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Bridging Science and Community: The 2025 Chesapeake Bay Report Card

...elease. “ 2007 Chesapeake Bay Report Card Release ” by Jane Thomas , CC BY-SA 4.0 IAN-UMCES and partners have created report cards for ecosystems around the country and the globe. 2015 marked the first use of socioeconomic indicators like income, r...

Bringing Communities Together Through Water: The Start of Socio-Environmental Report Cards for the Southeast Michigan region

Bringing Communities Together Through Water: The Start of Socio-Environmental Report Cards for the Southeast Michigan region ... The last of three virtual workshop sessions for the development of individual a...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 10- Progress in Monitoring and Management

...e very rural and sparsely populated, were in very bad condition which turns out to be a chicken manure problem. These report cards allowed us to document the trajectory of the health of the bay, because the bay has been extensively studied. We had...

Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar

...ou need coordination, you need to see that quality assurance is brought in. Now were posting a whole swag of regional report cards using this army of citizen scientists. I think that the real solutions come this way because they can start saying, "...

Brook Trout and the Civil War: A Glimpse at the History of the Potomac River Watershed

...we hope to evaluate the Potomac River Watershed using the COAST card framework. This framework includes environmental report cards, social network analysis, and system dynamics modeling. Although there have been previous report cards on the Potomac...

Building a Report Card: Getting Started

...ing schere for the Orinoco River Basin. Credit: Costanzo et. al. 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards Obviously, the process of creating a report card is highly variable and requires a lot of data input and analysis. Ho...

Building Report Cards to Support Community-based Monitoring

Building Report Cards to Support Community-based Monitoring ... An interest to support community-based monitoring efforts around Long Islan...

Capturing Nature on the Job

...er how human decisions, both small and large, affect the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. The report cards, brochures, and newsletters that we develop towards this mission are, as a result, highly visual, often employing con...

Celebrating World Rivers Day with our global partners

...gions. Image provided by UMCES-IAN. We have worked with partners and communities around the world to create ecosystem report cards for river ecosystems, including the Tuul River in Mongolia, the Verde River in Arizona, and the Orinoco River in Colo...

Change of science and management in ecosystems along size gradient

...tor the water quality and restore the ecosystem in the river; the Chester Tester Program provides local environmental report cards every year [1]. However, due to the relatively long time lag and the imbalance between economic benefits and environm...

Chesapeake Bay 2011 report card release at Baltimore Harbor

...entists associated with a partnership that we formed between UMCES and NOAA called EcoCheck has been producing annual report cards for Chesapeake Bay. In addition, EcoCheck scientists have been working with various riverkeeper and waterkeeper group...

Chesapeake Bay report card release

Chesapeake Bay report card release ... The 2009 Chesapeake Bay report c...y. This is the first time that the Chesapeake Bay report card produced by the EcoCheck team, a partnership...f Visitors and told us that we should deliver the report card to the...

Chesapeake Bay restoration: Are we headed in the right direction?

...lth index that was created for the Chesapeake Bay report card was back-calculated for the years when there...

Chesapeake Bay Science and Management: A need for more effective scientific communication and adaptive management

... data on their monitored sites is found on their website . There has also been success in health report and watershed report cards in the Chesapeake Bay and other watershed systems. The Chesapeake Bay Program website provides links to river health...

Chesapeake citizens are well informed: New poll results of Maryland public perception of Chesapeake Bay restoration

...ay (average C-) matches EXACTLY with the EcoCheck report card (2010 score = C-). The grade voters give the...y tributaries exists. The EcoCheck Chesapeake Bay report card is generated by collecting data for six indi...

Climate Change and resilience create new challenges in tracking ecosystem health status

...cal to the future of environmental assessment and reporting. Changing air and water temperature, precipita...o developing relevant monitoring, assessment, and reporting frameworks. Resilience is often discussed in t...

Climate Change and the Holidays

...Government in Australia on the Great Barrier Reef Report Card , are two good examples of how local decisio...

Climbing Down the Ivory Tower

...l, social, and economic considerations. At IAN, we pride ourselves on incorporating social and economic data into our report cards , and such data was essential to the development of our 2021 Maryland Coastal Adaptation Report Card and our upcoming...

Coastal Yucatán Report Card Completed!

...ot involved with this project through a meeting in Tabasco earlier that year, where I had been discussing the idea of report cards for the Gulf Coast of Mexico. I met Paulo Salles from LANRESC at this meeting and we began talking about a report car...

Coastal Bays report card launch

...d products like the book " Shifting Sands: Environmental and cultural change in Maryland's Coastal Bays ", the annual report cards and various synthesis papers . We have also targeted research to address key issues in the Coastal Bays, like the eni...

Coastal Bays report card release

Coastal Bays report card release ... The Maryland Coastal Bays Progra...m report card was released at an interesting venue in Ocea...m was the emcee of the program. He introduced the report card and had a couple of young Coastal Stewards u...

Coastal Louisiana issues discussed at public meeting in St. Bernard Parish

...silient communities for coastal Louisiana. We established a strategy of providing annual coastal updates and biennial report cards ahead of the next Master Plan (2017). As part of my visit, I was invited to observe the public meeting by the Coastal...

Collective impact and ecosystem health report cards: The product enables the process

Collective impact and ecosystem health report cards: The product enables the process ... This is the second of two Blogs about the intersection of the Collective Impact...

Communicating science effectively—working through environmental report cards

Communicating science effectively—working through environmental report cards ... In September, Simon Costanzo , Caroline Donovan , and I traveled to Edmonton, Alberta for a science communication...

Communicating Science to Effect Social Change

...and throughout North America . In addition to science communication training, we have conducted various environmental report cards and national assessments, where we embed our science communications skills in those other locations. So what is scien...

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