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"Whirling Disease" and Environmental Responsibility

...mportant: education cannot solve all environmental problems, but it can take great strides towards doing so. Creating report cards for businesses and governments that highlight strengths and problems and work towards solutions helps immensely. I am...

2013 Chesapeake Bay report released

2013 Chesapeake Bay report released ... The 2013 Chesapeake Bay report card...ay . The contrast between the Upper Eastern Shore report card scores which are degrading over time versus...the James River report card scores which are improving over time p...

2014 Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference

...cut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference ... In conjunction with our work on the Long Island Sound embayment report cards , I was invited to speak about report cards at the first annual Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Confer...

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 global hotspot for crocodiles, turtles, migratory birds, and mangroves – Bhitarkanika Conservation Area, Odisha, India

...n Area in Odisha, a state in north-eastern India. This will be our third report card in India; we previously produced Report Cards on the Gulf of Kachchh and Chilika Lake . Location of Bhitarkanika Conservation Area in north-east India. Credit: Goo...

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...

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...

A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II

...na Flats. In 2006, the first UMCES Chesapeake Bay report card was released, providing annual science-based...servation a priority. In 2017, the Chesapeake Bay report card showed significantly improving scores in sev...en of the fifteen reporting reg...

A New IAN Science Communication Course on Ecosystem Health Report Cards in Adelaide, Australia

A New IAN Science Communication Course on Ecosystem Health Report Cards in Adelaide, Australia ... Alex Fries and I had the chance to travel to Adelaide , Australia to deliver a two-day Sci...

A Report Card for Coastal Yucatán

...es and issues important to the people in the coastal areas of Yucatán. This project also serves as a pilot for report cards in other Mexican Gulf States, which ultimately, we hope, will integrate into an ecosystem health report card for the...

A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems

A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems ... Melanie Jackson, Chih-Hsien (Michelle) Lin, Detbra Rosa...

A Symposium on Coastal Resilience Highlights the Need for Transdisciplinary Science

...heme used for precipitation totals to accommodate the 60+ inches of rainfall on the Texas Coast. Credit: Jim McMahon] Report cards featured heavily Several report card projects have evolved from that first workshop that Jane Hawkey and I facilitate...

A unique partnership between World Wildlife Fund and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

...e Conservancy (TNC) on Climate Adaptation Strategies and the new TNC Chief Scientist Hugh Possingham on environmental report cards. But our WWF-UMCES partnership is more than star scientists who maintain an academic role, it is the blending of team...

A visit to Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, India

...e Jamnagar Marine National Park and a Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment for the Gulf of Kachchh in Gujarat . Report cards developed for India This time we are back to Odisha, to Bhitarkanika National Park , in the northern part of the stat...

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...

Adding value to “Network” in IAN: Exploring the potential uses of Social Network Analysis

...ep process to include stakeholder selection as the new first step (image below). The new 5-step process in developing report cards. Image credit: IAN Press Originally, my cursory understanding of SNA was that it would be a great tool to identify ke...

Annual IAN Retreat at Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center

...the interested but not very powerful groups, IAN could help empower them. An example of this approach is the regional report cards that we help riverkeeper groups produce. IAN staff posted organization names on the plot of low to high interest vs....

Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas

...of this project is to evaluate IAN’s success using the same 5-step process that we use for our ecosystem health report cards around the world. The initial report card workshop was held in February of this year. We are applying the following s...

Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card

...al resources in its basin enrich our culture. This project has a broader focus compared with other environmental report cards we have done. Indicators monitor critical functions of an actual engine. Activities in the basin serve as an engine o...

Assessing bacteria in South Carolina: redesigning the "How's the Beach?" app

...astase Day two of our travels to South Carolina began with Heath giving a lecture to Dwayne’s graduate class on report cards: what they are, how they’re made, and how they improve the health of different ecosystems. The class seemed gen...

Awakening Environmental Passion

...triathlons, walks, boat races Stewardship; clean ups, tree planting, stream restoration Completion ; product release, report cards, legislation HEAD Intellectual ; symposia, workshops, training Learning ; field trips, overflights, snorkel/dives Inf...

Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus

... Communication course in Cambridge , Maryland this week and we discussed the concept of developing some environmental report cards for the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands. So perhaps one day I will be able to revisit the Bahamas and contribute...

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...

Bem vindo ao Rio! O primeiro workshop com as partes interessadas da Baía de Guanabara

...abalhando no desenvolvimento do primeiro boletim (report card) de saúde ambiental para a Baí...sadas para a elaboração do boletim (report card) de saúde ambiental da Baía de...

Better ways to look at what we’re doing to Chesapeake Bay?

...e results? The IAN program’s Chesapeake Bay Report Card for 2011 gives the bay a D+. The EPA’s...y ecosystem” in the Bay Barometer 2011-2012 report released in January, but offers guarded optimism...

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