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Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus

...alk around the Niña and gain a sense of one of the vessels that did so much to change the course of human history. R/V Calanus docked in the Bahamas. We had some wonderful experiences during our visits to San Salvador Island. We visit...

Being inspired by Cousteaus: An evening with Jean-Michel Cousteau

...cular audience. Underwater habitat, Hydrolab, in Salt River Canyon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1984. Given this history of the Cousteau's calling for better environmental stewardship and not being afraid to directly address those responsibl...

Believe it or not, maps are still useful!

Biennial Chesapeake Bay Program meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia

...ovation at the Chesapeake Bay Program biennial meeting. Another highlight of the meeting was the screening of ‘Eroding History’ by Rona Kobell about black communities on Deal Island who are experiencing the devastating impacts of sea level rise. T...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 1 - Science Communication

...t I get will be bloodshot. So, I'll just go on autopilot, because I'm going to ignore your bloodshot eyes and tell you a story about what we are doing with our Integration and Application Network . Hopefully as the caffeine kicks in, you might be...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements

...ctively communicated their concerns. But, that's kind of hindsight, and it was ultimately tragic. I would like to tell a story of good science communication that really worked out. There was a physician called John Snow who lived in London in the...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 3 - History of Science Communication

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 3 - History of Science Communication ... PART 3; History of Science Communication There is a history of effective science communication that actually changed the world. If we th...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards

...ee big reasons. One is they are a really good peer pressure motivator, because peer pressure motivates human change. The story I'll give here is the Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Over on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay; there was a grade of "D m...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 5 - Report card examples

...a. Other posts in this series: 1. Part 1 - Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report c...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards

...er posts in this series: 1. Part 1 – Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 7 - O Canada!

...er posts in this series: 1. Part 1 – Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step p...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 8 - Communicating Science Effectively poster

...me, as the plenary talk was being delivered, Dr. Charlotte Young from Envision Synergy quietly recorded the seminar as a story board on a large colorful poster in the back of the room. Following the seminar, I was able to view her graphical interp...

Bill Dennison's 500th Blog

...eries of blogs about the cities and their iconic waterways. This blog about Brisbane was one that I knew the most about. Story Bridge over the Brisbane River. Note, the most popular blogs in terms of number of views is skewed toward the blogs that...

Bill's Belmont Forum Song

...lô Pinheiro , later became a celebrity and still lives today. This song is one of the most recorded pop songs in history and it won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1964. Sao Paulo's highest peak Jaraguá Peak. Image credit here Kat...

Billion Oyster Conference and New York City Part 2: Shifting Baselines in America

...rk the end of 20 th century America. Their borders dusted with flowers, and thousands of names. Everyone has a different story: “I was in the grocery store, I was at school, I was driving in to work, I was on a train, I was asleep…...

Biscayne Bay Marine Health Inaugural Summit

...ir river was palpable. LESSON 2: Environmental restoration can be a source of civic pride. Because of the amazing story of the River Mersey, we were hoping for some good local media coverage, but the headlines of the Brisbane Courier Mail l...

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...

Bringing People Together for the Patuxent River

...k of awareness of the watershed’s issues. The importance of the Patuxent’s clean water, habitat for native plants, and history were noted as well. In order to glean concrete information about the Patuxent, we need to identify indicators, which we...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 10- Progress in Monitoring and Management

... of this flood and the impacts on the natural resources, which translate into Moreton Bay. And I'm going to start with a story about the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is the best-studied estuary in the world. It is 300 kilometers top to botto...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 11- Monitoring of the Moreton Bay

.... The Brisbane River catchment soils were heavily eroded, and several folks from Healthy Country helped us assemble this story. We saw large-scale sediment erosion, and we can see boulders that rolled down the stream like pebbles. In some places t...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 12- Charismatic Environmental Initiatives

...reefs or any other coastal systems. We got to thinking "Why don't more people know about this? Why is this such a hidden story?" We then started thinking that we might have a charisma gap. So we analyzed that by going around the world and getting...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 13- Conclusion

...a little bit of vision towards the future and a ray of hope and optimism. And that comes from an analysis I did of the history of paradigm shifts that have occurred in societies starting in the 1500's. Paradigm shift can lead to a sustainability r...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar

...category. From your experience, can you give us a little guidance as to how we convert that flood event into a good news story. BILL: I think one thing that Southeast Queensland does better than the U.S. is celebration. You have the festival of th...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 2- A Learning Moment

...nt during 1893. It didn’t make it up here until 2011, but you can see a few other landmarks, and it was before the Story Bridge, but you can see how much of the system was affected. A flood map of Brisbane prepared in 1893 Kangaroo Point in...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 3- History of Flooding in Brisbane

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 3- History of Flooding in Brisbane ... You can take a walk down the street to the Botanic Gardens ; you can find a little park ther...

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