As Rua mentioned last month, we’ve been working on an exciting update to the South Atlantic Blueprint that uses a better modeling approach, finer spatial resolution, and several new and improved indicators. We're so close to putting a draft online for you to review! The draft priorities are done, and we'll be finishing up corridors [...]
Samworth WMA. Photo courtesy of Emily Purcell, Ducks Unlimited. One of the most common ways folks often use the Blueprint is to strengthen their grant proposals. Often, funders want to know how a proposed project contributes to regional objectives and partner priorities, and the Blueprint can serve as that shared strategy! The indicators [...]
As I mentioned last month, we're partnering with the wonderful folks at the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) to put on a great webinar series this April through July! These webinars will take place in our usual South Atlantic Third Thursday Web Forum Series time slot, on the third Thursday of every month [...]
We have some great speakers lined up for the Third Thursday Web Forum this spring and summer! Starting next month, we're collaborating with the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) to bring you a series of presentations on SE CASC projects relevant to conservation in the South Atlantic region. While we put the finishing [...]
The Rim Fire burned 256,000 acres of Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park in 2013. Photo by USDA Forest Service/Chris Stewart, CC BY 2.0. Staying on track to meet the SECAS goal will take some creative approaches for funding management actions--especially in the fire-dependent ecosystems of the South Atlantic. Through SECAS, the [...]
South Atlantic Conservation Blueprint 2.2 Let’s ring in the new year by looking back at who used the South Atlantic Blueprint in 2019! We’ll get into a few stories in detail, but first, as NPR’s Kai Ryssdal says on Marketplace, “let’s do the numbers.” So far, over 140 people from 65 different organizations [...]
The winter Third Thursday Web Forum schedule is now available. We’re skipping the December web forum for the holidays, and we've lined up our first speakers in 2020! As always, these webinars are held on the third Thursday of each month at 10 am Eastern time. We hope you'll join us in the new year. [...]
We've added something new to the release of Southeast Blueprint 4.0---a changelog. As always, we like to borrow best practices from the tech world to make the Blueprint more useful. A changelog is an easy-to-read document that captures the significant changes made in each version of a project or software program. So, the Southeast Blueprint [...]
Cross-posted by request from NC Sea Grant. Original news release available here: https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/news/2019/09/nc-sea-grant-coastal-resilience-specialist/ by Katie Mosher, Communications Director, North Carolina Sea Grant Contact: Frank Lopez, 919-515-3012, fmlopez@ncsu.edu North Carolina Sea Grant is looking for a coastal resilience specialist to be stationed at the program’s Raleigh office. Requirements and other details are available in the online [...]
Draft South Atlantic Blueprint 2020 is available online
A draft of South Atlantic Blueprint 2020 is now online! You can go ahead and check it out in two ways: Explore it online. Please be patient with some formatting quirks since we're currently migrating to a new platform and still working out the bugs. If the legend doesn’t display for you, just remember that [...]