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2 New Educational Programs through NEMO

Connecticut Subscribers - New CT Coordinator Announced
Useful NEMO Website Links
National Subscribers - Interested in Learning More About NEMO in Your State?
Useful National NEMO Website Links
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2 new NEMO Educational programs

1. Focus on the Coast is a new multimedia education project that educates local decision makers about the priority coastal resources of the Connecticut coastline, and ways to protect and restore them.

The NEMO Focus on the Coast website was developed as an educational resource and technical tool that is complementary to the Focus on the Coast workshop, which is available for the asking to come to your town (click here to learn more).

At this site, you can take a tutorial on conducting a coastal resource inventory; access digital maps and information on priority coastal resource areas and land cover (there are three—count 'em—THREE different ways to do this!); or, link to a variety of other sites that can help you protect your valuable coastal habitat areas.

2. Managing Stormwater in Urban Areas, aka "Urban NEMO", is a new educational presentation that focuses on opportunities and techniques for reducing runoff in urban environments. The project, which was partially funded by EPA New England, was developed in partnership with EPA smart growth officials who were concerned that NEMO's message was focused primarily on new growth and suburban examples.

Accordingly, Urban NEMO espouses many of the same runoff management techniques as the Reducing Runoff presentation, but uses examples from cities around the country, and has a section on the relationship of water resource protection to smart growth principles like redevelopment and infill. The subtitle, "Using Restorative Redevelopment to Enhance the Community and the Environment," pretty much tells the story. The organization of the presentation owes much to Reducing Runoff, but also to the work of Dr. Bruce Ferguson of the University of Georgia, a landscape architect who is a leading proponent of infiltration of stormwater. Connecticut NEMO was greatly assisted by the Northland (Minnesota) NEMO program in the production of this module. Good urban examples of NEMO-esque design are still very much wanted to help improve it!

connecticut Subscribers

New NEMO Program Coordinator Announced

After a nation-wide search for a CT NEMO Program Director, it turns out that we had only to look down the hall. John Rozum, an AICP Planner and our first and only National NEMO Network Coordinator, decided to throw his hat into the ring after our original search, this past fall, did not produce quite the right candidate.

After earning Master's degrees at the University of Arizona in Ecology and Land Use Planning, John worked as an environmental and community planner in Michigan for three years. In 1999 he came to UConn to lead the National NEMO Network, which at the time was just starting to take shape. Under John's tender ministrations, the Network has grown like a weed, going from 9 to 34 programs in four years.

While John was nurturing the National Network, he was also delving into local planning in the Nutmeg State. He is a member of East Haddam's Planning and Zoning Commission, the East Haddam Village Planning Group and the Eightmile River Wild and Scenic Study Management Committee. In addition, John has provided many important contributions to CT NEMO during his tenure as National Coordinator, including leading the development of the Community Resource Inventory educational module.

With enthusiastic support of the rest of the team, John made the decision to focus on assisting Connecticut's communities, even though he'll miss the national program. Having recently celebrated our 10-year anniversary, the NEMO Program is at an important crossroads. With John at the helm, the NEMO Team will in short order reshape the program to keep all that has made it successful while adding new ideas, new services, new information and new partnerships into the mix.

Useful NEMO Website Links

• The Spring/Summer 2004 Connecticut NEMO Newsletter highlights the Connecticut's Changing Landscape Project. The latest CT newsletter can be found at nemo.uconn.edu/publications/ct_newsletters/ct_newsletter_spring04.pdf. (file size, 423K)

• Natural Resource-Based Planning for Watersheds: A Practical Starter Kit. 2001. A 27-page booklet that simply goes over NEMO’s approach to watersheds. Intended to serve as a guide for those wishing to adapt NEMO's methods to their own watersheds. We have found that the two major stumbling blocks to local watershed efforts are an inability to get started, and an overload of maps/information. This starter kit is our way of overcoming these twin frustrations, illustrated with examples from our work in the Eightmile River Watershed Project. Booklets are $5.00 per copy. To order online, visit the NEMO Publications & Reviews section's Watershed Wisdom or call NEMO at 860-345-4511.

• For the most recent events and news visit the What's New section at nemo.uconn.edu/whats_new.htm.

National Subscribers

Interested in learning more about NEMO in your state? Visit our Members section of the National Network website to see if there is a NEMO program in your state—there are currently 34 programs in 33 states. You will find a brief description about our member programs, contact information and highlighted are 13 member programs that include a history, impacts and accomplishments and future plans of those programs. Contact your state's NEMO program directly for more information.

Useful National Network Website Links

• The Winter/Spring 2004 National NEMO Network Newsletter highlights the Indiana NEMO Program Planning with POWER. The newsletter can be found at nemo.uconn.edu/publications/national_pubs/natl_newsletter_winter04.pdf. (file size 222K)

• For the most recent national events and news visit the national What's New section at nemo.uconn.edu/national/new.htm.

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Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) is a University of Connecticut educational program for land use decision makers that addresses the relationship of land use to natural resource protection.

Contact NEMO at:
University of Connecticut, CES
P.O. Box 70
1066 Saybrook Road
Haddam, CT 06438

Phone:
(860) 345-4511
Fax:
(860) 345-3357

Email:
nemo@canr.uconn.edu

Web Address:
nemo.uconn.edu

NEMO is an educational program of the University of Connecticut, Cooperative Extension System, Connecticut Sea Grant College Program and Natural Resource Management and Engineering Department. In addition to support from UConn, NEMO is funded by grants from the CT DEP Nonpoint Source Program and the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program. NEMO is a program of the Center for Land use Education And Research (CLEAR). The National NEMO Network is a group of affiliated projects that educate local land use decision makers about the relationship of land use to natural resource protection. The Network is coordinated by the University of Connecticut NEMO Program, with funding from USDA/CRSEES, EPA/OWOW and NOAA/NOS.