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Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card

..., Krchnak, K., Sherman, J., Thieme, M. Vargas-Nguyen, V. (2017). Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . IAN Press. Cambridge MD USA. 2. Kelsey, H. (2017). Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scal...

Using the Collaborative Learning framework to improve IAN’s report card development process and outcome

...ture outcomes that integrates ecological, social, economic, cultural and organizational perspectives. Similarly, report cards are being used to bring together decision-makers, managers, scientists, stakeholders, and citizens to develop a share...

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016 ... The 2016 report card for the Maryla...r 16th, 2017, at the Ocean City Marlin Club . The report card release was combined with the annual Gold St...ucted in the summer of 2017, so next year’s report card...

Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Planning

Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Pla... lectures and blogs we talked about the five-step report card process: Step One - identifying basin values... . How do we accomplish these steps and develop a report card in the...

The Integration and Application Network in 2017

...7: we moved into a new Annapolis office, developed our first IAN Strategic Plan and initiated our self-reflective IAN report cards. IAN staff taught or co-taught four courses: Science for Environmental Management Coupled Human and Natural Systems T...

Twas the Weeks Before Christmas: Saying Goodbye to Nick DiPasquale

...nto Bay restoration. Furthermore, Nick leaves the Chesapeake Bay Program during the time when the last several annual report cards are reporting improving ecosystem health in the Chesapeake Bay. Clearly the Chesapeake Bay has benefited from Nick Di...

Telling the River Story

...d that there is always some 'drama' when launching a first report card for a region. Practitioners who are developing report cards for the first time should be encouraged to take the drama positively because it often creates momentum for the right...

Five principles of holistic science communication

...al knowledge into their research. We could try this at IAN by incorporating data that is not easily quantifiable into report cards. Sometimes we might be able to tell a better story by resisting the urge to reduce all data into numeric grades, and...

Grading basin or ecosystem health to track and address change

... and non-linear conversions might be needed, as explained in the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards. Linear and non-linear conversions from raw indicator results into a percentage score on a report card2. As a class a...

Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes

...ut the report card development process. Moving to the Step Three: What is healthy? The complete process of developing report cards is described in the Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards. During the stakeholder selection pro...

Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum

...ercise that we use at IAN is the "Get the Grade!" report card game . During this game, players are each as...ticular stakeholder who is involved in creating a report card for a fictional ecosystem. They must take tu...

Integrate, Apply and Network

...parisons, combine disparate data sets and develop robust generalizations. Examples include: creation of environmental report cards that integrate various data sets into common metrics synthesis workshops at locations like the National Center for Ec...

Stumbling Into a New Approach

Stumbling Into a New Approach ... As we’ve pioneered new ways to develop ecosystem health assessments and report cards, we’ve learned a few lessons on what makes them successful and what does not. The most successful projects (tho...

What’s the Story in Your Report Card?

...fe experiences come together to share their love of watching men in tights save the world. In a not-so-different way, report cards use a mix of pictures and text to tell the story of a catchment (watershed); report cards bring different stakeholder...

‘Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good’: Taking The First Steps Toward Developing a Basin Report Card

...Os, to academic institutions and government agencies). Participants share a commitment to developing successful basin report cards that they hope will contribute to healthier river and coastal basins. The participants of the new Healthy Rivers for...

Using Poetry to Deliver an “Ignite” Style Scientific Presentation

...ite a stanza as each slide advanced. My talk was titled “Developing a best practices model for ecosystem health report cards.” Heath’s talk was directly after mine, and he provided more details about how we have evolved our report...

IAN's First Ever Strategic Plan

...nted to the IAN vision, mission, and goals. In addition, the process of the development of external and introspective report cards for IAN has established a suite of goals and combined indices to assess IAN effectiveness in a variety of ways. This...

Evolution of the Report Cards in Brisbane: Part Two

Evolution of the Report Cards in Brisbane: Part Two ... My perceptions about where innovations in report cards are heading in Australia and the US. The foundations of these report cards are similar, but influences have caused th...

Evolution of The Report Cards in Brisbane: Part One

Evolution of The Report Cards in Brisbane: Part One ... Bill Dennison , Simon Costanzo and I made our annual pilgrimage to Riversymposium in Septem...

Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card

..., Mississippi River, and the Orinoco River. I suggested improvements taken from these projects such as: Comprehensive report cards (ecological, social, economic aspects) are more useful for management Mapping out trends over time is as important as...

Exploring an Ecosystem in Transition: The Road to Flamingo

...desirable? This is a question that the Everglades report card may be able to answer. Currently, the Integr...rs and ecologists to incorporate an environmental report card into the Everglades 2019 System Status Repor...

The Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card

...he Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card ... On July 21, 2017, the Guanabara Bay Repo...iro , Brazil . This is the first ecosystem health report card in Brazil, and the second report card we hav...

"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...

In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 3

...rip. Photo credit Bill Dennison On Day 3, we discussed Step 5: Communicating results. We provided examples from other report cards and then talked about a theory of change based on these report cards. We also introduced the concept of establishing...

Jane Hawkey, the Integration and Application Network ‘Closer’ retiring

...ience communication course in Portugal , helped run a science communication workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania , produced report cards and integrated assessments in coastal India , and developed science communication products throughout the Pacific isl...

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