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- Pollinator Habitat Assessment Form and Guide
- This form and guide is intended to help educate conservation planners and landowners, prioritize conservation actions, and quantify habitat or land management improvements on a single site.
- Rutgers - Protection of Critical Beach-nesting Bird Habitats in the Wake of Severe Coastal Storms: Progress Report 2015-07
- Rutgers - Protection of Critical Beach-nesting Bird Habitats in the Wake of Severe Coastal Storms: Progress Report 2015-07
- UMass 1st Qtr 2015 Progress Report
- UMass 1st Qtr 2015 Progress Report: Designing Sustaining Coastal Landscapes in the Face of Sea-level Rise and Storms
- TNC 1st Qtr 2015 Progress Report
- TNC 1st Qtr 2015 Progress Report: Identifying Resilient Sites for Coastal Conservation
- MARCO 1st Qtr Progress Report
- MARCO 1st Qtr Progress Report: Demonstrations and Science Delivery Networks for Coastal Resiliency Information
- NROC 2015 1st Qtr Progress Report
- NROC 2015 1st Qtr Progress Report: 'Demonstration and Science Delivery Networks for Coastal Resiliency Information'
- SHARP 1st Qtr 2015 Progress Report
- SHARP 1st Qtr 2015 Progress Report
- USC Marsh modeling progress report
- USC Marsh modeling progress report
- Beach Status Report: Long Island to Virginia (2015)
- Revised report
- Estuarine Fish Habitat Assessment: A General Framework and Winter Flounder Pilot Studies
- Estuarine Fish Habitat Assessment: A General Framework and Winter Flounder Pilot Studies (Updated 11/23/2015)
- Ecological Land Units, Northern Appalachian
- Developed by The Nature Conservancy Eastern Division. The Ecological Land Units (ELU) is a composite of several layers of abiotic information: elevation, bedrock geology, distribution of deep glacial sediments that mask bedrock’s geochemical effects, moisture availability, and landform. An ELU grid of 30 meter cells was developed for the Lower New England-Northern Piedmont (LNE) and North Atlantic Coast (NAC) ecoregions. The ELU dataset describes the “ecological potential” of the landscape, but carries no information about actual landuse or landcover in a region where human alterations to the landscape have everywhere affected the natural vegetation. The current dataset informs ELUs with landcover data, bringing them to earth by telling us what is actually on the ground. We may use this dataset to map ecological systems, which are dynamic assemblages of communities that occur in a mosaic on the landscape, and that are linked by shared ecological processes and environmental gradients.
- Landforms, Northern Appalachians
- Landforms are a component of the Ecological Land Units (ELUs), used in The Nature Conservancy Eastern Division's ecoregional planning processes. A "landform" is any physical, recognizable form or feature on the earth's surface that has a characteristic shape and that is produced by natural causes (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service). This dataset was developed as part of "Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region"
- Bedrock Geology, Northern Appalachians
- Developed by The Nature Conservancy Eastern Division. We grouped bedrock units on the bedrock geology maps of ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ, and MD into seven general classes. We based our scheme on broad classification schemes developed by other investigators which emphasize chemistry and texture, and on bedrock settings that are important to many ecological communities, particularly to herbaceous associations.
- Digital Elevation Model, Northern Appalachian
- This dataset represents elevation for the Northern U.S. and Canada. This Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was created by mosaicing two data sets: 1. U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) 30 meter National Elevation Dataset (NED) 2. The Canadian Digital Elevation Data, Level 1 (CDED1)
- Forest Above-ground Biomass, 2012, Northeast
- This dataset measures the total amount of above-ground live biomass in forested systems, which is an important attribute of forested communites and an indicator of successional development, and an important habitat attribute for many forest-associated wildlife species. The dataset is derived from a combination of remote sensing products derived from multi-temporal Landsat TM data and Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plot data and forest succession models derived from FIA plot data. It is expected this dataset will be useful for distinguishing early successional from mature forests as they existed in approximately 2012. Units are in kilograms/meters squared times 10.
- Bird Conservation Regions, Northern Appalachians
- Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) are ecologically distinct regions in North America with similar bird communities, habitats, and resource management issues. These ecoregions encompass areas that are similar in their biotic (e.g., plant and wildlife) and abiotic (e.g., soils, drainage patterns, temperature, and annual precipitation) characteristics.
- Appalachian LCC moves to the head of the class in climate education
- LCC Coordinator and Senior Scientist Dr. Jean Brennan was invited to speak at an inaugural Educator Climate and Conservation Colloquium (or EC3) bringing together 50 teachers and school decision makers from across the nation to receive training on campus sustainability and wildlife conservation.
- Meet the new Coastal Resilience Research Associate
- Climate scientist Emily Powell sees an opportunity to combine her expertise and her dedication to sharing information in a new role working with coastal LCCs on resilience issues: “I wanted to get back to the space between research, science, and communications, working as a liaison between data, tools, and the people who need them."
- Aspect, Northeast
- Aspect is the orientation of the earth's surface with respect to the sun. This dataset is a grid created from a 30 meter digital elevation model (DEM) that was split into warm and cool aspect slopes.
- States join forces to (flow) chart a course for regional conservation
- The team of partners involved in the Regional Conservation Opportunity Areas (RCOAs) effort convened this summer to outline the best approach for developing a landscape conservation design for the Northeast that reflects shared conservation priorities across the region.
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