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  Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card

  ...ted off by reviewing the various report card innovations and developments in other locations like the Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River, and the Orinoco River. I suggested improvements taken from these projects such as: Comprehensive report cards...
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  Discussing science communication at CERF2013

  ...State University wetlands scientist, put together a very nice document " Answering 10 fundamental questions about the Mississippi River delta ". This 42 pp. booklet asks simple questions like "Is there enough sediment to restore the delta?" (the a...
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  Discussion following Bob Hirsch seminar on Are we making progress? Interpreting the nutrient flux records for the major rivers flowing to the Chesapeake Bay

  ...eatment technologies change, there will be time lags which will need to be analyzed. Bob pointed out that analyses of Mississippi River fertilizer applications led to a 7-10 year lag in the receiving water quality. Audience at the seminar The ques...
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  Discussion following Walter Boynton seminar on Corsica River estuary restoration

  ...in water on the landscape for longer periods before it made its way into the Bay. He provided examples from the upper Mississippi River, where scientists conducted experiments on river oxbows and observed rapid nitrate disappearance (due to denitr...
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  Does rising sea level signal the end for LUMCON, or a beginning?

  ... she has done more than anyone else to draw attention to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico . Nutrients in runoff from the Mississippi watershed trigger low-oxygen conditions in the shallow coastal waters of the Gulf, just as they do in many estuaries...
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  Don’t Hate, Integrate!

  ...f the report card process by talking about several published report cards, including the Moreton Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River , and Orinoco River report cards. With each respective report card, new challenges were faced and refinements t...
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  Dr. Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen successfully defends her dissertation

  .... She used a combination of natural and social science tools and had two case study locations: Chesapeake Bay and the Mississippi River. There are four main chapters in the dissertation, and the first of them was published in a peer review journal...
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  Draft Mississippi River report card released at 2014 America's Watershed Initiative Summit

  Draft Mississippi River report card released at 2014 America's Watershed Initiative Summit ... Heath Kelsey, Bill Nuttle, Caroline Dono...
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  Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?

  ...ere discussed were as follows: Coastal Bay, Yucateca River Basin, Tennesse River Basin, Guanabara Bay, Laguna de Bay, Mississippi River Watershed, Orinoco River Basin and Chesapeake Bay. The Laguna de Bay report card showing the front page, flap a...
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  Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter

  ...ng frameworks for iconic locations like the Great Barrier Reef , the South Pacific islands , Gulf of Mexico , and the Mississippi River basin . EcoCheck has developed report cards in diverse locations; Kura River in Central Asia , Samoa , and the...
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  Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together

  ...eographic scale. The scale of report cards depends on factors such as purpose and data availability. For example, the Mississippi report card covers 40% of the contiguous US. According to Dr. Heath Kelsey , for the Mississippi report card, six maj...
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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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  Exploring an Ecosystem in Transition: The Road to Flamingo

  ...s now underway to restore regional ecosystems in the US. Other similar work is going on around San Francisco Bay, the Mississippi River deltaic region, the Upper Mississippi River basin, Long Island Sound, and the Chesapeake Bay. The 2019 SSR will...
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  Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach

  ...ance of future collection of this data. An example of addressing the presentation of insufficient data taken from the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When d...
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  Five principles of holistic science communication
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  Following Alexander Bache’s Dream and His Example

  ... located just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC . We were there to discuss what will happen next after the Mississippi watershed report card is launched this spring. This project has challenged us to expand the report card format in two...
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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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  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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  Gulf of Mexico Summit 2011

  ... seagrass beds has occurred around the Gulf but notable recoveries exist in some areas (illustrated above), including Mississippi barrier islands, West Galveston Bay Texas, and Tampa Bay Florida. Trends were reversed by management and restoration...
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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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  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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  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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  IAN as a Boundary Organization

  ...ram. IAN often works directly with stakeholders like the Ingram Barge Company and Caterpillar who helped us build the Mississippi River report card . IAN also serves as a boundary organization in the approach of simultaneously attempting to both s...
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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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  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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