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  Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scale, acceptance, engagement, and behavior change

  ...photo for the front cover. Stories have been solicited and recorded during the development of some projects (the 2015 Mississippi River Watershed Report Card for example) which could be included in the report card. This section is relevant to thos...
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  You’ve got to crack a few eggs to make an omelet: Balancing differing worldviews and appealing to stakeholders in environmental management

  ...ronmental Management class, students read about three case studies on large, complex ecosystems: New York Harbor, the Mississippi Deltaic Plain and the Great Barrier Reef. The case studies that we discussed are vastly different systems that span t...
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  Report cards aren’t just for school anymore

  ...o them is to risk the success of the entire monitoring and management of the system. During his work in assessing the Mississippi River Watershed, Dr. Dennison helped create an indicator wheel that encompasses some examples of social indicators, a...
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  Raising the Grade for the Upper Mississippi River Basin

  Raising the Grade for the Upper Mississippi River Basin ... The 2016 Upper Mississippi River Basin Conference in Moline, Illinois had a special theme of “Raising the Grade” this year, which wa...
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  Future Earth's Coasts

  ...achieve this strong engagement through a participatory report card process in many areas, including  India , the Mississippi River , and the Orinoco River in Colombia, South America . In thinking through the Science Implementation plan, we ou...
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  The praxis of science visualization

  ...ebra fish and poultry house emission Roadside turf grass, Arctic clams, and ocean wind farms Conowingo dam sediments, Mississippi River water quality and Jonah crab reproduction And ecosystem services and runoff from Choptank farms. We had great i...
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  Mission Aransas Pilot Project

  ... systems modeling approach that we call "Future Cards". We're also interested in doing this for the next phase of the Mississippi River Watershed Report Card partnership with America's Watershed Initiative . Table of management scenario options wi...
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  How to organize and run short, productive and fun scientific workshops

  ...ays or ending late on Fridays is preferred. Logistics are important part of Workshop planning. Top - Workshop for the Mississippi River report card with a view of Ohio River; Bottom - Workshop for the State of the South Atlantic Ecosystem held in...
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  Maps: The Promise of Exploration

  ...conclusion. Maps are especially useful for research spread across a region, as with Ben Wahle’s work across the Mississippi Watershed (Figure 1). Can you imagine trying to explain the sampling locations and results without a map? Figure 1. E...
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  How environmental report cards can democratize science

  ...to develop report card indicators. A case in point is the voting tool that IAN developed to use with the formation of Mississippi River indicators . Another way that votes are manifested are the various votes that are taken in local government pla...
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  Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view

  ...the longest distance from one edge of a reporting region to the opposite edge. In a somewhat circular region like the Mississippi River basin, this measurement can be taken from a variety of angles netting the same result, akin to measuring the di...
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  Maps should tell a story

  ...p and my data visualization figure from last week. For both, my goal was simply to show benthic MMI conditions in the Mississippi River Watershed. But does this map really do a better job than the pie charts in my other figure? Author’s map...
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  Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network

  ...hat Heath Kelsey , Suzi Spitzer , Vanessa Vargas and I had about Anthony’s blog. Conceptual diagramming for the Mississippi River Report Card, from hand-drawn maps to illustrations. Anthony draws a distinction between producing a product (co...
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  Integration and Application Network in 2015: The year in review

  ...l to new and old staff members. The culmination of several long-term projects undertaken by IAN occurred in 2015. The Mississippi River report card , which was conceived at an America's Great Watershed summit in 2012 in St. Louis, MO, was finally...
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  From the mountains to the prairies—discussing ecological drought in the North Central United States

  ...ome of the well-known landscapes that we discussed during the workshop, from what I had learned during my work on the Mississippi River Report Card . I am excited to continue our work with the North Central CSC, as we work to synthesize the scienc...
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  Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint

  ...Telling for Coastal Resilience". My presentation was titled "Telling new stories about resiliences of Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River and the Great Barrier Reef". My initial slide contrasted story-telling vs. logical-scientific, and referenced t...
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  The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released

  The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released ... On October 14, 2015, in St. Louis, Missouri, I unveiled the Report Card f...
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  Building coastal resilience through stories

  ...ohn Barry encountered in writing his book , “ Rising Tide .” The subject of the book, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, overflows with human interest. But, at its core is a conflict between different theories of river hydr...
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  Learning to operate the Mississippi River

  Learning to operate the Mississippi River ... Re-engineering the Mississippi River presents political as well as technical challenges. Advances in technology since the beginning of the industria...
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  Crocodile report cards

  ...e. Of great interest to me are the parallels in this way of thinking with the work we've recently done developing the Mississippi River report card . Kudos to The Nature Conservancy for understanding that in order to succeed in ecological res...
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  A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems

  ...rt cards provide a transparent snapshot of the health of systems ranging in size from the Chester River to the entire Mississippi River Watershed . Considering the great range of potential locations, watershed areas, and population sizes depicted...
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  In memory of Jay Zieman, University of Virginia seagrass ecologist

  ...gist ... Joseph "Jay" C. Zieman (1943-2015), my seagrass ecology colleague, died recently. I first met Jay in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1980 when my Master's thesis advisor C. Peter McRoy organized a workshop associated with the Seagrass Ecosystem St...
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  How the past influences the future: Understanding the maturity gradient in environmental science and management

  ...n the 1970s and 80s, is also relatively immature (Figure 1). The coastal wetlands of Louisiana have been built by the Mississippi River over the course of thousands of years, but they are incredibly dynamic and change over the span of decades. The...
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  Mackay Report Card Workshop – Mackay, Queensland Australia 24 February 2015.

  ...s that IAN has experience with that are most relevant to the current Mackay process. I discussed the Chesapeake Bay , Mississippi River , Chilika Lake , Willamette River , and Great Barrier Reef Report Card projects, focusing on those issues that...
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  Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort - difficulties of science in management due to watershed size

  ..., Maryland’s Chester River watershed spans less than 1,000 km2 (Fig 2); in comparison with the watershed of the Mississippi , which feeds into The Gulf of Mexico , is composed of 31 states stretching over 3 million km2. Additionally, watersh...

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