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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...

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...

Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay

Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter

...ion and Application Network (Kelsey, Fries, Kellogg and Wicks) and one for NOAA (Zhang). EcoCheck has produced annual report cards for Chesapeake Bay beginning in 2006. These report cards are supported by extensive web materials including data tabl...

Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework

...into Economic, Societal, and Environment sectors, and seven overall goals. This represents a substantial evolution in report cards that have primarily focused on the environment sector. In advance of the Summit, we put together a vision for how a M...

Chesapeake Bay 2011 report card release at Baltimore Harbor

...entists associated with a partnership that we formed between UMCES and NOAA called EcoCheck has been producing annual report cards for Chesapeake Bay. In addition, EcoCheck scientists have been working with various riverkeeper and waterkeeper group...

Environmental report card workshop in Surfers Paradise, Australia

...tralia ... Sponsored by the Australian Water and Environmental Research Alliance (AWERA), a workshop on environmental report cards was held near Brisbane, Australia. This workshop focused on how environmental report cards have emerged as a techniqu...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 10 - Innovations in Governance/BaySTAT

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 10 - Innovations in Gover... right? OK, in thirty days, you’ll come and report to me about how you’ve done that. Thank you...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 8 - Environmental Report Cards

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 8 - Environmental Report Cards ... Report cards are also a great way to bring together disparate groups. An extreme example is that the US State Department was tryin...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 7 - Innovations in Environmental Reporting

...t innovations in environmental reporting. One of the things we stumbled upon in Southeast Queensland is environmental report cards, and I got to thinking why they are so powerful. I have two teenage children, who you can definitely see are driven b...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 4 - The Annapolis Synthesis Center

...oducts by working with the U.S. National Park Service and Conservation International . We also produced environmental report cards and scientific publications. Recently, the National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Maryland Center...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar

...ou need coordination, you need to see that quality assurance is brought in. Now were posting a whole swag of regional report cards using this army of citizen scientists. I think that the real solutions come this way because they can start saying, "...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 10- Progress in Monitoring and Management

...e very rural and sparsely populated, were in very bad condition which turns out to be a chicken manure problem. These report cards allowed us to document the trajectory of the health of the bay, because the bay has been extensively studied. We had...

Sabbatical reflections

...at became evident during the course of my sabbatical was the opportunity to catalyze the development of environmental report cards around Australia. I was able to reengage with the Healthy Waterways report cards in Southeast Queensland , which I wa...

Chesapeake citizens are well informed: New poll results of Maryland public perception of Chesapeake Bay restoration

...ay (average C-) matches EXACTLY with the EcoCheck report card (2010 score = C-). The grade voters give the...y tributaries exists. The EcoCheck Chesapeake Bay report card is generated by collecting data for six indi...

Developing a Gulf of Mexico report card

...sion, Larry and I presented an overview of our Gulf of Mexico report card prospectus and I presented some examples of report cards that the Integration and Application Network and EcoCheck have worked on. Following this introduction, we had over tw...

Gulf of Mexico Summit 2011

...same issues. The Gulf of Mexico Report Card prototype is unveiled One of the highlights for me was the chance to talk report cards. We unveiled our vision for the Gulf of Mexico Report Card on Wednesday, with our partners from the Harte Institute ,...

Climate Change and the Holidays

...Government in Australia on the Great Barrier Reef Report Card , are two good examples of how local decisio...

Seven attributes of a vibrant science group

...e to IAN/ Eco-Check and set up the Chesapeake Bay report card , before moving on to Canada. Dr. Adrian Jon...

Developing a Swan River report card

...ort is being led by Roxane Shadbolt, Swan River Trust, and Dr. May Carter, Edith Cowan University . The term 'dueling report cards' came up, but I could see that an ecosystem health report with a social and economic report card could be quite compl...

Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries

...ers. Malcolm Robb, Western Australia, Department of Water: Irrigation and cows*** influence Western Australia estuary report cards. Dr. Kath McMahon , Edith Cowan University : Seagrass torture chambers show temperature and carbon dioxide impacts (o...

Stoplight colors for environmental report cards

Stoplight colors for environmental report cards ... The use of red, yellow and green for denoting different levels of concern in environmental report cards has its o...

Encountering Former Students

...the University of Queensland. On Tuesday, on a trip to Townsville to develop a strategy for future Great Barrier Reef report cards , I encountered a former University of Queensland student, Dr. Katherine Martin. I had seen her name on emails and kn...

Sabbatical in Queensland

...ng on are the following: developing online teaching modules, developing a report application for use in environmental report cards, writing a book with IWC education coordinator, Dr. Peter Oliver . In addition to these previously planned activities...

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...

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