Hi, South Atlantic LCC! I just wanted to let those of you in the Triangle area know that the NCSU student chapter of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR) will be showing the documentary "Shored Up" on Tuesday, April 28th at 7:00pm at Witherspoon Student Cinema on the NCSU main campus. It's free [...]
A new course "Addressing Climate-related Uncertainty" will be piloted this February 11-15, 2013 at the US Fish and Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center facility in Shepherdstown, WV. The course is being designed in partnership with staff and scientists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. [...]
In the next couple of months or so not only will we be adding a new products page that is going to be super awesome (hooray!), but we'll be making some changes to the content of the web site as well. We'll mainly just be moving stuff around and making it easier to navigate. At [...]
First Francis Marion National Forest Plan Revision Community Conversation to be held Thursday, October 25th! As the Francis Marion National Forest gets ready to begin the public input process for its Forest Plan Revision (see earlier blog post), staff are excited about the first of its “Community Conversations” that will take place this Thursday (October [...]
As Forest Service Liaison to the South Atlantic LCC, I recently attended the Francis Marion National Forest Plan Revision Kick-Off Meeting in Columbia, SC. In this meeting not only did I share with the forest staff information about the SALCC, I also learned about the plan revision process and how the Francis Marion will begin [...]
If you've never checked out Climate Central before to see all the cool and up-to-date info they have on climate change, now is the time. I just found a neat video that covers the past 131 years of global temperature change in just 26 seconds- perfect for my attention span! (Spoiler alert - it gets hotter!) You [...]
In early June the SALCC Socioeconomic Adaptation Coordinator, Janet Cakir, and I had the opportunity to go to Mt. Pleasant, SC to attend the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission Meeting. I’m fortunate enough to be able to help Janet out with some of her Cultural Resource work and was very excited to be able [...]
The FY2012 LCC national funding opportunity has just been released! Under this funding opportunity, financial assistance from the USFWS will be awarded for projects that address the following priority theme areas: Synthesis Products to Advance National LCC Network Coordination and Function; Addressing Existing Needs Identified by National or Large-scale Conservation Efforts; Development of Performance Measures [...]
At the National Wildlife Federation's Annual Meeting last week, a resolution in support of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) was adopted. The focus of the resolution is climate change adaptation, and among the clauses is support for LCCs. These resolutions are proposed by and voted on by the Federation's state affiliates and represent official National Wildlife [...]
Today is a busy day for positions opening with LCCs and CSCs! I received two emails about three different positions. First, the NE Climate Science Center is hiring a Program Manager (Senior Research Fellow or Postdoctoral Fellow Level) that will be housed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The application deadline is June 15th. Find [...]