Publications by Alexandra Fries

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Clinton River Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

Clinton River Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Clinton River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Clinton River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Detroit River Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

Detroit River Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Detroit River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Detroit River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Huron River Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

Huron River Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Huron River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Huron River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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River Raisin Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

River Raisin Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first River Raisin Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the River Raisin watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Rouge River Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

Rouge River Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Rouge River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Rouge River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Southeast Michigan Report Card (Page 1)

Southeast Michigan Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Southeast Michigan Report Card, which provides an overall socio-environmental assessment of Southeast Michigan based on the combined scores from six river watersheds: Clinton, Detroit, Huron, River Raisin, and Rouge.

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2022 Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card (Page 1)

2022 Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card

Bill Dennison, Conor Keitzer, Nathan Miller, Alexandra Fries ·
24 October 2023

The aim of this report card is to provide a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of 2022 Coastal Bays health. Coastal Bays health is defined as the progress of four water quality indicators (total nitrogen, total phosphorus, chlorophyll a, dissolved oxygen) and two biotic indicators (seagrass, hard clams) toward scientifically derived ecological thresholds or goals.

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Guía práctica para la elaboración de reportes de salud de cuencas (Page 1)

Guía práctica para la elaboración de reportes de salud de cuencas

Costanzo S, Blancard C, Davidson S, Dennison W, Escurra J, Freeman S, Fries A, Krchnak K, Sherman J, Thieme M, Vargas-Nguyen V ·
20 July 2023

Desarrollada en colaboración con World Wildlife Fund (WWF) como parte de la iniciativa Healthy Rivers for All, la Guía del profesional para desarrollar boletas de calificaciones de cuencas es una referencia y un recurso para el usuario:

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Non-Tidal Patapsco River Report Card (Page 1)

Non-Tidal Patapsco River Report Card

Amanda DeLeo ·
21 June 2023

This report card, produced with Patapsco Heritage Greenway as part of the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative, assesses the condition of the Patapsco River using volunteer monitoring data.

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