Wed., January 11, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

The National NEMO Network is happy to announce its first webinar of the 2012 year, Using & Abusing the Coastal Land Cover Atlas. The NOAA Coastal Services Center's (CSC) C-CAP Land Cover Access provides access to land cover and land cover change maps to anyone who can operate a web browser. That's right, no GIS required! It is an extremely valuable resource to show coastal communities how they have changed over time (1996 - 2006) with information on development, wetlands, and forest (including the results UConn CLEAR's very own forest fragmentation analysis). In addition to the online maps and nifty charts, you can download and print a set of maps for any coastal county.

On this webinar CSC's Nate Herold will provide a guided tour of the tool and how you can use it to provide maps to the communities you work with. It's sure to be an hour well spent. Join us. Check out the Atlas at http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/lca/index.html.

CLEAR and CT DEP have collaborated on a new website that gives the general public access to statewide natural resource information using online maps.