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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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  Mississippi River Watershed Report Card

  Mississippi River Watershed Report Card ... The Report Card measured six broad goals for America's Watershed - Ecosystems, Flood...
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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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  Collective impact and ecosystem health report cards: The product enables the process

  ...eport card development process expressly as a part of a deliberate collective impact approach, and the other, for the Mississippi River , collective impact principles, without explicitly following the model. The Willamette River Report Card I...
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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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  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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  Within Our Reach provides insights into engaging communities and restoration of the Willamette River

  ...as great and we got lots of good feedback from attendees. We took a page from Conversant , who facilitated the recent Mississippi River Summit , and solicited written responses to specific questions on the report card and submitting these forms to...
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  Teams compete to design a sustainable Louisiana Coast

  ...tion process as a technical advisor to the competition.) Building a more sustainable coast requires reengineering the Mississippi River to restore its natural land-building function. This function has been lost as a consequence of building levees...
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  Long Island Sound Report Card

  ...he end of the meeting, we gave out comment cards to all of the participants to fill out, similar to those used at the Mississippi River Report Card Summit earlier this month. Overall, we had a great, very productive meeting with the STAC and CAC g...
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  2014 International Riversymposium

  ...’s symposium was ‘Large River Basins’ which was quite topical for the IAN team completing the draft Mississippi River report card . The location of the symposium in Australia’s capital city Canberra was appropriately within...
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  Mississippi report card video

  Mississippi report card video ... As part of the release of the draft Mississippi River report card , we partnered with America's Watershed Initiative and Conversant to produce a short video that des...
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  Mississippi River report card song

  Mississippi River report card song ... We recently (1-2 October 2014) launched the draft Mississippi River report card in Louisville, KY as part of the America's Watershed Initiative Summit . The process of developing...
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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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  America's Watershed Initiative Mississippi River Watershed Report Card

  America's Watershed Initiative Mississippi River Watershed Report Card ... The Mississippi River watershed is a globally important resource, providing water resources for people, industries, and ecosystems, f...
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  Mississippi River Report Card whole watershed report card workshop newsletter

  Mississippi River Report Card whole watershed report card workshop newsletter ... The America's Watershed Initiative concluded th...
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  Missouri River Basin report card workshop newsletter

  ...ar workshops have been convened in all of the basins and results will be integrated into a report card for the entire Mississippi River Basin. ... Nicole Lehmer ... Brianne Walsh ... Jane Thomas ... Caroline Donovan ... Heath Kelsey ... Bill Denni...
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  Water supply is a concern in report card planning for the Missouri River Basin

  ...aveled to Kansas City, Missouri August 26, 2014 to facilitate a workshop in the Missouri River Basin , as part of the Mississippi River Report Card project with America’s Watershed Initiative . This meeting, held at the Kansas City Airport H...

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