October 5-8 in Mystic! What is NEARC? It stands for the NorthEast Arc Users Group. What is Arc? It is the name, or a shortened name, for the Geographic Information System (GIS) suite of software created by the company ESRI. We like acronyms. What is GIS? Anything with a location, or x,y coordinate, is geographic […]
Month: September 2014
Loss of Carbon Sequestration from Land Use Change in Connecticut
September 23, 2014 Presented by Linda Powers Tomasso, Project Associate, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard University School of Public Health, and Emily Wilson, UConn CLEAR Greenhouse inventories (GHG) estimate levels of emissions which are scientifically understood as the human-induced basis for climate change. GHG inventories ideally resemble balance sheets indicating both emissions sources […]
NYC Climate March Draws Hundreds of Thousands
Over four hundred thousand people from around the country, young and old, took action yesterday to make a statement about climate change. This event was one of many taking place around the world (http://peoplesclimate.org/), and drew national news attention. My stepfather Trip Barnett attended the march, and he told me that it was a life […]
Summer’s Last Gasp…
Walks through the woods have certainly changed since early summer. Leaves are changing color and even falling. Squirrels are busily making nests and gathering nuts. But before you turn to picking apples and making pumpkin pie, there are a few summer pleasures still to enjoy. The sites and smells are so different now than they […]
Geocaching: A High Tech Game of Hide and Seek
CLEAR’s Geospatial Training Program recently held a workshop for the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History on the art (and fun) of geocaching. Have you heard of geocaching? No? Then you fall solidly into the “muggle” category – aka a human who is not in the know about the greatest real-world treasure hunt that’s happening […]
CLEARscapes – Fall 2014 Edition
In This Issue Climate Adaptation Academy Carbon Accounting Mapping: Lidar Education: Natural Resources Conservation Academy New Faces at CLEAR Green Infrastructure (View Newsletter as pdf)