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Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration
Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration ... The fifth National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER...
Talking report cards in Kratie, Cambodia
Talking report cards in Kratie, Cambodia ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wildli...
Talking River Basin Report Cards at the International Waters Conference, Marrakech
Talking River Basin Report Cards at the International Waters Conference, Marrakech ... The Global Environment Facility (GEF) hosts a biennial Internat...
The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards
The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards ... Alex Fries and I had the chance to represent UMCES at the Conference on Ecosystem and Ecological Restoration (CEE...
Using Conceptionary to initiate discussion on barriers for implementing report cards
Using Conceptionary to initiate discussion on barriers for implementing report cards ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and th...
Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view
Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a par...
Visiting the Great Lakes to talk report cards and communication ideas
Visiting the Great Lakes to talk report cards and communication ideas ... The Great Lakes are a naturally interconnected group of basins that hold 90% of freshwate...
When to Go Big with Report Cards
When to Go Big with Report Cards ... Jodie Mehrtens In the last of the lecture series for the IAN Healthy Rivers for All course we reviewed a number o...
2013 Chesapeake Bay report released
2013 Chesapeake Bay report released ... The 2013 Chesapeake Bay report card...ay . The contrast between the Upper Eastern Shore report card scores which are degrading over time versus...the James River report card scores which are improving over time p...
2014 Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference
...cut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference ... In conjunction with our work on the Long Island Sound embayment report cards , I was invited to speak about report cards at the first annual Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Confer...
A global hotspot for crocodiles, turtles, migratory birds, and mangroves – Bhitarkanika Conservation Area, Odisha, India
...n Area in Odisha, a state in north-eastern India. This will be our third report card in India; we previously produced Report Cards on the Gulf of Kachchh and Chilika Lake . Location of Bhitarkanika Conservation Area in north-east India. Credit: Goo...
A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II
...na Flats. In 2006, the first UMCES Chesapeake Bay report card was released, providing annual science-based...servation a priority. In 2017, the Chesapeake Bay report card showed significantly improving scores in sev...en of the fifteen reporting reg...
A Report Card for Coastal Yucatán
...ny values and issues important to the people in the coastal areas of Yucatán. This project also serves as a pilot for report cards in other Mexican Gulf States, which ultimately, we hope, will integrate into an ecosystem health report card for the...
A Symposium on Coastal Resilience Highlights the Need for Transdisciplinary Science
...heme used for precipitation totals to accommodate the 60+ inches of rainfall on the Texas Coast. Credit: Jim McMahon] Report cards featured heavily Several report card projects have evolved from that first workshop that Jane Hawkey and I facilitate...
A unique partnership between World Wildlife Fund and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
...e Conservancy (TNC) on Climate Adaptation Strategies and the new TNC Chief Scientist Hugh Possingham on environmental report cards. But our WWF-UMCES partnership is more than star scientists who maintain an academic role, it is the blending of team...
A visit to Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, India
...e Jamnagar Marine National Park and a Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment for the Gulf of Kachchh in Gujarat . Report cards developed for India This time we are back to Odisha, to Bhitarkanika National Park , in the northern part of the stat...
Adding value to “Network” in IAN: Exploring the potential uses of Social Network Analysis
...ep process to include stakeholder selection as the new first step (image below). The new 5-step process in developing report cards. Image credit: IAN Press Originally, my cursory understanding of SNA was that it would be a great tool to identify ke...
Annual IAN Retreat at Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center
...the interested but not very powerful groups, IAN could help empower them. An example of this approach is the regional report cards that we help riverkeeper groups produce. IAN staff posted organization names on the plot of low to high interest vs....
Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas
...point of this project is to evaluate IAN’s success using the same 5-step process that we use for our ecosystem health report cards around the world. The initial report card workshop was held in February of this year. We are applying the following s...
Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card
...natural resources in its basin enrich our culture. This project has a broader focus compared with other environmental report cards we have done. Indicators monitor critical functions of an actual engine. Activities in the basin serve as an engine o...

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