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"Whirling Disease" and Environmental Responsibility (Blog Post)
...mportant: education cannot solve all environmental problems, but it can take great strides towards doing so. Creating report cards for businesses and governments that highlight strengths and problems and work towards solutions helps immensely. I am...
2013 Chesapeake Bay report released (Blog Post)
2013 Chesapeake Bay report released ... The 2013 Chesapeake Bay report card...ay . The contrast between the Upper Eastern Shore report card scores which are degrading over time versus...the James River report card scores which are improving over time p...
2014 Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference (Blog Post)
...cut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference ... In conjunction with our work on the Long Island Sound embayment report cards , I was invited to speak about report cards at the first annual Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Confer...
A global hotspot for crocodiles, turtles, migratory birds, and mangroves – Bhitarkanika Conservation Area, Odisha, India (Blog Post)
...n Area in Odisha, a state in north-eastern India. This will be our third report card in India; we previously produced Report Cards on the Gulf of Kachchh and Chilika Lake . Location of Bhitarkanika Conservation Area in north-east India. Credit: Goo...
A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II (Blog Post)
...na Flats. In 2006, the first UMCES Chesapeake Bay report card was released, providing annual science-based...servation a priority. In 2017, the Chesapeake Bay report card showed significantly improving scores in sev...en of the fifteen reporting reg...
A Report Card for Coastal Yucatán (Blog Post)
...ny values and issues important to the people in the coastal areas of Yucatán. This project also serves as a pilot for report cards in other Mexican Gulf States, which ultimately, we hope, will integrate into an ecosystem health report card for the...
A Symposium on Coastal Resilience Highlights the Need for Transdisciplinary Science (Blog Post)
...heme used for precipitation totals to accommodate the 60+ inches of rainfall on the Texas Coast. Credit: Jim McMahon] Report cards featured heavily Several report card projects have evolved from that first workshop that Jane Hawkey and I facilitate...
A unique partnership between World Wildlife Fund and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (Blog Post)
...e Conservancy (TNC) on Climate Adaptation Strategies and the new TNC Chief Scientist Hugh Possingham on environmental report cards. But our WWF-UMCES partnership is more than star scientists who maintain an academic role, it is the blending of team...
A visit to Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, India (Blog Post)
...e Jamnagar Marine National Park and a Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment for the Gulf of Kachchh in Gujarat . Report cards developed for India This time we are back to Odisha, to Bhitarkanika National Park , in the northern part of the stat...
Adding value to “Network” in IAN: Exploring the potential uses of Social Network Analysis (Blog Post)
...ep process to include stakeholder selection as the new first step (image below). The new 5-step process in developing report cards. Image credit: IAN Press Originally, my cursory understanding of SNA was that it would be a great tool to identify ke...
Annual IAN Retreat at Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (Blog Post)
...the interested but not very powerful groups, IAN could help empower them. An example of this approach is the regional report cards that we help riverkeeper groups produce. IAN staff posted organization names on the plot of low to high interest vs....
Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas (Blog Post)
...point of this project is to evaluate IAN’s success using the same 5-step process that we use for our ecosystem health report cards around the world. The initial report card workshop was held in February of this year. We are applying the following s...
Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card (Blog Post)
...natural resources in its basin enrich our culture. This project has a broader focus compared with other environmental report cards we have done. Indicators monitor critical functions of an actual engine. Activities in the basin serve as an engine o...
Assessing bacteria in South Carolina: redesigning the "How's the Beach?" app (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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...
Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus (Blog Post)
... Communication course in Cambridge , Maryland this week and we discussed the concept of developing some environmental report cards for the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands. So perhaps one day I will be able to revisit the Bahamas and contribute...
Bem vindo ao Rio! O primeiro workshop com as partes interessadas da Baía de Guanabara (Blog Post)
...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? (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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 (Blog Post)
...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...

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