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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...
Twas the Weeks Before Christmas: Saying Goodbye to Nick DiPasquale
...nto Bay restoration. Furthermore, Nick leaves the Chesapeake Bay Program during the time when the last several annual report cards are reporting improving ecosystem health in the Chesapeake Bay. Clearly the Chesapeake Bay has benefited from Nick Di...
UMCES active in the 2016 River Symposium in Delhi, India
... I had a chance to attend, and to present a couple of talks related to the partnership we have with WWF for the Basin Report Cards Initiative . The highlight for me was the special session we co-hosted with WWF to demonstrate the Report Card Game o...
Uncovering five values of citizen science at CitSci2019
Understanding the dynamics and interdependencies of socio-ecological systems through models
...learning. I believe ABM would be useful after the report card process in making recommendations on how to...
Uniting Science and Community: Reflections from the 2024 Chesapeake Community Research Symposium
...Watershed. The COAST Card is a stakeholder-driven tool that simplifies complex scientific data into clear, accessible report cards. These report cards communicate the watershed's health using social, economic, and ecological indicators tailored to...
Using Conceptionary to initiate discussion on barriers for implementing report cards
Using Conceptionary to initiate discussion on barriers for implementing report cards ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)...
Using Poetry to Deliver an “Ignite” Style Scientific Presentation
...ite a stanza as each slide advanced. My talk was titled “Developing a best practices model for ecosystem health report cards.” Heath’s talk was directly after mine, and he provided more details about how we have evolved our report...
Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view
Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a par...
Using the Collaborative Learning framework to improve IAN’s report card development process and outcome
...ture outcomes that integrates ecological, social, economic, cultural and organizational perspectives. Similarly, report cards are being used to bring together decision-makers, managers, scientists, stakeholders, and citizens to develop a share...
Visit with Grand River Conservation Authority
...ation efforts by the GRCA. Of the 38 conservation authorities of Southern Ontario, only 9 are not currently producing report cards, including the Grand. We discussed the development of environmental report cards in both Australia and Chesapeake Bay...
Visiting the Great Lakes to talk report cards and communication ideas
Visiting the Great Lakes to talk report cards and communication ideas ... The Great Lakes are a naturally interconnected group of basins that hold 90% of freshwate...
Water Quality is Not Only Important, it’s Measurable
... nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. One way to answer that question is by using an environmental report card. Report cards are a great science communication tool for informing a variety of audiences about the status of water quality, among...
We are Trailblazers: The Chesapeake Bay Program in 2019
...he scientifically rigorous Chesapeake Bay Program report card produced by the University of Maryland Cente...ience is being emulated globally, but an expanded report card effort to include ecological, social and eco...
Welcome to Rio! The Guanabara Bay first stakeholder workshop
...velopment Bank , are working to develop the first report card for Guanabara Bay . The view of Rio de Janei...ll Dennison , Dave Nemazie , and I held the first report card stakeholder workshop at INEA (Instituto Esta...
What are these data trying to tell us?
...ed the statistical tools of data analysis that scientists use to get answers to simple, direct questions. Environment report cards are a tool for assembling this information to answer more complex questions. Image Credit: flickr Using data to answe...
What you can do to help - exploring tools for Raising the Grade!
...ing and Socio-ecological Network Analysis. Different approaches for Raising the Grade. Image by Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen Report cards traditionally include recommendations that the public, policy makers and government can do to help improve ecosystem...
What’s the Story in Your Report Card?
...fe experiences come together to share their love of watching men in tights save the world. In a not-so-different way, report cards use a mix of pictures and text to tell the story of a catchment (watershed); report cards bring different stakeholder...
When herding cats it helps to have a map
...ense, the map became the manifestation of a metaphor the IAN team often uses. To define the role of the environmental report cards, we ask people to imagine all the information available about a place gathered into a pyramid . The broad base of the...
When to Go Big with Report Cards
When to Go Big with Report Cards ... Jodie Mehrtens In the last of the lecture series for the IAN Healthy Rivers for All course we reviewed a number o...
Within Our Reach provides insights into engaging communities and restoration of the Willamette River
...has been working with MMT for several years now, beginning with Bill Dennison providing a talk about ecosystem health report cards at the conference in 2012. Bill and I met with Pam Wiley in Brisbane, Australia in 2013, where she was accepting the...

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