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Dennison WC, Furukawa K, Nadaoka K, Vargas-Nguyen V, Anderson S ·
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.
Dennison WC, Furukawa K, Nadaoka K, Vargas-Nguyen V, Anderson S ·
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.
Vargas-Nguyen V, Edgerton J, Nair R, Anderson S, Badri L, Lucchese V, Fife A, Kelsey H, Dennison B, Knauss C, Trenholm N ·
This report card provides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed. Since 2016, UMCES has engaged stakeholders throughout the watershed to transform the report card into an evaluation of the Chesapeake Watershed health. Watershed health includes traditional ecological indicators, but also economic and societal indicators.
Stakeholder Engagement is Key to Creating a Vision for the Future
William C. Dennison, Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen, Keita Furukawa, Sidney Anderson, Roshni Nair, Arga C. Anil, Rhodora V. Azanza, S. Lili Badri, Lourdes J. Cruz, Pål I. Davidsen, Dattesh V. Desai, Charissa Ferrera, Tom Gerald Genovia, Gil Jacinto, Lidita Khandeparker, Midori Kawabe, Masashi Kodama, Pheng Lor, Veronica M. Lucchese, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Yushi Morioka, Hilde Maria Nacorda, Kazuo Nadaoka, Takashi Nakamura, Aklilu Tilahun Tadesse, Hiroshi Yagi ·
To learn more about best practices for organizing, facilitating, and interpreting the responses from stakeholder engagement events, download our Tool Guide for Stakeholder Engagement in Coastal Communities here.
Agricultural lands are an important part of the economy and heritage of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and are a focus of conservation activities. Streams and rivers around farms provide communities with drinking water and recreational opportunities, but these local benefits can be impaired by elevated nutrient and sediment concentrations.
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.
Costanzo S, Blancard C, Davidson S, Dennison W, Escurra J, Freeman S, Fries A, Krchnak K, Sherman J, Thieme M, Vargas-Nguyen V ·
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:
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) is launching the Chesapeake Global Collaboratory to develop solutions to the urgent environmental challenges facing the region, nation, and planet.
This report card provides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed. Since 2016, UMCES has engaged stakeholders throughout the watershed to transform the report card into an evaluation of the Chesapeake Watershed health. Watershed health includes traditional ecological indicators, but also economic and societal indicators. This is the fourth year the watershed has been scored, and one new ecological indicator has been added.
The first-ever Potomac River and Watershed Report Card was released in tandem with the 2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card this year. Every year, the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed are graded on a variety of ecological, social, and economic indicators. For 2022, the COAST Card Project took a closer look at the Potomac Watershed, a sub-watershed of the Chesapeake, to help inform decision-making in more focused areas throughout the watershed.
