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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...

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 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...

Scoping a report card for the Yangtze River basin, China.

...ort card was an excellent tool that would be very useful in China. Our use of colors came up as a potential issue for report cards in China. image credit: IAN and google. Day 2 started with introducing the concept of report cards to the newly...

Scrooge and the Report Card

... Happy Report Card. Don't be cross, Uncle. Scrooge : What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Report cards! Out with report cards! What are Report cards to you but a time for playing around with stakeholders; a time to find...

Seven attributes of a vibrant science group

...e to IAN/ Eco-Check and set up the Chesapeake Bay report card , before moving on to Canada. Dr. Adrian Jon...

Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum

...ercise that we use at IAN is the "Get the Grade!" report card game . During this game, players are each as...ticular stakeholder who is involved in creating a report card for a fictional ecosystem. They must take tu...

Sharing Water event in Washington, D.C.

...y of Maryland Center for Environmental Science ( UMCES ) and WWF, provided us an opportunity to tout our river health report cards to the audience. Saying goodbye to Evan Tueller, as she heads off to graduate school. Image credit: Bill Dennison At...

Singing the Chesapeake Bay Blues

So you think you can couple systems? Reviewing our research proposals

Social Networking: Beyond the Likes and Shares

...keholders choose the issues? This problem was initially discussed when dealing with assessing the priority issues for report cards. Are the most important issues the ones that the stakeholders bring up? And what if there is an issue present that so...

Spanning boundaries at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference

... management of cultural and natural resources. Finally, no IAN session would be complete without a presentation about report cards. Vanessa explained IAN’s stakeholder-driven and action-oriented approach for synthesizing data and communicatin...

Stakeholder workshop for Darwin Harbour report card

...y the Aquatic Health Unit annually since 2009, was our host. I presented an overview of the development of integrated report cards that included social, economic and environmental indicators and then we discussed the evolution of the Darwin Harbour...

State of the Verde Watershed Conference

...rence and attend the festivities, and Bill was invited to be one of the keynote speakers and share his thoughts about report cards and the progress of this project. A healthy Verde River watershed has flowing water, natural habitat structure, and t...

Stoplight colors for environmental report cards

Stoplight colors for environmental report cards ... The use of red, yellow and green for denoting different levels of concern in environmental report cards has its o...

Stumbling Into a New Approach

Stumbling Into a New Approach ... As we’ve pioneered new ways to develop ecosystem health assessments and report cards, we’ve learned a few lessons on what makes them successful and what does not. The most successful projects (tho...

Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries

...ers. Malcolm Robb, Western Australia, Department of Water: Irrigation and cows*** influence Western Australia estuary report cards. Dr. Kath McMahon , Edith Cowan University : Seagrass torture chambers show temperature and carbon dioxide impacts (o...

Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort - difficulties of science in management due to watershed size

...the data is publically available, even creating a report card, which aids in the building of connections b...population by implementing The Great Barrier Reef Report Card . The management approaches previously menti...

Talk Less, Show More: Communicating Challenges and Successes in a Changing World

...hat Opinion Works generated in partnership with IAN. The report used focus groups and found that it was important for report cards to present clear and visual grades, link actions to indicators (but only one action, not a shopping list), present a...

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...

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 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...

Talking River Basin Report Cards at the International Waters Conference, Marrakech

Talking River Basin Report Cards at the International Waters Conference, Marrakech ... The Global Environment Facility (GEF) hosts a biennial Internat...

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...

Telling the River Story

...d that there is always some 'drama' when launching a first report card for a region. Practitioners who are developing report cards for the first time should be encouraged to take the drama positively because it often creates momentum for the right...

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