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2	Peconic Estuary Partnership	CLPS Protection Strategy and Ranking Tool	webinar on the use of the CLPS ranking tool	1/27/21	https://vimeo.com/505346007
3	Rutgers	Green Infrastructure Champions	Information on the basics of green infrastructure, planning and implementation of green infrastructure. Four sessions. Slides from first presentation can be used in other materials.	1/29/21 - ongoing	http://water.rutgers.edu/Projects/GreenInfrastructureChampions/GIC.html
4	EPA	Vessel Sewage Management Strategies	Join this webinar to learn about how discharges from recreational, commercial, and military vessels are regulated in the United States, with a focus on vessel sewage regulations and management strategies. After providing a broad introduction to the relevant federal regulations, speakers will discuss their on-the-ground experience providing education and outreach to boaters and marinas, implementing no-discharge zones (areas where the discharge of sewage from vessels is prohibited), and leveraging grant funding to construct and maintain critical infrastructure.	11/2/20	https://www.epa.gov/watershedacademy/vessel-sewage-management-strategies-webcast.
5	EPA	Health Effects Associated with Harmful Algal Blooms	Cyanobacteria HABs typically occur in nutrient rich warm surface water bodies and can produce potent toxins. Occurrence of CyHABs is increasing globally and blooms are accompanied by sporadic reports of human and animal illnesses and deaths. This webinar will summarize the state of the science and describe how a One Health approach to CyHabs can inform human health risks	10/28/20
6	EPA	Soak up the Rain - The Green Connector: Building Municipal Resiliency through Nature-based Approaches	This webinar will showcase how nature-based solutions can fit into the resiliency-building efforts of municipalities involved in the MVP program. Speakers will discuss strategies and best practices for planning, implementation and maintenance of nature-based solutions for the benefit of grant recipients, potential applicants, and communities across New England. The webinar will also feature a case study on Northampton, MA, an MVP community that successfully included nature-based solutions in their MVP resiliency program through restoration of the former Pine Grove Golf Course on Nashawannuck Brook.	10/14/20
7	EPA	Soak up the Rain - Effective Public Outreach in Massachusetts MS4 Communities	This webinar showcases successful public outreach strategies and provides an in-depth discussion of the benefits and challenges of building an effective community stormwater outreach campaign. Local and state governments, regional stormwater and watershed groups, and private and non-profit partners across Massachusetts have delivered effective outreach materials and resources to improve stormwater management under the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit.	5/7/20	https://youtu.be/yAtR33ssTiw
8	EPA	Enviroatlas Update	"EnviroAtlas: Updates, uses, and coming soon." This webinar focuses on recent updates made to EnviroAtlas, a web-based decision support tool that combines maps, analysis tools, downloadable data, and informational resources to help inform policy and planning decisions that impact the places where we live, learn, work and play. The webinar also highlights examples of how EnviroAtlas has been used by communities to advance local initiatives in bolstering ecosystem services.	1/16/20	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UyBpp98H-8&feature=youtu.be
9	EPA	Redefining Urban Space - Site Remediation and Green Infrastructure Practices on Contaminated Properties in Chelsea, MA	Integrating sustainable green infrastructure practices as part of Brownfields clean up and site remediation is challenging, but crucial to increase resiliency to extreme weather events and improve environmental quality. This webinar will showcase the planning, design, and implementation of successful green and resilient infrastructure practices on Brownfields in Chelsea, Massachusetts.	3/26/20
10	EPA	Building Resilience Through Living Shorelines	Coastal stormwater management must build resilience, protect economically and environmentally important areas, and reduce erosion and flooding. Living shorelines - nature-based coastal infrastructure practices - can be a meaningful solution for coastal New England communities. In this webinar, project partners discuss the environmental benefits of living shorelines installations in Portsmouth and Durham, New Hampshire. The webinar provides lessons learned and recommendations for regulators, planners, practitioners, coastal property owners, and members of the public on nature-based coastal infrastructure projects.	1/16/20	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whxaLs3nv4U&feature=emb_title
11	EPA	Conservation Co-Benefits of Green Infrastructure	Wildlife that depend on clean, abundant water resources—including species that are of recreational and economic value—cannot thrive in contaminated water bodies. Green infrastructure offers tools that can manage stormwater runoff, improve water quality for wildlife, restore wildlife habitat to the built environment, and invite beneficial species such as pollinating insects, birds, and fish back to the places we live.	8/7/19	https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/going-wild-conservation-co-benefits-green-infrastructure
12	EPA	Stormwater Financing Solutions for Nutrient Reductions	covers innovative funding and financing strategies to reduce nutrients in stormwater. Featured speakers highlight how to set the stage for innovative approaches to stormwater financing and how Virginia and Maryland use tools, including a county tax and a permit trading program, to finance stormwater nutrient reductions.	7/24/19	https://www.epa.gov/waterfinancecenter/innovative-financing-strategies-reducing-nutrients
