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Development of a Spatially Explicit Surface Coal Mining Predictive Model
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Michael P. Strager, Jacquelyn M. Strager, Wesley Burnett, Aaron E. Maxwell,
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Nov 19, 2014
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Energy,
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Energy Forecast,
Report
The goal of this project was to create a spatially explicit 1km2 grid cell model for the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (Figure 1) predicting where surface coal mining is likely to occur in in a projected future time period, under two different scenarios. To accomplish this goal we combined GIS spatial analysis, a Random Forests predictive model, and future mining buildout scenarios. This report provides a detailed methodology of our approach and discussion of our results.
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Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience in Eastern U.S. Streams
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Matthew Cimitile
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Nov 29, 2012
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last modified
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Streams,
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Provision of shade via riparian restoration is a well-established management adaptation strategy to mitigate against temperature increases in streams. Effective use of this strategy depends upon accurately identifying vulnerable, unforested riparian areas in priority coldwater stream habitats. An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool is now available to the conservation community. This user-friendly tool allows managers and decision-makers to rapidly identify and prioritize areas along the banks of rivers, streams, and lakes for restoration, making these ecosystems more resilient to disturbance and future changes in climate.
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Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience Tool
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Matthew Cimitile
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Nov 03, 2014
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Riparian Restoration,
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An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool, funded by the Appalachian LCC, is now available to the conservation community. This user-friendly tool allows managers and decision-makers to rapidly identify and prioritize areas along the banks of rivers, streams, and lakes for restoration, making these ecosystems more resilient to disturbance and future changes in climate. It will also help the conservation community invest limited conservation dollars wisely, helping to deliver sustainable resources.
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Riparian Prioritization and Status Assessment for Climate Change Resilience of Coldwater Stream Habitats within the Appalachian and Northeastern Regions
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RPCCR Research Team
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Nov 03, 2014
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Riparian Habitat Restoration,
Research
Among a host of other critical ecosystem functions, intact riparian forests can help to reduce vulnerability of coldwater stream habitats to warming regional temperatures. Restoring and conserving these forests can therefore be an important part of regional and landscape-scale conservation plans, but managers need science and decision-support tools to help determine when these actions will be most effective. To help fill this need, we developed the Riparian Prioritization for Climate Change Resilience (RPCCR) web-based decision support tool to quickly and easily identify, based on current riparian cover and predicted vulnerability to air temperature warming, sites that are priority candidates for riparian restoration and conservation.
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Riparian Restoration Appendix 1: Canopy Cover Statistics
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Riparian Restoration Research Team
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Oct 10, 2014
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Aug 31, 2015 12:20 PM
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Canopy Cover by State.
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Synthesis of climate model downscaling products for the southeastern United States
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Web Editor
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Dec 16, 2013
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Jun 04, 2015 03:40 PM
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Climate Change,
Research
Downscaling translates large-scale climate information to the local scale. There are several techniques for handling this process; recently, several downscaled climate products have been produced by government and academic researchers. Ecologists, conservation scientists, and practitioners require such local guidance to evaluate adaptation and conservation strategies. However, the large number of methods involved, different downscaling approaches, resolutions, time periods, and focal variables limits the ability of these users to form meaningful conclusions and evaluate the results of adaptation strategies. To address these issues, this project will summarize the methods used for downscaling, identify the metrics most appropriate for evaluation of climate model skill and usability for the ecological and conservation communities in the southeastern US, and begin a longer-term effort to evaluate the range of downscaled climate products over this geographic region.
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Assessing Forest Fragmentation from Marcellus Shale Gas Development
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Matthew Cimitile
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published
May 10, 2013
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last modified
Jun 04, 2015 03:44 PM
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Science and Research Products,
Energy,
Forests,
Projects,
Research
Expansion of drilling sites and associated infrastructure to extract natural gas from the Marcellus shale deposits has the potential to significantly reduce existing forest cover across the Marcellus field and leave what remains in a fragmented state.
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Interactive Conservation Planning for the Appalachian LCC
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Matthew Cimitile
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published
Dec 12, 2014
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May 13, 2025 10:35 PM
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Conservation Planning,
AppLCC Funded,
Data Needs and GIS,
Research
The Appalachian LCC is currently engaged in an effort to develop a draft regional conservation plan for the Cooperative using an interactive and iterative spatial prioritization framework. Using available data and modeling approaches that are well supported in the literature, researchers from Clemson University are developing conservation planning models that include site selection, ecological threat assessments, and broad ranging habitat and ecological connectivity analyses.
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Virginia Commonwealth University
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Rosanne Hessmiller
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Jun 27, 2025 04:26 PM
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VCU is unlike any university you have ever seen. We bring curiosity, passion and an unrelenting drive to discover the ideas others can’t. We envision a future that is unbound by tradition, that seeks to disrupt the way things have always been.
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University of Montana
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Rosanne Hessmiller
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Jun 27, 2025 04:06 PM
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The University of Montana has produced graduates at the top of the food chain for the past 131 years. We’re Grizzlies after all. But there’s more to us than serving as an iconic symbol of the West. If you want to really understand what it means to embody the ethos of Montana’s public research institution, you've come to the right place.
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