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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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  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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  Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scale, acceptance, engagement, and behavior change

  ...photo for the front cover. Stories have been solicited and recorded during the development of some projects (the 2015 Mississippi River Watershed Report Card for example) which could be included in the report card. This section is relevant to thos...
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  Exploring an Ecosystem in Transition: The Road to Flamingo

  ...s now underway to restore regional ecosystems in the US. Other similar work is going on around San Francisco Bay, the Mississippi River deltaic region, the Upper Mississippi River basin, Long Island Sound, and the Chesapeake Bay. The 2019 SSR will...
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  Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach

  ...ance of future collection of this data. An example of addressing the presentation of insufficient data taken from the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When d...
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  Five principles of holistic science communication
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  Following Alexander Bache’s Dream and His Example

  ... located just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC . We were there to discuss what will happen next after the Mississippi watershed report card is launched this spring. This project has challenged us to expand the report card format in two...
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  From the mountains to the prairies—discussing ecological drought in the North Central United States

  ...ome of the well-known landscapes that we discussed during the workshop, from what I had learned during my work on the Mississippi River Report Card . I am excited to continue our work with the North Central CSC, as we work to synthesize the scienc...
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  Future Earth's Coasts

  ...achieve this strong engagement through a participatory report card process in many areas, including  India , the Mississippi River , and the Orinoco River in Colombia, South America . In thinking through the Science Implementation plan, we ou...
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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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  How environmental report cards can democratize science

  ...to develop report card indicators. A case in point is the voting tool that IAN developed to use with the formation of Mississippi River indicators . Another way that votes are manifested are the various votes that are taken in local government pla...
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  How the past influences the future: Understanding the maturity gradient in environmental science and management

  ...n the 1970s and 80s, is also relatively immature (Figure 1). The coastal wetlands of Louisiana have been built by the Mississippi River over the course of thousands of years, but they are incredibly dynamic and change over the span of decades. The...
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  How to organize and run short, productive and fun scientific workshops

  ...ays or ending late on Fridays is preferred. Logistics are important part of Workshop planning. Top - Workshop for the Mississippi River report card with a view of Ohio River; Bottom - Workshop for the State of the South Atlantic Ecosystem held in...
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  IAN as a Boundary Organization

  ...ram. IAN often works directly with stakeholders like the Ingram Barge Company and Caterpillar who helped us build the Mississippi River report card . IAN also serves as a boundary organization in the approach of simultaneously attempting to both s...
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  In memory of Jay Zieman, University of Virginia seagrass ecologist

  ...gist ... Joseph "Jay" C. Zieman (1943-2015), my seagrass ecology colleague, died recently. I first met Jay in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1980 when my Master's thesis advisor C. Peter McRoy organized a workshop associated with the Seagrass Ecosystem St...
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  Integration and Application Network in 2015: The year in review

  ...l to new and old staff members. The culmination of several long-term projects undertaken by IAN occurred in 2015. The Mississippi River report card , which was conceived at an America's Great Watershed summit in 2012 in St. Louis, MO, was finally...
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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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  Is It Possible to Manage Large and Complex Ecosystems?

  ... Environmental Management class studied multiple large and complex ecosystems that span the globe that range from the Mississippi River watershed to the Great Barrier Reef. This map shows the areas the class focused on. Large ecosystems cover a wi...
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  It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work
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  Kicking off the Louisiana Discovery Integration and Application program in Baton Rouge

  ...to develop visualizations for sediment diversions. Sediment diversions are the redirection of some of the flow of the Mississippi River into areas where the river-bourne sediments will settle and help create wetlands and land. Sediment diversions...
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  Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!

  ...ts, such as the Vision for a Report Card and Preliminary Results documents that were published ahead of the finalized Mississippi River Watershed Report Card . These types of early documents allow us to maintain momentum and public interest in a s...
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  Learning to operate the Mississippi River

  Learning to operate the Mississippi River ... Re-engineering the Mississippi River presents political as well as technical challenges. Advances in technology since the beginning of the industria...
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  Long Island Sound Report Card

  ...he end of the meeting, we gave out comment cards to all of the participants to fill out, similar to those used at the Mississippi River Report Card Summit earlier this month. Overall, we had a great, very productive meeting with the STAC and CAC g...
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  Louisiana Sea Grant Discovery, Integration and Application initiative (LA DIA)

  .... Amy Clipp played the part of a Vietnamese fisher (Sally Dang) who was concerned that Jacob Mitchell's depictions of Mississippi River sediment diversions would affect the livelihoods of her family and community. Matt Bethel played the part of a...
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  Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy

  Lower Mississippi River: Environmental Literacy ... 'Environmental literacy' series The seven environmental literacy principles for the...

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