tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64801147041237826562024-02-18T20:35:01.805-05:00AFWA Climate Change ReportAn update of state actions to protect natural resources from the impacts of climate change.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-3684706662640112882010-11-08T15:32:00.000-05:002010-11-08T15:32:38.144-05:00Department of Defense Funding available for Climate Change Research<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ARLINGTON, VA, October 28, 2010—The Department of Defense’s (DoD) <b>Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program</b> (<b>SERDP</b>) is seeking to fund environmental research and development in the<b> Resource Conservation and Climate Change </b>program area. SERDP invests across the broad spectrum of basic and applied research, as well as advanced development. The development and application of innovative environmental technologies will reduce the costs, environmental risks, and time required to resolve environmental problems while, at the same time, enhancing and sustaining military readiness. The Resource Conservation and Climate Change program area </span>supports the development of the science, technologies, and methods needed to manage DoD’s installation infrastructure in a sustainable way. <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> SERDP is requesting proposals that respond to the following two focused Statements of Need (SON) in <b>Resource Conservation and Climate Change</b>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Proposals responding to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 SONs will be selected through a competitive process. <b><u>PRE-PROPOSALS FROM THE NON-FEDERAL SECTOR ARE DUE BY THURSDAY, JANUARY 6 , 2011</u><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">.</span> <u>PROPOSALS FROM THE FEDERAL SECTOR ARE DUE BY THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2011</u></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> The SONs and detailed instructions for federal and private sector proposers are available on the SERDP web site at </span><a href="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/Funding-Opportunities/SERDP-Solicitations" title="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/Funding-Opportunities/SERDP-Solicitations"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" title="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/Funding-Opportunities/SERDP-Solicitations">www.serdp-estcp.org/Funding-Opportunities/SERDP-Solicitations</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>LEARN MORE ABOUT </i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>FUNDING AVAILABLE THROUGH SERDP—</i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>TWO OPPORTUNITIES, TWO DIFFERENT TIMES!</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Participate in a webinar</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> on </span><em><b><span style="font-style: normal;">“</span>SERDP Funding Opportunities” </b></em><span style="font-size: 11pt;">conducted by SERDP and ESTCP Director Dr. Jeffrey Marqusee on <strong>November 16, 2010</strong>, at <b>12<strong>:00 p.m. EST</strong></b>. This “how to play” briefing will offer valuable information for those who are interested in new funding opportunities with SERDP. During the online seminar, participants may ask questions about the funding process, the current SERDP solicitation, and the proposal submission process. <strong>Pre-registration for this webinar is required.</strong> To register, visit </span><a href="http://webinars.serdp-estcp.org/" title="http://webinars.serdp-estcp.org/"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" title="http://webinars.serdp-estcp.org/">http://webinars.serdp-estcp.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. If you have difficulty registering, please contact Mr. Jon Bunger in the SERDP Office at </span><a href="mailto:jbunger@hgl.com" title="mailto:jbunger@hgl.com"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" title="mailto:jbunger@hgl.com">jbunger@hgl.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> or by telephone at 703-696-2126.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Join us in person </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">for the <i>Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop</i>, November 30 – December 2, 2010, in Washington, DC, where SERDP and ESTCP Director Dr. Jeffrey Marqusee will present a <b><i>Funding Opportunities Briefing and Q&A</i></b> session on <b>Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 12:15 p.m. EST</b>. This presentation will offer valuable information for those who are interested in SERDP and ESTCP funding opportunities as well as answer questions about the funding process, proposal submission, and the current FY 2012 SERDP solicitation and upcoming FY 2012 ESTCP solicitation. To learn more about the Symposium or to register for this event, visit </span><a href="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/symposium" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" title="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/symposium"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" title="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/symposium">www.serdp-estcp.org/symposium</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. </span><span style="color: #0c1cb4;"></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-1304232860530858742010-10-25T11:30:00.000-04:002010-10-25T11:30:26.868-04:00Secretary Salazar Launches New North Central Climate Science Center<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://www.blogger.comhttp://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>WASHINGTON, DC</strong>—Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Department of the Interior’s North Central Climate Science Center will be operated by a consortium of universities headed by Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. The center is expected to be up and running in early 2011.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The North Central Climate Center is the fifth of eight planned regional Climate Science Centers—or CSCs—to be established by the Department. With Colorado State University as home base, the center will be led by a consortium of that school and others—University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Wyoming, Montana State University, University of Montana, Kansas State University and Iowa State University. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The members of the consortium headed by Colorado State University can provide us with great expertise in the major climate-related challenges facing the North Central region--including diminishing water supplies, the spread of invasive species, outbreaks of pests and diseases, changing fire regimes, decreased crop and livestock production, and loss of habitat for critical fish and wildlife species,” said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. “Selected through an open competition, these universities represent the full array of landscapes in the Rocky Mountains, Intermountain West, and Great Plains.”</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example, members of the consortium are engaged in research to understand the effects of pine bark beetle outbreaks on water, forest conditions, and grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park, and are also studying the potential for dust from overgrazed areas to accelerate climate-driven snowpack melting.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other work of the U.S. Department of the Interior North Central Climate Science Center will include:</div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>Downscaling of global climate change models linking physical factors with biological, physical and ecological responses. </li>
<li>Forecasting of the effects of climate change on fish and wildlife populations, habitat, and ecosystem services dynamics--including research as well as tool and data development and distribution. </li>
<li>Climate adaptation research related to vulnerability assessments, adaptive management development, coping strategies, and risk analysis development. </li>
<li>Developing innovative decision-support tools for adaptation and mitigation </li>
</ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Secretary Salazar initiated a coordinated climate change strategy in September 2009, with Secretarial Order 3289. The order called for establishing the regional Climate Science Centers as well as a network of <strong>“Landscape Conservation Cooperatives”</strong> that engage federal agencies, local and state partners, and the public in crafting practical, landscape-level strategies for managing climate change impacts on natural resources. Twenty-one LCCs are planned through FY 2012.<br />
