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Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 6- Global Initiatives in Response to Flooding

... From "Isabel and Sea-level Rise" newsletter and IAN image library. So that allowed us to really get into this sea-level story, and then take it to climate adaptation. Here we weren't arguing about the causes of climate change, and we weren't talk...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 7- Examples of Flooding in the United States

...ff talking about how to reduce flood damage, and then we moved into enhancing the landscape integrity, so basically, the story there is that about a kilometer and a half of lateral marsh results in about thirty centimeters less storm surge. So, th...

Brook Trout and the Civil War: A Glimpse at the History of the Potomac River Watershed

Brook Trout and the Civil War: A Glimpse at the History of the Potomac River Watershed ... The COAST Card team spent the day learning about various locations in the Potomac Riv...

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...

Building coastal resilience through stories

...now works with other scientists improve their communication skills. His advice to scientists centers on telling stories. Story-telling is a sure way to connect with a broad audience, as the success of Hollywood blockbuster movies shows. Randy Olso...

Building Dinosaurs

...o credit: Emily Nastase Now, Michael is the proprietor of Michael Holland Productions , a company that creates natural history exhibit “features”, AKA fossil reconstructions. Michael and his team are experts when it comes to molding an...

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. ...

Chesapeake Bay restoration: Are we headed in the right direction?

Chesapeake Bay restoration: Are we headed in the right direction? ... The Chesapeake Bay Program has a long history of setting goals, and unfortunately an equally long history of NOT reaching these goals. The initial Chesapeake Bay Prog...

Chesapeake Bay Science and Management: A need for more effective scientific communication and adaptive management

...cessary pollution reduction goals. It has been described as a “ladder without rungs” (NRC 2011). Given the history of missed deadlines and unclear strategies regarding restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, it makes one wonder about the wa...

Chesapeake literacy

... drivers for Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. Chesapeake Bay supports unique human cultures and livelihoods. American history has been shaped by Chesapeake Bay. Chesapeake Bay is extremely well studied and intensely managed. Chesapeake Bay is a l...

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 -...

CMC Data Interpretation Course in Richmond, VA and Carlisle, PA

... to science communication and individual product development. Caroline introduced the "and, but, therefore" framework in storytelling, followed by an activity where we guided participants as they drafted an ABT statement of their own to accompany...

Co-development of the Belmont Forum synthesis document

...during the workshop, and after the workshop. This is reflected in the evolution of the Synthesis document from a 4 pager storyboard, to a trifold draft, and then to an 8-page final document. It is typical for IAN to have a product (newsl...

Coastal Bays report card launch

...sses are now declining in Chincoteague Bay, but the good news is that water quality was up a bit last year. The seagrass story is not just water quality, it also involves climate variability. We have had some very hot summers which are essentially...

Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Conference in Portland, Oregon

...ith set-up and manning the booth. The UMCES booth. IAN's session, convened by Bill Nuttle, was titled Successful science story-telling for coastal resilience . I gave Caroline Donovan's talk during this session, which was about challenges of telli...

Colonial National Historic Park visit

...nal Historic Trail offshore 'New Town'. We called the buoy to access weather and hydrological data and listen to short history segments. Mini-Symposium : The mini-symposium was held in the first LEEDs ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Desig...

Combating climate change in the floating city

...uo;s square flooded, but currently, it floods more than 60 times a year. The worst flood in Venice’s history occurred in 1966 , when the tide in St. Mark’s square reached chest height. During that flood, 97% of Venice was u...

Combining visuals with narrative for effective science communication

...ve. Both narrative structure and visual processing are hard wired into the human brain. Brain scans of people watching a story unfold on videos show their brains are highly activated and they display the same activation as a group, compared to peo...

Commemorating Bob Menzer at Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences

Communicating science effectively: one-day course with EPA Region 1

...a lot of material packed into the one-day course. We covered data visualization, conceptual diagrams, and narratives and storytelling. Using the course workbook, participants worked in groups to explore the main concepts for each: the importance o...

Communicating Science to Effect Social Change

...science communication can actually make you a better scientist for the following reasons: 1) By envisioning the complete story; you can pick up missing elements. An example is putting together a conceptual diagram relating to the causes of a harmf...

Conceptionary in action: Learning through play

...teaching using a blackboard, talking while drawing can be quite effective, so adding illustrations can greatly augment a story. Finally, the team building aspect of working together in groups can be important, particularly with groups of people wh...

Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network

...ou don't understand well enough to draw: "If you can't draw it, you don't understand it". Diagrams can be used to tell a story, just as words can be used to tell a story. Symbols can be equated to words in a story and assembling these symbols into...

Conceptual Diagrams Can Get You Places

...out two dozen places in the US named in honor of a 19 th century Prussian aristocrat and darling of Parisian salons. The story of how Alexander von Humboldt came to be acclaimed in America revolves around his career as scientist and explorer and e...

Conceptual diagrams in a chapel

...d the ancient use of symbols that humans have used to depict the world around them. From cave drawings to Pacific Island storyboards to woodcuts used by Victorian Englishmen like Charles Darwin, people have been using symbols to represent objects...

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