National
News Archives 2002
11/02
- New National Geospatial Datasets Webpage
11/02 - EPA and NEMO Network Team Up on Smart Growth
Through Open Space Planning
11/02 - ISAT, a New Geospatial Analysis Tool
09/02
- Development and Enhancement of Coastal NEMO Network Projects
09/02
- New National Network Logo!
09/02
- NEMO Named the Group of the Month
09/02 - NEMO Featured in NWQEP
11/02
- New National Geospatial Datasets Webpage
CT NEMO, the National NEMO Network and the Geospatial Technology
Program announce the posting of a new web page: National Geospatial
Datasets. A compendium of nationally available geospatial information,
this site provides descriptions of the data, how to download and view
the information, and other tips and advice. As far as we know this is
the first time these various sources of data have been placed together
in one, easy-to-use web page. You can find this page either from the
link below, or from the Members Resources
button on this website.
http://clear.uconn.edu/geospatial/datasets/
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11/02
- EPA
and NEMO Network Team Up on Smart Growth Through Open Space Planning
In
an exciting new partnership with the EPA "Smart Growth" office,
the Hub is training selected Network projects in conducting educational
programs for local officials on open space planning and natural resource
inventories. Learn more about the project by viewing our latest Network
Project Update. Smart
Growth Through Open Space Planning ( PDF
- 45k)
11/02
- ISAT, a New Geospatial
Analysis Tool
ISAT is
an ArcView 3.x extension designed to estimate the percent area of a
watershed (or another user specified geographic area) that is covered
with impervious surfaces and to display the results in the familiar
NEMO green, yellow and red colors indicating possible water quality
impacts. The extension, written by staff at the NOAA Coastal Services
Center, was designed around a prototype application developed by the
Connecticut NEMO Project. ISAT easily and quickly estimates impervious
surface area based on land cover data and a set of land-cover specific
impervious surface coefficients. It also allows the testing of various
land use change scenarios to determine how they could impact water quality.
To introduce
users to ISAT and to explore impervious surface coefficient development,
a training workshop was held October 24th and 25th in the Marine Sciences
building on the UConn Avery Point Campus. The workshop was team taught
by Dave Eslinger, from the NOAA Coastal Services Center in Charleston,
SC, and Sandy Prisloe. Dr. Dan Civco, from Natural Resources Management
and Engineering, UConn, also made a presentation on cutting edge techniques
to extract impervious surface data from satellite imagery. Approximately
20 people attended the workshop and included NEMO project staff from
7 states and land use officials from a number of Connecticut municipalities.
For more information, contact Sandy
Prisloe, Geospatial Extension Specialist, UConn Cooperative Extension
System or visit the GTP website at clear.uconn.edu/geospatial.
To download ISAT, go to website www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/is/.
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9/02
- Development and Enhancement of Coastal NEMO Network Projects
Grants Awarded 5/16/02
 In
January of 2002, National Ocean Service of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requested the submission of proposals
for the development and enhancement of coastal NEMO projects. Founded
on the University of Connecticut's Nonpoint Education for Municipal
Officals project, NEMO seeks to provide increased education and assistance
to local land use decision makers in the coastal zone. The grant program
was administered through the CT
Sea Grant College Program
AWARDED
PROPOSALS
Major
Proposal
Title:
A Proposal to establish the Texas Coastal Watershed Center
Principal Investigator(s): John S. Jacob, Ph.D.
Abstract: We propose to establish the Texas Coastal Watershed
Center (TCWC) as an avenue of information dissemination and technical
assistance for local governments and citizen groups along the Texas
Gulf Coast. As part of both Texas Sea Grant and Texas Cooperative Extension,
the TCWC will pull together the resources of the Texas A&M University
System and other universities and institutions in the state to provide
a full range of geospatial and planning information and science to enable
local land use planners to make informed decisions about land uses that
impact coastal water quality. The fundamental mission of the TCWC will
be to provide education that links land use to water quality, while
also providing planning and preservation options available to Texas
local governments. TCWC will also provide a linkage to academic research
facilities, such as the Spatial Sciences Laboratory. TCWC represents
a partnership between Texas Sea Grant, Texas Cooperative Extension,
the Texas General Land office (coastal nonpoint source program), and
the Texas Agricultural Experiment station. TCWC will be a full partner
in the National NEMO Network.
Enhancement
Proposals
Title:
Enhancement for the NH Natural Resources Outreach Coalition (NROC):
Evaluation Development and Marketing
Principal Investigator(s): Jeffrey Schloss, Julia Peterson
Abstract: The goal of the proposed project is to have a greater
implementation of natural resource based planning in New Hampshire's
coastal communities through enhanced education of local land use decision
makers. This will require evaluating the connection between the existing
education/outreach efforts currently being undertaken through a coalition
of groups and documenting greater natural resource oriented approaches
at the local level. We propose to advance the stated goal by developing
an extensive set of evaluation tools that will allow New Hampshire's
Natural Resource Outreach Coalition (a multi-agency/organization collaborative
in coastal New Hampshire and member of the National NEMO Network) to
track and document outcomes, impacts and successes of education programs
for local land use decisions makers. The evaluation tools will assess
changes in capacity of local land use decisions makers and changes in
local land use approaches. The results of these assessments will be
used to obtain continued support, to grow the program, and to better
market the program to our coastal communities. In addition, the high
transferability of the instrument and approach should also assist similar
programs in their impact evaluations.
