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Developing a Swan River report card
...ort is being led by Roxane Shadbolt, Swan River Trust, and Dr. May Carter, Edith Cowan University . The term 'dueling report cards' came up, but I could see that an ecosystem health report with a social and economic report card could be quite compl...
Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card
..., Mississippi River, and the Orinoco River. I suggested improvements taken from these projects such as: Comprehensive report cards (ecological, social, economic aspects) are more useful for management Mapping out trends over time is as important as...
Developing environmental intelligence through environmental literacy and citizen science
...d and intensively managed. Another aspect of environmental intelligence that IAN promotes is the use of environmental report cards . The synthesis of various data into report card scores for subregions within a geographic area provides a readily un...
Development of an Ecosystem Health Report Card for Laguna de Bay, Philippines
... Ana, OIC, Environmental Laboratory and Research Division, LLDA. Simon then gave an overview of IAN and environmental report cards, highlighting how it can effectively communicate the values and threats of Laguna de Bay. The four external experts e...
Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland
...ifferent regions. We chose this display to avoid confusion with the grading scheme that was being used for the annual report cards. Map of South-east Queensland, pp. 4 and 5 from Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland. The ‘fire danger’ ty...
Discussing science communication at CERF2013
...n Costanzo made a thought-provoking presentation with the title: "ABC is no longer as easy as 123: Advances in school report cards that are applicable to ecological health report cards". He provided a historical perspective of educational report ca...
Discussion following Sara Powell seminar on Getting out of the Lake and into the Watershed: a study of volunteer monitoring efforts, water quality, and community outreach
...boration with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, c) regularly producing synthetic products (report cards) was discussed. The importance of having a link between the citizen scientists and the professional scientists was em...
Diving into NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program
...oring Plan [pdf]. IAN’s role is to help in the status and trends reporting portion of the Plan by developing template report cards in two locations, Florida and American Samoa. The report cards will incorporate the four monitoring areas: benthic co...
Don’t Hate, Integrate!
...ion in our Environment and Society class was integrated assessment. More specifically, we discussed how environmental report cards can be used to integrate various metrics and create one, easy-to-understand statement regarding the natural and socia...
Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay
Dr. Walter Boynton becomes Tidal Monitoring Analysis Workgroup chair
...s data is used as a basis for the annual EcoCheck report card and also serves to inform the Total Maximum...he newly formed Scientific Technical Analysis and Reporting (STAR) team . An example of Walter's synthetic...
Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?
Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story? ... Kawawa Banda and Chinyawezhi Kakoma Report cards are effective communications tools. They raise awareness of a river basin, explain the current health and challenges...
Encountering Former Students
...the University of Queensland. On Tuesday, on a trip to Townsville to develop a strategy for future Great Barrier Reef report cards , I encountered a former University of Queensland student, Dr. Katherine Martin. I had seen her name on emails and kn...
Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter
...ion and Application Network (Kelsey, Fries, Kellogg and Wicks) and one for NOAA (Zhang). EcoCheck has produced annual report cards for Chesapeake Bay beginning in 2006. These report cards are supported by extensive web materials including data tabl...
Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay report card with new indicators and new methods
...ps that we work with through the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Assessment Coalition (MTAC) do use bacteria in their regional report cards. We have developed protocols for bacteria as well as the other water quality indicators so that results are comparabl...
Environmental report card grading system
Environmental report card grading system ... The grading system used in the EcoCheck environmental report cards is a simple, systematic ranking scale. The one hundred point scale is divided into five equal categories; A (80-100),...
Environmental report card workshop in Surfers Paradise, Australia
...tralia ... Sponsored by the Australian Water and Environmental Research Alliance (AWERA), a workshop on environmental report cards was held near Brisbane, Australia. This workshop focused on how environmental report cards have emerged as a techniqu...
Exploring an Ecosystem in Transition: The Road to Flamingo
...desirable? This is a question that the Everglades report card may be able to answer. Currently, the Integr...rs and ecologists to incorporate an environmental report card into the Everglades 2019 System Status Repor...
Eyes on the prize: Looking beyond graduate school during the 2019 MEES Colloquium
...and tides on coastal bays, prevalence of toxin/antitoxin systems in the picocyanobacteria genome, and of course IAN’s report cards. The talks were interesting, but I think everyone was especially excited for the field trips that would follow! There...
Failte gu Alba! (Welcome to Scotland!)
...ause the goal was to get everyone to walk around and visit each table. I set up the table with IAN products , such as report cards, newsletter, and reports, but I made sure to focus on products that were directly relevant to MPAs but diverse in des...

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