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Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference
... management of cultural and natural resources. Finally, no IAN session would be complete without a presentation about report cards. Vanessa explained IAN’s stakeholder-driven and action-oriented approach for synthesizing data and communicating the...
State of the Verde Watershed Conference
...rence and attend the festivities, and Bill was invited to be one of the keynote speakers and share his thoughts about report cards and the progress of this project. A healthy Verde River watershed has flowing water, natural habitat structure, and t...
Stumbling Into a New Approach
Stumbling Into a New Approach ... As we’ve pioneered new ways to develop ecosystem health assessments and report cards, we’ve learned a few lessons on what makes them successful and what does not. The most successful projects (those tha...
Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort - difficulties of science in management due to watershed size
...the data is publically available, even creating a report card, which aids in the building of connections b...population by implementing The Great Barrier Reef Report Card . The management approaches previously menti...
Talk Less, Show More: Communicating Challenges and Successes in a Changing World
...hat Opinion Works generated in partnership with IAN. The report used focus groups and found that it was important for report cards to present clear and visual grades, link actions to indicators (but only one action, not a shopping list), present a...
Teaching with a ‘flipped classroom’ over an interactive video network
...illey from Louisiana State University talk to us about working as a state science advisor. We discussed environmental report cards with Dr. Heath Kelsey and Caroline Wicks from EcoCheck who produce the Chesapeake Bay report card , as well as variou...
Telling the River Story
...d that there is always some 'drama' when launching a first report card for a region. Practitioners who are developing report cards for the first time should be encouraged to take the drama positively because it often creates momentum for the right...
Ten recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 2
...ng press along will encourage them to attend future events. One of the primary motivations to producing environmental report cards is to speak 'truth' to 'power'. 'Power' is vested in elected officials and community leaders and it is our tenet that...
Ten teaching tips from the Teaching & Learning Transformation Center at the University of Maryland
...ss or workshop, we build upon these skills into higher-level outcomes that ask students and participants to "develop" report cards or "create" conceptual diagrams, for example. 5. Assess student learning along the way Assessments give students feed...
Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly in support of compulsory soil phosphorus testing by farmers
...th the EcoCheck group and various citizen science groups to develop publically available Chesapeake Bay and tributary report cards . In addition, I have also worked with various practitioners and restoration specialists to generate fact sheets, boo...
The 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia
...f the pavilions hosted short talks that vied for the attention of the delegates who were walking by. I gave a talk on report cards with three other scientists: Joao Paulo Coimbra who talked about the Guanabara Bay report card that he was instrument...
The Basin Report Card Initiative goes to Monterrey, Mexico!
...nter at the Tecnológico de Monterrey , and to meet with the FEMSA foundation and Water Center about the potential for report cards for the Rio Bravo , Rio Conchos , and Monterrey areas, as well as Water Reserves programs and expansion of all of the...
The Economics of the Ocean: Discussing the Baltic Sea and Chesapeake Bay at the House of Sweden
...see the problems everywhere - plastics, contaminants, fisheries declines, for example. I thought of the environmental report cards that we use to educate people about the status of the ecosystem. Report cards are something experienced from childhoo...
The Integration and Application Network in 2017
...7: we moved into a new Annapolis office, developed our first IAN Strategic Plan and initiated our self-reflective IAN report cards. IAN staff taught or co-taught four courses: Science for Environmental Management Coupled Human and Natural Systems T...
The Integration and Application Network in 2018
...t some really good news in the improvements in the health of Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bays with our annual report cards. In addition, the publication of a scientific synthesis paper that IAN staff helped generate was able to reach a broa...
The Meta River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia
...orkshop spanned from June 30th-July 2nd, and was the first of three workshops that will occur in Colombia, to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River . Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman , and Catherine Blancard from the WWF of...
The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released
...ts a culmination of such a long and involved process, and because it represents a new milestone in our ability to use report cards to report on broadly differing management goals, across such a large geography. Participants at the Mississippi River...
The NOAA Coral Reef Report Card - Reflections on the report card process
...e came together to do just that. Most importantly, we finalized the list of indicators that will be included in these report cards, and developed the key messages for the Coral, Fish, Climate, and Communities and Management groups. This was an impo...
The people of the Gulf of Kachchh
... which I used the phonetic spelling: The Gulf of Kutch We have come together to discuss the Gulf of Kutch Formulating report cards and cumulative assessments In this dry monsoonal climate and dry Gujarat state We have been able to learn so very muc...
The report card game “Get the Grade!” was launched in Stockholm, New Delhi and Honolulu
... having fun and wanted to continue to play. We asked if the game made them interested in finding out more about basin report cards, and the response was extremely positive (87%). Comments included suggestions for ways to tweak the rules, positive e...

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