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    274 results for "report cards":

    • Ten recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 2
      ...ng press along will encourage them to attend future events. One of the primary motivations to producing environmental report cards is to speak 'truth' to 'power'. 'Power' is vested in elected officials and community leaders and it is our tenet that...
    • Ten teaching tips from the Teaching & Learning Transformation Center at the University of Maryland
      ...ss or workshop, we build upon these skills into higher-level outcomes that ask students and participants to "develop" report cards or "create" conceptual diagrams, for example. 5. Assess student learning along the way Assessments give students feed...
    • Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly in support of compulsory soil phosphorus testing by farmers
      ...th the EcoCheck group and various citizen science groups to develop publically available Chesapeake Bay and tributary report cards . In addition, I have also worked with various practitioners and restoration specialists to generate fact sheets, boo...
    • The 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia
      ...f the pavilions hosted short talks that vied for the attention of the delegates who were walking by. I gave a talk on report cards with three other scientists: Joao Paulo Coimbra who talked about the Guanabara Bay report card that he was instrument...
    • The Basin Report Card Initiative goes to Monterrey, Mexico!
      ... the Tecnológico de Monterrey , and to meet with the FEMSA foundation and Water Center about the potential for report cards for the Rio Bravo , Rio Conchos , and Monterrey areas, as well as Water Reserves programs and expansion of all of the...
    • The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards
      The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards ... Alex Fries and I had the chance to represent UMCES at the Conference on Ecosystem and Ecological Restoration (CEE...
    • 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...
    • The Economics of the Ocean: Discussing the Baltic Sea and Chesapeake Bay at the House of Sweden
      ...see the problems everywhere - plastics, contaminants, fisheries declines, for example. I thought of the environmental report cards that we use to educate people about the status of the ecosystem. Report cards are something experienced from childhoo...
    • The Integration and Application Network in 2017
      ...7: we moved into a new Annapolis office, developed our first IAN Strategic Plan and initiated our self-reflective IAN report cards. IAN staff taught or co-taught four courses: Science for Environmental Management Coupled Human and Natural Systems T...
    • The Integration and Application Network in 2018
      ...t some really good news in the improvements in the health of Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bays with our annual report cards. In addition, the publication of a scientific synthesis paper that IAN staff helped generate was able to reach a broa...
    • The Los Angeles River: Geography, vistas and restoration
      ...ing. Another impression was the need to tell the river stories through effective science communication, environmental report cards and active engagement with citizens. The Los Angeles River has been termed an 'open sewer' carrying 'urban slobber' t...
    • The Meta River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia
      ...orkshop spanned from June 30th-July 2nd, and was the first of three workshops that will occur in Colombia, to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River . Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman , and Catherine Blancard from the WWF of...
    • The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released
      ...ts a culmination of such a long and involved process, and because it represents a new milestone in our ability to use report cards to report on broadly differing management goals, across such a large geography. Participants at the Mississippi River...
    • The Next Frontier: Ecological Forecasting
    • The NOAA Coral Reef Report Card - Reflections on the report card process
      ...e came together to do just that. Most importantly, we finalized the list of indicators that will be included in these report cards, and developed the key messages for the Coral, Fish, Climate, and Communities and Management groups. This was an impo...
    • The people of the Gulf of Kachchh
      ...I used the phonetic spelling:   The Gulf of Kutch We have come together to discuss the Gulf of Kutch Formulating report cards and cumulative assessments In this dry monsoonal climate and dry Gujarat state We have been able to learn so very muc...
    • The report card game “Get the Grade!” was launched in Stockholm, New Delhi and Honolulu
      ... having fun and wanted to continue to play. We asked if the game made them interested in finding out more about basin report cards, and the response was extremely positive (87%). Comments included suggestions for ways to tweak the rules, positive e...
    • The Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card
      ...he Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card ... On July 21, 2017, the Guanabara Bay Repo...iro , Brazil . This is the first ecosystem health report card in Brazil, and the second report card we hav...
    • The Second Verde River Report Card Workshop
      ...requires thriving communities of people who value the river in multifaceted ways. This is one of the more interesting report cards we have ever worked on due the incredible engagement we are experiencing with stakeholders and their determination to...
    • The Verde River Workshop
      ...iver report card project has come a long way, over a relatively short time period. Stakeholder-driven, multi-sectoral report cards typically take 18-24 months to complete in our experience. The Verde River report card project is not even one year o...
    • This is What Science Stands For: Exhibiting at AGU Fall Meeting 2018
      ...tiative aims to empower stakeholders around the world in managing their fresh water resources by developing and using report cards. Our Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards received lots of attention, as did the “...
    • Three Gorges Dam Visit
      Three Gorges Dam Visit ... In April I travelled to China to discuss report cards with WWF China . Following the workshop (outlined in a previous blog ), I was extremely lucky to be taken on a guided...
    • To get the grade: Collaborate! Stakeholder engagement and the missing link between research and action
      ...t in a project or entity, or would be affected by a particular action or policy – and the role of environmental report cards in guiding stakeholder decisions. Stakeholder engagement can be described as a process of maturity: each step of the...
    • Top ten conceptual diagrams: Seagrasses, streams, eco-rhythms
      ...nitoring Program for Moreton Bay created a conceptual diagram to illustrate the indicators used to develop the annual report cards for Moreton Bay . This diagram evolved from the original Moreton Bay diagram which used brown, green and blue water c...
    • Turning the report card spotlight back on ourselves: The first Integration and Application Network report card
      ...Integration and Application Network (IAN) team has been traveling the globe to help various partners develop rigorous report cards. When we starting working with Tina Bishop and Peter Tuddenham from the College of Exploration to develop an evaluati...
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