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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...

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...

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...

The Basin Report Card Initiative goes to Monterrey, Mexico!

... the Tecnológico de Monterrey , and to meet with the FEMSA foundation and Water Center about the potential for report cards for the Rio Bravo , Rio Conchos , and Monterrey areas, as well as Water Reserves programs and expansion of all of the...

A visit to Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, India

...e Jamnagar Marine National Park and a Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment for the Gulf of Kachchh in Gujarat . Report cards developed for India This time we are back to Odisha, to Bhitarkanika National Park , in the northern part of the stat...

Pursuing prioritization in Pennsylvania: The magic of more monitoring

... insights such as that some groups are already using data in ways that other groups want to use it in the future (eg. report cards, state reporting, hotspot identification). Some ways people want to use data in the future, that few groups mentioned...

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...

The report card game “Get the Grade!” was launched in Stockholm, New Delhi and Honolulu

... having fun and wanted to continue to play. We asked if the game made them interested in finding out more about basin report cards, and the response was extremely positive (87%). Comments included suggestions for ways to tweak the rules, positive e...

UMCES active in the 2016 River Symposium in Delhi, India

... I had a chance to attend, and to present a couple of talks related to the partnership we have with WWF for the Basin Report Cards Initiative . The highlight for me was the special session we co-hosted with WWF to demonstrate the Report Card Game o...

Mekong Flooded Forest – a sneak peek at a Future Card

...aptured by this CLD reflects the types of values, threats, and indicators that one would commonly see in our existing report cards. That is what first got my attention. Report cards are very good at synthesizing large amounts of information and pro...

A Report Card for Coastal Yucatán

...es and issues important to the people in the coastal areas of Yucatán. This project also serves as a pilot for report cards in other Mexican Gulf States, which ultimately, we hope, will integrate into an ecosystem health report card for the...

Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas

...of this project is to evaluate IAN’s success using the same 5-step process that we use for our ecosystem health report cards around the world. The initial report card workshop was held in February of this year. We are applying the following s...

Bem vindo ao Rio! O primeiro workshop com as partes interessadas da Baía de Guanabara

...abalhando no desenvolvimento do primeiro boletim (report card) de saúde ambiental para a Baí...sadas para a elaboração do boletim (report card) de saúde ambiental da Baía de...

Welcome to Rio! The Guanabara Bay first stakeholder workshop

...velopment Bank , are working to develop the first report card for Guanabara Bay . The view of Rio de Janei...ll Dennison , Dave Nemazie , and I held the first report card stakeholder workshop at INEA (Instituto Esta...

Talking report cards in Kratie, Cambodia

Talking report cards in Kratie, Cambodia ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wildli...

Mission Aransas Pilot Project

...n and I got involved in again last month. My reason for being at this current workshop was to remind people about how report cards work, and how this could eventually fit in to the project. As often happens in other disciplines, it seems that the e...

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...

The NOAA Coral Reef Report Card - Reflections on the report card process

...e came together to do just that. Most importantly, we finalized the list of indicators that will be included in these report cards, and developed the key messages for the Coral, Fish, Climate, and Communities and Management groups. This was an impo...

WWF-UMCES Retreats Poetry

...ve In which both partners have a lot to give. Luminosity, the measure of light people can see, Is what we hope report cards will truly be. Providing light though a River Basin report card Allowing for all to see without straining too hard....

A unique partnership between World Wildlife Fund and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

...e Conservancy (TNC) on Climate Adaptation Strategies and the new TNC Chief Scientist Hugh Possingham on environmental report cards. But our WWF-UMCES partnership is more than star scientists who maintain an academic role, it is the blending of team...

How environmental report cards can democratize science

How environmental report cards can democratize science ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wi...

Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view

Using report cards to get the synoptic big picture: An astronaut's view ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a par...

Developing a report card for the Integration and Application Network

...nd this question led to an epiphany for me. We have gone all over the world working with different partners to create report cards, using the five-step process of: 1) conceptualizing the report card, 2) choosing indicators, 3) determinin...

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