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Summer 2014
A collaborative endeavor involving
undergraduate and graduate students from science, the
arts, and communication to convey conservation science
to diverse audiences.
Science can help solve many of the
environmental problems facing society today, but
science alone will not pave the way to swift
resolutions, because public perception has a large
impact on the likelihood of political and societal
action.
Interactions between scientists,
artists, and communicators have the potential to
synergistically ignite to communicate the science of
nature.
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| The Transforming Nature Poster (left) was
designed by artist, Jaclyn Stephens, for advertising our
public exhibit at the Oxford Community Art Center from
Nov. 14-Dec 5, 2014. |
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More
than 150 people attended the opening ceremony
and many hundreds more moved through in the
days that followed because the room was used
for rentals and art fairs throughout the month
following the exhibition. |
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| Watershed
Connections |
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Video
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| Alicia
Auhagen |
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The Watershed group explored the
connections of land-use to the Acton Lake Watershed
through the development of a creative video. Acton Lake
is a highly eutrophic reservoir in southwestern Ohio
that is located in a watershed dominated by row crop
agriculture. |
| Andrea
Christman |
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| Lila
Wengler |
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| Faculty
Mentors: Mike Vanni & Annie-Laurie Blair |
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Prevalent Pesticides
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| Tyler Hoskins |
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The Pesticide group explored the
relationship humans have with pesticide use through a
chapbook of pesticide prose and poetry that highlights
the contrasting styles of scientists and poets. You
can download the chapbook, 3.5 lbs here.
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| Tara Keesling |
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| Samantha
Rumschlag |
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| Faculty
Mentor: Michelle Boone |
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The
3.5 lbs chapbook cover (left) was a screenprint of a slide
of amphibian testes that were exposed to a common pesticide
made by Samantha Rumschlag. |
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Crop
Diversity
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Matthew
Dietrich
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The
Crop Diversity group explored the loss of genetic
diversity in crops over the last 80 years through
development of prints and stamps of common fruits and
vegetables, some of which are included below. |
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Jaclyn Stephens
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Faculty Mentor: Richard
Moore
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