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Enhancing Chesapeake Bay Restoration with High-Resolution Landscape Data Recording & Slides

Thursday, January 26

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Jeff Allenby 

About the Speaker

Jeff Allenby is the Director of Conservation Technology in the Chesapeake Conservancy, a non-profit organization based in Annapolis, MD. His team in the Conservation Innovation Center explores new methods to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Conservancy’s projects and focuses on developing new ways to empower partner organizations. Before joining the Conservancy, Jeff worked with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, managing a competitive grant program focused on local governments' response to climate change and coastal hazards. Jeff has a Master’s of Environmental Management and Certificate in Geospatial Analysis from Duke University and a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Richmond.

Cassandra Pallai 

About the Speaker

Cassandra Pallai is the Geospatial Program Manager for the Chesapeake Conservancy’s Conservation Innovation Center. She collaborates with government agencies, universities, other NGOs, and private businesses to understand challenges and explore ways to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of conservation and restoration programs. Some of her team’s current projects include identifying sub-parcel scale opportunities for maximizing restoration benefits and leveraging emerging technologies to expedite creation of land cover datasets. A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Cassandra earned her undergraduate degree in economics and environmental science from Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University, and began her career working on Great Lakes and then Rappahannock River water quality improvement efforts. She holds a Master's of Environmental Management with a concentration in Ecosystem Science and Conservation, as well as a Geospatial Analysis Certificate, from Duke University.

 

About the Talk

With the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and WorldView Solutions, and University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Laboratory, the Chesapeake Conservancy has created a 2013/2014 high-resolution map of the 100,000 square miles in and around the Chesapeake Bay watershed. We will provide an overview of this mapping initiative that was completed in 2016, the outreach that accompanied data development and delivery, and highlight the lessons learned from the project. In addition, we will discuss how the Conservancy and our partners are using the high-resolution data to inform land management decisions, give feedback about unaddressed carbon data needs, and review successes and challenges when using this and other high-resolution datasets.

 


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