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Assateague Island National Seashore: climate change education resources
As the continuing effects of climate change alter the unique habitats at Assateague Island National Seashore, communicating the threats posed by climate change becomes increasingly important. Thus, IAN and staff at Assateague will collaborate to identify the key messages regarding climate change and design a series of documents that illustrate these threats to a variety of stakeholders. We will create a online module for middle and high school students about what causes climate change and what our coastlines might look like in the future. This module will be support by brochures for the visitors' center at the park and a technical report.  Full Details  

Florida Sea Grant: South Florida Ecosystem Synthesis
This book aims to synthesize research pertaining to key background and drivers of the South Florida ecosystem. Eight chapters organize the main research topics: geographic setting, oceanography, water quality, coral reef and hardbottom, seagrasses, mangroves, some important biota, and some important management actions. Chapter content is comprised of a series of fact sheets, each written by different researchers, and meant to stand alone as a single fact sheet, or together as a comprehensive book. IAN provides a supporting role in creating diagrams for each book chapter, while layout is provided by Pamela Fletcher of NOAA, and content provided by individual Florida researchers.  Full Details  

HAFE-CHOH-CATO: Natural Resource Condition Assessments
The National Park Service is carrying out assessments of the natural resource condition (NRCA) for nearly 300 of the National Parks throughout the country deemed to have significant natural resources. This project, to assess condition of Harpers Ferry and Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Parks and Catoctin Mountain Park in the National Capital Region, is a synthesis project aimed at collating and synthesizing all available data to assess current status and trend for each metric, combining these into an overall framework. The focus of this study has been to develop a habitat based framework to assess natural resource condition.  Full Details  

UMCES/IAN Environmental Science Films on SchoolTube.com
We strive to inspire future scientists and increase awareness about environmental issues. We believe that new media is a integral part of achieving these goals. Therefore, we have launched an UMCES channel on SchoolTube. Sponsored by IAN, this channel hosts environmental science videos created by UMCES faculty, staff, and students. What is SchoolTube? It is a video sharing site used by middle and high school students, teachers, and parents across the country.  Full Details  

Colonial National Historical Park: Natural Resource Condition Assessment
The National Park Service is carrying out assessments of the natural resource condition (NRCA) for nearly 300 of the National Parks throughout the country deemed to have significant natural resources. This project, to assess condition of Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia, is a synthesis project aimed at collating and synthesizing all available data to assess current status and trend for each metric, combining these into an overall framework. The focus of this study has been to develop a habitat based framework to assess natural resource condition.  Full Details  

Conservation International: science communication products
Conservation International is a worldwide non-profit dedicated to preserving and conserving the natural world using an integrated approach of natural and social sciences. IAN partners with Conservation International on producing policy briefs (4-page summary documents), reports, and guidebooks, based on their research findings and lessons learned in many areas around the globe.  Full Details