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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Role in Environmental Education

... the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) offices in Annapolis, Maryland, to broadly discuss the different environmental report cards issued for the region, their influence, and future goals. ... On April 1 st , 2025, environmental managers from group...

Climbing Down the Ivory Tower

...l, social, and economic considerations. At IAN, we pride ourselves on incorporating social and economic data into our report cards , and such data was essential to the development of our 2021 Maryland Coastal Adaptation Report Card and our upcoming...

A Discussion on Sustainability and Resilience in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed at the Chesapeake Research Consortium Symposium

...ls to assess and measure the health and relationships in an environment. These include tools like socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics modeling, and social network analysis. COAST Card originated from the successful report card model o...

A Listening Session Right off the Rappahannock River!

...derstand what is most important to the agricultural community. This knowledge is used to create indicators for future report cards. Including this information gives the report cards a more holistic view! Simultaneously, those who work in and around...

Uniting Science and Community: Reflections from the 2024 Chesapeake Community Research Symposium

...Watershed. The COAST Card is a stakeholder-driven tool that simplifies complex scientific data into clear, accessible report cards. These report cards communicate the watershed's health using social, economic, and ecological indicators tailored to...

Reflections on a serious game in Zambia

...nutes to play, I worried that it would be difficult to justify including it in our meeting agendas. Our workshops for report cards have very tight agendas. In our workshops, we need to develop a conceptual understanding of the system with stakehold...

A Hopeful Reflection on a Tool for Sustainable Coastal Management

...ational NGOs. Environmental Assessment: You cannot manage what you don’t measure. COAST Card uses socio-environmental report cards to provide a clear snapshot of the health of coastal ecosystems, setting benchmarks for improvement, and tracking pro...

Humanity’s Place in the Environment: How Social Indicators Strengthen Ecological Report Cards

Humanity’s Place in the Environment: How Social Indicators Strengthen Ecological Report Cards ... For over 20 years, environmental report cards have been used across the globe to integrate data into communicatio...

Indigenous ideals and shaping environmental movements

...Kelsey, R.H., Jordahl, H., Nuttle, W., Somerville, C., Thomas, J. and Dennison, W.C. (2020), Using Socioenvironmental Report Cards as a Tool for Transdisciplinary Collaboration. Integr Environ Assess Manag, 16: 494-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam...

Public data is broad but interesting: ongoings at a data conference

...e Service, Urban Institute, and others. We at IAN largely use public data to build any one of our socio-environmental report cards, so Lili and I decided it would be good to investigate what this conference was about. However, we actually weren’t t...

Belmont Forum Ocean Sustainability midterm meeting

...onships. COAST Card : This is the project that Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen and I are running to develop socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics models, and social network analysis in Chesapeake, Manila, and Tokyo Bays, the Goa coast of India an...

Release of Chesapeake Bay Watershed Report Card

...and Deputy Secretary Suzanne Dorsey (right) at the report card launch. And this year, we are releasing three separate report cards for the Chesapeake watershed. We have ecological, social, and economic watershed report cards, and they help us under...

Diving Deep into the 2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card: Progress, Challenges, and a Call for Action

...OAST Card , a Belmont Forum project aiming to address socio-environmental challenges by combining socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics modeling, and social network analysis, also released its first Potomac-specific report card – the 20...

Lessons learned from a two and a half year project on the Upper Rio Grande

... July 2020, most of my work up to that point had been on projects that were in various stages of development. All the report cards I had worked on until July 2020 already had a set list of indicators as well as a methodology for how to measure thos...

Generating Collective Knowledge at the Potomac Open House

...created was filled with green dots (bottom two images). Participants then moved on to the next tent, which focused on report cards . An important component of the COAST Card framework is a socio-ecological report card incorporating a variety of eco...

Brook Trout and the Civil War: A Glimpse at the History of the Potomac River Watershed

...we hope to evaluate the Potomac River Watershed using the COAST card framework. This framework includes environmental report cards, social network analysis, and system dynamics modeling. Although there have been previous report cards on the Potomac...

Imagining a Participative Potomac: A Meeting at Hood College

...ruary 18th, 2021. The COAST Card project merges a report-card process, social network analysis, and system... Although the Potomac Conservancy’s Potomac River Report Card is a pre-existing, consistently released rep...

Your Not-So-Average "C+" 2021 Chesapeake & Watershed Report Card

...lth factors necessary to measure ecosystem health and measure restoration trajectories. Evident and crucial in annual report cards is an upward trajectory for watershed and ecosystem health. This year’s Bay health score of 50% is a 5-point increase...

Bringing Communities Together Through Water: The Start of Socio-Environmental Report Cards for the Southeast Michigan region

Bringing Communities Together Through Water: The Start of Socio-Environmental Report Cards for the Southeast Michigan region ... The last of three virtual workshop sessions for the development of individual a...

Celebrating World Rivers Day with our global partners

...gions. Image provided by UMCES-IAN. We have worked with partners and communities around the world to create ecosystem report cards for river ecosystems, including the Tuul River in Mongolia, the Verde River in Arizona, and the Orinoco River in Colo...

A watershed moment: Years of work and data culminate in the release of the Western Lake Erie Report Card

...culminate in the release of the Western Lake Erie Report Card ... The Western Lake Erie 1st Report Card is...science communication achievement for IAN and the report's stakeholders. After an evaluation of almos...

Water Quality is Not Only Important, it’s Measurable

... nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. One way to answer that question is by using an environmental report card. Report cards are a great science communication tool for informing a variety of audiences about the status of water quality, among...

Cooks River virtual workshop

... Sydney International Airport. Cooks River Alliance has been monitoring since 2011 and producing annual water quality report cards since 2013-2014, but the folks managing Cooks River are interested in expanding the report card into a socio-environm...

Learn how to storyboard your next visualization publication

...mple from the 2018 Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card published by IAN, I describe the effective d... applied to the 2018 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card published by UMCES IAN. As much as you might...

Dr. Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen successfully defends her dissertation

...ollowing her public seminar. The title of Vanessa's dissertation was the following: "The role of social-environmental report cards in transdisciplinary collaboration and adaptive governance for a sustainable future". She used a combination of natur...

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