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...mple from the 2018 Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card published by IAN, I describe the effective d... applied to the 2018 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card published by UMCES IAN. As much as you might...

Lessons learned during the Long Island Sound report card process

...ng and knowledge gaps in LIS, increasing shared responsibility and accountability of groups working on LIS, and three report cards: the overall LIS report card as well as the Inner Hempstead Harbor Report Card and the Norwalk Harbor Report Card. Th...

Lessons learned from a two and a half year project on the Upper Rio Grande

... July 2020, most of my work up to that point had been on projects that were in various stages of development. All the report cards I had worked on until July 2020 already had a set list of indicators as well as a methodology for how to measure thos...

Long Island Sound 'listening tour' to initiate environmental report cards: Part 1

Long Island Sound 'listening tour' to initiate environmental report cards: Part 1 ... Bill Nuttle, Caroline Wicks, Anthony Kung and I circumnavigated Long Island Sound , crossing it at both e...

Long Island Sound 'listening tour' to initiate environmental report cards: Part 2

Long Island Sound 'listening tour' to initiate environmental report cards: Part 2 ... Following our Connecticut stops, we took the Cross Sound Ferry from New London, CT over to the tip of the...

Long Island Sound funders meeting

...and Application Network 's (IAN) project to develop both a Long Island Sound-wide report card and to develop regional report cards in partnership with a Connecticut-based non-government organization and a Long Island-based non-government organizati...

Long Island Sound Report Card

... Bill Dennison led the meeting, and gave some background about what we do at IAN, as well as about environmental report cards. Bill Dennison discussing the work IAN does. We covered a wide variety of topics in the meeting, including the Long I...

Long Island Sound Report Card in context

...ur mama home with you, so happy? Beluga whales in long Island Sound. Credit: Cheryl E Miller By nesting the embayment report cards within the overall Sound framework, we can assess the integrated health of the waterways. By creating this scientific...

Long Island Sound Report Card release in Glen Cove, New York

...to release the Long Island Sound Report Card . In addition to the overall report card, we also released two embayment report cards, the Norwalk Harbor Report Card , and the Inner Hempstead Harbor Report Card . After picking up a second rental car,...

Long Island Sound Report Card release in Westport, Connecticut

... will have to work together in order to improve the health of the Harbor and move the grade of a C+ to an A on future report cards. Beach grasses along the shore of the Long Island Sound at Sherwood Island State Park, in Westport Connecticut. Credi...

Mackay Report Card Workshop – Mackay, Queensland Australia 24 February 2015.

...for the next region, in Mackay . I attended the workshop in Mackay on February 24, to facilitate the discussion about report cards, discuss issues related to report card development, and help sketch out the draft report card in a storyboard exercis...

Making connections to ensure a clean and healthy Chesapeake Bay

... gave a shout-out to UMCES for our Chesapeake Bay Report Card !), implementing short and long-term managem...c health. Lee Currey mentioned the Chesapeake Bay Report Card as evidence that the ecosystem is shifting 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...

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016 ... The 2016 report card for the Maryla...r 16th, 2017, at the Ocean City Marlin Club . The report card release was combined with the annual Gold St...ucted in the summer of 2017, so next year’s report card...

Maryland Coastal Bays report card gets a B- for the first time

...the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the National Park Service to produce report cards for the coastal lagoons that separate Fenwick and Assateague Islands from the mainland. The overall report cards scor...

Maryland’s inaugural State of the Coast conference

.... I provided a preview of the 2017 Chesapeake Bay report card since the data had recently been calculated,... and it was gratifying to report that the overall Bay trends are significantly imp...roving for the first time since we began reporting Bay...

MEDCOAST 2013 and EMECS 10 conference: Turkish baths, Red Sox baseball, new colleagues

...tal Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program, or 'nutrient diet'. In other sessions, I talked about developing environmental report cards and about the Maryland approach to adaptation to climate change. I enjoyed listening to the diversity of topics from...

Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Planning

Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Pla... lectures and blogs we talked about the five-step report card process: Step One - identifying basin values... . How do we accomplish these steps and develop a report card in the...

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...

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...

Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy report card launch

...Choptank and Miles-Wye Rivers is to get in an upward trajectory. The way to track this progress is through the annual report cards. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has a unit called the Integration and Application Networ...

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...

Mississippi River Report Card Vision and Framework

...into Economic, Societal, and Environment sectors, and seven overall goals. This represents a substantial evolution in report cards that have primarily focused on the environment sector. In advance of the Summit, we put together a vision for how a M...

Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint

...n during storms. Diagram from 2013 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. John Farrington from Woods Hole Oceanograph...

More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science

...o children instead of one reduced willingness to help. I saw a parallel with something we had learned from working on report cards with our colleagues at Opinion Works that recommending a single conservation action was more effective than a providi...

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