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UNC Asheville’s National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC) facilitates the interaction between science producers and users. We specialize in science communication and the development of decision support tools.
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The Sixth Step to Climate Resilience
The Sixth Step to Climate Resilience
The One Where They Keep Resilience Professionals in Mind
Your Empty Maps are Confusing People
Your Empty Maps are Confusing People
Empty maps, consisting of the basemap only can confuse map readers. Here are some ideas to address the issue.
What you should know about landslides
What you should know about landslides
Most people don’t think very much about landslides. There are reasons why you should.
Saying Goodbye to my Perfectly Planned Senior Year
Saying Goodbye to my Perfectly Planned Senior Year
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, and all that
Adapt or Perish
Adapt or Perish
The climate is changing. It doesn’t matter what — or who — is causing it.
Can Users Estimate Distance on Web Maps?
Can Users Estimate Distance on Web Maps?
A study of how people perceive distance.
Geographic Information Systems: That’s some really important and powerful stuff right there
Geographic Information Systems: That’s some really important and powerful stuff right there
Students shouldn’t write off learning GIS just because they think they’re not interested in computers or data
Price doesn’t mean value
Price doesn’t mean value
Conflating the two terms can be misleading-and result in the undervaluation of both tangible and intangible assets
In defense of the desk job
In defense of the desk job
I still don’t know what I’ll be doing when I grow up, but I’ll probably be sitting at a desk while I’m doing it. That’s awesome.
Feeling vulnerable? Maybe you’re just exposed.
Feeling vulnerable? Maybe you’re just exposed.
Exposure, vulnerability, and risk are different concepts. Let’s talk vocabulary.
Graduation: Turbulent Chaos or Exciting Transition? Your Choice!
Graduation: Turbulent Chaos or Exciting Transition? Your Choice!
How I’m applying the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit Steps to Resilience to move forward more confidently in my life
Letting Google Earth Engine be the D.J.
Letting Google Earth Engine be the D.J.
Performing spectral mix analysis with GEE
If a tree falls in the woods, can Google Earth Engine find it?
If a tree falls in the woods, can Google Earth Engine find it?
Using Google Earth Engine to quantify drastic changes in forests
It’s “resilience,” not “resiliency.”
It’s “resilience,” not “resiliency.”
Because verbosity is pretentious.
Step 1: Throw out your idea
Step 1: Throw out your idea
How to really figure out what your customer wants
Inside the Coastal Resilience Web Tool
Inside the Coastal Resilience Web Tool
The forthcoming tool allows for interaction with exposure, threat, and asset models for the U.S. coastline
Opening new doors
Opening new doors
Leaving college and getting a big boy job is terribly intimidating. So I did an internship.
NEMAC celebrates GIS Day 2018
NEMAC celebrates GIS Day 2018
I’m sure you were very excited about GIS Day. It was last Wednesday.
Every community in the U.S. should have a climate resilience plan
Every community in the U.S. should have a climate resilience plan
An assessment is a critical part of that plan-and should include these three key elements to make it effective