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"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 Collect...

2014 International Riversymposium

...’s symposium was ‘Large River Basins’ which was quite topical for the IAN team completing the draft Mississippi River report card . The location of the symposium in Australia’s capital city Canberra was appropriately within...

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...

Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card

Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card ... The report card for the Mississippi River basin. The purpose of this report card is to provide people with information on status and trends of the entire...

Bridging Science and Community: The 2025 Chesapeake Bay Report Card

...marked the first use of socioeconomic indicators like income, recreation, and transportation in a report card for the Mississippi River. 3 This proved to be a catalyst for action, providing holistic metrics that policymakers could use to set resto...

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...

Building coastal resilience through stories

...ohn Barry encountered in writing his book , “ Rising Tide .” The subject of the book, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, overflows with human interest. But, at its core is a conflict between different theories of river hydr...

Coastal Louisiana issues discussed at public meeting in St. Bernard Parish

...he manner of sediment delivery; dredging vs. river diversions. The residents felt that the problem with diverting the Mississippi River to the marshes was not the sediments, but the accompanying freshwater, nutrients and toxicants. They argued pas...

Coastal Louisiana song book: Reflections on reviewing the 2012 Master Plan

...ng the blues Feeling good was good enough for me Good enough for Steve and Bobby Twilley From the delta of the Mississippi To the coastlines of the Chenier Bobby shared the secrets of the Plan His team standing beside him, Lord With everyth...

Collective impact and ecosystem health report cards: The product enables the process

...eport card development process expressly as a part of a deliberate collective impact approach, and the other, for the Mississippi River , collective impact principles, without explicitly following the model. The Willamette River Report Card I...

Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network

...hat Heath Kelsey , Suzi Spitzer , Vanessa Vargas and I had about Anthony’s blog. Conceptual diagramming for the Mississippi River Report Card, from hand-drawn maps to illustrations. Anthony draws a distinction between producing a product (co...

Conceptual Diagrams Can Get You Places

...rime;45″W) you will have gotten someplace special. Humboldt lies almost exactly at the geographic center of the Mississippi River watershed; motto: “Heartbeat of the Heartland.” It is also one of about two dozen places in the US...

Crocodile report cards

...e. Of great interest to me are the parallels in this way of thinking with the work we've recently done developing the Mississippi River report card . Kudos to The Nature Conservancy for understanding that in order to succeed in ecological res...

Davos, Switzerland, Broke This Coastal Hydrologist’s Heart

...ting the historic French Quarter for Mardi Gras realize that until the end of the 19th century visitors could see the Mississippi River from Jackson Square. Today, the view is the back of a protective levee that rises 10 feet above street level. S...

Design Competition Stimulates Communication on Multiple Channels

...ion on Multiple Channels ... The Changing Course competition will stimulate discussion about the future course of the Mississippi River near its mouth. Large areas of wetlands have converted to open water in the delta of the Mississippi over the p...

Developing a Gulf of Mexico report card

...ple attending this Joint Meeting, with representatives from each of the five Gulf of Mexico states (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida) and a few Mexican scientists also in attendance. Dr. Porfinio Alvarez-Torres spoke about the v...

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...

Developing a Mississippi River report card: Upper Mississippi River workshop in the Quad Cities

Developing a Mississippi River report card: Upper Mississippi River workshop in the Quad Cities ... The IAN crew ( Bill Dennison , Heath Kelsey , Bill Nuttle , Caroline Wicks ) tr...

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