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Shaping the next generation of Chesapeake Bay report cards

Shaping the next generation of Chesapeake Bay report cards ... On April 1, 2025, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science...

Socio-ecological analysis of the eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, USA

...ch has developed several agreements to improve water quality. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Chesapeake Progress, and Report Cards are accountability tools to observe and communicate the management project results or enforce state laws. The current...

Southeast Michigan Report Card

Southeast Michigan Report Card ... Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers...

Southeast Michigan Report Card (Arabic)

Southeast Michigan Report Card (Arabic) ... Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers...

Southeast Michigan Report Cards: First Virtual Stakeholder Workshop Summary

Southeast Michigan Report Cards: First Virtual Stakeholder Workshop Summary ... November 4, 10, and 16, 2021 ... The University of Maryland Center fo...

State of Baltimore Harbor's Ecological and Human Health: 2010

... health status of Baltimore's Inner Harbor—future health can be assessed through annual Harbor ecosystem health report cards. An introduction to Baltimore Harbor's geophysical conditions, methods to evaluate individual indicators, and results...

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...

Using Socioenvironmental Report Cards as a Tool for Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Using Socioenvironmental Report Cards as a Tool for Transdisciplinary Collaboration ... The process of developing a socioenvironmental report card through...

Division of regions in ecological report cards

Division of regions in ecological report cards ... Conceptual diagram illustrating how an estuary can be divided in ecological reporting. ... diagram, region, bay,...

Five Steps to Develop an Environmental Report Card

Five Steps to Develop an Environmental Report Card ... Environmental report cards synthesize and communicate large amounts of data to a broad audience. They can be used as a way to catalyze improveme...

Geographic scaling of report cards

Geographic scaling of report cards ... Conceptual diagram illustrating the geographic scale of an environmental report card. The three assessments shown...

Information spectrum for ecosystem report cards

Information spectrum for ecosystem report cards ... Ecosystem report cards act as the ultimate synthesis tool for communicating vast amounts of information relevant to the general public and p...

"Whirling Disease" and Environmental Responsibility

...mportant: education cannot solve all environmental problems, but it can take great strides towards doing so. Creating report cards for businesses and governments that highlight strengths and problems and work towards solutions helps immensely. I am...

2013 Chesapeake Bay report released

2013 Chesapeake Bay report released ... The 2013 Chesapeake Bay report card...ay . The contrast between the Upper Eastern Shore report card scores which are degrading over time versus...the James River report card scores which are improving over time p...

2014 Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference

...cut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference ... In conjunction with our work on the Long Island Sound embayment report cards , I was invited to speak about report cards at the first annual Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Confer...

A Discussion on Sustainability and Resilience in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed at the Chesapeake Research Consortium Symposium

...ls to assess and measure the health and relationships in an environment. These include tools like socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics modeling, and social network analysis. COAST Card originated from the successful report card model o...

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...

A Hopeful Reflection on a Tool for Sustainable Coastal Management

...ational NGOs. Environmental Assessment: You cannot manage what you don’t measure. COAST Card uses socio-environmental report cards to provide a clear snapshot of the health of coastal ecosystems, setting benchmarks for improvement, and tracking pro...

A Listening Session Right off the Rappahannock River!

...derstand what is most important to the agricultural community. This knowledge is used to create indicators for future report cards. Including this information gives the report cards a more holistic view! Simultaneously, those who work in and around...

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...

A New IAN Science Communication Course on Ecosystem Health Report Cards in Adelaide, Australia

A New IAN Science Communication Course on Ecosystem Health Report Cards in Adelaide, Australia ... Alex Fries and I had the chance to travel to Adelaide , Australia to deliver a two-day Sci...

A Report Card for Coastal Yucatán

...es and issues important to the people in the coastal areas of Yucatán. This project also serves as a pilot for report cards in other Mexican Gulf States, which ultimately, we hope, will integrate into an ecosystem health report card for the...

A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems

A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems ... Melanie Jackson, Chih-Hsien (Michelle) Lin, Detbra Rosa...

A Symposium on Coastal Resilience Highlights the Need for Transdisciplinary Science

...heme used for precipitation totals to accommodate the 60+ inches of rainfall on the Texas Coast. Credit: Jim McMahon] Report cards featured heavily Several report card projects have evolved from that first workshop that Jane Hawkey and I facilitate...

A unique partnership between World Wildlife Fund and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

...e Conservancy (TNC) on Climate Adaptation Strategies and the new TNC Chief Scientist Hugh Possingham on environmental report cards. But our WWF-UMCES partnership is more than star scientists who maintain an academic role, it is the blending of team...

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