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Discussing island drought in Puerto Rico Part II

...ine, sugar and alcohol, key ingredients in productivity). Drought workshop breakout group discussion. Image credit Bill Dennison. At the conclusions of our ecodrought workshops, I have been performing a song adapted from a previous recorded song. F...

Discussing island drought in Puerto Rico Part I

...rto Rico. Shawn Carter and Shelley Crausbay enjoying the social event Happy Hour at the end of Day 1. Image credit Bill Dennison The workshop was hosted by Bill Gould from the US Department of Agriculture at the International Institute of Tropical...

Exploring "Down Under"

...line, as seen from our hotel balcony. Image credit: James Currie I recently had the opportunity to travel with Dr. Bill Dennison to Brisbane , Australia. We planned to conduct a variety of interviews with scientists, stakeholders, and policymakers...

NPS Spotlight on Natural and Cultural Resources Workshop

... Thomas Jefferson High School!). Spotlight presentations were given in the lecture hall at the NCTC. Image credit: Bill Dennison. As long-standing project partners, IAN was invited to this workshop to present a poster that graphically describes our...

Science Cafe and science communication training in Boston

...trumental in deftly organizing the two-and-a-half-day course held in the Curry Student Center , a fantastic venue. Bill Dennison and Brianne Walsh in front of Currie Student Center, Northeastern University where science communication training took...

Pigs in Water: living underwater with Susan Williams

Pigs in Water: living underwater with Susan Williams ... Aquanauts Bruce Nyden, Bill Dennison, Susan Williams and Chuck Gross (L-R) at Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum reception standing in front of...

My four decade friendship with Susan Williams

...e Research Federation , and served as the head of the marine lab Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory . Susan Williams and Bill Dennison at Coastal and Estuarine Federation conference; Providence, RI; November 2017. Image credit Judy O’Neil. But most...

Hello and Goodbye: The brief in-person encounter with my online class

...our own presentations, which represented the culmination of all of our knowledge gathered throughout the semester. Bill Dennison , our teacher, introduced us. For me personally this workshop was bittersweet: sweet because us classmates finally got...

Future Earth Coasts workshop songbook

...to Glenn is Glenn Page from SustainaMetrix . Martin LeTissier, Future Earth Coasts Executive Officer. Image credit Bill Dennison Valerie Cummins and Bruce Glavovic welcoming workshop participants. Image credit Bill Dennison Val and Bruce by Bill De...

Cork conference on coastal sustainability

Cork conference on coastal sustainability ... Bill Dennison and I visited Cork, Ireland at University College Cork from March 26-28 to help facilitate a discussion among Regionals...

Atlantic Estuarine Research Society 70th anniversary conference

...logical Survey colleagues. Cakes celebrating the AERS 70th Anniversary. Photos by Daniella Kreeger (left) and Bill Dennison (right). In addition to the CERFtones, our long term colleague, Veronica Berounsky from the University of Rhode Island...

The 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia

...xample report cards that we brought were quickly snapped up. Catherine Blancard at World Water Forum. Image credit Bill Dennison I did sneak off from the Forum twice, once to work with Joao Coimbra on the Guanabara Bay paper that we started last ye...

Believe it or not, maps are still useful!

...this sentence. How did Christopher Columbus ever make it to the New World before this technology was available?! As Dr. Dennison mentioned in our last class, good data visualization intrigues the reader to think further and question the data in fro...

Good luck and Godspeed, Ricky Arnold

...his website. Newspaper headline posted at National Press Club of John Glenn’s historic launch. Image credit: Bill Dennison My productivity at work suffered throughout Rick’s two week mission. For example, when Ricky went on his space wa...

Environmental literacy for the Assabet, Sudbury and Concord Rivers

...au for some time. A contemporary prolific author was Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) also lived in the region. ... Bill Dennison...

Visiting the National Press Club to talk about Chesapeake Bay

...ith reporters. Left to right: Mike Smith, Kate Jamison, Bob “JJ” Orth, Jon Lefcheck, Jeni Keisman, and Bill Dennison. We were impressed with the quality of the questions asked by the reporters. Three of the questions were particularly i...

Veni, Vidi, Vici: We Came, We Saw, We Concord.

...lison Field-Juma , Julia Khorana and Sue Flint , were wonderful hosts and we had a productive and enjoyable visit. Bill Dennison and Brianne Walsh with OARS staff at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. We held two days of workshops at a beautif...

Scientific synthesis paper shows Chesapeake Bay nutrient diet is working

... Virginia Institute of Marine Science, was the first author, with our entire SAV SYN team as co-authors: Bob Orth, Bill Dennison, Dave Wilcox, Rebecca Murphy, Jeni Keisman, Cassie Gurbisz, Mike Hannah, Brooke Landry, Ken Moore, Chris Patrick, Jerem...

Bob “JJ” Orth receives the Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award

...standing scientist, within and beyond Virginia. Bob Orth bitmojis created by Melissa Merritt. Photo credits Bill Dennison . ... Bill Dennison...

Returning to My Ohio Roots: Scoping Out A Lake Erie Report Card

...sive spectrometer that could be used by citizen science groups to measure nitrogen and phosphorus levels in water. Bill Dennison and Kelly Siman at reception following the Lake Erie Foundation board meeting. All in all, it was a great experience an...

To Move or Not to Move: Relocating The Chesapeake Bay Program

...es not make sense. Flood map from the Federal Emergency Management Agency . Image not protected by copyright . ... Bill Dennison...

Learning About Transdisciplinary Science Through Graduate Teaching

...ary journey: early-career perspectives in sustainability science. Sustainability Science. PDF available here . ... Bill Dennison...

Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards

...For our final class time discussion, I provided the following poem: Healthy Rivers for All Class 25 Jan 2018 William C. Dennison Healthy Rivers for All was a brand new class And we taught it in a brand new way, Logging onto BlueJeans from all over...

Storytelling and Science: What's ABT got to do with it?

...eaning and contentious by multiple classmates, while the use of acronyms was greatly disliked by our professor Dr. Bill Dennison as he believes they immediately narrow your potential audience. Our struggles highlighted the fact that an ABT statemen...

A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II

...number one in 1972; American Pie by Don McLean. This is Miss Chesapeake Bay: Miss Chesapeake Bay 29 Nov 2017 William C. Dennison A long long time ago I can still remember now Those oysters used to make me smile And I knew if I wanted to take a stan...

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