{"id":9008,"date":"2016-06-21T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?page_id=9008"},"modified":"2017-02-07T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:50:15","slug":"newsnews-2stories-hatched-from-the-nest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/newsnews-2stories-hatched-from-the-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories Hatched from the NEST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formally concluded, work under the New England Sustainability Consortium\u2019s Safe Beaches and Shellfish project continues to build on its success<\/em><\/p>\n

By David Sims<\/p>\n

The New England Sustainability Consortium\u2019s (NEST<\/a>) Safe Beaches and Shellfish project, which began in September 2013 under National Science Foundation\u2019s (NSF) the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, is now winding down.<\/p>\n

But a variety of associated projects born out of the effort are currently underway and promise to add to the rich dataset and multimedia components already generated by the project, and which will lead to new solutions and efforts to link knowledge with action and\/or science with decision making.<\/p>\n

For example, the NEST Storytelling Website<\/a>\u2014created as a master\u2019s research project by Tyler Quiring of the 91¸£Àû Department of Communication and Journalism and the Mitchell Center\u2014will have additional transmedia elements that tell the multilayered stories of coastal Maine clam diggers\u2014stories that do not often leave the mudflats where they are commonly told.<\/p>\n

\"Digging<\/a>
NEST researcher Bridie McGreavy digs clams in Frenchman Bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It should be noted that this is not just another<\/em> website. Rather, it is an intentional effort to tell sustainability stories and produce media research in ways that also build collaborations across the project team and with stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Additionally, student-produced stories and analyses that grew out of an environmental communication \u00a0service-learning class taught in the fall 2015 semester by NEST researcher and assistant professor of environmental communication Bridie McGreavy\u2014also of Department of Communication and Journalism and the Mitchell Center\u2014will soon be up and running as an expansion of the Storytelling Website and part of the NEST Future of Dams<\/a> project, which is just gearing up.<\/p>\n

Quiring is joining that project as a new doctoral student this summer and remarks, \u201cThis is going to be a subset of the NEST website, and the goal is to share this with people and communities that are making decisions around dams to help them explore the role communication played in the Penobscot River Restoration Project.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Hiram<\/a>
The Hiram dam on the Saco River in Maine is one of more than 50 dams in New England that are scheduled for FERC relicensing in the next decade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quiring\u2019s \u201cintegrated transmedia\u201d approach to how he crafted and will continue to craft the NEST websites is a multifaceted method of pulling different media pieces together and using them to add up to more than the sum of their parts for purposes of storytelling.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach one can stand alone and work independently or, taken together, can create an experience that is dynamic and and open to visitor interaction,\u201d Quiring says. He adds, \u201cI wanted to make stories about the interactions between and among NEST stakeholders and researchers and then use the site as another way to have engagements between all those groups and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Quiring\u2019s perspective, if done right, transmedia storymaking doesn\u2019t just tell stories or disseminate information but builds<\/em> knowledge. For example, he feels he was building knowledge alongside the people he was researching with for the project\u2014from NEST stakeholders to shellfish harvesters, and beach managers. \u201cAnd through sharing the story online we\u2019re providing a space where the public can build knowledge about NEST, too, by interacting with the site.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ClamCam project, which grew out of McGreavy\u2019s extensive field research interviewing clam diggers in the Frenchman Bay region, will document the rigors of a job that takes an immense physical toll on the diggers and can shift radically from day to day depending on weather, tidal cycles, polluted coastal waters (mudflat closures), and the like.<\/p>\n

Fieldwork this summer by both Quiring and McGreavy will expand on initial efforts to document the work of clam diggers by outfitting them with body-mounted GoPro cameras to create video and audio records of the process. The ClamCam footage, which will be done in parallel with continued in-depth interviews, will help the researchers get a better sense of the whole clam digging culture and the relationship between the diggers, the mudflats and the ecosystem as a whole.<\/p>\n

\"Tyler<\/a>
Tyler Quiring presents NEST’s Storytelling Website at a Mitchell Center seminar in April 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notes McGreavy, \u201cThe field research has given us a fine-grain understanding of some of the physical practices of harvesting and how those perhaps make the diggers more vulnerable to injury. We want to get a better handle on that this summer so we can better understand the relationship between physical injury and coping mechanisms.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can explore the NEST Storytelling Website here<\/a> by choosing from a variety of tabs at the top of the page (\u201cIntroduction, Beaches, Shellfish\u2026\u201d) and viewing the multiple, nested videos about the topics and people who make up the story.<\/p>\n

Check back to these pages in the weeks ahead for the full stories on the ClamCam project and the service-learning class that led to the Future of Dams student projects.<\/p>\n

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