This past November, IAN, in collaboration with its partners from WWF, Audubon Southwest, and The University of Massachusetts Amherst published a socio-environmental health report card for the Upper Rio Grande. The report card covers a section of the Rio Grande that stretches from the river’s headwaters in the Colorado Rockies to Fort Quitman, TX. Project members cast a wide net to retrieve relevant data that would allow us to analyze the region's environmental, social, and economic conditions.
In early October, UMCES IAN hosted two Patuxent Stakeholder Listening Sessions as part of Phase 1 of developing a Patuxent River and Watershed Socio-environmental Report Card.
An account of the January 2020 Chesapeake Watershed Report Card workshop, a convening to discuss development of a comprehensive new report card. Includes a song by Bill Dennison!
In late 2019, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley published a book through Esri Press entitled, “Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age”. I had been anticipating the book’s release ever since Gov.
Last week on October 4-5, several of us at IAN attended the annual MEES Colloquium at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), which is located along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. IMET director Russell Hill kicked off the program with a brief welcome to the impressive multi-institutional laboratory.
Participants at the first Coastal Resilience Symposium in Mérida, Yucatán represented numerous institutions and backgrounds from Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Portugal, and the United States. Credit:
