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Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club

... nutrients. The development of Bay models and monitoring programs ensued and good tracking schemes (e.g., indicators, report cards) were developed. Current management needs are being addressed by scientists to develop better monitoring tools, bette...

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...

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 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...

Teaching with a ‘flipped classroom’ over an interactive video network

...illey from Louisiana State University talk to us about working as a state science advisor. We discussed environmental report cards with Dr. Heath Kelsey and Caroline Wicks from EcoCheck who produce the Chesapeake Bay report card , as well as variou...

Sampling and data analysis protocols for Mid-Atlantic non-tidal stream indicators

...idal stream indicators ... This document provides guidelines for the successful production of non-tidal stream health report cards. Specifically, this document develops clear and consistent protocols for the identification, collection, and analysis...

Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together

Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together ... What is a report card? In a world filled with knowledge, how can you find a...

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...

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...

Change of science and management in ecosystems along size gradient

...tor the water quality and restore the ecosystem in the river; the Chester Tester Program provides local environmental report cards every year [1]. However, due to the relatively long time lag and the imbalance between economic benefits and environm...

Better ways to look at what we’re doing to Chesapeake Bay?

...e results? The IAN program’s Chesapeake Bay Report Card for 2011 gives the bay a D+. The EPA’s...y ecosystem” in the Bay Barometer 2011-2012 report released in January, but offers guarded optimism...

Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly in support of compulsory soil phosphorus testing by farmers

...th the EcoCheck group and various citizen science groups to develop publically available Chesapeake Bay and tributary report cards . In addition, I have also worked with various practitioners and restoration specialists to generate fact sheets, boo...

Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay

Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter

...ion and Application Network (Kelsey, Fries, Kellogg and Wicks) and one for NOAA (Zhang). EcoCheck has produced annual report cards for Chesapeake Bay beginning in 2006. These report cards are supported by extensive web materials including data tabl...

2011 Maryland Coastal Bays report card

2011 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 ....

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...

A vision for America's Great Watershed Report Card

A vision for America's Great Watershed Report Card ... Report cards can be part of a tiered approach to communicating results with varying technical detail. Our vision for this report c...

Focus Group Evaluation of Tributary Report Cards

Focus Group Evaluation of Tributary Report Cards ... The Chesapeake Bay Trust, West/Rhode Riverkeeper, and OpinionWorks have conducted an audience evaluation of tribu...

Chesapeake Bay 2011 report card release at Baltimore Harbor

...entists associated with a partnership that we formed between UMCES and NOAA called EcoCheck has been producing annual report cards for Chesapeake Bay. In addition, EcoCheck scientists have been working with various riverkeeper and waterkeeper group...

Environmental report card workshop in Surfers Paradise, Australia

...tralia ... Sponsored by the Australian Water and Environmental Research Alliance (AWERA), a workshop on environmental report cards was held near Brisbane, Australia. This workshop focused on how environmental report cards have emerged as a techniqu...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 10 - Innovations in Governance/BaySTAT

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 10 - Innovations in Gover... right? OK, in thirty days, you’ll come and report to me about how you’ve done that. Thank you...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 8 - Environmental Report Cards

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 8 - Environmental Report Cards ... Report cards are also a great way to bring together disparate groups. An extreme example is that the US State Department was tryin...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 7 - Innovations in Environmental Reporting

...t innovations in environmental reporting. One of the things we stumbled upon in Southeast Queensland is environmental report cards, and I got to thinking why they are so powerful. I have two teenage children, who you can definitely see are driven b...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 4 - The Annapolis Synthesis Center

...oducts by working with the U.S. National Park Service and Conservation International . We also produced environmental report cards and scientific publications. Recently, the National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Maryland Center...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar

...ou need coordination, you need to see that quality assurance is brought in. Now were posting a whole swag of regional report cards using this army of citizen scientists. I think that the real solutions come this way because they can start saying, "...

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