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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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  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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  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...
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  The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards

  ...from July 28 to August 1, 2014. I presented on our Alex Fries at the UMCES booth CEER Conference a good venue for the Mississippi Report Card There could not have been a more appropriate location to talk about a report card for the Mississippi Riv...
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  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...
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  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...
• 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...
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  The 2014 River Rally in Pittsburgh

  ...e, part of Fort Pitt, is thought to be the oldest (1764) building still standing in Pittsburgh and perhaps the entire Mississippi basin. I stayed in a 98 year old hotel, the Omni William Penn Hotel , which was elegant and very nice. Fort Pitt bloc...
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  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...
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  Upper Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy

  Upper Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy ... ' Environmental literacy ' series The seven environmental literacy principles for t...
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  Visiting the Nickel Preserve in eastern Oklahoma

  ...to the Arkansas/Red River workshop in Tulsa , OK where we facilitated a workshop associated with the development of a Mississippi River report card , five of us traveled to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Nickel Preserve in Eastern Oklahoma. Jordy Jo...
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  Arkansas and Red Rivers Workshop in Tulsa, Oklahoma

  ...ers Workshop in Tulsa, Oklahoma ... As part of our continuing series of stakeholder expert workshops for developing a Mississippi River basin report card , a team of IAN Science Integrators and Science Communicators traveled to Tulsa , Oklahoma on...
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  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...
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  Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy

  Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy ... 'Environmental literacy' series The seven environmental literacy principles for the...
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  A new version of the song 'Memphis Tennessee' released

  ...leans and a short distance from Nashville , TN, the country music capital, it seemed appropriate to capture our lower Mississippi River workshop in the form of a blues song. Memphis is where Sam Phillips at Sun Records recorded such music luminari...
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  Developing a Mississippi River report card: Lower Mississippi workshop in Memphis

  Developing a Mississippi River report card: Lower Mississippi workshop in Memphis ... Once again, a contingent from IAN ( Heath Kelsey , Bill Nuttle , Caroline Wicks , Brianne Wal...

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