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Kick-starting Collective Impact in Five Easy Report Card Steps

...starting Collective Impact in Five Easy Report Card Steps ... This is the first of two posts about the application of report cards to enable a collective impact process. The collective impact model facilitates positive change Collective Impact is a...

Launching the Chesapeake Bay Story website: Telling fact-based stories about Chesapeake Bay health

...challenges, and opportunities in the Chesapeake " report. Future directions included sections on climate,...ealth to complement the data-based Chesapeake Bay report card . Mike Powell spearheaded the effort from th...

Growth and the future of Chesapeake Bay conference at Hood College

... Tom 27 They talked about their approaches to the population bomb They introduced frozen peas, glasses half full, and report cards for the Bay And then the audience once again had their say. So what did we learn from these two days in Frederick We...

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,...

Within Our Reach provides insights into engaging communities and restoration of the Willamette River

...has been working with MMT for several years now, beginning with Bill Dennison providing a talk about ecosystem health report cards at the conference in 2012. Bill and I met with Pam Wiley in Brisbane, Australia in 2013, where she was accepting the...

How is your ecosystem doing? Advances in the use and understanding of ecosystem indicators workshop

...onomic indicators. Indicators were used for environmental characterization, status and trend reporting, environmental report cards, integrated assessments, ecological forecasts, management and governance. The aim was to have indicators that were si...

One Planet One Ocean conference in Barcelona, Spain

...rstanding of ecosystem indicators' and presented an invited talk, 'Science communication strategies and environmental report cards for effective coastal ocean governance'. The conference and workshops were over a six-day period, and five plenary ta...

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...

Failte gu Alba! (Welcome to Scotland!)

...ause the goal was to get everyone to walk around and visit each table. I set up the table with IAN products , such as report cards, newsletter, and reports, but I made sure to focus on products that were directly relevant to MPAs but diverse i...

2014 Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference

...cut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference ... In conjunction with our work on the Long Island Sound embayment report cards , I was invited to speak about report cards at the first annual Connecticut Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Confer...

Climate Change and resilience create new challenges in tracking ecosystem health status

...cal to the future of environmental assessment and reporting. Changing air and water temperature, precipita...o developing relevant monitoring, assessment, and reporting frameworks. Resilience is often discussed in t...

The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards

The CEER Conference provides insight to the future of report cards ... Alex Fries and I had the chance to represent UMCES at the Conference on Ecosystem and Ecological Restoration (CEE...

Large Marine Ecosystems – An Australian in Paris

...eds what IAN has to offer in terms of bringing their collective knowledge together. There was even talk of developing report cards for each of the LME’s; an idea that would definitely increase the exposure of the LME concept and act as a foca...

Building Report Cards to Support Community-based Monitoring

Building Report Cards to Support Community-based Monitoring ... An interest to support community-based monitoring efforts around Long Islan...

National Monitoring Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio

...d gain new ones. One great way to use volunteer monitoring data is by synthesizing the data into environmental health report cards , something we at IAN do often! There is an entire website on volunteer monitoring around the country where citizen s...

2013 Chesapeake Bay report released

2013 Chesapeake Bay report released ... The 2013 Chesapeake Bay report card...ay . The contrast between the Upper Eastern Shore report card scores which are degrading over time versus...the James River report card scores which are improving over time p...

Bahamian adventures: Columbus on the Niña and seagrass scientists on the R/V Calanus

... Communication course in Cambridge , Maryland this week and we discussed the concept of developing some environmental report cards for the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands. So perhaps one day I will be able to revisit the Bahamas and contribute...

The Los Angeles River: Geography, vistas and restoration

...ing. Another impression was the need to tell the river stories through effective science communication, environmental report cards and active engagement with citizens. The Los Angeles River has been termed an 'open sewer' carrying 'urban slobber' t...

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 '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...

A New IAN Science Communication Course on Ecosystem Health Report Cards in Adelaide, Australia

A New IAN Science Communication Course on Ecosystem Health Report Cards in Adelaide, Australia ... Alex Fries and I had the chance to travel to Adelaide , Australia to deliver a two-day Sci...

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...

Moreton Bay, Australia: Environmental Literacy

...anagement and research The Healthy Waterways program has an Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program which releases annual report cards , a regional management program involving all levels of government and an active ongoing research effort. The Healthy...

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...

The Economics of the Ocean: Discussing the Baltic Sea and Chesapeake Bay at the House of Sweden

...see the problems everywhere - plastics, contaminants, fisheries declines, for example. I thought of the environmental report cards that we use to educate people about the status of the ecosystem. Report cards are something experienced from childhoo...

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