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AMAMO2023 and J-COAST Newsletter

Dennison WC, Furukawa K, Nadaoka K, Vargas-Nguyen V, Anderson S ·
16 July 2024

From November 17th to 22nd, the COAST Card team met in Tokyo, Japan for the Amamo2023 and JCOAST conference and meeting hosted at the Sasikawa Peace Foundation. While there, team members listened to and presented talks on seagrass, blue carbon, science communication, and the COAST Card Project. They visited various places around Tokyo that are of interest to the COAST Card Project or serve as sites of engagement and restoration events.

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Charting the Chesapeake: Uncovering the Mysteries of Microdebris (Page 1)

Charting the Chesapeake: Uncovering the Mysteries of Microdebris

Trenholm N, Knauss C ·
9 July 2024

Man-made debris is found throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, but its status is largely unknown due to the lack of a monitoring framework. Recent research has aimed to collect data on this debris and develop methods for long-term monitoring. The goal is to use this data as an indicator in a future Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card.

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Southeast Michigan Report Cards: First Virtual Stakeholder Workshop Summary (Page 1)

Southeast Michigan Report Cards: First Virtual Stakeholder Workshop Summary

November 4, 10, and 16, 2021

Dylan Taillie, Alexandra Fries, Heath Kelsey, Joe Edgerton, Lorena Villanueva-Almanza ·
4 January 2022

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Integration and Application Network has partnered with Council Fire, LLC, the Clinton River Watershed Council, Friends of the Detroit River, Huron River Watershed Council, River Raisin Watershed Council, and Friends of the Rouge to create socio-environmental report cards for five rivers in southeast Michigan. An overall report card that integrates the results into an assessment of the southeast Michigan region will also be produced.

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2020 Chesapeake Bay Report Card Economic Indicator Two-Pager (Page 1)

Local economy indicators coming next year

Michael Shuman, George Chmael ·
22 June 2021

This newsletter highlights synthesis outcomes from the Fall 2020 Economic Indicators workshop. Five new economic indicators were generated that will eventually be incorporated into future iterations of the Chesapeake Bay Report Card.

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