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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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,...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  Eyes on the prize: Looking beyond graduate school during the 2019 MEES Colloquium

  ...tor, Tim Canty , addressed the full assembly of MEES faculty and students for the first time. He shared a very relatable story about how, as a graduate student, he felt frustrated about having to jump through hoops like building his own computer w...
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  Kiss me, I'm a scientist

  ...ts are not robots— we are people, too. Like every other human, each scientist was raised in a specific moment of history, in a specific country, in a specific culture, and this socio-cultural context influences our way of thinking and behavi...
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  Earth’s Value
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  “Are you watching closely?”
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  Nature and Culture as Star-Crossed Lovers: Can we have one without the other?
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  The complementary colors of environment and society

  ... on either end is not irreparable but rather complementary. This week we learned about the environmental movement thru history and had a discussion about the works of Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson. In this post, I will try t...
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  Capturing Nature on the Job

  ...ewsletters that we develop towards this mission are, as a result, highly visual, often employing conceptual diagrams and storytelling strategies to highlight the universal themes we find in a particular set of data.      ...
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  All about the Bay: Exploring history, heritage, and habitat at the Chesapeake Studies conference

  All about the Bay: Exploring history, heritage, and habitat at the Chesapeake Studies conference ... Earlier this month, several IAN team members attended th...
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  Developing the Western Lake Erie report card in Toledo, Ohio

  ...ny subscribers. We also viewed the iconic Toledo Harbor Lighthouse through binoculars and Sandy Bihn told us about its history and the current renovations taking place. A-Big catching a white perch on the river. Photo Bill Dennison. Our initial La...
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  Western Lake Erie environmental literacy

  ...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...
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  Future Earth Coasts Goes to Bremen!

  ...ifferent IPO partners, grows the network of scientists and practitioners (old and new), all while building on the long history of work that FEC and LOICZ have already created. FEC is poised to have practical impact on coastal sustainability and in...
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  Uncovering five values of citizen science at CitSci2019

  ...es, such as pop-culture references, memes, and comic strip art. Several workshops were offered on diverse topics such as storytelling, science communication, and improvisation theater. Alex, Caroline, and I presented a workshop called “ Best...

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