1. The South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative’s
Third Thursday Web Forum
What is PINEMAP and how could it help you?
GINGER>> Welcome everyone to our fourth Third Thursday Web Forum! I am Ginger Deason, the ITS/FSL for the SALCC. The web forum is a way for us, the staff, to have a two-way conversation with the other people and organizations who make up the Cooperative. We’d like to get feedback from you and we feel like this forum is a great way to do it.
Before we get too into it, let me go over some logistics. We’re going to mute everyone during the presentation, but if you have a question, you can type it directly into the Chat Box and we’ll get to it. Then of course during the discussion part we’ll unmute everyone. Does anyone have any questions about this before we mute you? [Mute everyone now]
We’d like feedback so please type us a question or comment you have about the content or delivery of the web forum or us afterward. I really appreciated all the feedback I’ve received in the past.
Thursday, November 15, 2012

2. Third Thursday Web Forum Agenda
Introductions
Updates
Monthly Topic: PINEMAP – What is it and how could it help you?
Questions & Discussion of Monthly Topic
Questions & Discussion of SALCC
Close
GINGER>> As you may or may not know, each web forum will have the same agenda/format – 10 min of intro/updates, 20 min of presentation on a mission-relevant topic and 30 min of discussion. We’ll answer questions about the presentation first, then we’ll have time to answer questions or take comments on anything about your Cooperative. This is the agenda for today’s forum. [Review Agenda] As a reminder, you’re all on mute, so please use the chat box to ask any questions.

3. Introductions Amy Keister, GIS Coordinator
Ginger Deason, Information Transfer Specialist/Forest Service Liaison
Heather Dinon Aldridge, Applied Climatologist, State Climate Office of North Carolina
GINGER>> Sitting around the table here we have most of the SALCC team
EVERYONE INTRODUCE THEMSELVES

4. Updates Natural resource indicators process officially approved
Conservation Planning Atlas pilot project started
US Fish & Wildlife Service, Region 4 GIS Committee meeting last week
New look coming to web site soon + new projects page
Any web site member can share news through a blog post
GINGER>> Review the updates. Updates come from web site and newsletter – if you’re not signed up, go to our web site and become a member. You’ll receive our newsletter once a month.
NR indicators process officially approved on the steering committee call last week. Now two teams will be formed – selection team and revision team. The selection team will will gather expert input and recommend indicators and associated targets to the SALCC Steering Committee. The revision team will will gather expert input as needed and recommend a process for evaluating and
revising the indicators selected by the Steering Committee in March There is a flow-chart with the timeline for how this process is going to shake out and when you can get involved (and how). All that is found on the Indicators page of the web site in the NR Indicator Process document on that page.
Amy and her co-conspirators from the GCPO LCC have begun working with the CPA pilot project. They have formed two teams – a user experience team and an advanced applications groups. The two groups have met and are helping Amy and Blair Tirpak and the rest of the CPA team to develop the atlas.
Amy attended the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 GIS committee meeting last week.  She gave a presentation on the CPA and participated in a discussion about the relationships between LCCs and the Fish and Wildlife Service surrogate species workshops and the potential role of Fish and Wildlife Service GIS staff in the surrogate species approach.
Rua and I are working on our web site and within the next couple of months (hopefully) will have a new look. We will also be unveiling the new Projects Page in which all landscape scale projects in the SALCC region will be searchable. Look for that around the beginning of the year.
As always, any web site member can share news on our web site through a blog post. It’s easy to do, just ask me if you have questions. Some recent member blog posts have included one about SARPs Aquatic Habitat Restoration Program RFP and a new web site on corridors and connectivity has launched – conservationcorridor.org
If you have any questions about any of these, please do ask them after the presentation when we have allotted time for general questions.
Without further ado, I’ll pass it on to Heather for today’s presentation.

5. What is PINEMAP and how could it help you?

6. NCSU Centennial Campus Research Building III
Ask how many have gotten information on climate change from visiting this office or this website? (shameless plug) Intro to SCO…located on centennial campus, 3 missions, new outreach coordinator (host tours of our office and one of the 37 weather stations that we maintain across the state so if you have a group of students interested in weather and climate, contact us!), and we have LOTS of data from weather stations across the Southeast US. Can anyone take a guess at how many weather stations we have data for? ~5,000 . Revamping CC page

7. Maintain 37 weather stations
Archived Weather Station Data
Maintain 37 weather stations

8. You can become a dot on the map!
CoCoRaHS = Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network
Volunteer, grassroots precip network
Sign-up:
Heather--A unique, non-profit, community-based network of volunteers
of all ages and backgrounds working together to measure and map
precipitation (rain, hail, and snow). CoCoRaHS currently operates
in all fifty states across the country. The goal is to provide the
highest quality data for natural resource, education, and research
applications, which is achieved by:
Using low-cost measurement tools
Stressing training and education
Utilizing an interactive web-site,