This past week, on June 1st and 2nd, we had the pleasure of attending the Chesapeake Studies Conference put on by Salisbury University. Although the conference itself was small, with many of the speakers and attendees having known each other for quite some time, newcomers like us were met with open arms by this tight-knit Chesapeake scholar community.

Assistant Science Communicator Joe Edgerton recalls the scenes from the fall 2021 Chesapeake Bay tidal flooding event.

The last of three virtual workshop sessions for the development of individual and regional socio-environmental report cards for the Detroit, Clinton, Huron, Rouge, and Raisin rivers in Michigan concluded on November 16, 2021. The main goal of these sessions was to work with stakeholders to identify indicators that reflect the social, cultural, economic, and environmental values of the Southeast Michigan region.

Oregonian IAN intern Joe Edgerton journeys to Maryland to discover the Chesapeake Bay.

In the Pacific Northwest the leaves are changing colors, the mountains are capped with snow, and salmon have once again returned to the streams and rivers to spawn.

A national rollup of jurisdictional coral reef reports reveals reefs are fair, but vulnerable and declining.

After attending a UMCES meeting about DEIJ, I discovered how IAN is making an impact on this important topic.

September 25 was World Rivers Day. Our partners at World Wildlife Fund Zambia combined that celebration with the release of the Lower Kafue River Basin Report Card.

The Western Lake Erie 1st Report Card is the newest science communication achievement for IAN and the report's stakeholders. After an evaluation of almost a dozen environmental health indicators for both the Lake basin and watershed's health, the IAN team scored both areas as having moderate health for 2018.

To increase awareness for the National Water Quality month of August, we take a look at water quality indicators and how IAN incorporates them into science communication.