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A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II

...but did not have long term negative effects on the Bay. Cover photos of three books published in 2003, chronicling the history and current issues with the Chesapeake Bay1,2,3. Hurricane Isabel over the East Coast4. In 2004, Maryland Governor Rober...

A Long Love Affair With Chesapeake Bay Part I

Healthy Rivers for All: December 2017 retreat

...sentation and include a suite of interactive exercises. Heath Kelsey and Michele Thieme discussing the training handbook storyboard. During this workshop, we also: Filmed a session of our team playing the ‘Get the Grade’ report card ga...

Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card

...ds to be addressed in the report card, via strategic messaging techniques, in order to make sure that everyone hears the story in the report card . Different strokes for different folks—creating convincing messages and compelling recommendat...

Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Planning

... and defining a clear understanding of what are you trying to accomplish will allow a report card to share the authentic story of a place with the local community and with the world....

Telling the River Story

Telling the River Story ... Kennedy Onyango Last week the Healthy Rivers For All class held its sixth session, during which our discussion cente...

Science of Science Communication IV: What Future Conferences Should Consider

...covered in the future: cognitive studies of information processing, science visualization techniques and approaches, and storytelling analysis and interpretation. Dr. Marsha McNutt, President of the National Academies of Science, opening the Scien...

Five principles of holistic science communication

...he Colloquium exhibited and embraced the growing diversity and interdisciplinarity of science. 2. Tell a story a) Great science and great stories have something in common—as Frank Sesno explained, both involve...

Grading basin or ecosystem health to track and address change

... or site-based means or medians . This observation raised the question of how we can analyze data so it “tells the story that needs to be told” in a report card, while still honoring our ethical responsibility of objectivity when it co...

The Science of Science Communication

... was pleasantly surprised by the creative, science themed artwork inside. When viewing this artwork, together with the history and inherent prestige of the Academy, one can't help but be instantly inspired. The two-day conference brought together...

A Trip to The Queen City

...ning brewery to be retrofit into an existing grain silo. Grain elevators are an important part of Buffalo’s port history—standing at the intersection of several important water routes—the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal—grai...

Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes

...threats and choose report card indicators . Values and threats identified in Step One are the villains and heroes of the story of a basin, while indicators selected during Step Two measure data that is most important for assessing and communicatin...

What’s the Story in Your Report Card?

What’s the Story in Your Report Card? ... By Jodie Mehrtens story . Since we first learned to communicate, humans have shared our hopes, dreams, fears, knowledge, experiences, and values...

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...

Sailing around the world: Sea Semester and Rich Wilson

...e current S.E.A. ships, the S/S Corwith Cramer, had just finished a major refit in Maine. David Bank told us a fantastic story of the “sweat equity” invested by S.E.A. staff and volunteers in the Cramer yard period in a Maine shipyard....

IAN's First Ever Strategic Plan

... our vision, mission, and values. It was helpful to define these aspects of IAN. We also reflected on our fifteen-year history and summarized it in specific phases: initiation (2002-2004), partnership (2005-2009), engagement (2010-2014), globaliza...

The Debut of the Riversymposium Club Band

... What will you think when I sing out of tune Will you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I’ll tell you a story And I’ll try not to make it hard to see Oh I get by with a little help from my friends Mmm, I can see why with a little...

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…...

"Whirling Disease" and Environmental Responsibility

...very syllable, delivering, justly, mischief’s cold thrill. This poem uses a unique narrative structure to tell its story. It concentrates on a single moment: the instant the author tries to save a trout suffering from whirling disease , an i...

What makes a port city iconic?

What makes a port city iconic? ... What makes a port city iconic? Geography, history, sense of place, water everywhere, economic engines, melting pots and vistas. My first visit to Rio de Janeiro convinced...

The Billion Oyster Conference and New York City: Part 1

In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 2

...d trips before our Tuul River report card workshop, we headed downstream to visit two mines: one recently built with a history of environmental protections, the other an old soviet mine with no apparent environmental regulation. On our way, we pas...

In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 1

... shops. Directly to the side of the government house is the National Museum of Mongolia . I enjoyed learning about the history of Mongolia from this museum from exhibits such as the Mongol Empire and the ger (rhymes with air) or Mongolian yurt. Ge...

Don Boesch, the Coastal Scholar, steps down after 27 years

...resident, said that Chesapeake Bay , the Gulf of Mexico and the planet are all thankful for Don Boesch. He told the story of how he unabashedly appropriated Don's comment that it was not “A moment for Chesapeake Bay restoration”,...

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...

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