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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  International Riversymposium 2013

  ...ch featured the long-term Southeast Queensland report card program, the Great Barrier Reef report card, our fledgling Mississippi River report card effort, and a bit about the process of creating and maintaining report cards. As chair of the repor...
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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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  Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card

  Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card ... The report card for the Mississippi River basin. The purpose of this report card is to provide people with information on status and trends of the entire...
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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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  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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  Me and Bobby Twilley

  ... . Robert gave a wonderful seminar at Horn Point Laboratory , covering the history of coastal Louisiana wetland loss, Mississippi River diversions and provided the context for the 2012 Master Plan. The IAN group collaborated with Robert and variou...
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  Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together

  ...eographic scale. The scale of report cards depends on factors such as purpose and data availability. For example, the Mississippi report card covers 40% of the contiguous US. According to Dr. Heath Kelsey , for the Mississippi report card, six maj...
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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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  A visit to The Water Institute of the Gulf in Baton Rouge

  ...downtown Baton Rouge, just a few blocks south of the State Capitol Building . They have wonderful views of the mighty Mississippi River and the State Capital. The Water Institute Chief Scientist is Dr. Denise Reed , a hydrologist who spearheaded t...
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  Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter

  ...ng frameworks for iconic locations like the Great Barrier Reef , the South Pacific islands , Gulf of Mexico , and the Mississippi River basin . EcoCheck has developed report cards in diverse locations; Kura River in Central Asia , Samoa , and the...
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  Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework

  Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework ... In September, America’s Great Watershed Initiative (AGWI) held a sum...
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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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  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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  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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  Gulf of Mexico Summit 2011

  ... seagrass beds has occurred around the Gulf but notable recoveries exist in some areas (illustrated above), including Mississippi barrier islands, West Galveston Bay Texas, and Tampa Bay Florida. Trends were reversed by management and restoration...
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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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