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Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum

...ercise that we use at IAN is the "Get the Grade!" report card game . During this game, players are each as...ticular stakeholder who is involved in creating a report card for a fictional ecosystem. They must take tu...

Integrate, Apply and Network

...parisons, combine disparate data sets and develop robust generalizations. Examples include: creation of environmental report cards that integrate various data sets into common metrics synthesis workshops at locations like the National Center for Ec...

Stumbling Into a New Approach

Stumbling Into a New Approach ... As we’ve pioneered new ways to develop ecosystem health assessments and report cards, we’ve learned a few lessons on what makes them successful and what does not. The most successful projects (tho...

What’s the Story in Your Report Card?

...fe experiences come together to share their love of watching men in tights save the world. In a not-so-different way, report cards use a mix of pictures and text to tell the story of a catchment (watershed); report cards bring different stakeholder...

‘Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good’: Taking The First Steps Toward Developing a Basin Report Card

...Os, to academic institutions and government agencies). Participants share a commitment to developing successful basin report cards that they hope will contribute to healthier river and coastal basins. The participants of the new Healthy Rivers for...

Using Poetry to Deliver an “Ignite” Style Scientific Presentation

...ite a stanza as each slide advanced. My talk was titled “Developing a best practices model for ecosystem health report cards.” Heath’s talk was directly after mine, and he provided more details about how we have evolved our report...

IAN's First Ever Strategic Plan

...nted to the IAN vision, mission, and goals. In addition, the process of the development of external and introspective report cards for IAN has established a suite of goals and combined indices to assess IAN effectiveness in a variety of ways. This...

Evolution of the Report Cards in Brisbane: Part Two

Evolution of the Report Cards in Brisbane: Part Two ... My perceptions about where innovations in report cards are heading in Australia and the US. The foundations of these report cards are similar, but influences have caused th...

Evolution of The Report Cards in Brisbane: Part One

Evolution of The Report Cards in Brisbane: Part One ... Bill Dennison , Simon Costanzo and I made our annual pilgrimage to Riversymposium in Septem...

Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card

..., Mississippi River, and the Orinoco River. I suggested improvements taken from these projects such as: Comprehensive report cards (ecological, social, economic aspects) are more useful for management Mapping out trends over time is as important as...

Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards

Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards ... Developed in partner with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as part of the Healthy Rivers for All initiative, the Practit...

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...

The Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card

...he Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card ... On July 21, 2017, the Guanabara Bay Repo...iro , Brazil . This is the first ecosystem health report card in Brazil, and the second report card we hav...

"Whirling Disease" and Environmental Responsibility

...mportant: education cannot solve all environmental problems, but it can take great strides towards doing so. Creating report cards for businesses and governments that highlight strengths and problems and work towards solutions helps immensely. I am...

In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 3

...rip. Photo credit Bill Dennison On Day 3, we discussed Step 5: Communicating results. We provided examples from other report cards and then talked about a theory of change based on these report cards. We also introduced the concept of establishing...

Guanabara Bay Report Card

Guanabara Bay Report Card ... This report card provides a transparent, timely, and geograph... was a D. More information can be accessed on the report card website at guanabarabay.ecoreportcard.org ....

Jane Hawkey, the Integration and Application Network ‘Closer’ retiring

...ience communication course in Portugal , helped run a science communication workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania , produced report cards and integrated assessments in coastal India , and developed science communication products throughout the Pacific isl...

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...

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