Publications by Heath Kelsey

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Rouge River Watershed Report Card (Arabic) (Page 1)

Rouge River Watershed Report Card (Arabic)

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
3 May 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 (Arabic) (Page 1)

Southeast Michigan Report Card (Arabic)

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
3 May 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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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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Contributing to sustainable development pathways in the South Pacific through transdisciplinary research: Conference report (Page 1)

Contributing to sustainable development pathways in the South Pacific through transdisciplinary research: Conference report

Riechers M, Baumann L, Braun M, Carew A, Chinappa M, Dehm J, Ganachaud A, Holland E, Kelsey H, Lal S, Landemard M, Rocle N, and Stockwell BL ·
2024

This conference report synthesises the discussions and lessons learnt from a workshop with international and local experts and practitioners held in Noum´ea, New Caledonia (France, Oceania) from 17th to 21st of October 2022. The workshop was part of a larger transdisciplinary process aimed to anticipate and react to marine heatwaves, coastal erosion and sea level rise as well as ocean deoxygenation and acidification in Fiji and New Caledonia.

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Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework (Page 1)

Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework

Layva Ollivier ME, Newton A, Kelsey H ·
2024

This research assesses Chesapeake Bay’s sustainability in four domains: environment, social, economy, and governance, using the Circles of Coastal Sustainability methodology. Each of the four domains has five categories, and each category is evaluated by the authors’ expert judgment using indicators related to the socio-ecological system and the definition of sustainable development.

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