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- Gathering provides rallying cry for collaborative conservation, and a showcase for tools that can support a shared vision
- The annual Regional Conservation Partnerships (RCP) Gathering brought diverse conservation practitioners together to learn, share, and be inspired. Keynote speaker Chief Jason Weller of the Natural Resources Conservation Service praised attendees for their leadership in collaborative conservation.
- Webinar: The times they are a changing: Shifting phenology in Northeast coastal ecosystems Dec 07, 2016 from 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM — 34 Morrill Science Center, UMass Amherst,
- Part of the Northeast Climate Science Center’s fall webinar series, this presentation will provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of climate-induced shifts in marine and coastal phenology, with a focus on U.S. Northeast Atlantic ecosystems.
- Canadian partners make headway on classification system to guide freshwater conservation
- A project to extend the Northeast aquatic habitat map across the Canadian border is fostering momentum for freshwater conservation among stakeholders working at different scales toward shared goals.
- Research on iPlover published in PLOS ONE
- Paper describes the testing, application, and efficacy of a smartphone application designed to collect data on piping plover habitat to feed into predictive models.
- Chesapeake Bay Program Habitat Goal Implementation Team Meeting Nov 14, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 03:00 PM — National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, W.V.,
- A team of county, state, and federal partners working to set habitat goals for priority resources in the Chesapeake Bay watershed will meet to discuss next steps, including using products from Regional Conservation Opportunity Areas Version 1.0 to inform a conservation design for the watershed.
- NPS releases Coastal Adaptation Strategies Handbook
- A new National Park Service report co-edited by North Atlantic LCC Steering Committee member Amanda Babson summarizes the current state of climate adaptation in national parks, and identifies resources and approaches to help plan for and adapt to climate change in coastal areas.
- Healthy Forests, Healthy Watersheds Dec 02, 2016 from 08:45 AM to 05:00 PM — Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. ,
- The Vermont Monitoring Cooperative's annual conference will focus on forests at the watershed scale, with a particular lens on managing forests to maintain critical the functions they provide across an entire landscape.
- Framework for selecting climate models for impact studies in the Northeast Nov 16, 2016 from 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM — 34 Morrill Science Center, UMass Amherst,
- A presentation for the Northeast Climate Science Center fall 2016 webinar series.
- Regional Conservation Partnership (RCP) Network Gathering Nov 16, 2016 from 08:00 AM to 04:30 PM — Nashua Crowne Plaza, Nashua, N.H.,
- Join regional conservation professionals from state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and land trusts for an annual gathering hosted by the Highstead Foundation. This year’s theme is the “Power of Teamwork to Advance Regional Conservation”.
- Staying Connected Initiative featured on public radio
- Vermont Public Radio highlights partnership effort to determine how wildlife interact with roads and other forms of development, and to preserve the most important linkages between key habitat areas.
- North Atlantic LCC News October 2016
- News digest for October 2016
- Steering Committee looks ahead through lens of regional design
- At the fall meeting in Lakeville, Conn., Steering Committee members were introduced to the first version of a regional landscape conservation design, and discussed next steps for putting the products into the hands of people in their organizations who can use them.
- Partnerships of scale: Symposium highlights need for collaboration in landscape conservation
- Regional, national, and international thought leaders and practitioners discussed "scaling up in conservation" in concept, and in practice, during a day-long symposium, in which Steering Committee member Amanda Babson shared how the North Atlantic LCC supports collaborative conservation.
- Connect the Connecticut makes the case for conservation in Eightmile River watershed
- Audubon Connecticut used data from the landscape conservation design to help justify funding a project as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ In Lieu Fee program, established to support mitigation projects in the state to enhance and preserve aquatic habitats.
- Slides: Overview of RCOAs
- Presentation to accompany Regional Conservation Opportunity Areas section
- RCOA presentation for Northeast Wildlife Administrators
- RCOA presentation for Northeast Wildlife Administrators, October 2016
- Handout 9
- Science Delivery summary and progress
- New resource helps communities harness climate data for planning
- The Open Space Institute's "Conserving Nature in a Changing Climate" guide puts climate science in the hands of small groups who can have a big conservation impact. Read about a pioneering conservation partnership that is already using climate science to inform long-term planning in Massachusetts.
- Handout 7
- Break-out Group Discussion Guide
- Handout 10
- Next steps for Science Needs and Science Delivery
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