Professor Bill Dennison is Vice President for Science Applications at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES).  Bill leads the Integration and Application Network (IAN), a collection of scientists interested in solving, not just studying environmental problems. He was involved for ten years with the Healthy Waterways program in Queensland, Australia where an annual environmental report card has been produced since 2000.  He joined UMCES in 2002 and is the inaugural chair of the Science and Technical Assessment & Reporting team of the Chesapeake Bay Program.  Bill and his team of Science Integrators and Science Communicators have produced the Chesapeake Bay report card since 2006 and are involved in a suite of other regional report cards with citizen science teams and various organizations.  The IAN team has been active at a variety of locations globally, and works on science communication and science integration projects with a wide variety of partners.