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    607 results for "story":

    • 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...
    • Conceptual diagrams: Tips and Tricks for Thought
      ... a conceptual diagram. Colors and Fonts are Key Colors provide ques to the reader that help shape the conceptual diagram story. For instance, green vs. red text indicates good vs. bad. There can also be a strong juxtaposition among colors or a sof...
    • Facilitating a Great Barrier Reef partnership workshop in Brisbane
      ...be made as to which categories the different indicators will be assigned. Workshop participants voting on indicators. We storyboarded a six page partnership report card and sketched out a timeline for completion of this assessment. The post-worksh...
    • Want to be a better science communicator? Start with the title and the abstract.
      ...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...
    • Ken Barton Sails Into Retirement
      ...s spark his memory Some happy, some sad He thinks of IAN friends and the dreams we had IAN lived happily forever, so the story goes But somehow IAN missed out on that pot of gold But we’ll try best that we can to carry on A gathering of ange...
    • Developing a Chesapeake Watershed report card: Harrisburg PA workshop
      ...artment of Environmental Protection (DEP) provided a great historical overview. I was impressed with the long and rich history of Susquehanna River watershed monitoring that had occurred. Gary also provided some insights into the legacy of the...
    • Reflecting on water monitoring and citizen science at the Maryland Water Monitoring Council conference
      ... (SAV) management, moderated by my colleague, Brooke Landry . Speakers presented on a variety of topics, including the history of SAV restoration in Maryland, seed harvesting and planting, microplastics in SAV beds, and remote sensing and citizen...
    • Politics As Usual…
      ...cene setter” for environmental injustices to take place. During his lecture, Dr. Michael Paolisso focused on the history of power and the juxtaposition between capitalists and proletariats in the context of ecological degradation, pollution,...
    • Take off your blindfold. There’s an elephant in front of you.
      ... the SES model is an elephant. Let me explain. There is an ancient Hindu parable about blind men and an elephant. In the story, a group of blind men who have never encountered an elephant are led to the animal and allowed to study it by touching o...
    • Urban: Three-story building
      Urban: Three-story building ... An illustration of a three-story building. ... building, house, home, town, city, development, infrastructure, apartment, townhouse, ... Max Hermanson...
    • Making connections to ensure a clean and healthy Chesapeake Bay
      ...ey, Director of the Water & Science Administration at the Maryland Department of the Environment , spoke about the history of restoration in the Chesapeake Bay. His talk was particularly interesting to me because I am studying this timeline an...
    • Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?
      ...e Krieg In the Disney animated movie, “The Little Mermaid,” adapted from Hans Christian Andersen 's original story,1 there is a scene in which Ariel sits down to dinner with Prince Eric and Grimsby. She is very excited to see a fork at...
    • The Very Hungry Grad Student: Consuming, Digesting, and Applying Knowledge in an Interdisciplinary Field
      ... as a researcher carries a professional weight with it that should not be ignored. At the same time, acknowledging the history with which a community has grown and developed is critical to providing sound and useful research. You will never know i...
    • Jamie's Australian Adventures
      ...y assignment was to assist IRF with the production of a short documentary detailing their organization’s 20-year history, to be shown at this year’s annual Riversymposium in Brisbane, Australia. International River Foundation Logo Afte...
    • A Differential Quilt Analysis: How can everyone stay warm this winter?
      ...? This is where Christy, Isabella, and my classmates have some ideas. In class, Dr. Christy Miller Hesed discussed the history of the EJ movement , which began in 1982 and has roots in Warren County, NC . In Warren County, African American communi...