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Meet Saipan, one of America’s forgotten territories (Blog Post)
...ith us in all four workshops. We celebrated a job well done, and more work to do in the coming year to complete these report cards. The group with NOAA staff holding up their awards. The next day, Heath, Caroline, and I explored the island, going t...
Mekong Flooded Forest – a sneak peek at a Future Card (Blog Post)
...aptured by this CLD reflects the types of values, threats, and indicators that one would commonly see in our existing report cards. That is what first got my attention. Report cards are very good at synthesizing large amounts of information and pro...
Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy report card launch (Blog Post)
...Choptank and Miles-Wye Rivers is to get in an upward trajectory. The way to track this progress is through the annual report cards. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has a unit called the Integration and Application Networ...
Mission Aransas Pilot Project (Blog Post)
...n and I got involved in again last month. My reason for being at this current workshop was to remind people about how report cards work, and how this could eventually fit in to the project. As often happens in other disciplines, it seems that the e...
Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework (Blog Post)
...into Economic, Societal, and Environment sectors, and seven overall goals. This represents a substantial evolution in report cards that have primarily focused on the environment sector. In advance of the Summit, we put together a vision for how a M...
Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint (Blog Post)
...n during storms. Diagram from 2013 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. John Farrington from Woods Hole Oceanograph...
Moreton Bay, Australia: Environmental Literacy (Blog Post)
...anagement and research The Healthy Waterways program has an Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program which releases annual report cards , a regional management program involving all levels of government and an active ongoing research effort. The Healthy...
National Monitoring Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio (Blog Post)
...d gain new ones. One great way to use volunteer monitoring data is by synthesizing the data into environmental health report cards , something we at IAN do often! There is an entire website on volunteer monitoring around the country where citizen s...
Next steps for the Tennessee River Basin Report Card (Blog Post)
...d and the methods document can be downloaded from IAN Press , there is no substitute to having professionally printed report cards that would be excellent handouts at community events, meetings with elected officials, and as resources for educators...
Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card (Blog Post)
..., R.H., Krchnak, K., Sherman, J., Thieme, M. Vargas-Nguyen, V. (2017). Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . IAN Press. Cambridge MD USA. 2. Kelsey, H. (2017). Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scal...
Old faces, new times. Stakeholder mapping at International Riversymposium 2018 (Sydney, Australia) (Blog Post)
... first in isolation, and then as a group, to demonstrate how broad stakeholder involvement improves the legitimacy of report cards and builds relationships. Stakeholder mapping and engagement has become quite a large element in all aspects of our w...
One Planet One Ocean conference in Barcelona, Spain (Blog Post)
...rstanding of ecosystem indicators' and presented an invited talk, 'Science communication strategies and environmental report cards for effective coastal ocean governance'. The conference and workshops were over a six-day period, and five plenary ta...
Our first report card in South America – The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia (Blog Post)
...s and two coastlines. During our three-day workshop, we developed a detailed timeline for preparing and releasing the report cards including identifying stakeholders for workshops in May and July 2015. Throughout the workshop we were joined by a di...
Over the river and through the woods to release the Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card, we go! (Blog Post)
...the woods to release the Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card, we go! ... Last December 10, 2015, Bill, Va...g, MD to release our new Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card . This report card assessed stream health in...
Progressing toward a Report Card for the Gulf of Mexico (Blog Post)
...ack started our talk describing the scientific basis for the report card, and I finished with a discussion on how the report cards work and the positive outcomes from these projects. I got a lot of great feedback after the session - the prospect of...
Pursuing prioritization in Pennsylvania: The magic of more monitoring (Blog Post)
... insights such as that some groups are already using data in ways that other groups want to use it in the future (eg. report cards, state reporting, hotspot identification). Some ways people want to use data in the future, that few groups mentioned...
Recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 1 (Blog Post)
...ommunication. We produced sound bites, newsletters, books, PowerPoint presentations, web materials, and environmental report cards; as well as conducted workshops, led field trips, wrote songs, and did media interviews over the course of many years...
Representing UMCES at the 12th International Conference on the Environmental Management of the Enclosed Coastal Seas (Blog Post)
...a discussing satoumi as a form of active conservation. Bill, Dave, and I each presented on different ecosystem health report cards in various stages. Dave was an invited speaker for the session "Estuaries of the world: issues and perspectives". He...
Resilience based management of the Great Barrier Reef (Blog Post)
...his matrix integrates the reef Great Barrier Reef report card that regularly assesses the Reef Water Quali...ex and integrating it with the Great Barrier Reef report card. We were fortunate to have a good mix of str...
Returning to My Ohio Roots: Scoping Out A Lake Erie Report Card (Blog Post)
...cilitating the board meeting. We covered a lot of topics. I made a short presentation about our experiences producing report cards. I enjoyed learning about the animal manure issues of northern Ohio and a creative solution that a couple of board me...

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