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Chesapeake Bay restoration: Are we headed in the right direction?

...lth index that was created for the Chesapeake Bay report card was back-calculated for the years when there...

Chesapeake Bay Science and Management: A need for more effective scientific communication and adaptive management

... data on their monitored sites is found on their website . There has also been success in health report and watershed report cards in the Chesapeake Bay and other watershed systems. The Chesapeake Bay Program website provides links to river health...

Chesapeake citizens are well informed: New poll results of Maryland public perception of Chesapeake Bay restoration

...ay (average C-) matches EXACTLY with the EcoCheck report card (2010 score = C-). The grade voters give the...y tributaries exists. The EcoCheck Chesapeake Bay report card is generated by collecting data for six indi...

Climate Change and resilience create new challenges in tracking ecosystem health status

...cal to the future of environmental assessment and reporting. Changing air and water temperature, precipita...o developing relevant monitoring, assessment, and reporting frameworks. Resilience is often discussed in t...

Climate Change and the Holidays

...Government in Australia on the Great Barrier Reef Report Card , are two good examples of how local decisio...

Climbing Down the Ivory Tower

...l, social, and economic considerations. At IAN, we pride ourselves on incorporating social and economic data into our report cards , and such data was essential to the development of our 2021 Maryland Coastal Adaptation Report Card and our upcoming...

Coastal Yucatán Report Card Completed!

...ot involved with this project through a meeting in Tabasco earlier that year, where I had been discussing the idea of report cards for the Gulf Coast of Mexico. I met Paulo Salles from LANRESC at this meeting and we began talking about a report car...

Coastal Bays report card launch

...d products like the book " Shifting Sands: Environmental and cultural change in Maryland's Coastal Bays ", the annual report cards and various synthesis papers . We have also targeted research to address key issues in the Coastal Bays, like the eni...

Coastal Bays report card release

Coastal Bays report card release ... The Maryland Coastal Bays Progra...m report card was released at an interesting venue in Ocea...m was the emcee of the program. He introduced the report card and had a couple of young Coastal Stewards u...

Coastal Louisiana issues discussed at public meeting in St. Bernard Parish

...silient communities for coastal Louisiana. We established a strategy of providing annual coastal updates and biennial report cards ahead of the next Master Plan (2017). As part of my visit, I was invited to observe the public meeting by the Coastal...

Collective impact and ecosystem health report cards: The product enables the process

Collective impact and ecosystem health report cards: The product enables the process ... This is the second of two Blogs about the intersection of the Collective Impact...

Communicating science effectively—working through environmental report cards

Communicating science effectively—working through environmental report cards ... In September, Simon Costanzo , Caroline Donovan , and I traveled to Edmonton, Alberta for a science communication...

Communicating Science to Effect Social Change

...and throughout North America . In addition to science communication training, we have conducted various environmental report cards and national assessments, where we embed our science communications skills in those other locations. So what is scien...

Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network

...ony analyzed the process of creating conceptual diagrams that we developed as part of the production of environmental report cards for Long Island Sound and the Mississippi River watershed. We also produce conceptual diagrams for a variety of other...

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...

Countdown to elevator pitch 3…2…1 “GO”

...e keywords to entice the audience. Titles need to be short and sweet (e.g. "Assessing cultural and natural resources: Report cards" vs. " Report cards aren't just for school anymore "). We quickly learned from constructive feedback that acronyms ar...

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...

Creating reporting boundaries for the Long Island Sound environmental report card

...es for the Long Island Sound environmental report card ... One of the important decisions in developing environmental report cards is choosing the reporting region boundaries. In addition to defining the overall extent of the report card coverage,...

Crocodile report cards

Crocodile report cards ... I had the unique opportunity to discuss report cards with a couple of global crocodile experts based in Darwin . Grahame Webb and Charlie Manolis are active in crocodile...

Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes

...ut the report card development process. Moving to the Step Three: What is healthy? The complete process of developing report cards is described in the Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards. During the stakeholder selection pro...

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...

Developing a Gulf of Mexico report card

...sion, Larry and I presented an overview of our Gulf of Mexico report card prospectus and I presented some examples of report cards that the Integration and Application Network and EcoCheck have worked on. Following this introduction, we had over tw...

Developing a Mississippi River report card: Ohio River workshop in Cincinnati

...er (To the tune of WKRP in Cincinnati) Baby, if you've ever wondered Wondered whatever became of me I'm making report cards in Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio River Got kind of tired Of working in isolation State vs. state Up and down the...

Developing a report card for the Florida Reef Tract

...report card was a follow-up to the workshop for creation of the pilot report card for American Samoa . Together these report cards are designed to serve as a model for the rest of the regions where NOAA has responsibility for monitoring the conditi...

Developing a report card for the Integration and Application Network

...nd this question led to an epiphany for me. We have gone all over the world working with different partners to create report cards, using the five-step process of: 1) conceptualizing the report card, 2) choosing indicators, 3) determinin...

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