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  Report cards aren’t just for school anymore

  ...o them is to risk the success of the entire monitoring and management of the system. During his work in assessing the Mississippi River Watershed, Dr. Dennison helped create an indicator wheel that encompasses some examples of social indicators, a...
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  Roebling Bridge in Cincinnati--the predecessor to the Brooklyn Bridge

  ...e predecessor to the Brooklyn Bridge ... We had beautiful views of the Roebling Bridge from our workshop developing a Mississippi River report card in Covington , Kentucky. After the workshop was over, Bill Nuttle and I walked across the Roebling...
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  Sizing up the Mississippi River

  Sizing up the Mississippi River ... Last week, I attended a meeting of the Changing Course design competition in New Orleans . The Changing Cou...
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  Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference

  ...-oriented approach for synthesizing data and communicating the health of an environmental system. She highlighted the Mississippi River and Chesapeake Bay report card processes as examples of transdisciplinary collaborative efforts, and shared som...
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  Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort - difficulties of science in management due to watershed size

  ..., Maryland’s Chester River watershed spans less than 1,000 km2 (Fig 2); in comparison with the watershed of the Mississippi , which feeds into The Gulf of Mexico , is composed of 31 states stretching over 3 million km2. Additionally, watersh...
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  Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration

  ...ald ‘Jordy’ Jordahl from America’s Watershed Initiative and The Nature Conservancy talked about the Mississippi River Basin report card effort. IAN is part of the diverse team tackling this report card effort over a massive water...
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  Talking about the Tennessee River report card in Chattanooga: Part 1

  ... resource managers from the region, which includes portions of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky. The co-sponsors of the event, Anna George from the Tennessee Aquarium and Bucky Edmonstone from the Ten...
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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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  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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  The Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Spectacle of Climate Change

  ... on hand, on February 27, to witness the spectacle of the Corps of Engineers opening the Bonnet Carre spillway on the Mississippi River. Runoff from record precipitation in the Midwest this winter feeds a flood that is making its way down the rive...
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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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  The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released

  The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released ... On October 14, 2015, in St. Louis, Missouri, I unveiled the Report Card f...
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  The Ohio River’s Split Personality

  ...rom experts on the Ohio and Tennessee River basins. The workshop is part of the work to develop a report card for the Mississippi River watershed. This report card will be different from others we have worked on that grade ecosystem health, l...
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  The praxis of science visualization

  ...ebra fish and poultry house emission Roadside turf grass, Arctic clams, and ocean wind farms Conowingo dam sediments, Mississippi River water quality and Jonah crab reproduction And ecosystem services and runoff from Choptank farms. We had great i...
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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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  Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view

  ...the longest distance from one edge of a reporting region to the opposite edge. In a somewhat circular region like the Mississippi River basin, this measurement can be taken from a variety of angles netting the same result, akin to measuring the di...
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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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  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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  We're all connected to the Big Easy: Beyond Science into BIG Management of Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem

  ...ver, the process prevents overflow and sediment deposition, thus wetlands deteriorate. It is shocking that CL and the Mississippi Deltaic Plain (MDP) are experiencing land loss at a rate as high as 100 km2/year3,4, almost exclusively due to the an...
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  What you can do to help - exploring tools for Raising the Grade!

  ...akers and government can do to help improve ecosystem health based on the consensus approach. This can be seen in the Mississippi River Report Card where a group of stakeholders from the Upper Mississippi came together, and in response to the repo...
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  When to Go Big with Report Cards

  ...d of 424,000 km2 that drains directly into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. Surely the queen of all report cards is the Mississippi River Watershed Report Card . Covering a watershed area of 3.2 million km2, the reporting region encompasses parts of...
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  Why I March

  ...ting scientific understanding to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay, where I spent most of my adult life, and the Mississippi Delta, where I was born and raised. These two places are magical to the people who live there, economically important...
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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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  You Can’t Spell Earth Without Art

  ...s. Top: American Samoa newsletter. Bottom: Potomac River watershed pressures diagram. Image credit here and here Top: Mississippi River Report Card grade wheel. Bottom: Kid’s nature walk. Image credits here and here All of these examples are...
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  You’ve got to crack a few eggs to make an omelet: Balancing differing worldviews and appealing to stakeholders in environmental management

  ...ronmental Management class, students read about three case studies on large, complex ecosystems: New York Harbor, the Mississippi Deltaic Plain and the Great Barrier Reef. The case studies that we discussed are vastly different systems that span t...

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