...ers Workshop in Tulsa, Oklahoma ... As part of our continuing series of stakeholder expert workshops for developing a Mississippi River basin report card , a team of IAN Science Integrators and Science Communicators traveled to Tulsa , Oklahoma on...
... literacy principles for the Ohio River basin are the following: The Ohio River is the major eastern tributary of the Mississippi River, traversing through a diversity of landscapes. The Ohio River is the major water source of the Mississippi Rive...
...leans and a short distance from Nashville , TN, the country music capital, it seemed appropriate to capture our lower Mississippi River workshop in the form of a blues song. Memphis is where Sam Phillips at Sun Records recorded such music luminari...
Developing a Mississippi River report card: Lower Mississippi workshop in Memphis ... Once again, a contingent from IAN ( Heath Kelsey , Bill Nuttle , Caroline Wicks , Brianne Wal...
...rom experts on the Ohio and Tennessee River basins. The workshop is part of the work to develop a report card for the Mississippi River watershed. This report card will be different from others we have worked on that grade ecosystem health, l...
...rime;45″W) you will have gotten someplace special. Humboldt lies almost exactly at the geographic center of the Mississippi River watershed; motto: “Heartbeat of the Heartland.” It is also one of about two dozen places in the US...
...be convened in each of the four remaining sub-basins and results will be integrated into a report card for the entire Mississippi River Basin. ... Bill Dennison ... Heath Kelsey ... Jane Thomas ... Caroline Donovan ... Brianne Walsh ... Bill Nuttl...
...e predecessor to the Brooklyn Bridge ... We had beautiful views of the Roebling Bridge from our workshop developing a Mississippi River report card in Covington , Kentucky. After the workshop was over, Bill Nuttle and I walked across the Roebling...
...ion on Multiple Channels ... The Changing Course competition will stimulate discussion about the future course of the Mississippi River near its mouth. Large areas of wetlands have converted to open water in the delta of the Mississippi over the p...
River barge ... River barge with tugboat, as often seen on the Mississippi River and used to transport commodities up or down the river. ... boat, tonnage, water, transportation, economy ... J...
Upper Mississippi River River sub-basin land use ... This map depicts land use in the Upper Mississippi River River sub-basin, one of the five major sub-basins of the Mississippi River. ... diagram, Upper Mississippi, cro...
...State University wetlands scientist, put together a very nice document " Answering 10 fundamental questions about the Mississippi River delta ". This 42 pp. booklet asks simple questions like "Is there enough sediment to restore the delta?" (the a...
...ng the blues Feeling good was good enough for me Good enough for Steve and Bobby Twilley From the delta of the Mississippi To the coastlines of the Chenier Bobby shared the secrets of the Plan His team standing beside him, Lord With everyth...
...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...
Developing a Mississippi River report card: Upper Mississippi River workshop in the Quad Cities ... The IAN crew ( Bill Dennison , Heath Kelsey , Bill Nuttle , Caroline Wicks ) tr...
Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card ... The report card for the Mississippi River basin. The purpose of this report card is to provide people with information on status and trends of the entire...
...ald ‘Jordy’ Jordahl from America’s Watershed Initiative and The Nature Conservancy talked about the Mississippi River Basin report card effort. IAN is part of the diverse team tackling this report card effort over a massive water...
...he manner of sediment delivery; dredging vs. river diversions. The residents felt that the problem with diverting the Mississippi River to the marshes was not the sediments, but the accompanying freshwater, nutrients and toxicants. They argued pas...
... . Robert gave a wonderful seminar at Horn Point Laboratory , covering the history of coastal Louisiana wetland loss, Mississippi River diversions and provided the context for the 2012 Master Plan. The IAN group collaborated with Robert and variou...
...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...
