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  Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 6- Global Initiatives in Response to Flooding

  ... America that I have been working with; the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast, and coastal Louisiana--the mouth of the Mississippi River with marshes and the city of New Orleans. Let's look at the two major floods and how people have responded to t...
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  Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 7- Examples of Flooding in the United States

  ..., they're now turning their attention, in the next year, to developing this master plan . This is where they take the Mississippi River water, which is sediment laden, because it drains half of North America, and they're going to divert it into th...
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  Building a Report Card: Getting Started

  ...sa will help us integrate the social aspects in the report cards and some examples can be observed in the Orinoco and Mississippi Basins report cards . The Orinoco Basin report card included both ecological and social Indicators. Credit: Costanzo...
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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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  Coastal Louisiana issues discussed at public meeting in St. Bernard Parish

  ...he manner of sediment delivery; dredging vs. river diversions. The residents felt that the problem with diverting the Mississippi River to the marshes was not the sediments, but the accompanying freshwater, nutrients and toxicants. They argued pas...
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  Coastal Louisiana song book: Reflections on reviewing the 2012 Master Plan

  ...ng the blues Feeling good was good enough for me Good enough for Steve and Bobby Twilley   From the delta of the Mississippi To the coastlines of the Chenier Bobby shared the secrets of the Plan His team standing beside him, Lord With everyth...
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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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  Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network

  ...hat Heath Kelsey , Suzi Spitzer , Vanessa Vargas and I had about Anthony’s blog. Conceptual diagramming for the Mississippi River Report Card, from hand-drawn maps to illustrations. Anthony draws a distinction between producing a product (co...
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  Conceptual Diagrams Can Get You Places

  ...rime;45″W) you will have gotten someplace special. Humboldt lies almost exactly at the geographic center of the Mississippi River watershed; motto: “Heartbeat of the Heartland.” It is also one of about two dozen places in the US...
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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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  Davos, Switzerland, Broke This Coastal Hydrologist’s Heart

  ...ting the historic French Quarter for Mardi Gras realize that until the end of the 19th century visitors could see the Mississippi River from Jackson Square. Today, the view is the back of a protective levee that rises 10 feet above street level. S...
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  Design Competition Stimulates Communication on Multiple Channels

  ...ion on Multiple Channels ... The Changing Course competition will stimulate discussion about the future course of the Mississippi River near its mouth. Large areas of wetlands have converted to open water in the delta of the Mississippi over the p...
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  Developing a Gulf of Mexico report card

  ...ple attending this Joint Meeting, with representatives from each of the five Gulf of Mexico states (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida) and a few Mexican scientists also in attendance. Dr. Porfinio Alvarez-Torres spoke about the v...
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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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  Developing a Mississippi River report card: Ohio River workshop in Cincinnati

  Developing a Mississippi River report card: Ohio River workshop in Cincinnati ... A large IAN contingent gathered along the banks of the Ohio...
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  Developing a Mississippi River report card: Upper Mississippi River workshop in the Quad Cities

  Developing a Mississippi River report card: Upper Mississippi River workshop in the Quad Cities ... The IAN crew ( Bill Dennison , Heath Kelsey , Bill Nuttle , Caroline Wicks ) tr...
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  Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card

  ...ted off by reviewing the various report card innovations and developments in other locations like the Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River, and the Orinoco River. I suggested improvements taken from these projects such as: Comprehensive report cards...
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  Discussing science communication at CERF2013

  ...State University wetlands scientist, put together a very nice document " Answering 10 fundamental questions about the Mississippi River delta ". This 42 pp. booklet asks simple questions like "Is there enough sediment to restore the delta?" (the a...
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  Discussion following Bob Hirsch seminar on Are we making progress? Interpreting the nutrient flux records for the major rivers flowing to the Chesapeake Bay

  ...eatment technologies change, there will be time lags which will need to be analyzed. Bob pointed out that analyses of Mississippi River fertilizer applications led to a 7-10 year lag in the receiving water quality. Audience at the seminar The ques...
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  Discussion following Walter Boynton seminar on Corsica River estuary restoration

  ...in water on the landscape for longer periods before it made its way into the Bay. He provided examples from the upper Mississippi River, where scientists conducted experiments on river oxbows and observed rapid nitrate disappearance (due to denitr...
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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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  Don’t Hate, Integrate!

  ...f the report card process by talking about several published report cards, including the Moreton Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River , and Orinoco River report cards. With each respective report card, new challenges were faced and refinements t...
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  Dr. Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen successfully defends her dissertation

  .... She used a combination of natural and social science tools and had two case study locations: Chesapeake Bay and the Mississippi River. There are four main chapters in the dissertation, and the first of them was published in a peer review journal...
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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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  Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?

  ...ere discussed were as follows: Coastal Bay, Yucateca River Basin, Tennesse River Basin, Guanabara Bay, Laguna de Bay, Mississippi River Watershed, Orinoco River Basin and Chesapeake Bay. The Laguna de Bay report card showing the front page, flap a...

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