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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...

Going from "Aha!" to "Well, Duh" in the Great Barrier Reef, with beer coasters and Burdekin Gold

...ies and I held a session to discuss and analyze our Integration and Application Network experience with environmental report cards on 26 January 2016. This activity is part of our World Wildlife Fund--Universi ty of Maryland Center for Environmenta...

Using Conceptionary to initiate discussion on barriers for implementing report cards

Using Conceptionary to initiate discussion on barriers for implementing report cards ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)...

Over the river and through the woods to release the Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card, we go!

...the woods to release the Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card, we go! ... Last December 10, 2015, Bill, Va...g, MD to release our new Upper Potomac Headwaters Report Card . This report card assessed stream health in...

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...

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...

Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint

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

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...

The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released

...ts a culmination of such a long and involved process, and because it represents a new milestone in our ability to use report cards to report on broadly differing management goals, across such a large geography. Participants at the Mississippi River...

Get the grade - Worldwide WWF-IAN partnership launches in Stockholm

...lly launched at World Water Week this past August 2015. This new partnership aims to widen the audience and uptake of report cards as an environmental management tool for river basins around the world. I represented IAN-UMCES at the event which is...

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...

Guaviare River Report Card Workshop

...de Guaviare, Colombia for the Guaviare River Report Card Workshop. This was the third workshop in Colombia to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River. Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman , Catherine Blancard , and Michele Thieme...

Bita River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia

...r the Bita River Report Card Workshop. This was the second of three workshops that will occur in Colombia, to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River . Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman from the WWF office in Washington DC, al...

The Meta River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia

...orkshop spanned from June 30th-July 2nd, and was the first of three workshops that will occur in Colombia, to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River . Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman , and Catherine Blancard from the WWF of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems

A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems ... Melanie Jackson, Chih-Hsien (Michelle) Lin, Detbra Rosa...

Brainstorming in the Innovation Room with World Wildlife Fund

... in the WWF Innovation Room. The topic of our brainstorming session was developing a global approach to environmental report cards (or scorecards) for rivers of the world. WWF and IAN are currently partnering on a report card for the Colombia reach...

Resilience based management of the Great Barrier Reef

...his matrix integrates the reef Great Barrier Reef report card that regularly assesses the Reef Water Quali...ex and integrating it with the Great Barrier Reef report card. We were fortunate to have a good mix of str...

Chesapeake Bay Science and Management: A need for more effective scientific communication and adaptive management

... data on their monitored sites is found on their website . There has also been success in health report and watershed report cards in the Chesapeake Bay and other watershed systems. The Chesapeake Bay Program website provides links to river health...

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...

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