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Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards

Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards ... We recently completed our course entitled: "Healthy Rivers for All: Setting the course for sustainability with ri...

Release of Chesapeake Bay Watershed Report Card

...and Deputy Secretary Suzanne Dorsey (right) at the report card launch. And this year, we are releasing three separate report cards for the Chesapeake watershed. We have ecological, social, and economic watershed report cards, and they help us under...

Report cards aren’t just for school anymore

Report cards aren’t just for school anymore ... Rebecca Wenker and Wilmelie Cruz Marrero After spending a few classes discussing w...

Representing UMCES at the 12th International Conference on the Environmental Management of the Enclosed Coastal Seas

...a discussing satoumi as a form of active conservation. Bill, Dave, and I each presented on different ecosystem health report cards in various stages. Dave was an invited speaker for the session "Estuaries of the world: issues and perspectives". He...

Resilience based management of the Great Barrier Reef

...his matrix integrates the reef Great Barrier Reef report card that regularly assesses the Reef Water Quali...ex and integrating it with the Great Barrier Reef report card. We were fortunate to have a good mix of str...

Returning to My Ohio Roots: Scoping Out A Lake Erie Report Card

...cilitating the board meeting. We covered a lot of topics. I made a short presentation about our experiences producing report cards. I enjoyed learning about the animal manure issues of northern Ohio and a creative solution that a couple of board me...

Review: “Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age,” by Martin O’Malley

...ironmental Science ’s annual Chesapeake Bay report card to help explain the BayStat program. When I...N blogs . Time course of the UMCES Chesapeake Bay report card featured in “Smarter Government”...

River Chief

...inistry of Water Resources , to improve the monitoring, supervision, and evaluation of the river chief system through report cards, and improve coordination among the provinces in the Chishui River, for future application of the system to the broad...

River Rally 2018

...d a workshop titled “Healthy Rivers For All: Introducing A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards.” In our 90 minute workshop participants were given a brief introduction to River Basin Report Cards and the He...

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...

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...

Science Communication Course in Toronto, Ontario

...s, participants learn conceptualization, presentation, publication, and in this particular course, integration (i.e., report cards). The Conservation Authorities are producing report cards for their own watersheds, and so we used report cards as ex...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 1--Overview

...., image and symbol libraries , online conceptual diagram creator , science communication courses ) and environmental report cards . An active team of Science Integrators and Science Communicators work with a variety of partners regionally, nationa...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 3--Integration and Application Network approach to synthesis

...rd on butcher paper through to the final product. One of the tools that IAN has pioneered is the use of environmental report cards to communicate environmental status and trends to wide audiences. The report cards that IAN produces are underlain by...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 4--Moving beyond synthesis

...t of our effort to make seagrasses more 'charismatic', IAN Press has 100 publications (books, newsletters, brochures, report cards, posters, reports and presentations) in which seagrasses are featured. There are 128 vector graphic symbols of differ...

Scoping a report card for the Yangtze River basin, China.

...ort card was an excellent tool that would be very useful in China. Our use of colors came up as a potential issue for report cards in China. image credit: IAN and google. Day 2 started with introducing the concept of report cards to the newly...

Scrooge and the Report Card

... Happy Report Card. Don't be cross, Uncle. Scrooge : What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Report cards! Out with report cards! What are Report cards to you but a time for playing around with stakeholders; a time to find...

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...

Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum

...ercise that we use at IAN is the "Get the Grade!" report card game . During this game, players are each as...ticular stakeholder who is involved in creating a report card for a fictional ecosystem. They must take tu...

Sharing Water event in Washington, D.C.

...y of Maryland Center for Environmental Science ( UMCES ) and WWF, provided us an opportunity to tout our river health report cards to the audience. Saying goodbye to Evan Tueller, as she heads off to graduate school. Image credit: Bill Dennison At...

Singing the Chesapeake Bay Blues

So you think you can couple systems? Reviewing our research proposals

Social Networking: Beyond the Likes and Shares

...keholders choose the issues? This problem was initially discussed when dealing with assessing the priority issues for report cards. Are the most important issues the ones that the stakeholders bring up? And what if there is an issue present that so...

Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference

... management of cultural and natural resources. Finally, no IAN session would be complete without a presentation about report cards. Vanessa explained IAN’s stakeholder-driven and action-oriented approach for synthesizing data and communicatin...

Stakeholder workshop for Darwin Harbour report card

...y the Aquatic Health Unit annually since 2009, was our host. I presented an overview of the development of integrated report cards that included social, economic and environmental indicators and then we discussed the evolution of the Darwin Harbour...

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