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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...

2015 Maryland Coastal Bays report card

2015 Maryland Coastal Bays report card ... The aim of this report card is to provid...stal Bays Health Index, which is presented as the report card score. The overall score for the Coastal Bay...rmation and data can be found on the Coastal Bays Report...

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...

Orinoco River Basin Report Card 2016

... Orinoco is in moderately good health. In addition to the overall Orinoco's report card, there are ten sub-basin report cards that provide further details for specific sub-basins. For further details, visit the report card website at orin...

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...

2015 Chesapeake Bay Report Card

2015 Chesapeake Bay Report Card ... This report card provides a transparent, timely, and geograph...tailed assessment of Chesapeake Bay. In 2015, the report card includes five water quality indicators and t...

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...

Information spectrum for ecosystem report cards

Information spectrum for ecosystem report cards ... Ecosystem report cards act as the ultimate synthesis tool for communicating vast amounts of information relevant to the general public and p...

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...

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...

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