This community-level resilience report card examines the preparedness of the Eastport neighborhood in Annapolis, MD to threats like severe weather and flooding. After surveying community members to identify priority concerns in the neighborhood, indicators to assess threats and resilience around those concerns were selected to give the community a preparedness score. This report card recommends individual and community-wide actions that can reduce vulnerability in areas of concern.

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This community-level resilience report card examines the preparedness of the Pine Street neighborhood in Cambridge, MD to threats like severe weather and extreme heat. After surveying community members to identify priority concerns in the neighborhood, indicators to assess threats and resilience around those concerns were selected to give the community a preparedness score. This report card recommends individual and community-wide actions that can reduce vulnerability in areas of concern.

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Following the first-ever Maryland Coastal Adaptation Report Card in 2021, IAN collaborated with the Charles County Resilience Authority to develop a county-level assessment of coastal adaptation. Following in-person and virtual stakeholder engagement workshops, a suite of eighteen resilience indicators and nine vulnerability indicators were identified and assessed. Dividing adaptation indicators into two categories highlights areas that are doing particularly well or require extra attention.

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This 24-page strategic plan highlights IAN's impact so far, along with the mission, vision, and values by which IAN conducts itself. This document details IAN's objectives for the next five years.

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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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Natural resources are not bound by park borders, and stressors to natural resources may be shared across parks and the landscape. Management across parks and at the landscape level is essential. RAMS provides a landscape level view of these resources and informs collaborative management.

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National Parks span multiple ecosystems, and threshold (target) conditions of natural resources indicators may vary by ecosystem. RAMS assesses indicator conditions across ecosystems. RAMS provides snapshot of Vital Signs conditions across ecosystems. RAMS transects illustrate indicators and variation among park ecosystems.

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RAMS, or Resource Assessments for Management Strategies, provides the next generation of Natural Resource Condition Assessments in the National Park Service National Capital Region. It uses Inventory and Monitoring data to assess natural resource conditions and inform management in the parks.

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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 Upper Rio Grande Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Upper Rio Grande watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of four different values in the watershed:

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This document describes the methods and development process for the Upper Rio Grande Basin Report Card.

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