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

Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scale, acceptance, engagement, and behavior change ... The plenary sessions for the CommOceans c...

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...

Eyes on the prize: Looking beyond graduate school during the 2019 MEES Colloquium

...des on coastal bays, prevalence of toxin/antitoxin systems in the picocyanobacteria genome, and of course IAN’s report cards. The talks were interesting, but I think everyone was especially excited for the field trips that would follow! There...

Failte gu Alba! (Welcome to Scotland!)

...ause the goal was to get everyone to walk around and visit each table. I set up the table with IAN products , such as report cards, newsletter, and reports, but I made sure to focus on products that were directly relevant to MPAs but diverse i...

Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club

... nutrients. The development of Bay models and monitoring programs ensued and good tracking schemes (e.g., indicators, report cards) were developed. Current management needs are being addressed by scientists to develop better monitoring tools, bette...

Finding the right indicators – a collective stakeholder engagement approach

...rom the Mississippi Report Card. Photo credit: Costanzo et al ., 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards When data is available but not peer-reviewed or not well-documented. A related question to this is the validity of th...

Finding the value of Transdisciplinary Research on Food Security and Land Use Change

... intended concept and keywords. We created custom cards for each CRA group. Credit: (Top) IAN; (Bottom) F...

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...

Focusing on outcomes: What are we really shooting for?

...it for granted that the report card process increases engagement and leads to great outcomes. We talk about how great report cards are all the time, and we believe it! Positive outcomes are documented through a comprehensive survey of groups that h...

Generating Collective Knowledge at the Potomac Open House

...created was filled with green dots (bottom two images). Participants then moved on to the next tent, which focused on report cards . An important component of the COAST Card framework is a socio-ecological report card incorporating a variety of eco...

Get the grade - Worldwide WWF-IAN partnership launches in Stockholm

...lly launched at World Water Week this past August 2015. This new partnership aims to widen the audience and uptake of report cards as an environmental management tool for river basins around the world. I represented IAN-UMCES at the event which is...

Going from "Aha!" to "Well, Duh" in the Great Barrier Reef, with beer coasters and Burdekin Gold

...ies and I held a session to discuss and analyze our Integration and Application Network experience with environmental report cards on 26 January 2016. This activity is part of our World Wildlife Fund--Universi ty of Maryland Center for Environmenta...

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...

Great Barrier Reef report card workshop

...Premier and Cabinet were tasked with assembling the scientists from a variety of agencies and institutions to produce report cards for the management adoption and effectiveness (paddock scale), catchment condition and loads (catchment scale), marin...

Growth and the future of Chesapeake Bay conference at Hood College

... Tom 27 They talked about their approaches to the population bomb They introduced frozen peas, glasses half full, and report cards for the Bay And then the audience once again had their say. So what did we learn from these two days in Frederick We...

Guaviare River Report Card Workshop

...de Guaviare, Colombia for the Guaviare River Report Card Workshop. This was the third workshop in Colombia to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River. Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman , Catherine Blancard , and Michele Thieme...

Gulf of Kachchh field trips: Birds, mangroves, corals, macrotides, industries

... are concerned about the ecosystems of the Gulf of Kachchh. As always, it is so much more meaningful to be developing report cards and assessments about places that we have personally visited and seen with our own eyes. Sign for largest tanker term...

Gulf of Mexico Summit 2011

...same issues. The Gulf of Mexico Report Card prototype is unveiled One of the highlights for me was the chance to talk report cards. We unveiled our vision for the Gulf of Mexico Report Card on Wednesday, with our partners from the Harte Institute ,...

Healthy Rivers for All: December 2017 retreat

...retreat involved developing a training handbook to accompany the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . It is designed to give our partners the tools to conduct Report Card workshops. We emulated the Science Communicati...

How environmental report cards can democratize science

How environmental report cards can democratize science ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wi...

How is your ecosystem doing? Advances in the use and understanding of ecosystem indicators workshop

...onomic indicators. Indicators were used for environmental characterization, status and trend reporting, environmental report cards, integrated assessments, ecological forecasts, management and governance. The aim was to have indicators that were si...

How maps can lie: Chesapeake watershed stream health

How much is too much? Defining thresholds for indicators

...teps to developing a Report Card. Credit: Costanzo et. al. 2017. Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards The class started with brief introductions including name, country, organization and why the interest in making repor...

Humanity’s Place in the Environment: How Social Indicators Strengthen Ecological Report Cards

Humanity’s Place in the Environment: How Social Indicators Strengthen Ecological Report Cards ... For over 20 years, environmental report cards have been used across the globe to integrate data into communicatio...

IAN as a Boundary Organization

...400 publications on IAN Press. We also launched our first IAN environmental report card for Chesapeake Bay, emulating report cards we had developed in Southeast Queensland, Australia. We have gone on to produce report cards all over the world. We c...

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