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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...

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...

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...

Moreton Bay, Australia: Environmental Literacy

...anagement and research The Healthy Waterways program has an Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program which releases annual report cards , a regional management program involving all levels of government and an active ongoing research effort. The Healthy...

Developing a Mississippi River report card: Ohio River workshop in Cincinnati

...er (To the tune of WKRP in Cincinnati) Baby, if you've ever wondered Wondered whatever became of me I'm making report cards in Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio River Got kind of tired Of working in isolation State vs. state Up and down the...

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...

Discussing science communication at CERF2013

...n Costanzo made a thought-provoking presentation with the title: "ABC is no longer as easy as 123: Advances in school report cards that are applicable to ecological health report cards". He provided a historical perspective of educational report ca...

MEDCOAST 2013 and EMECS 10 conference: Turkish baths, Red Sox baseball, new colleagues

...tal Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program, or 'nutrient diet'. In other sessions, I talked about developing environmental report cards and about the Maryland approach to adaptation to climate change. I enjoyed listening to the diversity of topics from...

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...

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...

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...

Gulf of Kachchh field trips: Birds, mangroves, corals, macrotides, industries

... are concerned about the ecosystems of the Gulf of Kachchh. As always, it is so much more meaningful to be developing report cards and assessments about places that we have personally visited and seen with our own eyes. Sign for largest tanker term...

2012 Chilika Lake ecosystem health report card

... both natural processes and human activities. This is the first of a proposed series of Chilika Lake Ecosystem Health Report Cards, supported by the CDA and the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management , Ministry of Environment and Forest...

Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland

...ifferent regions. We chose this display to avoid confusion with the grading scheme that was being used for the annual report cards. Map of South-east Queensland, pp. 4 and 5 from Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland. The ‘fire dang...

Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration

Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration ... The fifth National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER...

Talking about report cards at the International Congress for Conservation Biology

Talking about report cards at the International Congress for Conservation Biology ... The Society for Conservation Biology sponsors a biennial c...

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...

Recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 1

...ommunication. We produced sound bites, newsletters, books, PowerPoint presentations, web materials, and environmental report cards; as well as conducted workshops, led field trips, wrote songs, and did media interviews over the course of many years...

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...

2012 Chesapeake Bay Report Card

2012 Chesapeake Bay Report Card ... This report card provides a transparent, timely, and geograph...t of Chesapeake Bay. In 2012, the methods for the report card have changed to include five water quality i...

Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay report card with new indicators and new methods

...ps that we work with through the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Assessment Coalition (MTAC) do use bacteria in their regional report cards. We have developed protocols for bacteria as well as the other water quality indicators so that results are comparabl...

Coastal Bays report card launch

...d products like the book " Shifting Sands: Environmental and cultural change in Maryland's Coastal Bays ", the annual report cards and various synthesis papers . We have also targeted research to address key issues in the Coastal Bays, like the eni...

2012 Maryland Coastal Bays report card

2012 Maryland Coastal Bays report card ... The aim of this report card is to provid...stal Bays Health Index, which is presented as the report card score. Detailed methods and results are avai...lable on the EcoCheck Coastal Bays report card website ....

Coastal Louisiana issues discussed at public meeting in St. Bernard Parish

...silient communities for coastal Louisiana. We established a strategy of providing annual coastal updates and biennial report cards ahead of the next Master Plan (2017). As part of my visit, I was invited to observe the public meeting by the Coastal...

Singing the Chesapeake Bay Blues

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