National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center – May 30, 2013
The National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center is partnering with the National Conservation Training Center to offer the "NCCWSC Climate Change Science and Management Webinar Series" to highlight NCCWSC sponsored science projects related to climate change impacts and adaptation. This webinar series was developed to inform scientists, land managers, and the general public about potential and predicted climate change impacts on fish and wildlife and to help guide resource management decisions across the United States. Instructions for joining the webinars will be provided in advance on the corresponding pages (see below). Video recordings with closed captioning are made available approximately 1-2 weeks after each presentation. The first webinar on Impacts of Climate Change and Melting Glaciers on Coastal Ecosystems in the Nearshore Waters of the Gulf of Alaska will be held on May 30, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Other webinars in this series will include Mammals Take On The Rapture Hypothesis, Jacob's Ladder, And Other Notions Of Doom, Gloom, And Predictable Uniform Change In High Elevation Ecosystems In The Sierra Nevada Range Part 1 which will be held on June 11, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. Easter; Can Camouflage Keep up with Climate Change? Connecting Downscaled Climate Models to Adaptation for a Key Forest Species to be held on July 9, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern; and Modeling and Projecting the Influence of Climate Change on Texas Surface Waters and their Aquatic Biotic Communities will be held on July 30, 2013 at 3;30 p.m. Eastern. For more information on this webinar series, click here.
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NOAA NCDDC– May-June, 2013
NOAA National Coastal Data Development Center's (NCDDC's) Metadata team will be providing a number of metadata training courses from May 14-June 25, 2013 in an online format. A general description of the content of each course can be found here. The table provides tabbed navigation to each course, providing details for each session that includes title, date and time, as well as links to the course registration site and the course material download site. The first webinar on Introduction to Geospatial Metadata - FGDC CSDGM Metadata will be held on May 14, 2013 from 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. CDT. This course presents the concept, principles, and value of metadata in adherence to the Federal Geographic Data Committee Core Curriculum (FGDC). It provides the content and structure of the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) in detail, along with methods for writing quality metadata. Students receive hands-on metadata record creation and validation training with a variety of available software tools, including NCDDC's Metadata Enterprise Resource Aid (MERMAid) tool. Trainers may customize the training course based on any organization's specific requirements or data holdings. Designed as a two-day session, training managers can compress or expand the course to meet user needs. Organizations can also schedule training for individuals for specific NCDDC-related projects. All NCDDC trainers qualify for listing in the FGDC trainer registry. For more information, click here. For webinars on Transitioning from FGDC CSDGM Metadata to IS 191** Metadata to be held from July 9-August 20, 2013, click here. |
Orion Maazine – May 16, 2013
This free webinar will be held on May 16, at 4 p.m. Eastern/1 p.m. Pacific. When you hear the term "urban ecology," do you immediately think of rats and pigeons? How much more life is evident in our cities? And how much has our thinking about urban nature evolved in recent years? Often, we think of nature as something that must be sought out in wild places far from the city, but life abounds even in the cracks of the sidewalk—if you know how and when to look. Join us for a free live discussion featuring urban ecologists from all over North America, including Beatrix Beisner, co-editor of the new urban ecology guidebookNature All Around Us, Liam Heneghan of DePaul/Chicago Wilderness Science Team, and Kevin Anderson, proprietor of the blog Marginal Nature. For more information and to register, click here.
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NOAA – May 8, 2013
NOAA Digital Coast will hold a webinar on The New Digital Coast Data Registry on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. EST. Want one place where you can see all of the ways a data set is available through the Digital Coast? Would you like to access, download, and view data sets? Then you’re in luck! The newly released Digital Coast Data Registry is your new one-stop shop for all the data you can handle from the Digital Coast. This new resource brings together data collected by many different entities and hosted from many different places into one centralized access point. Users can filter by data theme, geography, or type of map service and then quickly access available formats for download, find and preview maps services, and link to supporting information. Join us for this webinar, and we will give you the VIP tour of the registry. |
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The Ohio State University – May 21, 2013
The Ohio State University will hold a webinar on the Economics of Green Infrastructure: Strategies for Flood Mitigation on May 21, 2013 from 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. EST. As the climate continues to change, it is predicted that the Great Lakes region will see an increase in severe rain events which is likely to cause increased flooding in local communities. Understanding the cost of these flooding events, and how to help lessen and even prevent them, is a critical need for Great Lakes communities. This webinar will provide information about how economic information can be used to help communities understand and make more informed decisions about reducing the impacts of flooding; how green infrastructure can be an important tool to help reduce flooding; and case studies from three pilot areas in the Great Lakes: Green Bay, WI, Duluth, MN, and Toledo, OH. For more information and to register, click here.
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EPA & NOAA – May 30, 2013
Join EPA and NOAA for a webinar on Coastal Wetlands Restoration: Policy, Practice, People on May 30th from 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST. as they highlight current restoration practices and needs in our nation’s coastal wetlands. They will first discuss the Coastal Wetland Reviews completed by EPA and NOAA to identify stressors to coastal wetlands and successful strategies currently being used to protect and restore them. Representatives from Bayou Rebirth will then showcase how thousands of volunteers have worked to plant grasses and trees at wetland sites while learning about the plight of the Louisiana coastal system, and discovering fun and engagement with ecosystem restoration. Becoming advocates for Louisiana’s coast, volunteers become rooted in their experience that environmental restoration can achieve multiple benefits, including personal growth. Bayou Rebirth maintains wetland plant nurseries in sites around the urban area and facilitates a wetlands education program for local students focused on growing out plants for restoration. Bayou Rebirth recently began installing rain gardens and is also currently developing a retail native plant nursery that will engage the public in environmental stewardship in their backyards. To register, click here. |
Water Words That Work – May 14 and May 15, 2013
On Tuesday, May 14 and Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 2:00 p.m., join Water Words That Work for a free webinar on Breaking Through the Language Barrier in Environmental Outreach. Panelists, Eric Eckl, owner of Water Words That Work, LLC and Leslie MacColman, professional translator will review language trends in the continental United States and provide tips for how to get your message out in your community today -- and in the years to come. For more information and to register, click here. |
EPA – May 9, 2013
What is Climate Leadership: Examples and Lessons Learned in Supply Chain Management webinar will be held on May 9, 2013 from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EDT. Building on the topic of What is Climate Leadership, two guest speakers – 2013 Climate Leadership Award winners in the Supply Chain Management category – will discuss their initiatives and achievements. Featured organizations have developed comprehensive GHG inventories and aggressive emissions reduction goals and demonstrate they are at the leading edge of managing GHGs in their organizational supply chains. EPA's Supply Chain resources will also be discussed. For more information and to register, click here.
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