News
Archives 2003
6/03
- Laurie
Giannotti Leaves the CT NEMO Program
6/03
- Introducing Emily Wilson
3/03
- New
States Join the Network
6/03
- Laurie Giannotti Leaves the CT NEMO Program
As some
of you may know, CT NEMO Coordinator Laurie Giannotti left the University
in April to become the Executive Director of the Pomperaug River
Watershed Coalition. All of us here at NEMO Central would like to
thank Laurie for the great job that she did, and the great friend
that she was, and is.
Laurie
was the first and only Coordinator the program has had, and was with
us for six years. During that time, she initiated a wide variety
of innovative projects, including the Reducing
Runoff website and the Sustainable Landscape Demonstration Project,
in Haddam, CT. However, her greatest achievement was her stalwart
work on the Municipal
Initiative, which she created with Jim Gibbons and ran for the
three years it has been in effect.
Changes
to the team notwithstanding, NEMO is alive and well. NEMO responsibilities
during this interim period are being handled by the team of Jim Gibbons,
Chet Arnold and National NEMO Network Coordinator John Rozum. We're
looking forward to working on a number of new educational programs
over the summer, and kicking off yet another round of the Municipal
Initiative in the fall. And, we're looking forward to welcoming a
new CT Coordinator to the team this summer, so you can expect an
introduction in the near future.
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6/03
- Introducing Emily Wilson
Emily
Wilson is the remote sensing and geographic information systems specialist
for the Connecticut NEMO Program. Emily was originally hired back
in 1999 by NEMO's research sister program at UConn, the Regional
Earth Science Applications Center. There, she helped pioneer new
techniques at looking at land cover data, including methods to characterize
urban growth and forest fragmentation—both of which we are eagerly
waiting to apply to our new land cover change information. Emily
jumped the fence over to the NEMO education side last August, and
in her first year has served as an invaluable link between Connecticut
NEMO and Sandy Prisloe's Geospatial Technology Extension Program.
At the moment, Emily is working on the interactive mapping website
for Focus on the Coast, as well as helping Sandy with his GIS training
courses and pitching in on various research and technology initiatives.
Emily is also available to give the GIS and Your Town presentation,
which is an ideal primer on GIS and RS technology for towns considering
getting into the digital game.
Emily
has a BA in Environmental Studies and Botany from Connecticut College
and an MS in Forestry and Remote Sensing from the University of Maine.
She lives in East Hampton with her husband Josh, an Environmental
Analyst, and her brand new baby Abigail.
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3/03
- New States Join the Network
You
may not know it, but you are the inspiration for a national network
of projects. The National NEMO Network is a group of affiliated projects
adapted from the Connecticut original. Member projects, which now
number 29 in 28 states and territories (map), agree to share educational
tools, materials, and experiences, to create a network that is more
than the sum of its parts. Communication and coordination services
for the Network are provided by the UConn project, with support from
EPA, NOAA, and USDA.
The Network
continues to grow, stretching ever westward, with new states in Arizona,
Colorado, Mississippi and Nevada. The Arizona NEMO Program is led
by Deb Young of the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension System
and will focus on several issues unique to the arid Southwest. The
Colorado project, coined AWARE (Addressing Water And natural Resource
Education) Colorado, is coordinated by Loretta Lohman of Colorado
State University Cooperative Extension and by Cynthia Peterson of
the CO League of Women Voters. In Mississippi, the Department of
Environmental Quality is leading the charge under the direction of
James MacLellan, an actual professional engineer (don't worry James,
we don't hold that against you). Last, but not least, Nevada is gambling
on NEMO to help identify and address a number of water related issues,
awarding a Section 319 grant to Susan Donaldson, a water quality
education specialist for University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
Congratulations to all and welcome to the Network.
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