Oklahoma report card song
As part of the Mississippi River report card process, we held a workshop at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma to discuss the Arkansas and Red River basins. I adapted the Rogers and Hammerstein classic...
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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 (CEER) on the New Orleans riverfront from July 28 to August 1, 2014. I presented on our...
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Water supply is a concern in report card planning for the Missouri River Basin
I traveled to Kansas City, Missouri August 26, 2014 to facilitate a workshop in the Missouri River Basin, as part of the Mississippi River Report Card project with America’s Watershed Initiative. This...
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Draft Mississippi River report card released at 2014 America’s Watershed...
Heath Kelsey, Bill Nuttle, Caroline Donovan, Brianne Walsh and I traveled to Louisville, KY on the banks of the Ohio River to participate in the 2014 America’s Watershed Initiative Summit. This Summit...
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Mississippi River report card song
We recently (1-2 October 2014) launched the draft Mississippi River report card in Louisville, KY as part of the America’s Watershed Initiative Summit. The process of developing the report card is...
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Following Alexander Bache’s Dream and His Example
“Scientists who made a difference” series Earlier this month, Bill Dennison, Heath Kelsey and I attended a meeting at the headquarters of The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia, which is located...
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Collective impact and ecosystem health report cards: The product enables the...
This is the second of two Blogs about the intersection of the Collective Impact approach and ecosystem health report cards. In Part 1, I discuss the principles of collective impact, and how our report...
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The Mississippi River Watershed Report Card is released
On October 14, 2015, in St. Louis, Missouri, I unveiled the Report Card for the Mississippi River Watershed, a project that almost everyone on the IAN Science Communication team has worked on at some...
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Integration and Application Network in 2015: The year in review
The Integration and Application Network (IAN) had an amazing year in 2015. IAN Press produced 33 products, 78 blogs were posted by 13 different IAN staff and by the 15 graduate students in the Science...
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Raising the Grade for the Upper Mississippi River Basin
The 2016 Upper Mississippi River Basin Conference in Moline, Illinois had a special theme of “Raising the Grade” this year, which was shaped by the Mississippi River Watershed Report Card which UMCES...
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