Publications by Heath Kelsey

IAN is committed to producing practical, user-centered communications that foster a better understanding of science and enable readers to pursue new opportunities in research, education, and environmental problem-solving. Our publications synthesize scientific findings using effective science communication techniques.

Socio-ecological analysis of the eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, USA (Page 1)

Socio-ecological analysis of the eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, USA

Ollivier MEL, Newton A, Kelsey RH ·
2023

This study is a social-ecological analysis of eutrophication in the Chesapeake Bay, United States of America (USA). It uses an expanded DPSIR framework (Drivers/Pressures/State/ Impacts/Responses) methodology to analyze the issue. In addition, a typology of the social actors and stakeholders in the socio-economic part of the system is identified.

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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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2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card

Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen, Alexandra Fries, Joe Edgerton, Bill Dennison, Sidney Anderson, Lili Badri, Veronica Lucchese, Katie May Laumann, Heath Kelsey ·
6 June 2023

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.

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Rogue River Basin Report Card (Page 1)

Rogue River Basin Report Card

Rogue River Watershed Council, The Carpenter Foundation ·
10 May 2023

The first-ever Rogue River Basin Report Card … More than 7,000 years ago, the volcanic explosion of Mount Mazama in what is now southwestern Oregon led to the formation of Crater Lake. In present day, Boundary Springs bubbles out from the caldera of Crater Lake National Park, and it is here we can find the origin of one of Oregon’s major rivers, the Rogue River.

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The first New Caledonia socio-environmental Report Card (Page 1)

The first New Caledonia socio-environmental Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Annie Carew ·
1 February 2023

The first-ever New Caledonia socio-environmental Report Card was developed at the first PACPATH workshop held in Nouméa, New Caledonia in October 2022. This workshop brought together stakeholders from across the islands of New Caledonia to discuss sustainable coastal management and oncoming challenges. The PACPATH project aims to develop a shared understanding of sustainability needs and priorities around the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Chesapeake Bay and Watershed 2021 Report Card (Page 1)

2021 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card

Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen, Sky Swanson, Annie Carew, Joe Edgerton, Heath Kelsey, Lili Badri, Lorena Villanueva-Almanza ·
6 June 2022

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 third year the watershed has been scored, and four new economic indicators have been added.

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Cuando River Basin 2021 Report Card (Page 1)

Cuando River Basin 2021 Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Simon Costanzo, Annie Carew ·
3 June 2022

The first-ever Cuando River Basin Report Card aims to assist in decision making to expand protected lands, increase biodiversity, maintain migration routes, and draw more tourists to the area. Inclusive conservation, which centers conservation actions on the needs of local communities, is at the heart of this approach.

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Selecting Indicators for Basin Health (Page 1)

Selecting Indicators for Basin Health Report Cards

Canny A, Shahbol N, Thieme M, Fries A, Kelsey H, Costanzo S ·
1 May 2022

This Guide is developed to supplement the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards, which was developed in partner with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as part of the Healthy Rivers for All initiative. It is intended for those developing indicators that can help understand the health of a basin report card or those who are developing a basin report card.

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A National Status Report on United States Coral Reefs Based on 2012–2018 Data From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (Page 1)

A National Status Report on United States Coral Reefs Based on 2012–2018 Data From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program

Towle EK, Donovan EC, Kelsey RH, Allen ME, Barkley H, Blondeau J, Brainard RE, Carew A, Couch CS, Dillard MK, Eakin CM, Edwards K, Edwards PET, Enochs IC, Fleming CS, Fries AS, Geiger EF, Grove LJ, Groves SH, Gorstein M, Heenan A, Johnson MW, Kimball J, Koss JL, Kindinger T, Levine A, Manzello DP, Miller N, Oliver T, Samson JC, Swanson D, Vargas-Ángel B, Viehman TS and Williams ID ·
2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Conservation Program supports the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) in the United States Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico.

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