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  Is It Possible to Manage Large and Complex Ecosystems?

  ... Environmental Management class studied multiple large and complex ecosystems that span the globe that range from the Mississippi River watershed to the Great Barrier Reef. This map shows the areas the class focused on. Large ecosystems cover a wi...
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  Dr. Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen successfully defends her dissertation

  .... She used a combination of natural and social science tools and had two case study locations: Chesapeake Bay and the Mississippi River. There are four main chapters in the dissertation, and the first of them was published in a peer review journal...
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  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...
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  Politics As Usual…

  ...he form of the “Indian Removal Act” , which displaced Native American populations further west across the Mississippi River during a forced migration known as the Trail of Tears .4 With the abolishment of the international import of Af...
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  IAN as a Boundary Organization

  ...ram. IAN often works directly with stakeholders like the Ingram Barge Company and Caterpillar who helped us build the Mississippi River report card . IAN also serves as a boundary organization in the approach of simultaneously attempting to both s...
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  Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference

  ...-oriented approach for synthesizing data and communicating the health of an environmental system. She highlighted the Mississippi River and Chesapeake Bay report card processes as examples of transdisciplinary collaborative efforts, and shared som...
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  What you can do to help - exploring tools for Raising the Grade!

  ...akers and government can do to help improve ecosystem health based on the consensus approach. This can be seen in the Mississippi River Report Card where a group of stakeholders from the Upper Mississippi came together, and in response to the repo...
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  The Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Spectacle of Climate Change

  ... on hand, on February 27, to witness the spectacle of the Corps of Engineers opening the Bonnet Carre spillway on the Mississippi River. Runoff from record precipitation in the Midwest this winter feeds a flood that is making its way down the rive...
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  Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?

  ...ere discussed were as follows: Coastal Bay, Yucateca River Basin, Tennesse River Basin, Guanabara Bay, Laguna de Bay, Mississippi River Watershed, Orinoco River Basin and Chesapeake Bay. The Laguna de Bay report card showing the front page, flap a...
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  Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach

  ...ance of future collection of this data. An example of addressing the presentation of insufficient data taken from the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When d...
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  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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  Don’t Hate, Integrate!

  ...f the report card process by talking about several published report cards, including the Moreton Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River , and Orinoco River report cards. With each respective report card, new challenges were faced and refinements t...
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  It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work
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  Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!

  ...ts, such as the Vision for a Report Card and Preliminary Results documents that were published ahead of the finalized Mississippi River Watershed Report Card . These types of early documents allow us to maintain momentum and public interest in a s...
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  When to Go Big with Report Cards

  ...d of 424,000 km2 that drains directly into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. Surely the queen of all report cards is the Mississippi River Watershed Report Card . Covering a watershed area of 3.2 million km2, the reporting region encompasses parts of...
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  Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card

  ...l network analysis. Each of these tools are briefly explained below. The consensus approach has been attempted in the Mississippi River , where a deliberate effort was made to identify how best to raise the grade for the river basin. Stakeholders...
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  You Can’t Spell Earth Without Art

  ...s. Top: American Samoa newsletter. Bottom: Potomac River watershed pressures diagram. Image credit here and here Top: Mississippi River Report Card grade wheel. Bottom: Kid’s nature walk. Image credits here and here All of these examples are...
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  Five principles of holistic science communication
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  Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card

  ...ted off by reviewing the various report card innovations and developments in other locations like the Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River, and the Orinoco River. I suggested improvements taken from these projects such as: Comprehensive report cards...
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  Exploring an Ecosystem in Transition: The Road to Flamingo

  ...s now underway to restore regional ecosystems in the US. Other similar work is going on around San Francisco Bay, the Mississippi River deltaic region, the Upper Mississippi River basin, Long Island Sound, and the Chesapeake Bay. The 2019 SSR will...
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  Talking about the Tennessee River report card in Chattanooga: Part 1

  ... resource managers from the region, which includes portions of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky. The co-sponsors of the event, Anna George from the Tennessee Aquarium and Bucky Edmonstone from the Ten...
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  “The most livable city in America”

  ...and feels like a friendly town more than a big city. When I arrived in the city, I immediately set out to walk to the Mississippi River . During the Mississippi River report card project , several IAN staff traveled throughout the watershed, inclu...
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  "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...
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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...
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  Why I March

  ...ting scientific understanding to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay, where I spent most of my adult life, and the Mississippi Delta, where I was born and raised. These two places are magical to the people who live there, economically important...

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