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    434 results for "story":

    • The Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Spectacle of Climate Change
      ...rwhelmed the flood control levees all along the Mississippi River and still ranks as the most destructive flood in the history of the US. This year’s flood reached a maximum level 0.08 feet higher than the 1927 flood level at the confluence...
    • Governor Harry Hughes and his sweet dream of the Chesapeake Bay Program
      ...e: Hughes, Harry Roe with John Frece. 2006. My Unexpected Journey: The autobiography of Governor Harry Roe Hughes. The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina. 224 pp. ... Bill Dennison...
    • Association for Science of Limnology and Oceanography in San Juan, Puerto Rico
      ...dquo;Creating and communicating environmental intelligence for Chesapeake Bay research and management”. I told the story of our Submerged Aquatic Vegetation synthesis effort ( SAV SYN ) in Chesapeake Bay, which was timely in that less than 2...
    • Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?
      Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story? ... Kawawa Banda and Chinyawezhi Kakoma Report cards are effective communications tools. They raise awareness of a rive...
    • More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science
      ...son about the use of narratives in science ... James Shannon Building at the National Institutes of Health. I attended a Story Circles session at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland on 7 Feb 2019. My friend and colleague Randy...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach
      ...zation is therefore necessary in determining the scores. On drawing the balance in choosing indicators when crafting the story. It is good to have some constraints in choosing the indicators. The journey of a story was likened to an "And-But-There...
    • Finding the value of Transdisciplinary Research on Food Security and Land Use Change
      ... see people doing wherever I go. I get to travel to some amazing places in this job, and I always come back with another story about what great passion people have for improving things. I’m encouraged that, in every place I’ve ever bee...
    • An Array and a Ray
      ... ... Photo credit: SERC This blog post is the second of a two-post series examining cownose ray ( Rhinoptera bonasus ) history and ecology in the Chesapeake Bay. Hauled aboard a fishing vessel on the Chesapeake Bay, most of the creatures caught in...
    • When Bad Things Happen to Good Rays
      ...gs Happen to Good Rays ... This blog post is the first of a two-post series examining cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) history and ecology in the Chesapeake Bay. In 2007, an article appeared in the reputable scientific journal Science asserting th...
    • If the river's not flowing, is it still a river? Learning about the Verde River Watershed
      ...s producing local barley for beer in the Verde Valley. We were able to see the interesting machinery and hear the unique story of how barley is prepared to be used in beer production. Learning about the barley process. Photo: Alexandra Fries. Barl...
    • This is What Science Stands For: Exhibiting at AGU Fall Meeting 2018
      ... its largest presence at the conference this year, with around thirty events happening throughout the week. Workshops on storytelling, multimedia, and even poetry, panels featuring prominent science writers and advocates, and interactive activitie...
    • Ecosystem Transformation: Resilience in the Face of Change
      ... below 1.5 ° C. Sobering, the report is an immediate call to action. As has been the case throughout Earth’s history, with a shift in the climate regime comes subsequent shifts in the physical environment; a result of the interconnected...
    • Facilitating a Belmont Forum workshop in Washington D.C.
      ...but therefore " template. Then, we brainstormed the common themes and recommendations for future efforts. We did a short storyboarding exercise to begin the process of developing a summary document from the workshop. Participants created the conte...
    • The Integration and Application Network in 2018
      ...of videos. Short report card documentary videos for the Chesapeake Bay and Tuul River, Mongolia were produced. An oral history video was produced with USGS on island drought in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. A Horn Point graduate student, Mel...
    • Dottie Samonisky retirement party
      ...some wonderful tributes about Dottie that we read at her party. We also put on a short play in Dottie's honor, since the story of a girl named Dorothy and her little dog who wanted to go home to retire was eerily similar to the story of the Wizard...
    • A Time to Krill
      ...re deconstructing levees and manually removing huge quantities of toxic sediment. Loss Dr. Hamilton has documented the history and trajectory of Ecuadorian mangrove deforestation by assembling and comparing a roughly sixty-year sequence of topogra...
    • Final challenge: Environment and Society
      ...istoric views. Threats to park resources may also impact stakeholders. For example, increasing deer density reduces understory and increases the threat of Lyme disease to park visitors. Students giving presentations Stakeholders were identified as...
    • Kick off workshop for Western Lake Erie report card project
    • Gulf of Thailand Study Tour
      ...igure in establishing the preserve. Photo credit: Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen We visited the Thai Island Air and Sea Natural History Museum , started in 1999 and now including five buildings with nice displays of various natural history features of the...
    • The Die of the Storm
      ...is particular example to emphasize the importance of understanding disaster outcomes in the context of an area’s history of disasters. “There really is this interplay between how people and infrastructure behave in disasters,” Dr...
    • Creating the Texas Coast Ecosystem Health Report Card
      ...l areas like Baffin Bay , storm water runoff also can be high in nutrients and sediments from farm fields. Overlying the story of ecosystem condition on the Texas Coast is natural variation in temperature, precipitation, and storms. This high vari...
    • Untangling the web of stakeholders
      ... and solve larger problems related to coupled human and natural systems. References 1. Christina Prell (2012), A Brief History of Social Network Analysis . Social Network Analysis. London U.K.: SAGE. 2. Bodin et al. (2011), Social Networks and Nat...
    • Parramatta River Study Tour
      ... urban footprint of the city of Parramatta and yet experience a very natural setting for the swimming area. This success story occurred on Australia Day, on 24 January 2015, after 72 years of the lake being closed to swimming due to pollution. On...