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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...

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...

Sharing Water event in Washington, D.C.

...y of Maryland Center for Environmental Science ( UMCES ) and WWF, provided us an opportunity to tout our river health report cards to the audience. Saying goodbye to Evan Tueller, as she heads off to graduate school. Image credit: Bill Dennison At...

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....

Three Gorges Dam Visit

Three Gorges Dam Visit ... In April I travelled to China to discuss report cards with WWF China . Following the workshop (outlined in a previous blog ), I was extremely lucky to be taken on a guided...

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...

WWF and UMCES Retreat 24-25 May 2017

...projected 90% growth in hydropower. Image credit: the Power of Rivers, A Business Case Climate Change in Basin Report Cards The river report card idea has been successful at measuring current status, and we have been able to discuss cl...

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...

Progressing toward a Report Card for the Gulf of Mexico

...ack started our talk describing the scientific basis for the report card, and I finished with a discussion on how the report cards work and the positive outcomes from these projects. I got a lot of great feedback after the session - the prospect of...

Scoping a report card for the Yangtze River basin, China.

...ort card was an excellent tool that would be very useful in China. Our use of colors came up as a potential issue for report cards in China. image credit: IAN and google. Day 2 started with introducing the concept of report cards to the newly...

So you think you can couple systems? Reviewing our research proposals

What are these data trying to tell us?

...ed the statistical tools of data analysis that scientists use to get answers to simple, direct questions. Environment report cards are a tool for assembling this information to answer more complex questions. Image Credit: flickr Using data to answe...

Making the Grade

...the importance and urgency of our science without alarming or confusing people? This week, we discussed environmental report cards, which could provide a solution to this tricky balancing act facing scientists. There are several organizations that...

Jane Thomas, Science Communicator Extraordinaire, heading Down Under

...ell, and his wife Jamie Testa is a Science Communicator with IAN. Jano was instrumental in the release of many of our report cards and our science communication courses. Jano was the driving force for producing ' Shifting Sands: Environmental and c...

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...

To get the grade: Collaborate! Stakeholder engagement and the missing link between research and action

...t in a project or entity, or would be affected by a particular action or policy – and the role of environmental report cards in guiding stakeholder decisions. Stakeholder engagement can be described as a process of maturity: each step of the...

Countdown to elevator pitch 3…2…1 “GO”

...e keywords to entice the audience. Titles need to be short and sweet (e.g. "Assessing cultural and natural resources: Report cards" vs. " Report cards aren't just for school anymore "). We quickly learned from constructive feedback that acronyms ar...

Turning the report card spotlight back on ourselves: The first Integration and Application Network report card

...Integration and Application Network (IAN) team has been traveling the globe to help various partners develop rigorous report cards. When we starting working with Tina Bishop and Peter Tuddenham from the College of Exploration to develop an evaluati...

Meet Saipan, one of America’s forgotten territories

...ith us in all four workshops. We celebrated a job well done, and more work to do in the coming year to complete these report cards. The group with NOAA staff holding up their awards. The next day, Heath, Caroline, and I explored the island, g...

Social Networking: Beyond the Likes and Shares

...keholders choose the issues? This problem was initially discussed when dealing with assessing the priority issues for report cards. Are the most important issues the ones that the stakeholders bring up? And what if there is an issue present that so...

IAN Returns to Honolulu for the Hawaiian Islands and the Remote Pacific Islands Coral Reef Report Cards Workshops

IAN Returns to Honolulu for the Hawaiian Islands and the Remote Pacific Islands Coral Reef Report Cards Workshops ... As part of the NOAA Coral Reef Report Card Project , Alex Fries , Caroline Donovan , and Heath Kelsey f...

Report cards aren’t just for school anymore

Report cards aren’t just for school anymore ... Rebecca Wenker and Wilmelie Cruz Marrero After spending a few classes discussing w...

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...

Jane Thomas: A champion for the Maryland Coastal Bays

... first annual report card for the Coastal Bays in 2008 . Following this report card release, Jano insured that annual report cards were produced every year. And she recently back-calculated report card scores to 1986, and uploaded them to the EcoHe...

Scrooge and the Report Card

... Happy Report Card. Don't be cross, Uncle. Scrooge : What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Report cards! Out with report cards! What are Report cards to you but a time for playing around with stakeholders; a time to find...

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