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News Archives 2005
8/05 - CT NEMO Rethinks Filing System
5/05 - NEMO Welcomes Mike Dietz
5/05 - Connecticut's Changing Landscape Web Update
clear.uconn.edu/projects/landscape/local/town.asp clear.uconn.edu/projects/landscape/local/rbasin.asp 5/05 - Putting Communities in Charge Booklet Back by Popular Demand
Putting Communities in Charge is a new booklet that highlights the work of a number of communities that have been working with NEMO over the past decade. It demonstrates the wide range of activities and initiatives that a community can pursue, once it begins to implement an agenda of natural resource-based planning. It also has succinct and painless summary information on NEMO programs, research, partners, etc. Released as a can’t-miss stocking stuffer around the holidays, our supply was quickly exhausted—but thanks to our NEMO parent/partners at Connecticut Sea Grant, we are doing a second printing. So, order a free copy today by calling John at 860-345-5225 or visiting the NEMO publications page. 5/05 - New Workshop: Map Reading 101Map Reading 101 is a new NEMO educational workshop that focuses on the basics of site design review. Have you ever felt at a disadvantage as soon as an applicant’s engineer whips out the site plans (c’mon, be honest….)? This workshop will benefit anyone who has ever had trouble locating the North arrow or been perplexed determining where the water drains from those irritating topo lines. The workshop is a typical 2-hour extravaganza, with interactive exercises and plenty of time for Q&A, and was developed in collaboration with the Connecticut Land Use Education Partnership and NEMO’s CLEAR sister project, the Green Valley Institute. A perfect primer for all land use boards that review plans. The workshop is free of charge. We recommend scheduling 2 hours to allow for discussion and questions. Contact John Rozum at john.rozum@uconn.edu or call (860) 345-4511 to schedule a workshop. 4/05 - CLEAR Wins Environmental Leadership AwardThe Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR) was recently presented by the University Environmental Policy Advisory Council (EPAC) with a 2004-2005 ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP AWARD, in the category of University-affiliated Group. Winners were selected based on proven dedication and outstanding contributions to the principles of environmental leadership as outlined in UConn’s Environmental Policy Statement. The first-ever awards were presented to CLEAR Director Dan Civco and other CLEAR staff at a special ceremony on Earth Day, April 22, 2005. 1/05 - CT NEMO’s New Publication, Putting Communities in Charge
CT NEMO recently printed its first official impact report dedicated to the work of the NEMO Program in Connecticut. The report describes the origin, objectives and progress of the program and includes a number of exciting new initiatives that have begun during this past year. The main body of the Report, however, is given over to portrayals of selected towns that have worked with NEMO, and the ways that these towns are taking charge of their community’s future development patterns. The report profiles Old Saybrook, Waterford, Woodstock, Salem, Central Naugatuck Valley, Watertown, East Haddam, Candlewood Lake Authority and Stonington. The examples detailed in the report, while they represent only a portion of the good work being done around the state, demonstrate the power of local citizens to bring about positive change in their communities.To order a copy of the report, free of charge, visit the CT Impact Reports section of the Publications page. The profiled areas (Old Saybrook, Waterford, Woodstock, Salem, Central Naugatuck Valley, Watertown, East Haddam, Candlewood Lake Authority and Stonington) are also available as individual .pdf files for easy online viewing.
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An article about CLEAR and NEMO was recently published in Earth Imaging Journal, a fairly new high-profile publication in the remote sensing world. EIJ is published by private sector remote sensing interests, and is not a peer-reviewed journal. However, their interest in our work (they solicited the article), and the fact that they put it on the cover of the hard copy journal, is a good sign indicating our growing national recognition. Interestingly, we assumed that they wanted to know all about our latest CLEAR research, but the Editor kept asking us for more about NEMO and the on-the-ground results of our work. Thus, there are nice breakout boxes on both CT and National NEMO. The e-article is at: http://www.eijournal.com/Local_Decisions.asp
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NEMO
is a program of the Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR).
Land, Sea and Space Grant collaborating.
In
its ever-present quest for increased efficiency, the Connecticut NEMO
Program, led by John Rozum, AICP, is testing out new theories
of filing science. After reading a thought-provoking article in the
Journal of Applied Organizational Techniques entitled “Filing
cabinets and recycling bins: can their functions be combined?” Rozum
has totally reorganized the bustling CT NEMO office. Seen here are
pictures of John’s first test of the new filing system, which
was apparently a whopping success.
Dr.
Michael Dietz will be joining the NEMO program team in June as an Extension
Educator,
specializing in “low
impact development” (LID)
stormwater practices. Mike is no stranger to UConn, having earned all
his degrees here, including his recently completed PhD from the Natural
Resources Manage-met and Engineering Department. Working with Dr.
Jack Clausen, Mike has participated in a number of projects researching
the effectiveness of stormwater practices, including the Jordan Cove
Project in Waterford and his doctoral research on the rain garden treating
the roof runoff from NEMO Central at the Middlesex
County Extension Center. Mike’s addition brings long-sought
engineering expertise to the NEMO Team, and beefs up our ability to
develop educational programs and conduct applied research in the burgeoning
field of LID. With our current emphasis on the Connecticut Stormwater
Quality Manual and the increased use of LID practices around
the state (including at UConn), Mike’s arrival couldn’t
be better timed. Mike is a nice guy (another new wrinkle for the NEMO
Team!) and can be reached here at Haddam after June 3rd at 860-345-4511
or by email at 
The
Connecticut’s Changing Landscape website now includes
on-demand town and watershed maps. At the Your Town or Your Watershed
portions of the site, you can click the state map or use the pull-down
menu to access land cover and land cover change data tables, statistics,
maps and (for a lucky few) animations. NEMO’s Emily Wilson made
this possible with something called “active server page” technology.
Whatever it’s called, it’s pretty cool—check it out
at:
