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Conceptual Diagramming with the Integration and Application Network

...ony analyzed the process of creating conceptual diagrams that we developed as part of the production of environmental report cards for Long Island Sound and the Mississippi River watershed. We also produce conceptual diagrams for a variety of other...

Cooks River virtual workshop

... Sydney International Airport. Cooks River Alliance has been monitoring since 2011 and producing annual water quality report cards since 2013-2014, but the folks managing Cooks River are interested in expanding the report card into a socio-environm...

Countdown to elevator pitch 3…2…1 “GO”

...e keywords to entice the audience. Titles need to be short and sweet (e.g. "Assessing cultural and natural resources: Report cards" vs. " Report cards aren't just for school anymore "). We quickly learned from constructive feedback that acronyms ar...

Creating and Communicating Environmental Intelligence

...good science is enhanced with science visualizations, websites and science communications publications. Environmental report cards represent a way to share environmental intelligence to a broad public audience. As an example of the data to informat...

Creating reporting boundaries for the Long Island Sound environmental report card

...es for the Long Island Sound environmental report card ... One of the important decisions in developing environmental report cards is choosing the reporting region boundaries. In addition to defining the overall extent of the report card coverage,...

Crocodile report cards

Crocodile report cards ... I had the unique opportunity to discuss report cards with a couple of global crocodile experts based in Darwin . Grahame Webb and Charlie Manolis are active in crocodile...

Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes

...ut the report card development process. Moving to the Step Three: What is healthy? The complete process of developing report cards is described in the Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards. During the stakeholder selection pro...

Developing a Chesapeake Watershed report card: Harrisburg PA workshop

...rm Show. At the beginning of the workshop, we had a few presentations to set the scene. I reviewed the development of report cards and how they inform environmental intelligence. Gary Walters from Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection...

Developing a Gulf of Mexico report card

...sion, Larry and I presented an overview of our Gulf of Mexico report card prospectus and I presented some examples of report cards that the Integration and Application Network and EcoCheck have worked on. Following this introduction, we had over tw...

Developing a Mississippi River report card: Ohio River workshop in Cincinnati

...er (To the tune of WKRP in Cincinnati) Baby, if you've ever wondered Wondered whatever became of me I'm making report cards in Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio River Got kind of tired Of working in isolation State vs. state Up and down the...

Developing a report card for the Florida Reef Tract

...report card was a follow-up to the workshop for creation of the pilot report card for American Samoa . Together these report cards are designed to serve as a model for the rest of the regions where NOAA has responsibility for monitoring the conditi...

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...

Developing a strategy for Long Island Sound embayment report cards

Developing a strategy for Long Island Sound embayment report cards ... Caroline Donovan and I traveled to Mamaroneck, NY and Stamford, CT on 3 Feb 2016 to work with Save The Sound in d...

Developing a Swan River report card

...ort is being led by Roxane Shadbolt, Swan River Trust, and Dr. May Carter, Edith Cowan University . The term 'dueling report cards' came up, but I could see that an ecosystem health report with a social and economic report card could be quite compl...

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...

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...

Development of an Ecosystem Health Report Card for Laguna de Bay, Philippines

... Ana, OIC, Environmental Laboratory and Research Division, LLDA. Simon then gave an overview of IAN and environmental report cards, highlighting how it can effectively communicate the values and threats of Laguna de Bay. The four external experts e...

Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland

...ifferent regions. We chose this display to avoid confusion with the grading scheme that was being used for the annual report cards. Map of South-east Queensland, pp. 4 and 5 from Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland. The ‘fire dang...

Discussing science communication at CERF2013

...n Costanzo made a thought-provoking presentation with the title: "ABC is no longer as easy as 123: Advances in school report cards that are applicable to ecological health report cards". He provided a historical perspective of educational report ca...

Discussion following Bill Dennison's seminar on Challenges and advantages of using citizen scientists for environmental monitoring

...hes, sandy or muddy intertidal or subtidal flats, iconic fish or shellfish 6) Ecosystem health; grades or scores from report cards, geographical patterns of indicators, temporal progression (getting better or worse?) 7) Waterway engagement; names o...

Discussion following Sara Powell seminar on Getting out of the Lake and into the Watershed: a study of volunteer monitoring efforts, water quality, and community outreach

...boration with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, c) regularly producing synthetic products (report cards) was discussed. The importance of having a link between the citizen scientists and the professional scientists was em...

Diving Deep into the 2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card: Progress, Challenges, and a Call for Action

...OAST Card , a Belmont Forum project aiming to address socio-environmental challenges by combining socio-environmental report cards, system dynamics modeling, and social network analysis, also released its first Potomac-specific report card – the 20...

Diving into NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program

...Plan [pdf]. IAN’s role is to help in the status and trends reporting portion of the Plan by developing template report cards in two locations, Florida and American Samoa. The report cards will incorporate the four monitoring areas: benthic co...

Don’t Hate, Integrate!

...ion in our Environment and Society class was integrated assessment. More specifically, we discussed how environmental report cards can be used to integrate various metrics and create one, easy-to-understand statement regarding the natural and socia...

Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay

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