This course is based on January 2011 publication 'Scanning the Conservation Horizon – A Guide to Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment'. The course is designed to guide conservation and resource management practitioners in two essential elements in the design of climate adaptation plans. NC CSC staff will help with instruction for this course.
Quantitative risk and decision analysis applied to climate adaptation -- William R. Travis (Department of Geography and Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Mike Hobbins, a collaborator with the climate FSA team, presented a webinar describing Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) to the NCCSC funded WRIR drought preparedness project team and stakeholders that included the tribal water engineers, who felt EDDI captured elements of drought during the 2015 growing season in the WRIR region. Based on feedbacks from the stakeholders, the climate FSA team also released an EDDI 2-pager document (in December 2015) as a short informational report to introduce and describe EDDI to the user community in general. Learn more in a DOI blog post about the tool.
The workshop convened climate modelers, ecologists, and other expert users of climate data to talk about how High-Resolution Climate Modeling (HRCM) can better inform socioecological adaptation projects in the northern Great Plains of the U.S. The three primary themes were: precipitation, land surface feedbacks, and HRCM usability.
The climate FSA team organized a two-day workshop focused on the development and applications of fine-scale dynamical climate modeling to produce robust and usable climate projections for the northern Great Plains region. In particular, the focus was how these projections can help with ecological impacts modeling and inform socioecological adaptation projects. The workshop examined and discussed current tools and methods and identified gaps in the science and usability of the science for socioecological applications. Other important issues that were discussed included: model biases, physical processes important for simulating the mean and extreme character of climate in the northern Great Plains region, treatment of uncertainty, and appropriate design of RCM experiments. The participants included modelers, expert users of data for ecological applications, and experts familiar with climate risks in the region. A short report from the workshop was published in AGU’s Eos journal. A more detailed FAQ from this workshop is also released on the workshop’s website. The FSA team also presented a webinar to report out salient discussions from the workshop.
Jill Lackett and Dennis Ojima will discuss the reviving of the monthly adaptation working group webinars, share the current schedule of upcoming webinars, give a brief Open Science Conference recap, including a summary of SES work going on in the region that was presented at the conference and an introduction to the science needs discussion.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 (All day) to Wednesday, September 9, 2015 (All day)
The Invasive Species Science Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s North Central Climate Science Center have teamed up to develop and implement the Software for Assisted Habitat Modeling (SAHM) within the VisTrails scientific workflow software. This course includes a combination of lecture, hands-on work, and discussion on SAHM.
