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  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...
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  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...
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  Next steps for the Tennessee River Basin Report Card

  ...d and the methods document can be downloaded from IAN Press , there is no substitute to having professionally printed report cards that would be excellent handouts at community events, meetings with elected officials, and as resources for educators...
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  Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card

  ..., Krchnak, K., Sherman, J., Thieme, M. Vargas-Nguyen, V. (2017). Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . IAN Press. Cambridge MD USA. 2. Kelsey, H. (2017). Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scal...
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  Old faces, new times. Stakeholder mapping at International Riversymposium 2018 (Sydney, Australia)

  ...isolation, and then as a group, to demonstrate how broad stakeholder involvement improves the legitimacy of report cards and builds relationships. Stakeholder mapping and engagement has become quite a large element in all aspect...
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  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...
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  Our first report card in South America – The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia

  ...s and two coastlines. During our three-day workshop, we developed a detailed timeline for preparing and releasing the report cards including identifying stakeholders for workshops in May and July 2015. Throughout the workshop we were joined by a di...
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  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...
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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...
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  Public data is broad but interesting: ongoings at a data conference

  ...e Service, Urban Institute, and others. We at IAN largely use public data to build any one of our socio-environmental report cards, so Lili and I decided it would be good to investigate what this conference was about. However, we actually weren’t t...
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  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...
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  Recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 1

  ...ommunication. We produced sound bites, newsletters, books, PowerPoint presentations, web materials, and environmental report cards; as well as conducted workshops, led field trips, wrote songs, and did media interviews over the course of many years...
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  Reflections on a serious game in Zambia

  ...nutes to play, I worried that it would be difficult to justify including it in our meeting agendas. Our workshops for report cards have very tight agendas. In our workshops, we need to develop a conceptual understanding of the system with stakehold...
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  Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards

  Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards ... We recently completed our course entitled: "Healthy Rivers for All: Setting the course for sustainability with ri...
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  Release of Chesapeake Bay Watershed Report Card

  ...and Deputy Secretary Suzanne Dorsey (right) at the report card launch. And this year, we are releasing three separate report cards for the Chesapeake watershed. We have ecological, social, and economic watershed report cards, and they help us under...
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  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...
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  Representing UMCES at the 12th International Conference on the Environmental Management of the Enclosed Coastal Seas

  ...a discussing satoumi as a form of active conservation. Bill, Dave, and I each presented on different ecosystem health report cards in various stages. Dave was an invited speaker for the session "Estuaries of the world: issues and perspectives". He...
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  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...
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  Returning to My Ohio Roots: Scoping Out A Lake Erie Report Card

  ...cilitating the board meeting. We covered a lot of topics. I made a short presentation about our experiences producing report cards. I enjoyed learning about the animal manure issues of northern Ohio and a creative solution that a couple of board me...
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  Review: “Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age,” by Martin O’Malley

  ...ironmental Science ’s annual Chesapeake Bay report card to help explain the BayStat program. When I...N blogs . Time course of the UMCES Chesapeake Bay report card featured in “Smarter Government”...
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  River Chief

  ...inistry of Water Resources , to improve the monitoring, supervision, and evaluation of the river chief system through report cards, and improve coordination among the provinces in the Chishui River, for future application of the system to the broad...
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  River Rally 2018

  ...d a workshop titled “Healthy Rivers For All: Introducing A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards.” In our 90 minute workshop participants were given a brief introduction to River Basin Report Cards and the He...
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  Sabbatical in Queensland

  ...ng on are the following: developing online teaching modules, developing a report application for use in environmental report cards, writing a book with IWC education coordinator, Dr. Peter Oliver . In addition to these previously planned activities...
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  Sabbatical reflections

  ...at became evident during the course of my sabbatical was the opportunity to catalyze the development of environmental report cards around Australia. I was able to reengage with the Healthy Waterways report cards in Southeast Queensland , which I wa...
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  Science Communication Course in Toronto, Ontario

  ...s, participants learn conceptualization, presentation, publication, and in this particular course, integration (i.e., report cards). The Conservation Authorities are producing report cards for their own watersheds, and so we used report cards as ex...

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