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Developing a strategy for Long Island Sound embayment report cards

Developing a strategy for Long Island Sound embayment report cards ... Caroline Donovan and I traveled to Mamaroneck, NY and Stamford, CT on 3 Feb 2016 to work with Save The Sound in d...

Developing a Swan River report card

...ort is being led by Roxane Shadbolt, Swan River Trust, and Dr. May Carter, Edith Cowan University . The term 'dueling report cards' came up, but I could see that an ecosystem health report with a social and economic report card could be quite compl...

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...

Developing environmental intelligence through environmental literacy and citizen science

...d and intensively managed. Another aspect of environmental intelligence that IAN promotes is the use of environmental report cards . The synthesis of various data into report card scores for subregions within a geographic area provides a readily un...

Development of an Ecosystem Health Report Card for Laguna de Bay, Philippines

... Ana, OIC, Environmental Laboratory and Research Division, LLDA. Simon then gave an overview of IAN and environmental report cards, highlighting how it can effectively communicate the values and threats of Laguna de Bay. The four external experts e...

Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland

...ifferent regions. We chose this display to avoid confusion with the grading scheme that was being used for the annual report cards. Map of South-east Queensland, pp. 4 and 5 from Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland. The ‘fire dang...

Discussing science communication at CERF2013

...n Costanzo made a thought-provoking presentation with the title: "ABC is no longer as easy as 123: Advances in school report cards that are applicable to ecological health report cards". He provided a historical perspective of educational report ca...

Discussion following Bill Dennison's seminar on Challenges and advantages of using citizen scientists for environmental monitoring

...hes, sandy or muddy intertidal or subtidal flats, iconic fish or shellfish 6) Ecosystem health; grades or scores from report cards, geographical patterns of indicators, temporal progression (getting better or worse?) 7) Waterway engagement; names o...

Discussion following Sara Powell seminar on Getting out of the Lake and into the Watershed: a study of volunteer monitoring efforts, water quality, and community outreach

...boration with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, c) regularly producing synthetic products (report cards) was discussed. The importance of having a link between the citizen scientists and the professional scientists was em...

Diving Deep into the 2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card: Progress, Challenges, and a Call for Action

...OAST Card , a Belmont Forum project aiming to address socio-environmental challenges by combining socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics modeling, and social network analysis, also released its first Potomac-specific report card – the 20...

Diving into NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program

...Plan [pdf]. IAN’s role is to help in the status and trends reporting portion of the Plan by developing template report cards in two locations, Florida and American Samoa. The report cards will incorporate the four monitoring areas: benthic co...

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...

Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay

Dr. Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen successfully defends her dissertation

...ollowing her public seminar. The title of Vanessa's dissertation was the following: "The role of social-environmental report cards in transdisciplinary collaboration and adaptive governance for a sustainable future". She used a combination of natur...

Dr. Walter Boynton becomes Tidal Monitoring Analysis Workgroup chair

...s data is used as a basis for the annual EcoCheck report card and also serves to inform the Total Maximum...he newly formed Scientific Technical Analysis and Reporting (STAR) team . An example of Walter's synthetic...

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...

Encountering Former Students

...the University of Queensland. On Tuesday, on a trip to Townsville to develop a strategy for future Great Barrier Reef report cards , I encountered a former University of Queensland student, Dr. Katherine Martin. I had seen her name on emails and kn...

Ending a NOAA partnership and beginning a new EcoCheck chapter

...ion and Application Network (Kelsey, Fries, Kellogg and Wicks) and one for NOAA (Zhang). EcoCheck has produced annual report cards for Chesapeake Bay beginning in 2006. These report cards are supported by extensive web materials including data tabl...

Engaging with the Belyuen people and Larrakia people, Traditional Owners of Darwin Harbour, Australia

...g. One of the key questions they asked us was "Why are you doing this?" Our response was that we have been developing report cards around the world and that by including indigenous culture along with social, economic and environmental values, we ha...

Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay report card with new indicators and new methods

...ps that we work with through the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Assessment Coalition (MTAC) do use bacteria in their regional report cards. We have developed protocols for bacteria as well as the other water quality indicators so that results are comparabl...

Environmental report card grading system

Environmental report card grading system ... The grading system used in the EcoCheck environmental report cards is a simple, systematic ranking scale. The one hundred point scale is divided into five equal categories; A (80-100),...

Environmental report card workshop in Surfers Paradise, Australia

...tralia ... Sponsored by the Australian Water and Environmental Research Alliance (AWERA), a workshop on environmental report cards was held near Brisbane, Australia. This workshop focused on how environmental report cards have emerged as a techniqu...

Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together

Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together ... What is a report card? In a world filled with knowledge, how can you find a...

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...

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...

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