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Upcoming webinars
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Frank Biasi, Director of Digital Development with National Geographic Maps in Colorado, will present Integrating Multimedia and Maps to Tell Stories and Engage the Public on Wednesday, March 13 2013 at 12 pm Eastern Time. National Geographic has been combining imagery, writing, and maps to tell conservation stories for over a century. Frank will review the current state of the art in the integration of multimedia, maps, and narrative to engage non-technical audiences in understanding and acting on environmental issues, with examples from National Geogrpahic Magazine, GeoStories.org, EnvisionTheJames.org, EnergyRealities.org, and others. The call-in access code (4140170678) is not currently working. Please log into the webinar and use the digital audio. If you have a question and are not able to use the digital audio, please hover over the green tab at the top of your screen that says "Viewing Frank Biasi's desktop", click the "participants" button, right click on "Kim Fisher" or "Rosemary", and choose to chat. Type your question and we will read it for Frank to answer.
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Archived webinars
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Kori Blankenship, a fire ecologist with The Nature Conservancy in Bend, Oregon, presented LANDFIRE: A Comprehensive U.S. Spatial Dataset with Conservation Applications on September 18 2012. LANDFIRE is a program that produces wall-to-wall vegetation and fire-related spatial data for the entire U.S. LANDFIRE goes way beyond fire with more than 20 geospatial layers that have proven useful for conservation planning and land management activities. The datasets include vegetation type, cover and height, vegetation condition, successional stage and historical fire regime to name a few. The data are delivered in raster format (30m cell size) and are available for free online through the LANDFIRE Data Distribution Site. LANDFIRE products were designed to work at national, regional and large sub-regional landscapes, but tools and guidance are available to help users review and modify the data as needed for finer scale applications. Kori will describe the LANDFIRE spatial products and demonstrate their utility in a variety of conservation applications. To watch and listen to a recording of the webinar, click here.
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Jamie Chesser and Gillian Silvertand, from the Nature Conservancy's Technology Learning Center, presented their work with conservationtraining.org on September 26. Proper training is crucial to understanding conservation concepts and technology systems, and it provides necessary career and personal growth for individuals. Unfortunately, training groups and also training dollars are often one of the first budget areas to be slashed when monies are tight or scarce. Even more unfortunate, are those organizations where training is not even funded period. After securing a donation from Remote-Learner.net, ConservationTraining.org was launched in June 2009 by The Nature Conservancy. Since then, the site has touched over 6,000 conservation practitioners in over 180 countries around the globe. ConservationTraining.org is an open learning community that offers online conservation and professional development training materials from some of the world’s leading conservation organizations. We will discuss the educational benefits to conservationists worldwide, the opportunity for partnering and collaborating, and how interested individuals can become involved in this growing international learning community. To listen to a recording of the presentation, visit: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=63919967&rKey=a93747d2b2beb06a
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Eric Sanderson, Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, presented the Welikia Project on June 20. After a decade of research, the Mannahattan Project ( http://welikia.org) at the Wildlife Conservation Society uncovered the original ecology of Manhattan, a remarkably diverse, natural landscape of hills, valleys, forests, fields, freshwater wetlands, salt marshes, beaches, springs, ponds and streams, supporting a rich and abundant community of wildlife and sustaining people for thousands of years before Europeans arrived on the scene in 1609. Now, the project is expanding to the rest of the city as the Welikia Project, measuring the modern biodiversity of the city, in terms of the communities and species of 400 years ago, so that we can say what is doing well, what we lack, and where we can improve, and translating that information into websites, educational materials, and experiences that enable New Yorkers from all boroughs to discover the special ecology of their place. To listen to a recording of the presentation, visit: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=62890892&rKey=73459559d6132df3
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John Schaeffer, Principal & Senior GIS Analyst at Juniper GIS, presented the second in his two-part ModelBuilder series, on ModelBuilder Parameters and Variables on May 16. This session covered more advanced ModelBuilder functions including iteration, building process models, and using Python scripts in a model. All models were based around habitat analysis scenarios. To listen to a recording of the presentation, visit: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=62560487&rKey=cff0d6af43d93f71
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John Schaeffer, Principal & Senior GIS Analyst at Juniper GIS, presented a ModelBuilder Introduction on Monday, April 18. The session covered Geoprocessing and ModelBuilder basics. It started with Geoprocessing because understanding ESRI’s geoprocessing framework is important to effectively creating models, and then moved into the procedures for constructing processes in ModelBuilder. To listen to a recording of the presentation, visit: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=62303992&rKey=e31d53b51b65f5ab
- Greg Newman, Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, and Brent Kinal, GIS Specialist at the New York Natural Heritage Program, Invasives Species Database Program, presented a double-bill on Geodatabase design for invasive species monitoring on March 14, 2011.
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Greg Newman, Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory: Beyond data management: a cyberinfrastructure for invasive species data integration, visualization, and analysis
ibis.colostate.edu) is a cyberinfrastructure system that supports a variety of species observation and decision support websites, including the CitSci.org website (www.citsci.org/; for citizen science efforts), the National Institute of Invasive Species Science (www.niiss.org; for species forecasting), and the Global Invasive Species Information Network (www.gisin.org for data sharing and exchange). This system is an online, all taxa cyberinfrastructure system built to management species observation data and provide modeling capabilities. This system uses OGC compliant Well Known Binary (WKB) spatial data stored in an enterprise level SQL Server 2008 spatial relational database using open source libraries and tools such as: PHP, Java (Sun/Oracle), GeoTools, the Java Topology Suite (Vivid Solutions), Proj4 (US Department of the Interior or USDOI), Nad2Nad (USDOI), MaxEnt (Phillips et al. 2006), R (R Development Core Team 2008), and fpdf. It makes use of the widely used Google Maps Application Programming Interface (API) as a free map service, but uses a custom Java application for dynamically rendering clustered map tiles overlaid on top of standard Google Maps background tiles instead of the common Google Maps JavaScript API that places “pins” on top of Google background tiles. This approach enables users to customize their spatial data layers and allows the system to support point, line, and polygon data that can be dynamically rendered "on-the-fly". Traditional PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files are used for page presentation. The system uses the simple XML-based RESTful web services supporting the GISIN data exchange protocol standard for data exchange. Typical tiered user levels are used to control permissions to various aspects of the system.
Brent Kinal, GIS Specialist at the New York Natural Heritage Program, Invasives Species Database Program: iMapInvasives, The Open Source Sandwich for Management of Invasive species data
One of the major challenges in the successful management and prevention of invasive species is an effective mechanism allowing the sharing and aggregation of invasive species data among multiple user groups. iMapInvasives is an on-line, all-taxa mapping tool and database which combines the power of ArcGIS and Open Source software, including Open Layers, PostgreSQL and PostGIS, to provide a cost-effective collaborative venue for the for the comprehensive exchange of invasive species data. iMapInvasives is designed to allow anyone from the casual "citizen-scientist" to resource managers the ability to report and view invasive species observations data. Through its tiered user levels iMapInvasives allows more advanced users greater functionality and data access such as reporting assessment and treatment data, the ability to receive early detection and approaching region alerts, as well as the ability to export data for use GIS and statistical programs outside of iMapInvasives.
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Joseph Kerski, Education Manager and Geographer at ESRI, presented Developments in Technologies and Methods in GIS In Education January 18, 2011. Kerski discussed teaching with and conducting research using new technologies and methods. These included new Web GIS tools such as ArcGIS Online, and new models, such as the geospatial technology competency model, and was anchored in a discussion on worldwide developments in GIS in education. To listen to a recording of the presentation, visit: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=61656122&rKey=67fe263b03ca0edaYou may need to wait briefly for a small application to install automatically; please be patient. Presentation slides may be viewed/downloaded here: http://www.josephkerski.com/data/spatial_thinking_wa10.pdf
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Tamara Gagnolet, GIS Analyst and Conservation Data Manager, and Rachel Ralls, Conservation Information Specialist, both from the Nature Conservancy, presented their work on the "Pennsylvania Energy Impacts Assessment" on Monday, December 13. The Nature Conservancy and partner organizations conducted an assessment to determine the potential habitat impacts of several new forms of energy development in Pennsylvania, including Marcellus Shale natural gas, woody biomass, wind, and associated transmission infrastructure. The assessment includes projections for how much energy might be developed in Pennsylvania during the next 20 years and where that development is more and less likely to occur. The energy projections were then intersected with spatial data on important habitat conservation areas to identify areas of potential overlap. The results will help The Nature Conservancy and partner organizations to work with energy companies and government agencies to develop strategies that can be used to avoid, minimize, or mitigate habitat impacts as these forms of energy development expand across the state. This webinar will focus on Marcellus Shale natural gas and wind development. To listen to a recording of the presentation, visit: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=61347672&rKey=9c4b73c0945b760a
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John Schaeffer, lead instructor for Juniper GIS, gave a talk on "Editing in ArcGIS 10" on Monday, November 22. A pdf of his presentation can be downloaded/viewed here: http://www.junipergis.com/index.php/download_file/view/130/To listen to a recording of the presentation, visit:
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Hannah Stevens, GIS Program Manager at the New York Botanical Garden, presented a talk on "Species and places in a changing environment: measuring the habitat specificity of Amazonian plants" on Monday, October 18: Knowing the habitat requirements of a species is fundamental to understanding its response to environmental change. Using herbarium specimen data and a series of spatial analyses, the distributions of several thousand Amazonian plant species were examined and the degree to which they may be restricted to particular habitat types within the Amazon Basin was determined. Occurrences of species were mapped, and a new habitat classification scheme, based on abiotic variables, was devised for the Amazon Basin. Results indicate that at least 10% of the Amazon’s plant species are habitat restricted, and are therefore at greater risk of extinction compared to those species that can tolerate a wider range of habitats. As particular habitats that shift in space or disappear due to changing climate patterns, or are lost due to habitat destruction, these restricted species will merit special attention in conservation planning. To listen to a recording of the presentation, visit:
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