We've been working hard to update the South Atlantic Blueprint Simple Viewer to Blueprint 2020 and finish up some exciting improvements to the interface. At the same time, we were moving the viewer to a new location on the web, which took a little longer than we hoped. It's finally ready---we're sorry for the delay, [...]
Photo by Mmann1988/Flickr via Wikipedia, CC BY 2.0. You may have already seen my blog about marine indicator improvements and a new Piedmont prairie indicator. We're also working on a number of other improvements to the indicators. As usual, I'm not sure how many of these improvements will make it into this year's Blueprint update, [...]
The update of the South Atlantic Blueprint User Guide has lagged a bit behind the release of Blueprint 2020. That's primarily because we were waiting for the update to the South Atlantic Simple Viewer. The new custom reporting feature of the Simple Viewer provides a totally new way of analyzing the Blueprint, corridors, and indicators [...]
Want to help review some new and/or updated indicators for the 2021 South Atlantic Blueprint? Indicator review teams have 1 - 2 online meetings (1 hr each) and provide feedback on indicators in development. Sign-up is now open for two different indicator teams: Photo by Greg McFall, NOAA. Marine indicator review team We've been working [...]
2020 was a challenging year in a lot of ways. I think it’s safe to say that most people won’t spend much time fondly reminiscing about it. It was the kind of year that makes me want to look forward, not back. Nevertheless, we accomplished some great things with the South Atlantic Blueprint in 2020, [...]
The winter Third Thursday Web Forum schedule is now available. We always skip the December web forum for the holidays, and we’ve lined up our first two presentations in the new year! Don't forget that we're continuing to use Microsoft Teams as our webinar platform so we can conveniently run audio and video through the [...]
An update on Louise’s blog, “The Blueprint and building resilience”, from September 2020 From face masks to flooding, 2020 has changed our ideas of what’s normal. As the this year’s record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season ends, many coastal communities find themselves preparing for a climate future that shares few resemblances with the past. While some larger coastal cities [...]
We’ve added a changelog to the South Atlantic Blueprint 2020 release! As you probably know by now, 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 [...]
Shared from Rua's post on the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) blog This year’s report on progress toward the SECAS goal, Recent trends in Southeastern Ecosystems (2020), is now complete. Significant improvements over the last version include: A new indicator for areas without invasive plantsAn improved approach for water quality trends based on state dataUpdated data for [...]
The Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) annual conference was last week, and that means an updated version of the Southeast Conservation Blueprint. Significant improvements over the last version include: Major improvements to the inland area covered by the South Atlantic Blueprint including finer resolution and a more connected network of priorities.Improvements to [...]