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Life after IAN: PhD graduate Ben Fertig begins fatherhood as a postdoc at Rutgers University

...vant, this particular postdoc enables Ben to adapt IAN's bioindicator development , ecosystem health assessment , and report cards . The 2 year postdoc starts Jan 10, 2011. So long and thanks for all the oysters! (Apologies to Douglas Adams.)...

Bill Dennison gives keynote address on communicating science at the Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada

...ence communication, including examples of how it has changed the world. Finally, he talked about the effectiveness of report cards to synthesize large amounts of information into digestible chunks, making them a very powerful way to communicate. Fo...

Expanding the diversity of the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Assessment Coalition

...orth Linthicum, Maryland. ... Since the 2006 release of the first EcoCheck Chesapeake Bay report card , environmental report cards have gained increasing popularity and recognition as a public-friendly and scientifically sound method for reporting...

Nanticoke and Sassafras River report cards released

Nanticoke and Sassafras River report cards released ... Nanticoke and Sassafras River report cards ... The two final tributary report cards to be released this year are from the Nanticoke and Sassafras Rivers. Both o...

Citizens for Science seminar series

... citizen science groups in the Mid-Atlantic region. The goal is to use volunteer-collected data to develop eco-health report cards , increase environmental literacy, and empower the public. In the first seminar of the series, Bill Dennison talks ab...

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2009

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2009 ... 2009 Maryland Coastal Bays Report C...ard ... 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...

A Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Report Cards

A Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Report Cards ... MTAC and tributary report cards newsletter. ... Recently, a number of groups concerned with the health of watersheds in the Chesapeake Bay region hav...

Science communication course for the Ohio Division of Wildlife

...their message to different target audiences. Bill also gave a seminar to OSU students and faculty on ecosystem health report cards....

LOICZ Dahlem-type Workshop

...sts from six continents addressed issues like coastal syndromes, innovation, scale, and governance. IAN products like report cards will be featured in the conference outputs....

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card ... 2008 Coastal Bays Report Card. ... This...report card provides a transparent, timely, and geograph...oastal Bays’ health. Prepared annually, the report card rates six reporting regions of the Coastal B...

Lisa Florkowski completes her Master's thesis

...wski successfully defended her Master's thesis: " Development of a recommended analytical framework for environmental report cards: An example from Rock Creek Park, Washington DC and its watershed ". Lisa presented a public seminar entitled "Missin...

Individual tributary report cards produced for the Chester, Patuxent, and Severn Rivers

Individual tributary report cards produced for the Chester, Patuxent, and Severn Rivers ... The Chester, Patuxent, and Severn River report cards. ... U...

Chesapeake Bay Report Card and Stream Health Newsletter

Chesapeake Bay Report Card and Stream Health Newsletter ... 2008 Chesap...eake Bay Report Card and Watershed Stream Health newsletter. ......The aim of this report card is to provide a transparent, timely, and geo...

Ben Longstaff moves to Lake Simcoe, Canada

...e Authority. As part of his transition, he will continue to work with IAN staff to finalize the various environmental report cards and publication projects underway over the next months. Ben plans to explore the waterways of the north woods with hi...

Science communication course for Riverkeepers

...ras River, the Rappahannock River, and Maryland's Coastal Bays. Many of the groups are developing their own ecosystem report cards so there was a special emphasis on synthesizing and integrating data. An addition to the course was the playing of th...

Regional report card project initiated

.... Team that recently met at the Annapolis Synthesis Center to discuss standardization of the report card process. ... Report cards are increasingly being used by community organizations to assess and communicate the health of their local waterway....

2008 Chesapeake Bay summer forecast released

Environmental report cards: A tool for better management, monitoring, and research

Environmental report cards: A tool for better management, monitoring, and research ... Environmental report card poster presented at LOICZ confe...

Chester and Patuxent River Report cards released

Chester and Patuxent River Report cards released ... Patuxent and Chester River Report Card newsletters ... IAN and EcoCheck released the first ever Chester...

Dissolved oxygen forecast update

2007 Chesapeake Bay summer ecological forecast

Summer forecast award ceremony raises a laugh

Ecosystem health report cards: An approach to integrated assessment

Ecosystem health report cards: An approach to integrated assessment ... Poster being presented at International Riversymposium September 4-7, 2006....

An integrated assessment approach described in recent publication

...ombined into an ecosystem health index map (with associated uncertainty maps) and publicly-disseminated environmental report cards developed from these maps....

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