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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.
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.
Advancing the Coastal Ocean Assessment for Sustainability and Transformation Project in the Chesapeake Bay
Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen, Sidney Anderson, Lili Badri, and Bill Dennison ·
IAN Staff and the visiting Global Sustainability Scholars hosted a Middle Potomac Listening Session in July 2022 to begin developing the upcoming Potomac Watershed COAST Card.
Dave Brinker, Bill Dennison, Steve Farr, Steve Doctor, Roman Jesien, Katherine Munson, Judy O’Neil, Kevin Smith, Mitch Tarnowski, Catherine Wazniak, Jeff White, Craig Wheedon, and Rich Mason ·
Coastal Bays health is defined as the progress of four water quality indicators (nitrogen, phosphorus, chlorophyll a, dissolved oxygen) and two biotic indicators (seagrass, hard clam) toward scientifically derived ecological thresholds or goals. The Coastal Bays had an overall score of C+, a slight improvement from the previous year. Improved total phosphorus scores contributed to the slightly higher overall health of the bays.
Dave Brinker, Bill Dennison, Steve Farr, Steve Doctor, Roman Jesien, Katherine Munson, Judy O’Neil,
Kevin Smith, Mitch Tarnowski, Catherine Wazniak, Jeff White, Craig Wheedon, and Rich Mason ·
Reporting on the State of the Maryland Coastal Bays is an opportunity to step back and reflect on the status and trends of key environmental features in this iconic region. The theme of this State of the Coastal Bays is building ecological resilience in the region. This focus on resilience is due to the convergence of several factors:
