March 24, 2021 Presented By Dave Dickson, UConn Extension and CLEAR Nearly eight years ago, CLEAR’s NEMO program first launched an app to help homeowners, landscapers, developers, and municipalities properly site, size, install, and maintain a rain garden to help protect their water resources. The app has since expanded to include state-specific rain garden sizing […]
Author: Kara Bonsack
Finding the Right Trees for the Right Time
The goal of this four-part online speaker series is to engage a wide variety of community members to discuss and better understand climate change and its effects on coastal forests in northeastern U.S. Participants will be able to better understand new strategies to create more resilient forests. Because the speaker series is online, it is […]
Making Maple Syrup in Your Own Back Yard
March 3, 2021 Presented By Tom Worthley, UConn Extension As winter winds down, and you’re considering outdoor, low-risk activities, making a small batch of maple syrup at home with your family might be a fun and healthy choice. This webinar will provide all the essential information you’ll need to get started, from identifying which of […]
Why Connecticut Needs GIS Coordination
February 24, 2021 Presented By Emily Wilson, UConn Extension and CLEAR Learn about how GIS is done in Connecticut, how we compare to our New England neighbors, and what might be done to make GIS operations more efficient and effective. View Video View Slides
Using the New CT Zoning Atlas to Envision CT’s Transit-Oriented Development Potential
February 17, 2021 Presented By Sara Bronin, UConn Law School & Cary Chadwick, UConn CLEAR In January, Desegregate CT, a coalition of over 60 organizations focused on land use and zoning reform, released its groundbreaking interactive map, the Connecticut Zoning Atlas. This first-in-the-nation planning tool allows the public to easily explore zoning regulations that govern housing in […]
Long Island Sound Report Card: Grading the Urban Sea
February 10, 2021 Presented By Peter Linderoth, Save the Sound What is this map telling us? Join Peter Linderoth from Save the Sound as he discusses the latest release of the Long Island Sound Report Card. The Report Card grades the ecological health of the open waters of the Sound in addition to numerous embayments. Peter will […]
CLEAR In the Press – 2020
UConn Today – 10/16/20 Q&A: When in Drought, Build Resilience
CLEARscapes – Winter 2020 Edition
In this Issue The Environment Corps CLEAR Adds New Affiliated Faculty Connecticut’s Changing Landscape Two New CT ECO Map Viewers New Tools and Support for MS4 Program Updates (View Newsletter as pdf)
CLEAR In the Press – 2019
Hartford Courant – 11/03/19 From ‘rain bombs’ to ‘sunny-day flooding,’ climate change has become local The Chronicle – 08/06/19 UConn Gets Grant for Environmental Program
CLEARscapes, Just the Facts
The latest edition of CLEAR’s newsletter, CLEARscapes, is now online for your viewing pleasure (embedded below, or link to the pdf here). Our CLEAR newsletter is one way we connect with Connecticut towns and communities, by highlighting all the cool things happening here at the Center. Once or twice a year we publish a newsletter […]
CLEARscapes – Winter 2019 Edition
In This Issue Stormwater Corps NRCA TPL Class Climate Corps New Story Map Program Updates (View Newsletter as pdf)
The Slow Storm: Tree Mortality in Connecticut from Invasive Insect Pests
Tom Worthley, UConn Associate Extension Professor, Forestry recently wrote a compelling report (below) on Connecticut’s tree mortality rates, and how and why they are dying. You don’t need to go far to see what Tom is talking about. Just outside our windows here at the UConn Cooperative Extension building in Haddam, we were all saddened […]
clear.uconn.edu, Now Mobile-friendly!
The CLEAR website recently had an overhaul, and is now mobile-friendly. While this may seem pretty standard for 2018, it was a big lift for our rather hefty website! The site has hundreds of pages of information, hosts multiple project websites, and is bursting at the seams with tools, interactive maps, webinars, blogs, videos and […]
CLEARscapes – Winter 2018 Edition
In This Issue New State Imagery NRCA New Impervious Layer MS4 Program CLEAR Website (View Newsletter as pdf)
The Emerald Ash Borer Beetle on the UConn Campus
CLEAR’s Tom Worthley recently discussed the Emerald Ash Borer beetle and its impacts on the UConn Campus with UConn Today. Read the full article on the UConn Today website, link below. Big Changes in Store for UConn’s Trees and Yours
CLEARscapes – Spring 2017 Edition
In This Issue NRCA CT ECO Climate Adaptation CLEAR Awards New Websites Amanda Ryan, New Hire (View Newsletter as pdf)
CLEAR, 20 Years Online
Websites have come a long way since the inception of the Internet. While the Internet can be traced back to the 1960s, 1991 is considered the year the World Wide Web went live. In 1995 the last usage restrictions were lifted, clearing the path for the internet to become what we now know it to be today. […]
2017 CLEAR Report
Supporting Connecticut Communities Progress Report of the UConn Center for Land Use Education & Research (View Report as pdf)
Municipal Issues & Needs for Addressing Climate Adaptation in Connecticut
(View Report as pdf)
CLEARscapes – Fall 2016 Edition
In This Issue Climate Corps MS4 Program Story Maps Gallery Land & Climate Program Updates Water Program Updates Geospatial Training & Technology Updates (View Newsletter as pdf)