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...rence and attend the festivities, and Bill was invited to be one of the keynote speakers and share his thoughts about report cards and the progress of this project. A healthy Verde River watershed has flowing water, natural habitat structure, and t...

Stoplight colors for environmental report cards

Stoplight colors for environmental report cards ... The use of red, yellow and green for denoting different levels of concern in environmental report cards has its o...

Stumbling Into a New Approach

Stumbling Into a New Approach ... As we’ve pioneered new ways to develop ecosystem health assessments and report cards, we’ve learned a few lessons on what makes them successful and what does not. The most successful projects (tho...

Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries

...ers. Malcolm Robb, Western Australia, Department of Water: Irrigation and cows*** influence Western Australia estuary report cards. Dr. Kath McMahon , Edith Cowan University : Seagrass torture chambers show temperature and carbon dioxide impacts (o...

Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort - difficulties of science in management due to watershed size

...the data is publically available, even creating a report card, which aids in the building of connections b...population by implementing The Great Barrier Reef Report Card . The management approaches previously menti...

Talk Less, Show More: Communicating Challenges and Successes in a Changing World

...hat Opinion Works generated in partnership with IAN. The report used focus groups and found that it was important for report cards to present clear and visual grades, link actions to indicators (but only one action, not a shopping list), present a...

Talking about report cards at the International Congress for Conservation Biology

Talking about report cards at the International Congress for Conservation Biology ... The Society for Conservation Biology sponsors a biennial c...

Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration

Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration ... The fifth National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER...

Talking report cards in Kratie, Cambodia

Talking report cards in Kratie, Cambodia ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wildli...

Talking River Basin Report Cards at the International Waters Conference, Marrakech

Talking River Basin Report Cards at the International Waters Conference, Marrakech ... The Global Environment Facility (GEF) hosts a biennial Internat...

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...

Telling the River Story

...d that there is always some 'drama' when launching a first report card for a region. Practitioners who are developing report cards for the first time should be encouraged to take the drama positively because it often creates momentum for the right...

Ten recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 2

...ng press along will encourage them to attend future events. One of the primary motivations to producing environmental report cards is to speak 'truth' to 'power'. 'Power' is vested in elected officials and community leaders and it is our tenet that...

Ten teaching tips from the Teaching & Learning Transformation Center at the University of Maryland

...ss or workshop, we build upon these skills into higher-level outcomes that ask students and participants to "develop" report cards or "create" conceptual diagrams, for example. 5. Assess student learning along the way Assessments give students feed...

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...

The 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia

...f the pavilions hosted short talks that vied for the attention of the delegates who were walking by. I gave a talk on report cards with three other scientists: Joao Paulo Coimbra who talked about the Guanabara Bay report card that he was instrument...

The Basin Report Card Initiative goes to Monterrey, Mexico!

... the Tecnológico de Monterrey , and to meet with the FEMSA foundation and Water Center about the potential for report cards for the Rio Bravo , Rio Conchos , and Monterrey areas, as well as Water Reserves programs and expansion of all of the...

The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards

The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards ... Alex Fries and I had the chance to represent UMCES at the Conference on Ecosystem and Ecological Restoration (CEE...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Role in Environmental Education

... the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) offices in Annapolis, Maryland, to broadly discuss the different environmental report cards issued for the region, their influence, and future goals. ... On April 1 st , 2025, environmental managers from group...

The Economics of the Ocean: Discussing the Baltic Sea and Chesapeake Bay at the House of Sweden

...see the problems everywhere - plastics, contaminants, fisheries declines, for example. I thought of the environmental report cards that we use to educate people about the status of the ecosystem. Report cards are something experienced from childhoo...

The Integration and Application Network in 2017

...7: we moved into a new Annapolis office, developed our first IAN Strategic Plan and initiated our self-reflective IAN report cards. IAN staff taught or co-taught four courses: Science for Environmental Management Coupled Human and Natural Systems T...

The Integration and Application Network in 2018

...t some really good news in the improvements in the health of Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bays with our annual report cards. In addition, the publication of a scientific synthesis paper that IAN staff helped generate was able to reach a broa...

The Los Angeles River: Geography, vistas and restoration

...ing. Another impression was the need to tell the river stories through effective science communication, environmental report cards and active engagement with citizens. The Los Angeles River has been termed an 'open sewer' carrying 'urban slobber' t...

The Meta River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia

...orkshop spanned from June 30th-July 2nd, and was the first of three workshops that will occur in Colombia, to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River . Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman , and Catherine Blancard from the WWF of...

The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released

...ts a culmination of such a long and involved process, and because it represents a new milestone in our ability to use report cards to report on broadly differing management goals, across such a large geography. Participants at the Mississippi River...

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