Thursday, January 15, 2026 Speakers: Chris Renshaw, UConn Fire Chief & Emily Wilson, UConn CLEAR Bringing together extensive knowledge about wildfire, firefighting, and natural resources in Connecticut, UConn Fire Chief Chris Renshaw discovered overlapping conditions that show how Connecticut could suffer a similar fate to Maui, Hawaii, where a surprise and devastating wildfire caused destruction […]

Thursday, January 29, 2026  – New time 12 PM! Speakers: Dr. Thomas Meyer, NGS CT State Geodetic Co-Coordinator, Professor of Geodesy, UConn The US National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will re-design the national State Plane Coordinate System with the release of our new national reference frame, the North American Terrestrial Reference Frame 2022 (NATRF 2022). In […]

Thursday, February 26, 2026  – 1 PM Presenters: Qian “Rachel” Lei-Parent and David Dickson, UConn CLEAR Nitrogen (N) from residential lawn fertilizer is one of the most challenging and persistent problems impacting the health of Long Island Sound (LIS). An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Clark University, UConn, the University of Maryland, and the University […]

Thursday, March 5, 2026  – 1 PM Presenters: Emily Wilson and Qian “Rachel” Lei-Parent, UConn CLEAR UConn CLEAR will soon release a land cover tool that includes a new map viewer and new data dashboards for exploring land cover and land cover change in Connecticut and the entire Long Island Sound Watershed (5 states!). The […]

Thursday, March 19, 2026  – 1 PM Presenters: Dave Dickson, Emily Wilson, and Qian “Rachel” Lei-Parent, UConn CLEAR Part 2 of the series on UConn CLEAR’s updated land cover tracking project. Using data from the Annual NLCD (National Land Cover Database), CLEAR has made land cover data for the entire Long Island Sound watershed available […]