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    101 results for "Mississippi":

    • International Riversymposium 2013
      ...ch featured the long-term Southeast Queensland report card program, the Great Barrier Reef report card, our fledgling Mississippi River report card effort, and a bit about the process of creating and maintaining report cards. As chair of the repor...
    • Is It Possible to Manage Large and Complex Ecosystems?
      ... Environmental Management class studied multiple large and complex ecosystems that span the globe that range from the Mississippi River watershed to the Great Barrier Reef. This map shows the areas the class focused on. Large ecosystems cover a wi...
    • It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work
    • Kicking off the Louisiana Discovery Integration and Application program in Baton Rouge
      ...to develop visualizations for sediment diversions. Sediment diversions are the redirection of some of the flow of the Mississippi River into areas where the river-bourne sediments will settle and help create wetlands and land. Sediment diversions...
    • Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!
      ...ts, such as the Vision for a Report Card and Preliminary Results documents that were published ahead of the finalized Mississippi River Watershed Report Card . These types of early documents allow us to maintain momentum and public interest in a s...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Louisiana Sea Grant Discovery, Integration and Application initiative (LA DIA)
      .... Amy Clipp played the part of a Vietnamese fisher (Sally Dang) who was concerned that Jacob Mitchell's depictions of Mississippi River sediment diversions would affect the livelihoods of her family and community. Matt Bethel played the part of a...
    • Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy
      Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy ... 'Environmental literacy' series The seven environmental literacy principles for the...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Me and Bobby Twilley
      ... . Robert gave a wonderful seminar at Horn Point Laboratory , covering the history of coastal Louisiana wetland loss, Mississippi River diversions and provided the context for the 2012 Master Plan. The IAN group collaborated with Robert and variou...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework
      Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework ... In September, America’s Great Watershed Initiative (AGWI) held a sum...
    • Missouri River: Environmental Literacy
      ...principles for the Missouri River are the following: The Missouri River is the longest tributary (2,300 miles) of the Mississippi River. Navigation on the Missouri River is supported by a series of levees and dikes from the mouth to Sioux City, Io...
    • 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...
    • National Monitoring Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio
      ... session in which I moderated part one and gave a talk in part two. My talk focused on report cards, specifically the Mississippi River Report Card (America’s Watershed Initiative) and the Rookery Bay Report Card as examples of calculating w...
    • Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card
      ...l network analysis. Each of these tools are briefly explained below. The consensus approach has been attempted in the Mississippi River , where a deliberate effort was made to identify how best to raise the grade for the river basin. Stakeholders...
    • Ohio River basin: Environmental Literacy
      ... literacy principles for the Ohio River basin are the following: The Ohio River is the major eastern tributary of the Mississippi River, traversing through a diversity of landscapes. The Ohio River is the major water source of the Mississippi Rive...
    • Oklahoma report card song
      Oklahoma report card song ... As part of the Mississippi River report card process, we held a workshop at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa , Oklahoma to discuss the Arkansas and Red R...
    • Politics As Usual…
      ...he form of the “Indian Removal Act” , which displaced Native American populations further west across the Mississippi River during a forced migration known as the Trail of Tears .4 With the abolishment of the international import of Af...
    • 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...