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A visit to Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, India

...e Jamnagar Marine National Park and a Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment for the Gulf of Kachchh in Gujarat . Report cards developed for India This time we are back to Odisha, to Bhitarkanika National Park , in the northern part of the stat...

A watershed moment: Years of work and data culminate in the release of the Western Lake Erie Report Card

...culminate in the release of the Western Lake Erie Report Card ... The Western Lake Erie 1st Report Card is...science communication achievement for IAN and the report's stakeholders. After an evaluation of almos...

Adding value to “Network” in IAN: Exploring the potential uses of Social Network Analysis

...ep process to include stakeholder selection as the new first step (image below). The new 5-step process in developing report cards. Image credit: IAN Press Originally, my cursory understanding of SNA was that it would be a great tool to identify ke...

Annual IAN Retreat at Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center

...the interested but not very powerful groups, IAN could help empower them. An example of this approach is the regional report cards that we help riverkeeper groups produce. IAN staff posted organization names on the plot of low to high interest vs....

Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas

...of this project is to evaluate IAN’s success using the same 5-step process that we use for our ecosystem health report cards around the world. The initial report card workshop was held in February of this year. We are applying the following s...

Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card

...al resources in its basin enrich our culture. This project has a broader focus compared with other environmental report cards we have done. Indicators monitor critical functions of an actual engine. Activities in the basin serve as an engine o...

Assessing bacteria in South Carolina: redesigning the "How's the Beach?" app

...astase Day two of our travels to South Carolina began with Heath giving a lecture to Dwayne’s graduate class on report cards: what they are, how they’re made, and how they improve the health of different ecosystems. The class seemed gen...

Awakening Environmental Passion

...triathlons, walks, boat races Stewardship; clean ups, tree planting, stream restoration Completion ; product release, report cards, legislation HEAD Intellectual ; symposia, workshops, training Learning ; field trips, overflights, snorkel/dives Inf...

Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus

... Communication course in Cambridge , Maryland this week and we discussed the concept of developing some environmental report cards for the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands. So perhaps one day I will be able to revisit the Bahamas and contribute...

Belmont Forum Ocean Sustainability midterm meeting

...onships. COAST Card : This is the project that Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen and I are running to develop socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics models, and social network analysis in Chesapeake, Manila, and Tokyo Bays, the Goa coast of India an...

Bem vindo ao Rio! O primeiro workshop com as partes interessadas da Baía de Guanabara

...abalhando no desenvolvimento do primeiro boletim (report card) de saúde ambiental para a Baí...sadas para a elaboração do boletim (report card) de saúde ambiental da Baía de...

Better ways to look at what we’re doing to Chesapeake Bay?

...e results? The IAN program’s Chesapeake Bay Report Card for 2011 gives the bay a D+. The EPA’s...y ecosystem” in the Bay Barometer 2011-2012 report released in January, but offers guarded optimism...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Balancing the needs of scientific management and public stakeholders in Ecosystem Based Management

... must remain transparent in the process of management. Examples of effective scientific communication include “ report cards ” for natural systems, public forums, and education programs . This fosters communication among stakeholders an...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 1 - Science Communication

...o introduce you to some resources that we've been developing, to illustrate science communication using environmental report cards, because I know that in Ontario you're progressing on that front, and then also to inspire you to enhance your scienc...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements

...sp; Part 1 – Science Communication 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 3 - History of Science Communication

... Part 1 – Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards ... PART 4; Environmental Report Cards Let me talk about one science communication tool that we've been developing, t...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 5 - Report card examples

...at I think has a lot of similarities to Ontario right now with your thirty-six conservational authorities doing these Report Cards, is that first in some areas where you don't have a lot of resources, that citizens and scientists become a really po...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards ... PART 6; Five step program for environmental report cards Several basic steps are involved in producing report car...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 7 - O Canada!

...arding. Engaging the broader community with good scientific communication is really important, and that environmental report cards in Ontario can be a really important communication tool for the conservation authorities. I realize it's early in the...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 8 - Communicating Science Effectively poster

...tion 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...

Bill Dennison's 500th Blog

...g blocks for various themes that I am developing, like environmental literacy, science communication or environmental report cards I use my blogs to capture some of the fun things like silly songs, poems, or limericks that I generate at various wor...

Biscayne Bay Marine Health Inaugural Summit

...e learned to tailor our messages around the watershed to the most location specific as was possible. LESSON 4. Report cards need to be backed with data. As scientists, we really couldn't go around making up grades. So we created a monitoring...

Bita River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia

...r the Bita River Report Card Workshop. This was the second of three workshops that will occur in Colombia, to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River . Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman from the WWF office in Washington DC, al...

Brainstorming in the Innovation Room with World Wildlife Fund

... in the WWF Innovation Room. The topic of our brainstorming session was developing a global approach to environmental report cards (or scorecards) for rivers of the world. WWF and IAN are currently partnering on a report card for the Colombia reach...

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