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  Dr. Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen successfully defends her dissertation

  ...ollowing her public seminar. The title of Vanessa's dissertation was the following: "The role of social-environmental report cards in transdisciplinary collaboration and adaptive governance for a sustainable future". She used a combination of natur...
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  Stakeholder workshop for Darwin Harbour report card

  ...y the Aquatic Health Unit annually since 2009, was our host. I presented an overview of the development of integrated report cards that included social, economic and environmental indicators and then we discussed the evolution of the Darwin Harbour...
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  Engaging with the Belyuen people and Larrakia people, Traditional Owners of Darwin Harbour, Australia

  ...g. One of the key questions they asked us was "Why are you doing this?" Our response was that we have been developing report cards around the world and that by including indigenous culture along with social, economic and environmental values, we ha...
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  Developing a Chesapeake Watershed report card: Harrisburg PA workshop

  ...rm Show. At the beginning of the workshop, we had a few presentations to set the scene. I reviewed the development of report cards and how they inform environmental intelligence. Gary Walters from Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection...
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  Review: “Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age,” by Martin O’Malley

  ...ironmental Science ’s annual Chesapeake Bay report card to help explain the BayStat program. When I...N blogs . Time course of the UMCES Chesapeake Bay report card featured in “Smarter Government”...
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  The Verde River Workshop

  ...iver report card project has come a long way, over a relatively short time period. Stakeholder-driven, multi-sectoral report cards typically take 18-24 months to complete in our experience. The Verde River report card project is not even one year o...
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  State of the Verde Watershed Conference

  ...rence and attend the festivities, and Bill was invited to be one of the keynote speakers and share his thoughts about report cards and the progress of this project. A healthy Verde River watershed has flowing water, natural habitat structure, and t...
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  Making connections to ensure a clean and healthy Chesapeake Bay

  ... gave a shout-out to UMCES for our Chesapeake Bay Report Card !), implementing short and long-term managem...c health. Lee Currey mentioned the Chesapeake Bay Report Card as evidence that the ecosystem is shifting t...
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  Jamie's Australian Adventures

  ... the Irwins have perfected, it’s harnessing a gung-ho personality to energize and inspire an audience. IAN uses report cards to try to achieve a similar effect, while the IRF uses an ‘inspire by celebration’ approach. All three ar...
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  Eyes on the prize: Looking beyond graduate school during the 2019 MEES Colloquium

  ...des on coastal bays, prevalence of toxin/antitoxin systems in the picocyanobacteria genome, and of course IAN’s report cards. The talks were interesting, but I think everyone was especially excited for the field trips that would follow! There...
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  A Symposium on Coastal Resilience Highlights the Need for Transdisciplinary Science

  ...heme used for precipitation totals to accommodate the 60+ inches of rainfall on the Texas Coast. Credit: Jim McMahon] Report cards featured heavily Several report card projects have evolved from that first workshop that Jane Hawkey and I facilitate...
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  Capturing Nature on the Job

  ...er how human decisions, both small and large, affect the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. The report cards, brochures, and newsletters that we develop towards this mission are, as a result, highly visual, often employing con...
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  The Second Verde River Report Card Workshop

  ...requires thriving communities of people who value the river in multifaceted ways. This is one of the more interesting report cards we have ever worked on due the incredible engagement we are experiencing with stakeholders and their determination to...
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  Uncovering five values of citizen science at CitSci2019
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  IAN as a Boundary Organization

  ...400 publications on IAN Press. We also launched our first IAN environmental report card for Chesapeake Bay, emulating report cards we had developed in Southeast Queensland, Australia. We have gone on to produce report cards all over the world. We c...
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  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...
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  Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference

  ... management of cultural and natural resources. Finally, no IAN session would be complete without a presentation about report cards. Vanessa explained IAN’s stakeholder-driven and action-oriented approach for synthesizing data and communicatin...
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  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...
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  Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?

  Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story? ... Kawawa Banda and Chinyawezhi Kakoma Report cards are effective communications tools. They raise awareness of a river basin, explain the current health and challenges...
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  More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science

  ...o children instead of one reduced willingness to help. I saw a parallel with something we had learned from working on report cards with our colleagues at Opinion Works that recommending a single conservation action was more effective than a providi...
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  Bill Dennison's 500th Blog

  ...g blocks for various themes that I am developing, like environmental literacy, science communication or environmental report cards I use my blogs to capture some of the fun things like silly songs, poems, or limericks that I generate at various wor...
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  Creating and Communicating Environmental Intelligence

  ...good science is enhanced with science visualizations, websites and science communications publications. Environmental report cards represent a way to share environmental intelligence to a broad public audience. As an example of the data to informat...
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  How much is too much? Defining thresholds for indicators

  ...teps to developing a Report Card. Credit: Costanzo et. al. 2017. Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards The class started with brief introductions including name, country, organization and why the interest in making repor...
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  A global hotspot for crocodiles, turtles, migratory birds, and mangroves – Bhitarkanika Conservation Area, Odisha, India

  ...n Area in Odisha, a state in north-eastern India. This will be our third report card in India; we previously produced Report Cards on the Gulf of Kachchh and Chilika Lake . Location of Bhitarkanika Conservation Area in north-east India. Credit: Goo...
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  Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach

  ...rom the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When data is available but not peer-reviewed or not well-documented. A related question to this is the validity of th...

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