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From the mountains to the prairies—discussing ecological drought in the North Central United States
...ome of the well-known landscapes that we discussed during the workshop, from what I had learned during my work on the Mississippi River Report Card . I am excited to continue our work with the North Central CSC, as we work to synthesize the scienc...
Future Earth's Coasts
...ners achieve this strong engagement through a participatory report card process in many areas, including India , the Mississippi River , and the Orinoco River in Colombia, South America . In thinking through the Science Implementation plan, we ou...
Gulf of Mexico Summit 2011
... seagrass beds has occurred around the Gulf but notable recoveries exist in some areas (illustrated above), including Mississippi barrier islands, West Galveston Bay Texas, and Tampa Bay Florida. Trends were reversed by management and restoration...
How the past influences the future: Understanding the maturity gradient in environmental science and management
...n the 1970s and 80s, is also relatively immature (Figure 1). The coastal wetlands of Louisiana have been built by the Mississippi River over the course of thousands of years, but they are incredibly dynamic and change over the span of decades. The...
IAN as a Boundary Organization
...ram. IAN often works directly with stakeholders like the Ingram Barge Company and Caterpillar who helped us build the Mississippi River report card . IAN also serves as a boundary organization in the approach of simultaneously attempting to both s...
In memory of Jay Zieman, University of Virginia seagrass ecologist
...gist ... Joseph "Jay" C. Zieman (1943-2015), my seagrass ecology colleague, died recently. I first met Jay in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1980 when my Master's thesis advisor C. Peter McRoy organized a workshop associated with the Seagrass Ecosystem St...
Integration and Application Network in 2015: The year in review
...l to new and old staff members. The culmination of several long-term projects undertaken by IAN occurred in 2015. The Mississippi River report card , which was conceived at an America's Great Watershed summit in 2012 in St. Louis, MO, was finally...
International Riversymposium 2013
...ch featured the long-term Southeast Queensland report card program, the Great Barrier Reef report card, our fledgling Mississippi River report card effort, and a bit about the process of creating and maintaining report cards. As chair of the repor...
It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work
Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!
...ts, such as the Vision for a Report Card and Preliminary Results documents that were published ahead of the finalized Mississippi River Watershed Report Card . These types of early documents allow us to maintain momentum and public interest in a s...
Long Island Sound Report Card
...he end of the meeting, we gave out comment cards to all of the participants to fill out, similar to those used at the Mississippi River Report Card Summit earlier this month. Overall, we had a great, very productive meeting with the STAC and CAC g...
Louisiana Sea Grant Discovery, Integration and Application initiative (LA DIA)
.... Amy Clipp played the part of a Vietnamese fisher (Sally Dang) who was concerned that Jacob Mitchell's depictions of Mississippi River sediment diversions would affect the livelihoods of her family and community. Matt Bethel played the part of a...
Mackay Report Card Workshop – Mackay, Queensland Australia 24 February 2015.
...s that IAN has experience with that are most relevant to the current Mackay process. I discussed the Chesapeake Bay , Mississippi River , Chilika Lake , Willamette River , and Great Barrier Reef Report Card projects, focusing on those issues that...
Maps should tell a story
...p and my data visualization figure from last week. For both, my goal was simply to show benthic MMI conditions in the Mississippi River Watershed. But does this map really do a better job than the pie charts in my other figure? Author’s map (top)...
Maps: The Promise of Exploration
...right conclusion. Maps are especially useful for research spread across a region, as with Ben Wahle’s work across the Mississippi Watershed (Figure 1). Can you imagine trying to explain the sampling locations and results without a map? Figure 1. E...
Me and Bobby Twilley
... . Robert gave a wonderful seminar at Horn Point Laboratory , covering the history of coastal Louisiana wetland loss, Mississippi River diversions and provided the context for the 2012 Master Plan. The IAN group collaborated with Robert and variou...
Mission Aransas Pilot Project
... systems modeling approach that we call "Future Cards". We're also interested in doing this for the next phase of the Mississippi River Watershed Report Card partnership with America's Watershed Initiative . Table of management scenario options wi...
Missouri River: Environmental Literacy
...principles for the Missouri River are the following: The Missouri River is the longest tributary (2,300 miles) of the Mississippi River. Navigation on the Missouri River is supported by a series of levees and dikes from the mouth to Sioux City, Io...
Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint
...Telling for Coastal Resilience". My presentation was titled "Telling new stories about resiliences of Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River and the Great Barrier Reef". My initial slide contrasted story-telling vs. logical-scientific, and referenced t...
National Monitoring Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio
... session in which I moderated part one and gave a talk in part two. My talk focused on report cards, specifically the Mississippi River Report Card (America’s Watershed Initiative) and the Rookery Bay Report Card as examples of calculating water q...

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