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What you can do to help - exploring tools for Raising the Grade!

...ing and Socio-ecological Network Analysis. Different approaches for Raising the Grade. Image by Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen Report cards traditionally include recommendations that the public, policy makers and government can do to help improve ecosystem...

Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?

Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story? ... Kawawa Banda and Chinyawezhi Kakoma Report cards are effective communications tools. They raise awareness of a river basin, explain the current health and challenges...

More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science

...o children instead of one reduced willingness to help. I saw a parallel with something we had learned from working on report cards with our colleagues at Opinion Works that recommending a single conservation action was more effective than a providi...

Bill Dennison's 500th Blog

...g blocks for various themes that I am developing, like environmental literacy, science communication or environmental report cards I use my blogs to capture some of the fun things like silly songs, poems, or limericks that I generate at various wor...

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...

How much is too much? Defining thresholds for indicators

...teps to developing a Report Card. Credit: Costanzo et. al. 2017. Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards The class started with brief introductions including name, country, organization and why the interest in making repor...

A global hotspot for crocodiles, turtles, migratory birds, and mangroves – Bhitarkanika Conservation Area, Odisha, India

...n Area in Odisha, a state in north-eastern India. This will be our third report card in India; we previously produced Report Cards on the Gulf of Kachchh and Chilika Lake . Location of Bhitarkanika Conservation Area in north-east India. Credit: Goo...

Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach

...rom the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When data is available but not peer-reviewed or not well-documented. A related question to this is the validity of th...

Finding the value of Transdisciplinary Research on Food Security and Land Use Change

... intended concept and keywords. We created custom cards for each CRA group. Credit: (Top) IAN; (Bottom) F...

Building a Report Card: Getting Started

...ing schere for the Orinoco River Basin. Credit: Costanzo et. al. 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards Obviously, the process of creating a report card is highly variable and requires a lot of data input and analysis. Ho...

This is What Science Stands For: Exhibiting at AGU Fall Meeting 2018

...tiative aims to empower stakeholders around the world in managing their fresh water resources by developing and using report cards. Our Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards received lots of attention, as did the “...

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...

Coral reef condition: A status report for the Hawaiian Archipelago

Coral reef condition: A status report for the Hawaiian Archipelago ... Effective coral...engaged public. The Hawaiian Islands coral status report is part of a larger effort to provide communities...

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...

Using Basin Report Cards to support the TDA/SAP process

Using Basin Report Cards to support the TDA/SAP process ... The Healthy Rivers for All partnership has created a process to develop new collab...

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...

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