Title:
Development of Impervious Surface Coefficients for the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester
Region
Principal Investigator(s): Andrea Pietras
Abstract: The proposed project will produce viable impervious
surface coefficients specifically for the different land uses existing
in coastal South Carolina. The Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council
of Governments (BCD COG) will utilize both the data and experience of
the National Sea Grant College Program, more specifically, the South
Carolina Sea Grant Extension Program, and the NOAA Coastal Services
Center (CSC) in this study. BCD COG staff will work with these agencies
to create the proposed impervious surface coefficients and to ensure
their usefulness to both the NEMO program and an ArcView impervious
surface extension tool currently being developed by CSC and the University
of Connecticut's Regional Earth Science Applications Center.
Title:
The New York Sea Grant NEMO Program GIS Enhancement Project
Principal Investigator(s): Dale Baker, Robert Kent, Eileen Keenan
Abstract: Developmental pressures and their potential adverse
impacts to remaining natural resources on the north shore of eastern
Long Island have become matters of urgency. New York Sea Grant's NEMO
program can provide pivotal, timely educational support to local land
use boards, trustees and staff, thereby enabling them to make far-reaching
decisions from an informed standpoint. To meet those needs, New York
NEMO has initiated a strategy to create and conduct locally customized
"Linking Land Use to Water Quality" workshops in five Suffok
County Long Island Sounds (LIS) subwatersheds. To heighten workshop
effectiveness, the New York NEMO GIS Enhancement Project seeks to fund
creation of attention getting, locally pertinent geospatial illustrations
of land use and nonpoint source pollution management in Suffolk's LIS.
Funding is hereby being requested for development of GIS graphics for
the priority Nissequogue River watershed.
Title:
Ohio NEMO Enhancement Program
Principal Investigator(s): Larry C. Brown, Ph.D.; Timothy Lawrence
Abstract: This proposal seeks to enhance the Ohio NEMO program
by fostering a closer relationship between several water quality programs
currently operating within the Lake Erie Basin as well as improve the
use of GIS in the Ohio NEMO program. This collaboration will foster
relationships between Ohio NEMO, Ohio Coastal Management Program, Ohio
Sea Grant, and the Ohio Watershed Network. The funding requested in
this proposal will increase local officials' awareness of the relationship
between land use development and water quality, through an increase
in NEMO programming in the Lake Erie Basin and the inclusion of locally
specific GIS data into the educational material. In addition, the project
will provide support and collaboration with the National NEMO Network,
the University of Connecticut, and the NOAA Coastal Services Center
by assisting in the calibration and testing of the C-CAP data and the
Northeast Regional Earth Science Applications Center (RESAC) Impervious
Surface model.
Title:
Maine NEMO Goes Coastal
Principal Investigator(s): Jodi Castallo
Abstract: The Maine NEMO program is proposing the enhancement
of our statewide program by focusing on the development of our train-the-trainer
program in the coastal areas of Maine, more specifically the mid-coast
region. The train-the-trainer program will be offered to a select number
of key personnel including but not necessarily limited to the Maine
Department of Environmental Protection, Maine State Planning Office/Coastal
Program, the Soil and Water Conservation Districts, the UMCE/Sea Grant
Program, and the National Estuarine Research Reserves. These trainers
will be trained and provided support by the Maine NEMO Coordinator,
and they will use the Maine NEMO tool box to present the NEMO program
to communities throughout the state. In addition to the training, the
Maine NEMO program will establish a mini-grant program for all our coastal
partners/trainers to provide funding assistance to build the technical
capacity of our partners.
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 9/02
- New
National Network Logo!
We are retiring
our trusty Network logo for a new and improved look. The new logo (as
well as other Network logos) is available to our Network members in
the Member
Resources section. Contact Kara at 860-345-4511 or email, kbonsack@canr.uconn.edu
with all your logo questions and/or needs.
9/02
- NEMO Named the Group of the Month
The
NEMO program was named the Group of the Month for July 2002 by a Canadian
water quality organization. The Water Information Network (H2infO) is
a project founded in late 1999 by RiverSides Stewardship Alliance, the
Toronto Environmental Alliance and the Canadian Institute for Environmental
Law and Policy.
The project
aims to improve municipal water quality, quantity and flow by fostering
and supporting community-based programs and increasing civic participation
in national, provincial and local efforts to control municipal non-point
sources of water pollution. H2infO promotes the achievement of sustainable
municipal, provincial and national policies and programs respecting
urban water quality by empowering civic and community action through
research, information dissemination and exchange, partnership building
and representation.
Anyone
ready for a Mapleleaf NEMO program? Visit the H2infO website and see
the write-up on NEMO! www.h2info.org.
9/02
- NEMO Featured in NWQEP
Can't get enough information about NEMO? NC State University's NCSU
Water Quality Group Newsletter, NWQEP NOTES, is featuring NEMO in its
latest issue! The article focuses on the impacts of the CT NEMO program.
The May 2002 publication can be accessed on the NWQEP website. www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/issues/Notes_105.pdf
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