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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...

The 21st International Riversymposium

The Future of Future Earth Coasts

...ot involved with the next iteration, Future Earth Coasts (FEC) which started in 2015. LOICZ and FEC have an impressive history of scientific contributions in biogeochemistry, coastal vulnerability and sustainability, focusing on hotspots in the Ar...

Two halves of a whole: the natural and cultural resources of the National Park Service

... integrity, landscape dynamics, and air are the natural resources buckets, and built environment, meanings and values, history, and contemporary communities are the cultural buckets. Our challenge in this class is to develop a research proposal th...

The Nitrogen Cycle is Seizing Up Globally and Scientists Might Not Be Ready to Hear It

...times resulting in eutrophication, low-oxygen dead-zones, and harmful algal blooms. But this is clearly just part of the story because, everywhere else, nitrogen is limiting to plant growth. Communicating this new result requires us to convince sc...

Striving for synthesis: Overcoming environment and society obstacles

...e suite of environment and society issues, including wetland restoration, nitrogen and phosphorus management, cultural history of salt marshes, and urban stormwater management. All of these issues are incredibly complex, both scientifically and so...

Previewing NY Harbor exhibit at the New York Aquarium on Coney Island

...destructive wave energy. There will be multiple interactive opportunities throughout the exhibit. A small laboratory and story kiosk will be included to showcase the Billion Oyster Project. It is due to open during the summer of 2019. Ocean Wonder...

It’s a Political World…Even in Nature

...gh the field of political ecology is only about 40 years old 3 , the concepts can be applied to communities throughout history. Dr. Orr took us on a journey back in time through U.S. history, to the period before European settlement when Native Am...

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...

What’s nature got to do with it?

It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work

Drought in the U.S.- Affiliated Pacific Islands

...sheets that, once finalized, will be used for broader stakeholder education and engagement. We concluded the workshop by storyboarding a four-page newsletter that will further describe each of the themes discussed, regarding the impacts of drought...

From Walden to Now: A Look at the Environmental Movement in the USA

...tually happened somewhere in the world, and many communities have already suffered a substantial number of them" 4 . Her story, similar to Leopold's, draws the reader in and immediately captures their imagination and attention. Some of my fellow s...

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 2018 Annual Conference

... , Senior Graphics Editor for Scientific American , Dr. Kirk Johnson , Sant Director at the National Museum of Natural History , and Liz Neeley , Executive Director of The Story Collider . In addition to these plenaries, there were smaller worksho...

Attending the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference

...ral, also known as Dom Church . During the opening remarks, Dr. Steve Borgatti , the president of INSNA shared a brief history of the Sunbelt Conference, to celebrate the twenty years of Network Science . The Keynote Speaker was Dr. Emmanuel Lazeg...

Field Trips in Puerto Rico…. with a mission

...the workshop, Jamie Currie worked closely with Aranzazu Lascurain and Melody Hunter-Pillion to record a series of oral history interviews on experiences with the extreme 2015 drought in Puerto Rico . These interviews documented topics and perspect...

2017 Chesapeake Bay report card release

... comprise the report card scores. This trend analysis is an important part of today’s report card release. The big story this year is encapsulated by the upward arrow for the overall trajectory of Chesapeake Bay report card scores. What this...

Local solutions: collaborations and information sharing to grow passion and facilitate community change

...e a biking tour of the city of Manchester. We took a nice path along the Merrimack River and learned about some of the history of the old rust belt city. I was also able to meet some of the new group of Knauss Fellows at the networking dinner and...

How can we include and legitimize other voices in science?

...ions. Dr. Sonia Stephens and Dr. Daniel Richards shared an excellent example of this kind of integration with their esri Story Map , which combines maps of sea level rise projections with stories and images from residents of coastal areas in order...

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