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Diving into NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (Blog Post)
...oring Plan [pdf]. IAN’s role is to help in the status and trends reporting portion of the Plan by developing template report cards in two locations, Florida and American Samoa. The report cards will incorporate the four monitoring areas: benthic co...
Don’t Hate, Integrate! (Blog Post)
...ion in our Environment and Society class was integrated assessment. More specifically, we discussed how environmental report cards can be used to integrate various metrics and create one, easy-to-understand statement regarding the natural and socia...
Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay (Blog Post)
Dr. Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen successfully defends her dissertation (Blog Post)
...ollowing her public seminar. The title of Vanessa's dissertation was the following: "The role of social-environmental report cards in transdisciplinary collaboration and adaptive governance for a sustainable future". She used a combination of natur...
Dr. Walter Boynton becomes Tidal Monitoring Analysis Workgroup chair (Blog Post)
...s data is used as a basis for the annual EcoCheck report card and also serves to inform the Total Maximum...he newly formed Scientific Technical Analysis and Reporting (STAR) team . An example of Walter's synthetic...
Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story? (Blog Post)
Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story? ... Kawawa Banda and Chinyawezhi Kakoma Report cards are effective communications tools. They raise awareness of a river basin, explain the current health and challenges...
Encountering Former Students (Blog Post)
...the University of Queensland. On Tuesday, on a trip to Townsville to develop a strategy for future Great Barrier Reef report cards , I encountered a former University of Queensland student, Dr. Katherine Martin. I had seen her name on emails and kn...
Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter (Blog Post)
...ion and Application Network (Kelsey, Fries, Kellogg and Wicks) and one for NOAA (Zhang). EcoCheck has produced annual report cards for Chesapeake Bay beginning in 2006. These report cards are supported by extensive web materials including data tabl...
Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay report card with new indicators and new methods (Blog Post)
...ps that we work with through the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Assessment Coalition (MTAC) do use bacteria in their regional report cards. We have developed protocols for bacteria as well as the other water quality indicators so that results are comparabl...
Environmental report card grading system (Blog Post)
Environmental report card grading system ... The grading system used in the EcoCheck environmental report cards is a simple, systematic ranking scale. The one hundred point scale is divided into five equal categories; A (80-100),...
Environmental report card workshop in Surfers Paradise, Australia (Blog Post)
...tralia ... Sponsored by the Australian Water and Environmental Research Alliance (AWERA), a workshop on environmental report cards was held near Brisbane, Australia. This workshop focused on how environmental report cards have emerged as a techniqu...
Exploring an Ecosystem in Transition: The Road to Flamingo (Blog Post)
...desirable? This is a question that the Everglades report card may be able to answer. Currently, the Integr...rs and ecologists to incorporate an environmental report card into the Everglades 2019 System Status Repor...
Eyes on the prize: Looking beyond graduate school during the 2019 MEES Colloquium (Blog Post)
...and tides on coastal bays, prevalence of toxin/antitoxin systems in the picocyanobacteria genome, and of course IAN’s report cards. The talks were interesting, but I think everyone was especially excited for the field trips that would follow! There...
Failte gu Alba! (Welcome to Scotland!) (Blog Post)
...ause the goal was to get everyone to walk around and visit each table. I set up the table with IAN products , such as report cards, newsletter, and reports, but I made sure to focus on products that were directly relevant to MPAs but diverse in des...
Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club (Blog Post)
... nutrients. The development of Bay models and monitoring programs ensued and good tracking schemes (e.g., indicators, report cards) were developed. Current management needs are being addressed by scientists to develop better monitoring tools, bette...
Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach (Blog Post)
...rom the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When data is available but not peer-reviewed or not well-documented. A related question to this is the validity of th...
Finding the value of Transdisciplinary Research on Food Security and Land Use Change (Blog Post)
... intended concept and keywords. We created custom cards for each CRA group. Credit: (Top) IAN; (Bottom) F...
Five principles of holistic science communication (Blog Post)
...al knowledge into their research. We could try this at IAN by incorporating data that is not easily quantifiable into report cards. Sometimes we might be able to tell a better story by resisting the urge to reduce all data into numeric grades, and...
Focusing on outcomes: What are we really shooting for? (Blog Post)
...it for granted that the report card process increases engagement and leads to great outcomes. We talk about how great report cards are all the time, and we believe it! Positive outcomes are documented through a comprehensive survey of groups that h...
Get the grade - Worldwide WWF-IAN partnership launches in Stockholm (Blog Post)
...lly launched at World Water Week this past August 2015. This new partnership aims to widen the audience and uptake of report cards as an environmental management tool for river basins around the world. I represented IAN-UMCES at the event which is...

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