Blog posts by Heath Kelsey
NOAA Coastal Services Center. Credit: coast.noaa.gov

The NOAA Coral Reef Report Card - Reflections on the report card process

Heath Kelsey ·
29 April 2016
Environmental Report Cards | Science Communication | Applying Science | 

Caroline Donovan and I facilitated a mini-workshop in Charleston, South Carolina this week to advance the NOAA Coral Reef Monitoring Program Report Card Pilot projects in American Samoa and Florida. The meeting went very well – we had some difficult things to work out, and everyone came together to do just that.

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Participants at the Mississippi River Watershed Report Card release. Photo credit: Mike Smith

The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released

Heath Kelsey ·
30 October 2015
Environmental Report Cards | Applying Science | 

On October 14, 2015, in St. Louis, Missouri, I unveiled the Report Card for the Mississippi River Watershed, a project that almost everyone on the IAN Science Communication team has worked on at some point since 2012. The event was on the roof top patio of at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch in Downtown St. Louis, with great views of the river and the St. Louis Arch.

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Crocodiles at Crocodylus Park in Darwin Australia. Credit Heath Kelsey

Crocodile report cards

Heath Kelsey ·
30 June 2015
Environmental Report Cards | Learning Science |     1 comments

I had the unique opportunity to discuss report cards with a couple of global crocodile experts based in Darwin. Grahame Webb and Charlie Manolis are active in crocodile management and conservation globally, and operate Crocodylus Park in Darwin, a crocodile farm and research facility. Grahame is chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Crocodile Specialist Group, and Charlie is Chief Scientist at Crocodylus Park.

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Photos of olive hymenachne (top) and paragrass (bottom). Photo credit: Northern Territory Government Weed Management Branch and Michael Douglas.

Invasive grasses pose a threat to natural and cultural resources in Kakadu National Park

Heath Kelsey ·
4 June 2015
Science Communication | Applying Science | Learning Science | 

As part of our synthesis of research findings related to National Environment Research Programme (NERP) work on Kakadu National Park floodplains, I am interviewing scientists to begin distilling the key messages for the synthesis story. These researchers are contributing to the developing picture of the connections between the floodplains, water movement, and important natural and cultural resources.

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Yellow Waters Billabong, Kakadu National Park. Photo credit: Heath Kelsey

Water, food webs, and production on the Kakadu floodplains

Heath Kelsey ·
2 June 2015
Science Communication | Applying Science | Learning Science |     1 comments

As part of our synthesis of research findings related to National Environment Research Programme (NERP) work on Kakadu National Park floodplains, I am interviewing scientists to begin distilling the key messages for the synthesis story. These researchers are contributing to the developing picture of the connections between the floodplains, water movement, and important natural and cultural resources. Yellow Waters Billabong, Kakadu National Park. Photo credit:

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