A semi-automated story about conflicts in land use.

Click here to begin, if your browser can use the Flash™ player, and has a ~fast connection...

    Too much scientific information has profound societal and environmental consequences, but fails to reach other scientists or the public effectively. This presentation is a test of a free internet add-on (which may already be part of recent browsers) as a tool to better communicate previously difficult-to-convey results. The story herein parallels my scientific "poster" entitled Quantifying Impacts from Vehicles — and Other Trampling Vectors, which was presented at the summer 2000 meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

   If an internet foulup gives grief in handling the whole, do please try the individual segments. Similarly, do try again if any parts refuse to load or play initially.

 

   The finished automated sections were targeted to have each image stay on screen for about 5-10 seconds, and to take about a minute to run overall, but because of the full-screen display option, they may take longer to unfold on slower computers. In the other sections, theoretically single-click mouse-operated buttons should advance or retreat among the images, or allow a return to this index.

   Experience suggests that download times will vary greatly with internet and USU computer center traffic, and often run afoul of the variety of unpredictable glitches that still plague this sector of the virtual world. Among the more regularly appearing of these have been failures of smaller (auto-hyperlinked) images to display, and a requirement, sometimes, to click on buttons more than once to get the desired action.

   Please realize that these "movies" are as yet a draft, with a goal of making their presentation at least as interesting as the information contained within them.Your feedback about what works and what doesn't for you would be greatly valued, either about the effectiveness of my Flash approach (especially between the manual versus fully automated approaches), or the underlying story that I am attempting to tell.

      The same overall presentation is intended to be made available as a simpler set (gif files), when funds and time allow, for those who do not have Flash player capabilities.

This page, along with all associated image and text files, is copyright © 2000 by Terence Yorks; all rights reserved You are most welcome to bring links here, and, with proper credit, to the related files, but please do not copy or otherwise utilize them without express permission of their author.

 

Most recent update: 25 August 2000.

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