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Progressing toward a Report Card for the Gulf of Mexico

...ack started our talk describing the scientific basis for the report card, and I finished with a discussion on how the report cards work and the positive outcomes from these projects. I got a lot of great feedback after the session - the prospect of...

Scoping a report card for the Yangtze River basin, China.

...ort card was an excellent tool that would be very useful in China. Our use of colors came up as a potential issue for report cards in China. image credit: IAN and google. Day 2 started with introducing the concept of report cards to the newly...

So you think you can couple systems? Reviewing our research proposals

What are these data trying to tell us?

...ed the statistical tools of data analysis that scientists use to get answers to simple, direct questions. Environment report cards are a tool for assembling this information to answer more complex questions. Image Credit: flickr Using data to answe...

2016 Chesapeake Bay Report Card

2016 Chesapeake Bay Report Card ... This report card provides a transparent, timely, and geograph...tailed assessment of Chesapeake Bay. In 2016, the report card includes five water quality indicators and t...

Making the Grade

...the importance and urgency of our science without alarming or confusing people? This week, we discussed environmental report cards, which could provide a solution to this tricky balancing act facing scientists. There are several organizations that...

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...

Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scale, acceptance, engagement, and behavior change

Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scale, acceptance, engagement, and behavior change ... The plenary sessions for the CommOceans c...

To get the grade: Collaborate! Stakeholder engagement and the missing link between research and action

...t in a project or entity, or would be affected by a particular action or policy – and the role of environmental report cards in guiding stakeholder decisions. Stakeholder engagement can be described as a process of maturity: each step of the...

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...

Turning the report card spotlight back on ourselves: The first Integration and Application Network report card

...Integration and Application Network (IAN) team has been traveling the globe to help various partners develop rigorous report cards. When we starting working with Tina Bishop and Peter Tuddenham from the College of Exploration to develop an evaluati...

Report cards and system dynamics modelling

Report cards and system dynamics modelling ... This newsletter summarizes the outcomes of a workshop exploring the linkages and po...

Meet Saipan, one of America’s forgotten territories

...ith us in all four workshops. We celebrated a job well done, and more work to do in the coming year to complete these report cards. The group with NOAA staff holding up their awards. The next day, Heath, Caroline, and I explored the island, g...

Social Networking: Beyond the Likes and Shares

...keholders choose the issues? This problem was initially discussed when dealing with assessing the priority issues for report cards. Are the most important issues the ones that the stakeholders bring up? And what if there is an issue present that so...

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...

Report cards aren’t just for school anymore

Report cards aren’t just for school anymore ... Rebecca Wenker and Wilmelie Cruz Marrero After spending a few classes discussing w...

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...

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