The fall Third Thursday Web Forum schedule is now available, so take a look at our upcoming speakers and mark your calendars! We're switching to Microsoft Teams to conveniently run the audio and video connection through the same platform. As always, these webinars are held on the third Thursday of each month at 10 am [...]
Cover of Black Rail Conservation Plan, featuring photo by Bob Gress. If you haven't already heard, the Black Rail Conservation Plan is now out. The South Atlantic has lots of important black rail habitat. We're also looking at using data from the effort to improve our marsh indicators. The newly released conservation plan [...]
Prescribed fire at St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. One thing we're hoping to improve for next year's South Atlantic Blueprint update is the previously burned pine habitat indicator. Getting polygons representing the burn history of sites across the entire South Atlantic has been difficult--especially [...]
South Atlantic Conservation Blueprint 2020 is now available! Thanks so much to the 111 people from 60 different organizations who reviewed the Blueprint during the virtual workshops. We were able to make a few improvements in the final Blueprint based on your comments - especially in the North and Central Coastal Plain subregions. We've fully [...]
Climate-Conscious NC is a series of free programs on how to become a Climate-Conscious member of the North Carolina community! This program is made possible by a wonderful partnership between the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, the State Climate Office of North Carolina, the Climate Change and Society Program at NCSU, the Museum of Life [...]
In laboratory experiments, this pterapod shell dissolved over the course of 45 days in seawater adjusted to an ocean chemistry projected for the year 2100. Image from NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory (EVL). For those that haven't seen it yet, there's a new paper out covering the causes and consequences of coastal/ocean acidification in [...]
Comments from a North Coastal Plain workshop. We had so much fun hosting two weeks of virtual workshops to review Draft South Atlantic Blueprint 2020! Thanks again to everyone who attended and provided feedback. While we wish we could have met in person, Mural seemed to work pretty well as an online alternative [...]
For the last four months, we've been collaborating with the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center to bring you a Summer Science Series of webinars during the regular Third Thursday Web Forum slot. This month, we're back to hosting our own webinars on our usual platform. Here's a flyer to preview the last Third Thursday Web [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]