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  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...
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  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...
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  Uncovering five values of citizen science at CitSci2019
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  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...
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  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...
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  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)...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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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  WWF and UMCES Retreat 24-25 May 2017

  ...projected 90% growth in hydropower. Image credit: the Power of Rivers, A Business Case   Climate Change in Basin Report Cards The river report card idea has been successful at measuring current status, and we have been able to discuss  cl...
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  WWF-UMCES Retreats Poetry

  ...ve In which both partners have a lot to give.   Luminosity, the measure of light people can see, Is what we hope report cards will truly be. Providing light though a River Basin report card Allowing for all to see without straining too hard....
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  Your Not-So-Average "C+" 2021 Chesapeake & Watershed Report Card

  ...lth factors necessary to measure ecosystem health and measure restoration trajectories. Evident and crucial in annual report cards is an upward trajectory for watershed and ecosystem health. This year’s Bay health score of 50% is a 5-point increase...
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  ‘Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good’: Taking The First Steps Toward Developing a Basin Report Card

  ...Os, to academic institutions and government agencies). Participants share a commitment to developing successful basin report cards that they hope will contribute to healthier river and coastal basins. The participants of the new Healthy Rivers for...

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