Thursday, April 23, 2026 – 1 PM Presenters: Juliana Barrett, Owen Placido, Dave Dickson, UConn CLEAR & CT Sea Grant The UConn CLEAR and CT Sea Grant team have been working over the past year to integrate information and develop tools for better management and restoration of riparian buffers in Connecticut. Please join us for […]
2026 Webinars
Required Zoning Changes for New Housing Law
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 – 12 PM Presenters: Dave Dickson, UConn CLEAR; Renata Bertotti, Town of Manchester; Melissa Kaplan-Macey, The HousingCollective; Mark Branse, Halloran Sage; Emiline Harrigan, Town of Fairfield; Nicholas Bamonte, Bercham Moses CT’s new housing law, passed during the special session last year, is intended to expand housing options throughout the state. It includes […]
Connecticut’s New GIS Parcel Data Creation Guidance and Specifications
Thursday, March 26, 2026 – 1 PM Presenter: Ashley Benítez, CT GIS Office Host: UConn CLEAR The Connecticut GIS Parcel Data Creation Guidance and Specifications (“Parcel Guidance”) is a technical framework developed by the GIS Advisory Council’s Parcel Data Creation Working Group in collaboration with the Connecticut GIS Office. This guidance establishes consistent methods and […]
New Land Cover (Part 2): Land Cover Change and Trends in the Long Island Sound Watershed
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 […]
New Land Cover (Part 1): Map Viewer and Data Dashboards for CT and Beyond
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 […]
Focusing on fertilizer: A new tool to help target lawn fertilizer outreach
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 […]
State Plane Coordinate System 2022: What’s to Come
Thursday, January 29, 2026 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). This webinarwill show the differences of […]
Red Flag Warning: Understanding Connecticut’s Wildfire Ecology, Forest Health, and Planning for a Changing Future
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 […]