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Integration and Application Network in 2015: The year in review

...ownloaded the symbol library to date. IAN staff released two new websites in 2015: Chesapeake Bay Story and EcoHealth report cards . Three apps were also produced in 2015: How's the Beach? (South Carolina beach water quality), Hawaiian birds , Bill...

International Riversymposium 2013

...13. I traveled to Australia with Heath Kelsey and we made presentations during a stimulating session on environmental report cards, which featured the long-term Southeast Queensland report card program, the Great Barrier Reef report card, our fledg...

Investing in math and science education: "Our generation's Sputnik moment"

...nmental problems. That is why we are committed making research accessible to teachers and students through new media, report cards, and even board games. One of our latest endeavors, the UMCES Channel on SchoolTube is another way to educate student...

It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work

...ze diverse knowledge and experience and generate novel insights on a particular topic. For example, when IAN develops report cards , our Science Integrators and Communicators work with partners to synthesize relevant information on a specific ecosy...

Jamie's Australian Adventures

... the Irwins have perfected, it’s harnessing a gung-ho personality to energize and inspire an audience. IAN uses report cards to try to achieve a similar effect, while the IRF uses an ‘inspire by celebration’ approach. All three ar...

Jane Hawkey, the Integration and Application Network ‘Closer’ retiring

...ience communication course in Portugal , helped run a science communication workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania , produced report cards and integrated assessments in coastal India , and developed science communication products throughout the Pacific isl...

Jane Thomas, Science Communicator Extraordinaire, heading Down Under

...ell, and his wife Jamie Testa is a Science Communicator with IAN. Jano was instrumental in the release of many of our report cards and our science communication courses. Jano was the driving force for producing ' Shifting Sands: Environmental and c...

Jane Thomas: A champion for the Maryland Coastal Bays

... first annual report card for the Coastal Bays in 2008 . Following this report card release, Jano insured that annual report cards were produced every year. And she recently back-calculated report card scores to 1986, and uploaded them to the EcoHe...

Kick-starting Collective Impact in Five Easy Report Card Steps

...starting Collective Impact in Five Easy Report Card Steps ... This is the first of two posts about the application of report cards to enable a collective impact process. The collective impact model facilitates positive change Collective Impact is a...

Large Marine Ecosystems – An Australian in Paris

...eds what IAN has to offer in terms of bringing their collective knowledge together. There was even talk of developing report cards for each of the LME’s; an idea that would definitely increase the exposure of the LME concept and act as a foca...

Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!

...cess, so good job Bill, Simon, and Heath!!! This figure from the Practitioner´s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards (page 36) outlines the 5-step process for report card development. There were several key themes and take-home messag...

Launching the Chesapeake Bay Story website: Telling fact-based stories about Chesapeake Bay health

...challenges, and opportunities in the Chesapeake " report. Future directions included sections on climate,...ealth to complement the data-based Chesapeake Bay report card . Mike Powell spearheaded the effort from th...

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...

Lessons learned during the Long Island Sound report card process

...ng and knowledge gaps in LIS, increasing shared responsibility and accountability of groups working on LIS, and three report cards: the overall LIS report card as well as the Inner Hempstead Harbor Report Card and the Norwalk Harbor Report Card. Th...

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...

Long Island Sound 'listening tour' to initiate environmental report cards: Part 1

Long Island Sound 'listening tour' to initiate environmental report cards: Part 1 ... Bill Nuttle, Caroline Wicks, Anthony Kung and I circumnavigated Long Island Sound , crossing it at both e...

Long Island Sound 'listening tour' to initiate environmental report cards: Part 2

Long Island Sound 'listening tour' to initiate environmental report cards: Part 2 ... Following our Connecticut stops, we took the Cross Sound Ferry from New London, CT over to the tip of the...

Long Island Sound funders meeting

...and Application Network 's (IAN) project to develop both a Long Island Sound-wide report card and to develop regional report cards in partnership with a Connecticut-based non-government organization and a Long Island-based non-government organizati...

Long Island Sound Report Card

... Bill Dennison led the meeting, and gave some background about what we do at IAN, as well as about environmental report cards. Bill Dennison discussing the work IAN does. We covered a wide variety of topics in the meeting, including the Long I...

Long Island Sound Report Card in context

...ur mama home with you, so happy? Beluga whales in long Island Sound. Credit: Cheryl E Miller By nesting the embayment report cards within the overall Sound framework, we can assess the integrated health of the waterways. By creating this scientific...

Long Island Sound Report Card release in Glen Cove, New York

...to release the Long Island Sound Report Card . In addition to the overall report card, we also released two embayment report cards, the Norwalk Harbor Report Card , and the Inner Hempstead Harbor Report Card . After picking up a second rental car,...

Long Island Sound Report Card release in Westport, Connecticut

... will have to work together in order to improve the health of the Harbor and move the grade of a C+ to an A on future report cards. Beach grasses along the shore of the Long Island Sound at Sherwood Island State Park, in Westport Connecticut. Credi...

Mackay Report Card Workshop – Mackay, Queensland Australia 24 February 2015.

...for the next region, in Mackay . I attended the workshop in Mackay on February 24, to facilitate the discussion about report cards, discuss issues related to report card development, and help sketch out the draft report card in a storyboard exercis...

Making connections to ensure a clean and healthy Chesapeake Bay

... gave a shout-out to UMCES for our Chesapeake Bay Report Card !), implementing short and long-term managem...c health. Lee Currey mentioned the Chesapeake Bay Report Card as evidence that the ecosystem is shifting t...

Making the Grade

...the importance and urgency of our science without alarming or confusing people? This week, we discussed environmental report cards, which could provide a solution to this tricky balancing act facing scientists. There are several organizations that...

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