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Building coastal resilience through stories
...lenge that historian John Barry encountered in writing his book , “ Rising Tide .” The subject of the book, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, overflows with human interest. But, at its core is a conflict between different theories of river hydr...
Coastal Louisiana issues discussed at public meeting in St. Bernard Parish
...he manner of sediment delivery; dredging vs. river diversions. The residents felt that the problem with diverting the Mississippi River to the marshes was not the sediments, but the accompanying freshwater, nutrients and toxicants. They argued pas...
Coastal Louisiana song book: Reflections on reviewing the 2012 Master Plan
...by sang the blues Feeling good was good enough for me Good enough for Steve and Bobby Twilley From the delta of the Mississippi To the coastlines of the Chenier Bobby shared the secrets of the Plan His team standing beside him, Lord With everyth...
Collective impact and ecosystem health report cards: The product enables the process
...eport card development process expressly as a part of a deliberate collective impact approach, and the other, for the Mississippi River , collective impact principles, without explicitly following the model. The Willamette River Report Card In 201...
Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network
...sion that Heath Kelsey , Suzi Spitzer , Vanessa Vargas and I had about Anthony’s blog. Conceptual diagramming for the Mississippi River Report Card, from hand-drawn maps to illustrations. Anthony draws a distinction between producing a product (co...
Crocodile report cards
...e. Of great interest to me are the parallels in this way of thinking with the work we've recently done developing the Mississippi River report card . Kudos to The Nature Conservancy for understanding that in order to succeed in ecological restorat...
Design Competition Stimulates Communication on Multiple Channels
...ion on Multiple Channels ... The Changing Course competition will stimulate discussion about the future course of the Mississippi River near its mouth. Large areas of wetlands have converted to open water in the delta of the Mississippi over the p...
Developing a Gulf of Mexico report card
...ple attending this Joint Meeting, with representatives from each of the five Gulf of Mexico states (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida) and a few Mexican scientists also in attendance. Dr. Porfinio Alvarez-Torres spoke about the v...
Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card
...ted off by reviewing the various report card innovations and developments in other locations like the Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River, and the Orinoco River. I suggested improvements taken from these projects such as: Comprehensive report cards...
Discussing science communication at CERF2013
...State University wetlands scientist, put together a very nice document " Answering 10 fundamental questions about the Mississippi River delta ". This 42 pp. booklet asks simple questions like "Is there enough sediment to restore the delta?" (the a...
Discussion following Bob Hirsch seminar on Are we making progress? Interpreting the nutrient flux records for the major rivers flowing to the Chesapeake Bay
...eatment technologies change, there will be time lags which will need to be analyzed. Bob pointed out that analyses of Mississippi River fertilizer applications led to a 7-10 year lag in the receiving water quality. Audience at the seminar The ques...
Discussion following Walter Boynton seminar on Corsica River estuary restoration
...in water on the landscape for longer periods before it made its way into the Bay. He provided examples from the upper Mississippi River, where scientists conducted experiments on river oxbows and observed rapid nitrate disappearance (due to denitr...
Does rising sea level signal the end for LUMCON, or a beginning?
... she has done more than anyone else to draw attention to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico . Nutrients in runoff from the Mississippi watershed trigger low-oxygen conditions in the shallow coastal waters of the Gulf, just as they do in many estuaries...
Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?
...ere discussed were as follows: Coastal Bay, Yucateca River Basin, Tennesse River Basin, Guanabara Bay, Laguna de Bay, Mississippi River Watershed, Orinoco River Basin and Chesapeake Bay. The Laguna de Bay report card showing the front page, flap a...
Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter
...ng frameworks for iconic locations like the Great Barrier Reef , the South Pacific islands , Gulf of Mexico , and the Mississippi River basin . EcoCheck has developed report cards in diverse locations; Kura River in Central Asia , Samoa , and the...
Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together
...eographic scale. The scale of report cards depends on factors such as purpose and data availability. For example, the Mississippi report card covers 40% of the contiguous US. According to Dr. Heath Kelsey , for the Mississippi report card, six maj...
Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scale, acceptance, engagement, and behavior change
...photo for the front cover. Stories have been solicited and recorded during the development of some projects (the 2015 Mississippi River Watershed Report Card for example) which could be included in the report card. This section is relevant to thos...
Exploring an Ecosystem in Transition: The Road to Flamingo
...s now underway to restore regional ecosystems in the US. Other similar work is going on around San Francisco Bay, the Mississippi River deltaic region, the Upper Mississippi River basin, Long Island Sound, and the Chesapeake Bay. The 2019 SSR will...
Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach
...ance of future collection of this data. An example of addressing the presentation of insufficient data taken from the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When d...
Following Alexander Bache’s Dream and His Example
... located just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC . We were there to discuss what will happen next after the Mississippi watershed report card is launched this spring. This project has challenged us to expand the report card format in two...

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