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Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016 ... The 2016 report card for the Maryla...r 16th, 2017, at the Ocean City Marlin Club . The report card release was combined with the annual Gold St...ucted in the summer of 2017, so next year’s report card...

Maryland Coastal Bays report card gets a B- for the first time

...the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the National Park Service to produce report cards for the coastal lagoons that separate Fenwick and Assateague Islands from the mainland. The overall report cards scor...

Maryland’s inaugural State of the Coast conference

.... I provided a preview of the 2017 Chesapeake Bay report card since the data had recently been calculated,... and it was gratifying to report that the overall Bay trends are significantly imp...roving for the first time since we began reporting Bay...

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...

Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Planning

Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Pla... lectures and blogs we talked about the five-step report card process: Step One - identifying basin values... . How do we accomplish these steps and develop a report card in the...

Meet Saipan, one of America’s forgotten territories

...ith us in all four workshops. We celebrated a job well done, and more work to do in the coming year to complete these report cards. The group with NOAA staff holding up their awards. The next day, Heath, Caroline, and I explored the island, g...

Mekong Flooded Forest – a sneak peek at a Future Card

...aptured by this CLD reflects the types of values, threats, and indicators that one would commonly see in our existing report cards. That is what first got my attention. Report cards are very good at synthesizing large amounts of information and pro...

Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy report card launch

...Choptank and Miles-Wye Rivers is to get in an upward trajectory. The way to track this progress is through the annual report cards. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has a unit called the Integration and Application Networ...

Mission Aransas Pilot Project

...n and I got involved in again last month. My reason for being at this current workshop was to remind people about how report cards work, and how this could eventually fit in to the project. As often happens in other disciplines, it seems that the e...

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...

Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint

...n during storms. Diagram from 2013 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. John Farrington from Woods Hole Oceanograph...

More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science

...o children instead of one reduced willingness to help. I saw a parallel with something we had learned from working on report cards with our colleagues at Opinion Works that recommending a single conservation action was more effective than a providi...

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...

National Monitoring Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio

...d gain new ones. One great way to use volunteer monitoring data is by synthesizing the data into environmental health report cards , something we at IAN do often! There is an entire website on volunteer monitoring around the country where citizen s...

Next steps for the Tennessee River Basin Report Card

...d and the methods document can be downloaded from IAN Press , there is no substitute to having professionally printed report cards that would be excellent handouts at community events, meetings with elected officials, and as resources for educators...

Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card

..., Krchnak, K., Sherman, J., Thieme, M. Vargas-Nguyen, V. (2017). Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . IAN Press. Cambridge MD USA. 2. Kelsey, H. (2017). Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scal...

Old faces, new times. Stakeholder mapping at International Riversymposium 2018 (Sydney, Australia)

...isolation, and then as a group, to demonstrate how broad stakeholder involvement improves the legitimacy of report cards and builds relationships. Stakeholder mapping and engagement has become quite a large element in all aspect...

One Planet One Ocean conference in Barcelona, Spain

...rstanding of ecosystem indicators' and presented an invited talk, 'Science communication strategies and environmental report cards for effective coastal ocean governance'. The conference and workshops were over a six-day period, and five plenary ta...

Our first report card in South America – The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia

...s and two coastlines. During our three-day workshop, we developed a detailed timeline for preparing and releasing the report cards including identifying stakeholders for workshops in May and July 2015. Throughout the workshop we were joined by a di...

Over the river and through the woods to release the Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card, we go!

...the woods to release the Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card, we go! ... Last December 10, 2015, Bill, Va...g, MD to release our new Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card . This report card assessed stream health in...

Progressing toward a Report Card for the Gulf of Mexico

...ack started our talk describing the scientific basis for the report card, and I finished with a discussion on how the report cards work and the positive outcomes from these projects. I got a lot of great feedback after the session - the prospect of...

Public data is broad but interesting: ongoings at a data conference

...e Service, Urban Institute, and others. We at IAN largely use public data to build any one of our socio-environmental report cards, so Lili and I decided it would be good to investigate what this conference was about. However, we actually weren’t t...

Pursuing prioritization in Pennsylvania: The magic of more monitoring

... insights such as that some groups are already using data in ways that other groups want to use it in the future (eg. report cards, state reporting, hotspot identification). Some ways people want to use data in the future, that few groups mentioned...

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...

Reflections on a serious game in Zambia

...nutes to play, I worried that it would be difficult to justify including it in our meeting agendas. Our workshops for report cards have very tight agendas. In our workshops, we need to develop a conceptual understanding of the system with stakehold...

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