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Diving Deep into the 2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card: Progress, Challenges, and a Call for Action

...OAST Card , a Belmont Forum project aiming to address socio-environmental challenges by combining socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics modeling, and social network analysis, also released its first Potomac-specific report card – the 20...

2022 Potomac River and Watershed Report Card

...tion funded by the Belmont Forum that aims to address socio-environmental challenges by combining socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics modeling, and social network analysis. With partners in Japan, Norway, India, and the Philippines, t...

2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card

...ded. Linkages and relationships between the ecological, economic, and societal indicators will be evaluated in future report cards. Overall, the Chesapeake Watershed scored 52%, a C. There were four ecological indicators, four economic indicators,...

Lessons learned from a two and a half year project on the Upper Rio Grande

... July 2020, most of my work up to that point had been on projects that were in various stages of development. All the report cards I had worked on until July 2020 already had a set list of indicators as well as a methodology for how to measure thos...

A report card for the Upper Rio Grande basin

A report card for the Upper Rio Grande basin ... Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers...

Generating Collective Knowledge at the Potomac Open House

...created was filled with green dots (bottom two images). Participants then moved on to the next tent, which focused on report cards . An important component of the COAST Card framework is a socio-ecological report card incorporating a variety of eco...

Brook Trout and the Civil War: A Glimpse at the History of the Potomac River Watershed

...we hope to evaluate the Potomac River Watershed using the COAST card framework. This framework includes environmental report cards, social network analysis, and system dynamics modeling. Although there have been previous report cards on the Potomac...

Imagining a Participative Potomac: A Meeting at Hood College

...ruary 18th, 2021. The COAST Card project merges a report-card process, social network analysis, and system... Although the Potomac Conservancy’s Potomac River Report Card is a pre-existing, consistently released rep...

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...

2021 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card

...ded. Linkages and relationships between the ecological, economic, and societal indicators will be evaluated in future report cards. Overall, the Chesapeake Watershed scored 56%, a C+. There were three ecological indicators, four economic indicators...

Selecting Indicators for Basin Health Report Cards

Selecting Indicators for Basin Health Report Cards ... This Guide is developed to supplement the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards , which was...

Southeast Michigan Report Cards: First Virtual Stakeholder Workshop Summary

Southeast Michigan Report Cards: First Virtual Stakeholder Workshop Summary ... November 4, 10, and 16, 2021 ... The University of Maryland Center fo...

Caroline Donovan

...ent, science communication, and data analysis at UMCES-IAN. She has over 15 years of experience with ecosystem health report cards, science communication products, stakeholder engagement, and citizen science and volunteer monitoring. Ms. Donovan ha...

Bringing Communities Together Through Water: The Start of Socio-Environmental Report Cards for the Southeast Michigan region

Bringing Communities Together Through Water: The Start of Socio-Environmental Report Cards for the Southeast Michigan region ... The last of three virtual workshop sessions for the development of individual a...

Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen

...e MEES graduate program. Her dissertation used ethnographic approaches to investigate the role of socio-environmental report cards in transdisciplinary collaboration and adaptive governance for a sustainable future. She received academic training f...

Alexandra Fries

... and academia. Within IAN, Alexandra conducts data analysis, synthesis, and communication by completing environmental report cards, updating the IAN website, and conducting science communication courses. Alexandra also creates science communication...

Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card 2020

Chesapeake Bay...holders throughout the watershed to transform the report card into an evaluation of the Chesapeake Watersh...dicators are being researched for use in the next report card. Overall, the Chesapeake Watershed scored 64...

Nathan Miller

...New England. Since coming to the Integration and Application Network (IAN), Nathan has developed environmental health report cards and led or co-facilitated multiple courses on data interpretation and science communication. Scientists, managers, an...

Coastal Georgia Ecosystem Report Card 2020

...osystem Report Card 2020 ... 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...

Celebrating World Rivers Day with our global partners

...gions. Image provided by UMCES-IAN. We have worked with partners and communities around the world to create ecosystem report cards for river ecosystems, including the Tuul River in Mongolia, the Verde River in Arizona, and the Orinoco River in Colo...

A watershed moment: Years of work and data culminate in the release of the Western Lake Erie Report Card

...culminate in the release of the Western Lake Erie Report Card ... The Western Lake Erie 1st Report Card is...science communication achievement for IAN and the report's stakeholders. After an evaluation of almos...

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...

2019 Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card

2019 Chesapeake Bay...holders throughout the watershed to transform the report card into an evaluation of the Chesapeake Watersh...dicators are being researched for use in the next report card. Overall, the Chesapeake Watershed scored 60...

Cooks River virtual workshop

... Sydney International Airport. Cooks River Alliance has been monitoring since 2011 and producing annual water quality report cards since 2013-2014, but the folks managing Cooks River are interested in expanding the report card into a socio-environm...

Learn how to storyboard your next visualization publication

...mple from the 2018 Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card published by IAN, I describe the effective d... applied to the 2018 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card published by UMCES IAN. As much as you might...

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