde River Song ... "It's Still Flowing;" a song and video created by Bill Dennison and voiced by Kat Parsons. Click for link to video ... My trip to visit the Verde River for their “State of the V...
...nment effective. Governor O'Malley signing the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement in Annapolis (Photo Credit: Bill Dennison) Many politicians use ghost-writers or staffers to draft content. In contrast, in “Smarter Government”, I c...
The Verde River Workshop ... An account of the 2019 Verde River Workshop by Bill Dennison. A poem by Bill is included as well. ... Workshop panel at the State of the Verde Workshop conference. Photo Credit: Bi...
...facts that I’d heard about from other students. Instead of our awe-inspiring instructors, Michael Paolisso , Bill Dennison and Suzi Spitzer , teaching us, we gave them a break by lecturing in their place. Each student presented a five-minute...
...ou may have some familiarity with Environmental Justice, which is similar to the concept of political ecology. Dr. Bill Dennison noted that the difference between the two is that Political Ecology is the “scene setter” for environmental...
...ifficulty matched with best research approaches. Photo modified from nature.com by Emily Nastase. According to Dr. Bill Dennison, who lectured this week, the seven principles to transdisciplinary research are:2 Transdisciplinary is directed toward...
...is process is cyclical and not linear because passions change. Sarah Lane shared career-building advice. (Photo by Bill Dennison) The last session of the day was a career panel with speakers representing legislative, government, non-profit, and ind...
...nstructors transformed into Thoreau, Leopold, and Carson in front of our eyes and read a scripted play, written by Bill Dennison. The play was set at Thoreau’s cabin, where he invited Leopold and Carson to a dinner party to discuss life. The...
...year, the course is being co-taught by Michael Paolisso ( Department of Anthropology , University of Maryland) and Bill Dennison ( University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science ), and I am once again serving as the Teaching Assistant. The...
...Cozzarelli Prize, a prestigious award recognizing excellence in scientific research, was awarded to UMCES very own Bill Dennison , Rebecca Murphy , and Jeremy Testa , lead author Jon Lefcheck (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center), and their c...
...ld us about its history and the current renovations taking place. A-Big catching a white perch on the river. Photo Bill Dennison. Our initial Lake Erie workshop was in November 2018, held in Sandusky, Ohio. Many of the same people attended the Apri...
