When you say the word “clicker” the first thing many people think of is training a dog. But clickers can also refer to the devices used to engage an audience in group decision-making. When a contestant in a game show decides to “ask the audience,” an audience response system (aka clicker) is used. Recently, clickers […]
Cool Stuff
Connecticut Has New Aerial Imagery
What’s stunning, statewide, and captured last March? No, not mountain lions — Connecticut’s new aerial imagery! And, while it may not be quite good enough to help you find your car keys, it’s probably good enough to allow you to identify the car in your driveway. Here are some key facts about this great new […]
A Happy Valentine’s Day to All
NEMO’s New Rain Garden App Getting the Attention it Deserves
It should come as no surprise how excited we are to show off NEMO’s new Rain Garden App (see past blog posts), not to mention the fact that it’s the first UConn app created for the general public. However, we are equally excited about all the attention it is getting. Most recently, NEMO Director Michael […]
We Got Your LID Examples Right Here!
Interested in Low Impact Development (LID), but want a better sense of what it looks like? Well, have we got the tool for you – the National NEMO Network’s National LID Atlas contains nearly 850 examples from 28 states! For the uninitiated, low impact development (LID) practices include rain gardens, pervious pavement, green roofs, rain barrels, […]
Rain Garden App!
I’ve only had my iPhone since May 2011. It’s not that I didn’t think they were cool and useful (I had bought one for my wife a year before), I just was trying to delay joining the “in crowd” for a while longer. Now it seems like I have had it forever, and it is […]
Welcome, Cecelia!
The whole CLEAR gang welcomes Cecelia Chadwick Pulaski, born on December 19, 2012 and weighing in at 7 bs, 3 oz (for those of you keeping score at home). Congratulations to GTP Trainer Extraordinaire Cary Chadwick and her husband James! (The rumor is that Cece can already tell a vector from a raster).
NEW! Land Cover for the Long Island Sound Watershed
You may have heard of the Connecticut’s Changing Landscape project and website that provides basic land cover information through five directly comparable land cover datasets, from 1985, 1990, 1995, 2002 and 2006, allowing us to look at, and quantify, landscape change in Connecticut. Now, thanks to the support of the Long Island Sound Study, we […]
CLEAR’s Newest Geospatial Technology Course Focuses on Land Trusts
CLEAR’s Geospatial Training Program (GTP) has partnered with the Connecticut Land Conservation Council to develop a new course for land trust staff and volunteers. The first workshop was held on a sunny Friday in September. The one-day course is designed to teach participants how to use a handheld GPS receiver to map property boundaries and […]
CT Coastline Historical Aerial Photos Online
Historical aerial photos of Connecticut’s coastline are now available online thanks to the UConn Libraries’ Map & Geographic Information Center (MAGIC) and the Office of Long Island Sound Programs of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). Details were recently published on the UConn Today website. Read the UConn Today Article and watch a short video […]
Rain Garden App Coming Soon!
Several CLEAR programs (o.k., since you asked, it’s the CT NEMO, National NEMO Network, and the Geospatial Training Programs) have teamed up to develop a “rain garden” app for smart phones. A rain garden is a vegetated depression that accepts and infiltrates runoff from a rooftop, driveway of other impervious surface. Unlike many “Low Impact […]
Cool websites
Does anyone actually use the word “cool” anymore (it seems at least to have outlived “groovy”)? Anyway, here are two very cool websites that have very little to do with CLEAR, except that they are focused on the natural world. Give ’em a try. National (real-time) Wind Map The Scale of the Universe 2
CLEARscapes Newsletter 2012 Issue
CLEAR’s latest newsletter, CLEARscapes is now online. CLEARscapes is a short and informative newsletter CLEAR publishes once or twice a year. We often highlight a CLEAR project or program, include program and website updates and anything else we feel is newsworthy. Our winter 2012 issue includes a feature article on our Geospatial Training Program. Read […]
CLEAR is Blogging!
CLEAR is entering the world of blogging. We hope our blog will be useful in keeping you up-to-date on our latest research projects, training classes, workshops, webinars, publications, and anything else we feel like talking about!