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Mackay Report Card Workshop – Mackay, Queensland Australia 24 February 2015.
...for the next region, in Mackay . I attended the workshop in Mackay on February 24, to facilitate the discussion about report cards, discuss issues related to report card development, and help sketch out the draft report card in a storyboard exercis...
Making connections to ensure a clean and healthy Chesapeake Bay
... gave a shout-out to UMCES for our Chesapeake Bay Report Card !), implementing short and long-term managem...c health. Lee Currey mentioned the Chesapeake Bay Report Card as evidence that the ecosystem is shifting t...
Making the Grade
...the importance and urgency of our science without alarming or confusing people? This week, we discussed environmental report cards, which could provide a solution to this tricky balancing act facing scientists. There are several organizations that...
Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016
Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016 ... The 2016 report card for the Maryla...r 16th, 2017, at the Ocean City Marlin Club . The report card release was combined with the annual Gold St...e conducted in the summer of 2017, so next year’s report card...
Maryland Coastal Bays report card gets a B- for the first time
...the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the National Park Service to produce report cards for the coastal lagoons that separate Fenwick and Assateague Islands from the mainland. The overall report cards scor...
Maryland’s inaugural State of the Coast conference
MEDCOAST 2013 and EMECS 10 conference: Turkish baths, Red Sox baseball, new colleagues
...tal Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program, or 'nutrient diet'. In other sessions, I talked about developing environmental report cards and about the Maryland approach to adaptation to climate change. I enjoyed listening to the diversity of topics from...
Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Planning
Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Pla... lectures and blogs we talked about the five-step report card process: Step One - identifying basin values... . How do we accomplish these steps and develop a report card in the...
Meet Saipan, one of America’s forgotten territories
...ith us in all four workshops. We celebrated a job well done, and more work to do in the coming year to complete these report cards. The group with NOAA staff holding up their awards. The next day, Heath, Caroline, and I explored the island, going t...
Mekong Flooded Forest – a sneak peek at a Future Card
...aptured by this CLD reflects the types of values, threats, and indicators that one would commonly see in our existing report cards. That is what first got my attention. Report cards are very good at synthesizing large amounts of information and pro...
Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy report card launch
...Choptank and Miles-Wye Rivers is to get in an upward trajectory. The way to track this progress is through the annual report cards. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has a unit called the Integration and Application Networ...
Mission Aransas Pilot Project
...n and I got involved in again last month. My reason for being at this current workshop was to remind people about how report cards work, and how this could eventually fit in to the project. As often happens in other disciplines, it seems that the e...
Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework
...into Economic, Societal, and Environment sectors, and seven overall goals. This represents a substantial evolution in report cards that have primarily focused on the environment sector. In advance of the Summit, we put together a vision for how a M...
Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint
...n during storms. Diagram from 2013 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. John Farrington from Woods Hole Oceanograph...
National Monitoring Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio
...d gain new ones. One great way to use volunteer monitoring data is by synthesizing the data into environmental health report cards , something we at IAN do often! There is an entire website on volunteer monitoring around the country where citizen s...
Next steps for the Tennessee River Basin Report Card
...d and the methods document can be downloaded from IAN Press , there is no substitute to having professionally printed report cards that would be excellent handouts at community events, meetings with elected officials, and as resources for educators...
Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card
..., R.H., Krchnak, K., Sherman, J., Thieme, M. Vargas-Nguyen, V. (2017). Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . IAN Press. Cambridge MD USA. 2. Kelsey, H. (2017). Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scal...
Our first report card in South America – The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia
...s and two coastlines. During our three-day workshop, we developed a detailed timeline for preparing and releasing the report cards including identifying stakeholders for workshops in May and July 2015. Throughout the workshop we were joined by a di...
Over the river and through the woods to release the Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card, we go!
...the woods to release the Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card, we go! ... Last December 10, 2015, Bill, Va...g, MD to release our new Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card . This report card assessed stream health in...
Progressing toward a Report Card for the Gulf of Mexico
...ack started our talk describing the scientific basis for the report card, and I finished with a discussion on how the report cards work and the positive outcomes from these projects. I got a lot of great feedback after the session - the prospect of...

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