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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

‘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...

2007 Chesapeake Bay summer ecological forecast

2008 Chesapeake Bay summer forecast released

2010 Maryland Coastal Bays report card

2010 Maryland Coastal Bays report card ... 2010 Maryland Coastal Bays report card....... The aim of this report card is to provide a transparent, timely, and geo...stal Bays Health Index, which is presented as the report card score. Detailed methods ar...

2012 Chesapeake Bay report card

2012 Chesapeake Bay report card ... Chesapeake Bay received a C in 2012, up...from a D+ in 2011. ... This report card provides a transparent, timely, and geograph...t of Chesapeake Bay. In 2012, the methods for the report card have changed to include f...

2012 Chilika Lake ecosystem health report card

...ressures from both natural processes and human activities. This is the first of a proposed series of Ecosystem Health Report Cards, supported by the Chilika Development Authority and the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management , Ministry...

2013 Firelands Coastal Tributaries Report Cards Released

2013 Firelands Coastal Tributaries Report Cards Released ... Old Woman Creek, Pipe Creek, and Mills Creek report cards for 2013. ... The aim of these three report cards is to provide a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed as...

2015 Maryland Coastal Bays report card and website launched

2015 Maryland Coastal Bays report card and website launched ... Bill Dennison revea...r 2015. ... On September 8, the 2015 Coastal Bays Report Card and accompanying website were launched with...nia Institute of Marine Science , the aim of this report c...

2018 Chesapeake Bay Report Card

2018 Chesapeake Bay Report Card ... We compiled and created the annual healt...h score for the Chesapeake Bay. This year's report card added indicators as well as scoring the Bay...

2018 Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card

2018 Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card ... We produced the annual Maryland Coastal...Bays Report Card with our partners at the Maryland Coastal Ba...

2020 Coastal Georgia Report Card now available

...eport Card now available ... This is the seventh Coastal Georgia Ecosystem Report Card. Georgia DNR has been creating report cards since 2014, when IAN helped kick off the process. This report card updates indicators and methods. New indicators add...

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