IRL Health Update Archives

Step 4: Sharing Results

From the 2018 IRL Health Update: The first IRL Health Assessment provides a glimpse of how this complex system has changed over time and opens up a Pandora’s box of possibilities for future investigation.

Calculating Habitat Quality Index

IRL Health Update, marine science

From the IRL Health Update: The Habitat Quality Index was developed to normalize the offset percentages from the seagrass transect data to a 0–100 scale, identical to the Water Quality Index scale. Establishing a habitat index allows future indicators to be incorporated into the index using the same normalized approach.

MRC Science Assembly January 21–22, 2016

Step 1: Science Assembly

IRL Health Update, marine science

From the IRL Health Update: MRC hired the Integration and Application Network at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES IAN) to facilitate the Science Assembly in January 2016.

IRL Health Update

Is the Lagoon getting better? Thanks to donations from community members, MRC, in conjunction with our scientific partners, has conducted the first comprehensive, lagoon-wide ecological health assessment of the Indian River Lagoon.