13	EPA	Improving Returns on Stormwater Investments with Crediting and Pay-for-performance Approaches	an introduction to stormwater crediting and specific examples of pay-for-performance approaches in communities. Hear about how crediting can help you get more for your stormwater dollar and hear about successes, challenges, and lessons learned from Tennessee and Maryland.	1/13/19	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7gWrenqsSg&feature=emb_title
14	EPA	Stormwater Standards for the Future: Environmental and Financial Benefits of Adapting Local Stormwater Regulations	to help towns understand the environmental benefits of adopting local stormwater standards including Green Infrastructure. The webinar will showcase modeling approaches, potential pollutant load reductions expected, and share model ordinance language which can be replicated in other interested communities to achieve water quality results.	4/28/2018	https://www.epa.gov/soakuptherain
15	EPA	Getting Ready for Rain! Integrating Green Infrastructure and Nature Based Solutions into State and Local Hazard Mitigation Plan".	This webinar will provide an overview of the Massachusetts Hazard Mitigation requirements; explain opportunities, benefits and incentives for incorporating green infrastructure into hazard mitigation plans; and showcase nature-based solutions. Communities that can align local Hazard Mitigation Plans and resources to fund efforts like green infrastructure can reduce the impacts of flooding, protect and improve water quality, and reduce the impacts of stormwater while increasing resiliency to severe storm events.	4/25/2018
16	EPA	Introduction to EPA's Storm Water Management Model	EPA’s Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is used throughout the world for planning, analysis, and design related to stormwater runoff, combined and sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems in urban areas. There are many applications for drainage systems in non-urban areas as well	2/20/2018	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76BF9fznh1w&feature=youtu.be	Part of a continuing series on stormwater management - see EPA.gov.waterdata/surface-water-quality-modeling-training
17	FHWA	Nature-based Resilience for Coastal Highways: Finding Partners and Funding Webinar	This webinar is geared towards transportation planners and engineers, coastal engineers and ecologists, practitioners, academics and others interested in working across disciplines to mitigate flood risks to roadways and improve community and ecological resilience simultaneously.	6/24/20	https://connectdot.connectsolutions.com/psc7c4upjhjj/?proto=true
18	EPA	Addressing and Managing Plastic Pollution	After providing a broad introduction on plastic pollution and its resulting impacts, speakers will discuss the need for systemic change as well as solutions and initiatives that can be implemented to combat this urgent issue. Additionally, speakers will discuss current and anticipated federal strategies to address plastic pollution.	4/21/2021	https://www.epa.gov/watershedacademy/addressing-and-managing-plastic-pollution-webcast
19	EPA	Climate Change Adaptation	Join this webinar to learn about methodologies and tools currently available and how they are being used to develop adaptation strategies. This webinar will feature presentations from scientists and managers whose organizations are making decisions and moving to action in the face of uncertainty.	6/23/2021	https://www.epa.gov/watershedacademy/climate-change-adaptation-webcast
20	NACD	Green Infrastructure Management Tools	Westmoreland, PA CD developed a program to monitor green infrastructure with real-time sensing technologies; West Michigan Environmental Action Council developed Rainwater Rewards, an online and mobile friendly stormwater calculators showing value of green infrastructure investment	3/15/2018	http://www.nacdnet.org/general-resources/webinars/ http://rainwaterrewards.com/	geared more towards the midwest. If these tools could be modified to reflect LI conditions, could be useful. Possible grant opportunity
21	NWQMC	Protecting Public Health with Open Recreational Water Quality Data: Challenges and Solutions	overview of open recreational water quality data, and how open data is changing how recreational water quality information is accessed, used, and reused. The presentation will also introduce Swim Drink Fish's open data standard for the recreational water quality, which was developed with a group of stakeholders and shaped by the public.	6/19/19	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPoYxXgLK2Q
22	NWQMC	Voluneer Monitoring - Evolving Volunteer Bacteria Modeling	Citizen science bacteria monitoring programs are helping to widen the coverage of data collection and to provide timely notification of high bacteria levels in recreational waters. This webinar will present methods used by citizen science programs to measure bacteria; how data enhance public notification programs; and how data help to identify pollution problems.	3/13/2018	https://www.youtube.com/user/NWQMC	fecal bacteria monitoring done by citizen volunteers, with or without the support of a lab.
23	NYSDEC	Statewide Riparian Assessment Webinar	a suite of tools to help identify and prioritize riparian (stream side) sites for restoration or protection. This assessment will support DEC's Trees for Tribs program, which is working with partners and volunteers to create and improve riparian buffers by planting native trees and shrubs along streams.	4/19/2018	https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/NYSDEC/bulletins/1e354f5
24	WaterSense	Efficient Irrigation Practices for Medians and Parks	Speakers discuss challenges and successes in implementing efficient irrigation practices for medians and park strips.	10/31/19	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpQWCFppxjY
25	WEF	Clean Water Act Regulatory Issues in a Pandemic		3/20/20	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQSzVDqE9M&feature=youtu.be
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