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Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club
... nutrients. The development of Bay models and monitoring programs ensued and good tracking schemes (e.g., indicators, report cards) were developed. Current management needs are being addressed by scientists to develop better monitoring tools, bette...
Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach
...rom the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When data is available but not peer-reviewed or not well-documented. A related question to this is the validity of th...
Finding the value of Transdisciplinary Research on Food Security and Land Use Change
... intended concept and keywords. We created custom cards for each CRA group. Credit: (Top) IAN; (Bottom) F...
Five principles of holistic science communication
...al knowledge into their research. We could try this at IAN by incorporating data that is not easily quantifiable into report cards. Sometimes we might be able to tell a better story by resisting the urge to reduce all data into numeric grades, and...
Focusing on outcomes: What are we really shooting for?
...it for granted that the report card process increases engagement and leads to great outcomes. We talk about how great report cards are all the time, and we believe it! Positive outcomes are documented through a comprehensive survey of groups that h...
Get the grade - Worldwide WWF-IAN partnership launches in Stockholm
...lly launched at World Water Week this past August 2015. This new partnership aims to widen the audience and uptake of report cards as an environmental management tool for river basins around the world. I represented IAN-UMCES at the event which is...
Going from "Aha!" to "Well, Duh" in the Great Barrier Reef, with beer coasters and Burdekin Gold
...ies and I held a session to discuss and analyze our Integration and Application Network experience with environmental report cards on 26 January 2016. This activity is part of our World Wildlife Fund--Universi ty of Maryland Center for Environmenta...
Grading basin or ecosystem health to track and address change
...Linear and non-linear conversions might be needed, as explained in the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards. Linear and non-linear conversions from raw indicator results into a percentage score on a report card2. As a class a...
Great Barrier Reef report card workshop
...Premier and Cabinet were tasked with assembling the scientists from a variety of agencies and institutions to produce report cards for the management adoption and effectiveness (paddock scale), catchment condition and loads (catchment scale), marin...
Guaviare River Report Card Workshop
...de Guaviare, Colombia for the Guaviare River Report Card Workshop. This was the third workshop in Colombia to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River. Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman , Catherine Blancard , and Michele Thieme...
Gulf of Mexico Summit 2011
...same issues. The Gulf of Mexico Report Card prototype is unveiled One of the highlights for me was the chance to talk report cards. We unveiled our vision for the Gulf of Mexico Report Card on Wednesday, with our partners from the Harte Institute ,...
Healthy Rivers for All: December 2017 retreat
...f our retreat involved developing a training handbook to accompany the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . It is designed to give our partners the tools to conduct Report Card workshops. We emulated the Science Communicati...
How is your ecosystem doing? Advances in the use and understanding of ecosystem indicators workshop
...onomic indicators. Indicators were used for environmental characterization, status and trend reporting, environmental report cards, integrated assessments, ecological forecasts, management and governance. The aim was to have indicators that were si...
How maps can lie: Chesapeake watershed stream health
How much is too much? Defining thresholds for indicators
...17). Steps to developing a Report Card. Credit: Costanzo et. al. 2017. Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards The class started with brief introductions including name, country, organization and why the interest in making repor...
IAN as a Boundary Organization
...400 publications on IAN Press. We also launched our first IAN environmental report card for Chesapeake Bay, emulating report cards we had developed in Southeast Queensland, Australia. We have gone on to produce report cards all over the world. We c...
IAN attends CommOcean 2016 in Bruges, Belgium
... visual science in stakeholder engagement during the plenary session while my talk was on the use of ecosystem health report cards during the themed session on “tools...
IAN participates in Coastal Resilience Meeting at University of Tabasco in Villahermosa, Mexico
...huttle to the airport with Porfirio Alvarez, from the University of Tabasco . We talked about the process of creating report cards and how excited we were to begin working in the Gulf of Mexico again after such a long time since we began the proces...
IAN's First Ever Strategic Plan
...nted to the IAN vision, mission, and goals. In addition, the process of the development of external and introspective report cards for IAN has established a suite of goals and combined indices to assess IAN effectiveness in a variety of ways. This...
In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 3
...rip. Photo credit Bill Dennison On Day 3, we discussed Step 5: Communicating results. We provided examples from other report cards and then talked about a theory of change based on these report cards. We also introduced the concept of establishing...

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