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Discussing science communication at CERF2013

...n Costanzo made a thought-provoking presentation with the title: "ABC is no longer as easy as 123: Advances in school report cards that are applicable to ecological health report cards". He provided a historical perspective of educational report ca...

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...

International Riversymposium 2013

...13. I traveled to Australia with Heath Kelsey and we made presentations during a stimulating session on environmental report cards, which featured the long-term Southeast Queensland report card program, the Great Barrier Reef report card, our fledg...

The people of the Gulf of Kachchh

...I used the phonetic spelling: The Gulf of Kutch We have come together to discuss the Gulf of Kutch Formulating report cards and cumulative assessments In this dry monsoonal climate and dry Gujarat state We have been able to learn so very muc...

Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card

...al resources in its basin enrich our culture. This project has a broader focus compared with other environmental report cards we have done. Indicators monitor critical functions of an actual engine. Activities in the basin serve as an engine o...

Gulf of Kachchh field trips: Birds, mangroves, corals, macrotides, industries

... are concerned about the ecosystems of the Gulf of Kachchh. As always, it is so much more meaningful to be developing report cards and assessments about places that we have personally visited and seen with our own eyes. Sign for largest tanker term...

Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland

...ifferent regions. We chose this display to avoid confusion with the grading scheme that was being used for the annual report cards. Map of South-east Queensland, pp. 4 and 5 from Discover the Waterways of South-East Queensland. The ‘fire dang...

Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration

Talking about report cards at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration ... The fifth National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER...

Talking about report cards at the International Congress for Conservation Biology

Talking about report cards at the International Congress for Conservation Biology ... The Society for Conservation Biology sponsors a biennial c...

Ten recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 2

...ng press along will encourage them to attend future events. One of the primary motivations to producing environmental report cards is to speak 'truth' to 'power'. 'Power' is vested in elected officials and community leaders and it is our tenet that...

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...

Awakening Environmental Passion

...triathlons, walks, boat races Stewardship; clean ups, tree planting, stream restoration Completion ; product release, report cards, legislation HEAD Intellectual ; symposia, workshops, training Learning ; field trips, overflights, snorkel/dives Inf...

Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay report card with new indicators and new methods

...ps that we work with through the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Assessment Coalition (MTAC) do use bacteria in their regional report cards. We have developed protocols for bacteria as well as the other water quality indicators so that results are comparabl...

Coastal Bays report card launch

...d products like the book " Shifting Sands: Environmental and cultural change in Maryland's Coastal Bays ", the annual report cards and various synthesis papers . We have also targeted research to address key issues in the Coastal Bays, like the eni...

Coastal Louisiana issues discussed at public meeting in St. Bernard Parish

...silient communities for coastal Louisiana. We established a strategy of providing annual coastal updates and biennial report cards ahead of the next Master Plan (2017). As part of my visit, I was invited to observe the public meeting by the Coastal...

Singing the Chesapeake Bay Blues

Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club

... nutrients. The development of Bay models and monitoring programs ensued and good tracking schemes (e.g., indicators, report cards) were developed. Current management needs are being addressed by scientists to develop better monitoring tools, bette...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 4--Moving beyond synthesis

...t of our effort to make seagrasses more 'charismatic', IAN Press has 100 publications (books, newsletters, brochures, report cards, posters, reports and presentations) in which seagrasses are featured. There are 128 vector graphic symbols of differ...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 3--Integration and Application Network approach to synthesis

...rd on butcher paper through to the final product. One of the tools that IAN has pioneered is the use of environmental report cards to communicate environmental status and trends to wide audiences. The report cards that IAN produces are underlain by...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 1--Overview

...., image and symbol libraries , online conceptual diagram creator , science communication courses ) and environmental report cards . An active team of Science Integrators and Science Communicators work with a variety of partners regionally, nationa...

Teaching with a ‘flipped classroom’ over an interactive video network

...illey from Louisiana State University talk to us about working as a state science advisor. We discussed environmental report cards with Dr. Heath Kelsey and Caroline Wicks from EcoCheck who produce the Chesapeake Bay report card , as well as variou...

Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together

Environmental Report Cards: protecting our environment together ... What is a report card? In a world filled with knowledge, how can you find a...

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...

Top ten conceptual diagrams: Seagrasses, streams, eco-rhythms

...nitoring Program for Moreton Bay created a conceptual diagram to illustrate the indicators used to develop the annual report cards for Moreton Bay . This diagram evolved from the original Moreton Bay diagram which used brown, green and blue water c...

Change of science and management in ecosystems along size gradient

...tor the water quality and restore the ecosystem in the river; the Chester Tester Program provides local environmental report cards every year [1]. However, due to the relatively long time lag and the imbalance between economic benefits and environm...

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