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Assessing bacteria in South Carolina: redesigning the "How's the Beach?" app
...mily Nastase Day two of our travels to South Carolina began with Heath giving a lecture to Dwayne’s graduate class on report cards: what they are, how they’re made, and how they improve the health of different ecosystems. The class seemed genuinely...
Awakening Environmental Passion
...triathlons, walks, boat races Stewardship; clean ups, tree planting, stream restoration Completion ; product release, report cards, legislation HEAD Intellectual ; symposia, workshops, training Learning ; field trips, overflights, snorkel/dives Inf...
Bem vindo ao Rio! O primeiro workshop com as partes interessadas da Baía de Guanabara
...abalhando no desenvolvimento do primeiro boletim (report card) de saúde ambiental para a Baía de Guanabara...partes interessadas para a elaboração do boletim (report card) de saúde ambiental da Baía de Guanabara. No...
Better ways to look at what we’re doing to Chesapeake Bay?
...see the results? The IAN program’s Chesapeake Bay Report Card for 2011 gives the bay a D+. The EPA’s Chesa...ded bay ecosystem” in the Bay Barometer 2011-2012 report released in January, but offers guarded optimism...
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Balancing the needs of scientific management and public stakeholders in Ecosystem Based Management
...nagers must remain transparent in the process of management. Examples of effective scientific communication include “ report cards ” for natural systems, public forums, and education programs . This fosters communication among stakeholders and can...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 1 - Science Communication
...o introduce you to some resources that we've been developing, to illustrate science communication using environmental report cards, because I know that in Ontario you're progressing on that front, and then also to inspire you to enhance your scienc...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements
...this series: 1. Part 1 – Science Communication 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 3 - History of Science Communication
...in this series: 1. Part 1 – Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 5 - Report card examples
...at I think has a lot of similarities to Ontario right now with your thirty-six conservational authorities doing these Report Cards, is that first in some areas where you don't have a lot of resources, that citizens and scientists become a really po...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 7 - O Canada!
...arding. Engaging the broader community with good scientific communication is really important, and that environmental report cards in Ontario can be a really important communication tool for the conservation authorities. I realize it's early in the...
Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 8 - Communicating Science Effectively poster
...tion 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...
Bill Dennison's 500th Blog
...g blocks for various themes that I am developing, like environmental literacy, science communication or environmental report cards I use my blogs to capture some of the fun things like silly songs, poems, or limericks that I generate at various wor...
Biscayne Bay Marine Health Inaugural Summit
...them. We learned to tailor our messages around the watershed to the most location specific as was possible. LESSON 4. Report cards need to be backed with data. As scientists, we really couldn't go around making up grades. So we created a monitoring...
Bita River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia
...r the Bita River Report Card Workshop. This was the second of three workshops that will occur in Colombia, to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River . Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman from the WWF office in Washington DC, al...
Brainstorming in the Innovation Room with World Wildlife Fund
... in the WWF Innovation Room. The topic of our brainstorming session was developing a global approach to environmental report cards (or scorecards) for rivers of the world. WWF and IAN are currently partnering on a report card for the Colombia reach...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 10- Progress in Monitoring and Management
...e very rural and sparsely populated, were in very bad condition which turns out to be a chicken manure problem. These report cards allowed us to document the trajectory of the health of the bay, because the bay has been extensively studied. We had...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar
...ou need coordination, you need to see that quality assurance is brought in. Now were posting a whole swag of regional report cards using this army of citizen scientists. I think that the real solutions come this way because they can start saying, "...
Building a Report Card: Getting Started
...ing schere for the Orinoco River Basin. Credit: Costanzo et. al. 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards Obviously, the process of creating a report card is highly variable and requires a lot of data input and analysis. Ho...
Capturing Nature on the Job
...er how human decisions, both small and large, affect the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. The report cards, brochures, and newsletters that we develop towards this mission are, as a result, highly visual, often employing con...
Change of science and management in ecosystems along size gradient
...tor the water quality and restore the ecosystem in the river; the Chester Tester Program provides local environmental report cards every year [1]. However, due to the relatively long time lag and the imbalance between economic benefits and environm...

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