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From the mountains to the prairies—discussing ecological drought in the North Central United States (Blog Post)
...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...
Gulf of Mexico Summit 2011 (Blog Post)
... 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 environmental report cards can democratize science (Blog Post)
...to develop report card indicators. A case in point is the voting tool that IAN developed to use with the formation of Mississippi River indicators . Another way that votes are manifested are the various votes that are taken in local government pla...
How to organize and run short, productive and fun scientific workshops (Blog Post)
...ays or ending late on Fridays is preferred. Logistics are important part of Workshop planning. Top - Workshop for the Mississippi River report card with a view of Ohio River; Bottom - Workshop for the State of the South Atlantic Ecosystem held in...
IAN as a Boundary Organization (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
Kicking off the Louisiana Discovery Integration and Application program in Baton Rouge (Blog Post)
...to develop visualizations for sediment diversions. Sediment diversions are the redirection of some of the flow of the Mississippi River into areas where the river-bourne sediments will settle and help create wetlands and land. Sediment diversions...
Long Island Sound Report Card (Blog Post)
...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) (Blog Post)
.... 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. (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
... . 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 (Blog Post)
... 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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
... 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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