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    199 results for "Mississippi":

    • Mackay Report Card Workshop – Mackay, Queensland Australia 24 February 2015.
      ...s that IAN has experience with that are most relevant to the current Mackay process. I discussed the Chesapeake Bay , Mississippi River , Chilika Lake , Willamette River , and Great Barrier Reef Report Card projects, focusing on those issues that...
    • Maps should tell a story
      ...p and my data visualization figure from last week. For both, my goal was simply to show benthic MMI conditions in the Mississippi River Watershed. But does this map really do a better job than the pie charts in my other figure? Author’s map...
    • Maps: The Promise of Exploration
      ...conclusion. Maps are especially useful for research spread across a region, as with Ben Wahle’s work across the Mississippi Watershed (Figure 1). Can you imagine trying to explain the sampling locations and results without a map? Figure 1. E...
    • Me and Bobby Twilley
      ... . 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...
    • Mission Aransas Pilot Project
      ... systems modeling approach that we call "Future Cards". We're also interested in doing this for the next phase of the Mississippi River Watershed Report Card partnership with America's Watershed Initiative . Table of management scenario options wi...
    • Mississippi report card video
      Mississippi report card video ... As part of the release of the draft Mississippi River report card , we partnered with America's Watershed Initiative and Conversant to produce a short video that des...
    • Mississippi River report card song
      Mississippi River report card song ... We recently (1-2 October 2014) launched the draft Mississippi River report card in Louisville, KY as part of the America's Watershed Initiative Summit . The process of developing...
    • Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework
      Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework ... In September, America’s Great Watershed Initiative (AGWI) held a sum...
    • Missouri River: Environmental Literacy
      ...principles for the Missouri River are the following: The Missouri River is the longest tributary (2,300 miles) of the Mississippi River. Navigation on the Missouri River is supported by a series of levees and dikes from the mouth to Sioux City, Io...
    • Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint
      ...Telling for Coastal Resilience". My presentation was titled "Telling new stories about resiliences of Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River and the Great Barrier Reef". My initial slide contrasted story-telling vs. logical-scientific, and referenced t...
    • National Monitoring Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio
      ... session in which I moderated part one and gave a talk in part two. My talk focused on report cards, specifically the Mississippi River Report Card (America’s Watershed Initiative) and the Rookery Bay Report Card as examples of calculating w...
    • Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card
      ...l network analysis. Each of these tools are briefly explained below. The consensus approach has been attempted in the Mississippi River , where a deliberate effort was made to identify how best to raise the grade for the river basin. Stakeholders...
    • Ohio River basin: Environmental Literacy
      ... 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...
    • Oklahoma report card song
      Oklahoma report card song ... As part of the Mississippi River report card process, we held a workshop at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa , Oklahoma to discuss the Arkansas and Red R...
    • Politics As Usual…
      ...he form of the “Indian Removal Act” , which displaced Native American populations further west across the Mississippi River during a forced migration known as the Trail of Tears .4 With the abolishment of the international import of Af...
    • Raising the Grade for the Upper Mississippi River Basin
      Raising the Grade for the Upper Mississippi River Basin ... The 2016 Upper Mississippi River Basin Conference in Moline, Illinois had a special theme of “Raising the Grade” this year, which wa...
    • Report cards aren’t just for school anymore
      ...o them is to risk the success of the entire monitoring and management of the system. During his work in assessing the Mississippi River Watershed, Dr. Dennison helped create an indicator wheel that encompasses some examples of social indicators, a...
    • Roebling Bridge in Cincinnati--the predecessor to the Brooklyn Bridge
      ...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...
    • Sizing up the Mississippi River
      Sizing up the Mississippi River ... Last week, I attended a meeting of the Changing Course design competition in New Orleans . The Changing Cou...
    • Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference
      ...-oriented approach for synthesizing data and communicating the health of an environmental system. She highlighted the Mississippi River and Chesapeake Bay report card processes as examples of transdisciplinary collaborative efforts, and shared som...
    • Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort - difficulties of science in management due to watershed size
      ..., Maryland’s Chester River watershed spans less than 1,000 km2 (Fig 2); in comparison with the watershed of the Mississippi , which feeds into The Gulf of Mexico , is composed of 31 states stretching over 3 million km2. Additionally, watersh...
    • Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration
      ...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...
    • Talking about the Tennessee River report card in Chattanooga: Part 1
      ... resource managers from the region, which includes portions of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky. The co-sponsors of the event, Anna George from the Tennessee Aquarium and Bucky Edmonstone from the Ten...
    • Teams compete to design a sustainable Louisiana Coast
      ...tion process as a technical advisor to the competition.) Building a more sustainable coast requires reengineering the Mississippi River to restore its natural land-building function. This function has been lost as a consequence of building levees...
    • The 2014 River Rally in Pittsburgh
      ...e, part of Fort Pitt, is thought to be the oldest (1764) building still standing in Pittsburgh and perhaps the entire Mississippi basin. I stayed in a 98 year old hotel, the Omni William Penn Hotel , which was elegant and very nice. Fort Pitt bloc...