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IAN attends CommOcean 2016 in Bruges, Belgium

... visual science in stakeholder engagement during the plenary session while my talk was on the use of ecosystem health report cards during the themed session on “tools & toolkits for outreach & governance” . Both our talks were w...

IAN participates in Coastal Resilience Meeting at University of Tabasco in Villahermosa, Mexico

...huttle to the airport with Porfirio Alvarez, from the University of Tabasco . We talked about the process of creating report cards and how excited we were to begin working in the Gulf of Mexico again after such a long time since we began the proces...

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...

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...

Imagining a Participative Potomac: A Meeting at Hood College

...ruary 18th, 2021. The COAST Card project merges a report-card process, social network analysis, and system... Although the Potomac Conservancy’s Potomac River Report Card is a pre-existing, consistently released rep...

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...

Indigenous ideals and shaping environmental movements

...Kelsey, R.H., Jordahl, H., Nuttle, W., Somerville, C., Thomas, J. and Dennison, W.C. (2020), Using Socioenvironmental Report Cards as a Tool for Transdisciplinary Collaboration. Integr Environ Assess Manag, 16: 494-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 10 - Innovations in Governance/BaySTAT

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 10 - Innovations in Gover... right? OK, in thirty days, you’ll come and report to me about how you’ve done that. Thank you...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 4 - The Annapolis Synthesis Center

...oducts by working with the U.S. National Park Service and Conservation International . We also produced environmental report cards and scientific publications. Recently, the National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Maryland Center...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 7 - Innovations in Environmental Reporting

...t innovations in environmental reporting. One of the things we stumbled upon in Southeast Queensland is environmental report cards, and I got to thinking why they are so powerful. I have two teenage children, who you can definitely see are driven b...

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 8 - Environmental Report Cards

Innovations in Environmental Synthesis, Reporting and Governance: Part 8 - Environmental Report Cards ... Report cards are also a great way to bring together disparate groups. An extreme example is that the US State Department was tryin...

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...

Integrating system dynamics modeling and report cards workshop

Integrating system dynamics modeling and report cards workshop ... On 9-11 November 2016, a workshop entitled "Integrating systems modeling and report card development to...

Integration and Application Network in 2015: The year in review

...ownloaded the symbol library to date. IAN staff released two new websites in 2015: Chesapeake Bay Story and EcoHealth report cards . Three apps were also produced in 2015: How's the Beach? (South Carolina beach water quality), Hawaiian birds , Bill...

International Riversymposium 2013

...13. I traveled to Australia with Heath Kelsey and we made presentations during a stimulating session on environmental report cards, which featured the long-term Southeast Queensland report card program, the Great Barrier Reef report card, our fledg...

Investing in math and science education: "Our generation's Sputnik moment"

...nmental problems. That is why we are committed making research accessible to teachers and students through new media, report cards, and even board games. One of our latest endeavors, the UMCES Channel on SchoolTube is another way to educate student...

It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work

...ze diverse knowledge and experience and generate novel insights on a particular topic. For example, when IAN develops report cards , our Science Integrators and Communicators work with partners to synthesize relevant information on a specific ecosy...

Jamie's Australian Adventures

... the Irwins have perfected, it’s harnessing a gung-ho personality to energize and inspire an audience. IAN uses report cards to try to achieve a similar effect, while the IRF uses an ‘inspire by celebration’ approach. All three ar...

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...

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...

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...

Kick-starting Collective Impact in Five Easy Report Card Steps

...starting Collective Impact in Five Easy Report Card Steps ... This is the first of two posts about the application of report cards to enable a collective impact process. The collective impact model facilitates positive change Collective Impact is a...

Large Marine Ecosystems – An Australian in Paris

...eds what IAN has to offer in terms of bringing their collective knowledge together. There was even talk of developing report cards for each of the LME’s; an idea that would definitely increase the exposure of the LME concept and act as a foca...

Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!

...cess, so good job Bill, Simon, and Heath!!! This figure from the Practitioner´s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards (page 36) outlines the 5-step process for report card development. There were several key themes and take-home messag...

Launching the Chesapeake Bay Story website: Telling fact-based stories about Chesapeake Bay health

...challenges, and opportunities in the Chesapeake " report. Future directions included sections on climate,...ealth to complement the data-based Chesapeake Bay report card . Mike Powell spearheaded the effort from th...

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