Welcome
to Focus on the Coast, Your
Online Resource Center.
Focus
on the Coast is a 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 project is a collaboration
of the University of Connecticut NEMO Program, the Connecticut Sea
Grant College Program, The Nature Conservancy Connecticut Chapter,
and
the
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (CT DEP) Office
of Long Island Sound Programs. Major support was provided by a grant
from
the NOAA
Coastal Services Center.
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.
This
website was developed
as an educational resource and technical tool that is complementary
to the NEMO Focus on the Coast workshop, which is available for
the
asking to come to your town (click here
to learn more).
