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The Integration and Application Network in 2018

...t some really good news in the improvements in the health of Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bays with our annual report cards. In addition, the publication of a scientific synthesis paper that IAN staff helped generate was able to reach a broa...

Representing UMCES at the 12th International Conference on the Environmental Management of the Enclosed Coastal Seas

...a discussing satoumi as a form of active conservation. Bill, Dave, and I each presented on different ecosystem health report cards in various stages. Dave was an invited speaker for the session "Estuaries of the world: issues and perspectives". He...

Talking River Basin Report Cards at the International Waters Conference, Marrakech

Talking River Basin Report Cards at the International Waters Conference, Marrakech ... The Global Environment Facility (GEF) hosts a biennial Internat...

Don’t Hate, Integrate!

...ion in our Environment and Society class was integrated assessment. More specifically, we discussed how environmental report cards can be used to integrate various metrics and create one, easy-to-understand statement regarding the natural and socia...

Old faces, new times. Stakeholder mapping at International Riversymposium 2018 (Sydney, Australia)

...isolation, and then as a group, to demonstrate how broad stakeholder involvement improves the legitimacy of report cards and builds relationships. Stakeholder mapping and engagement has become quite a large element in all aspect...

Understanding the dynamics and interdependencies of socio-ecological systems through models

...learning. I believe ABM would be useful after the report card process in making recommendations on how to...

Maryland Coastal Bays report card gets a B- for the first time

...the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the National Park Service to produce report cards for the coastal lagoons that separate Fenwick and Assateague Islands from the mainland. The overall report cards scor...

It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work

...ze diverse knowledge and experience and generate novel insights on a particular topic. For example, when IAN develops report cards , our Science Integrators and Communicators work with partners to synthesize relevant information on a specific ecosy...

When herding cats it helps to have a map

...ense, the map became the manifestation of a metaphor the IAN team often uses. To define the role of the environmental report cards, we ask people to imagine all the information available about a place gathered into a pyramid . The broad base of the...

Next steps for the Tennessee River Basin Report Card

...d and the methods document can be downloaded from IAN Press , there is no substitute to having professionally printed report cards that would be excellent handouts at community events, meetings with elected officials, and as resources for educators...

Focusing on outcomes: What are we really shooting for?

...it for granted that the report card process increases engagement and leads to great outcomes. We talk about how great report cards are all the time, and we believe it! Positive outcomes are documented through a comprehensive survey of groups that h...

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...

Maryland’s inaugural State of the Coast conference

.... I provided a preview of the 2017 Chesapeake Bay report card since the data had recently been calculated,... and it was gratifying to report that the overall Bay trends are significantly imp...roving for the first time since we began reporting Bay...

River Rally 2018

...d a workshop titled “Healthy Rivers For All: Introducing A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards.” In our 90 minute workshop participants were given a brief introduction to River Basin Report Cards and the He...

Visiting the Great Lakes to talk report cards and communication ideas

Visiting the Great Lakes to talk report cards and communication ideas ... The Great Lakes are a naturally interconnected group of basins that hold 90% of freshwate...

Ten teaching tips from the Teaching & Learning Transformation Center at the University of Maryland

...ss or workshop, we build upon these skills into higher-level outcomes that ask students and participants to "develop" report cards or "create" conceptual diagrams, for example. 5. Assess student learning along the way Assessments give students feed...

River Chief

...inistry of Water Resources , to improve the monitoring, supervision, and evaluation of the river chief system through report cards, and improve coordination among the provinces in the Chishui River, for future application of the system to the broad...

The 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia

...f the pavilions hosted short talks that vied for the attention of the delegates who were walking by. I gave a talk on report cards with three other scientists: Joao Paulo Coimbra who talked about the Guanabara Bay report card that he was instrument...

Returning to My Ohio Roots: Scoping Out A Lake Erie Report Card

...cilitating the board meeting. We covered a lot of topics. I made a short presentation about our experiences producing report cards. I enjoyed learning about the animal manure issues of northern Ohio and a creative solution that a couple of board me...

Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards

Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards ... We recently completed our course entitled: "Healthy Rivers for All: Setting the course for sustainability with ri...

Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!

...cess, so good job Bill, Simon, and Heath!!! This figure from the Practitioner´s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards (page 36) outlines the 5-step process for report card development. There were several key themes and take-home messag...

A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II

...na Flats. In 2006, the first UMCES Chesapeake Bay report card was released, providing annual science-based...servation a priority. In 2017, the Chesapeake Bay report card showed significantly improving scores in sev...en of the fifteen reporting reg...

When to Go Big with Report Cards

When to Go Big with Report Cards ... Jodie Mehrtens In the last of the lecture series for the IAN Healthy Rivers for All course we reviewed a number o...

Healthy Rivers for All: December 2017 retreat

...retreat involved developing a training handbook to accompany the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . It is designed to give our partners the tools to conduct Report Card workshops. We emulated the Science Communicati...

Talk Less, Show More: Communicating Challenges and Successes in a Changing World

...hat Opinion Works generated in partnership with IAN. The report used focus groups and found that it was important for report cards to present clear and visual grades, link actions to indicators (but only one action, not a shopping list), present a...

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