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Developing a Mississippi River report card: Lower Mississippi workshop in Memphis
Developing a Mississippi River report card: Lower Mississippi workshop in Memphis ... Once again, a contingent from IAN ( Heath Kelsey , Bill Nuttle , Caroline Wicks , Brianne Wal...
Developing a Mississippi River report card: Ohio River workshop in Cincinnati
Developing a Mississippi River report card: Ohio River workshop in Cincinnati ... A large IAN contingent gathered along the banks of the Ohio...
Draft Mississippi River report card released at 2014 America's Watershed Initiative Summit
Draft Mississippi River report card released at 2014 America's Watershed Initiative Summit ... Heath Kelsey, Bill Nuttle, Caroline Dono...
Learning to operate the Mississippi River
Learning to operate the Mississippi River ... Re-engineering the Mississippi River presents political as well as technical challenges. Advances in technology since the beginning of the industria...
Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy
Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy ... 'Environmental literacy' series The seven environmental literacy principles for the...
Mississippi River report card song
Mississippi River report card song ... We recently (1-2 October 2014) launched the draft Mississippi River report card in Louisville, KY as part of the America's Watershed Initiative Summit . The process of developing...
Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework
Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework ... In September, America’s Great Watershed Initiative (AGWI) held a summit in...
Raising the Grade for the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Raising the Grade for the Upper Mississippi River Basin ... The 2016 Upper Mississippi River Basin Conference in Moline, Illinois had a special theme of “Raising the Grade” this year, which was shaped by...
Sizing up the Mississippi River
Sizing up the Mississippi River ... Last week, I attended a meeting of the Changing Course design competition in New Orleans . The Changing Cou...
The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released
The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released ... On October 14, 2015, in St. Louis, Missouri, I unveiled the Report Card f...
Upper Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy
Upper Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy ... ' Environmental literacy ' series The seven environmental literacy principles for t...
"In this room, it’s playtime!" Creative inspiration at the Citizen Science conference (part 1)
...n directly followed the panel, and was hosted at the nearby Science Museum of Minnesota . It was fun to check out the Mississippi River Visitor Center , say hello to some of my colleagues, meet new people, and spot some 'famous' faces in the crowd...
"Up close and personal" Community engagement at the Citizen Science conference (part 2)
...alls. Of course, visitors also enjoyed an exhibit on the ecology and natural history of the city's pride and joy: the Mississippi River, which flows outside the museum's windows. My absolute favorite museum exhibit of all time was the Collector's...
A new version of the song 'Memphis Tennessee' released
...leans and a short distance from Nashville , TN, the country music capital, it seemed appropriate to capture our lower Mississippi River workshop in the form of a blues song. Memphis is where Sam Phillips at Sun Records recorded such music luminari...
A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems
...rt cards provide a transparent snapshot of the health of systems ranging in size from the Chester River to the entire Mississippi River Watershed . Considering the great range of potential locations, watershed areas, and population sizes depicted...
A visit to The Water Institute of the Gulf in Baton Rouge
...downtown Baton Rouge, just a few blocks south of the State Capitol Building . They have wonderful views of the mighty Mississippi River and the State Capital. The Water Institute Chief Scientist is Dr. Denise Reed , a hydrologist who spearheaded t...
Arkansas and Red Rivers Workshop in Tulsa, Oklahoma
...ers Workshop in Tulsa, Oklahoma ... As part of our continuing series of stakeholder expert workshops for developing a Mississippi River basin report card , a team of IAN Science Integrators and Science Communicators traveled to Tulsa , Oklahoma on...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 6- Global Initiatives in Response to Flooding
... America that I have been working with; the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast, and coastal Louisiana--the mouth of the Mississippi River with marshes and the city of New Orleans. Let's look at the two major floods and how people have responded to t...
Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 7- Examples of Flooding in the United States
..., they're now turning their attention, in the next year, to developing this master plan . This is where they take the Mississippi River water, which is sediment laden, because it drains half of North America, and they're going to divert it into th...
Building a Report Card: Getting Started
...sa will help us integrate the social aspects in the report cards and some examples can be observed in the Orinoco and Mississippi Basins report cards . The Orinoco Basin report card included both ecological and social Indicators. Credit: Costanzo...

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