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The CSCs will serve as regional “hubs” of the <strong>National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center</strong>, located at the headquarters of Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey. USGS is taking the lead on establishing the CSCs and providing initial staffing. Ultimately, funds and staff from multiple Interior bureaus will be pooled to support these centers and ensure collaborative sharing of research results and data. Together, the CSCs and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives will assess the impacts of climate change that typically extend beyond the borders of any single national wildlife refuge, national park or Bureau of Land Management unit and identify strategies to ensure that resources across landscapes are resilient.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>EIGHT REGIONAL CLIMATE SCIENCE CENTERS</strong></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Department of the Interior previously announced: </div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>The <strong>Alaska Climate Science Center</strong> hosted by the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in Anchorage. </li>
<li>The <strong>Southeast Climate Science Center</strong> hosted by North Carolina State University. </li>
<li>The <strong>Northwest Climate Science Center</strong> led by a consortium of three universities--Oregon State University, University of Washington and the University of Idaho.The Southwest Climate Science Center—University of Arizona, Tucson; University of California, Davis; University of California, Los Angeles; Desert Research Institute, Reno; University of Colorado, Boulder ; and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego. In addition to the six host institutions, the CSC also includes the following as partners: Arizona State University; Northern Arizona University; University of California, Merced; University of Nevada, Los Vegas; NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.; and the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, Tucson. </li>
</ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Announced today was:</div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>The <strong>North Central Climate Science Center</strong> headed by Colorado State University and including the University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Wyoming, Montana State University, University of Montana, Kansas State University and Iowa State University. </li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Announcements to come include: </span><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>The <strong>Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands Climate Science Centers</strong>-- Interior intends to invite proposals in the spring of 2011 to host the remaining regional centers. </li>
</ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-76162107143985092652010-10-14T12:21:00.002-04:002010-10-14T12:21:54.618-04:00Obama Administration Officials Release Progress Report on Work of Climate Change Adaptation Task Force<div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON</span></span></b> – A new interagency report released today outlines recommendations to President Obama for how Federal Agency policies and programs can better prepare the United States to respond to the impacts of climate change. The report, produced by the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, recommends that the Federal Government implement actions to expand and strengthen the Nation’s capacity to better understand, prepare for, and respond to climate change. The recommendations include making adaptation a standard part of agency planning and ensuring scientific information about the impacts of climate change is easily accessible.</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force is co-chaired by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies. When the President signed the Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, on October 5, 2009, he called on the Task Force to develop, within one year, Federal recommendations for adapting to climate change impacts. “<i><span style="font-style: italic;">Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force,” </span></i>released today, provides those recommendations, based in part on numerous listening sessions and public outreach events with a wide range of stakeholders. </span></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“While taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the effects of climate change is a priority, we must also prepare for the inevitable effects of climate change. Adaptation requires thoughtful, preventative actions and investments to build resilience and reduce risk,” said Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. “The Federal Government must consider climate impacts in decision making and how it will affect our services, operations and assets throughout the country.”</span></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“This report’s framework for climate adaptation moves science into practice to help the Nation cope with the impacts of climate change,” said Shere Abbott, Associate Director for Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. “It makes plain that adaptation, and not just mitigation, is absolutely necessary if we are to avoid the worst consequences of global climate change, and it outlines a course of action that will put that part of our Nation's response on track to succeed.”</span></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“There is a growing and urgent need for society to develop and implement science-based strategies to adapt to climate change,” said Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator. “Adaptation and resilience will require partnerships and action across all segments of society—the public sector, local to Federal government, the private sector, the nonprofit sector and individuals. In addition, climate change impacts vary from region to region, so new approaches and preparations tailored to meet the needs and solutions for each region must also be part of our strategy.”</span></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Federal Government is already taking steps to build adaptive capacity and increase resilience to climate change in the United States and internationally. In the Progress Report, the Task Force recommends that the Federal Government implement the following actions to expand and strengthen these efforts to help the Nation better understand and prepare for climate change:</span></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Make adaptation a standard part of Agency planning</span></b> to ensure that resources are invested wisely and services and operations remain effective in a changing climate. </div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ensure scientific information about the impacts of climate change is easily accessible</span></b> so public and private sector decision-makers can build adaptive capacity into their plans and activities. </div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Align Federal efforts to respond to climate impacts that cut across jurisdictions and missions, </span></b>such as those that threaten water resources, public health, oceans and coasts, and communities. </div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Develop a U.S. strategy to support international adaptation </span></b>that leverages resources across the Federal Government<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></b>to help developing countries reduce their vulnerability to climate change through programs that are consistent with the core principles and objectives of the President’s new Global Development Policy. </div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Build strong partnerships to support local, state, and tribal decision makers</span></b> in improving management of places and infrastructure most likely to be affected by climate change. </div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Task Force’s work has been guided by a strategic vision of a resilient, healthy, and prosperous Nation in the face of a changing climate. To achieve this vision, the Task Force identified a set of guiding principles that public and private decision-makers should consider in designing and implementing adaptation strategies. They include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Adopt Integrated Approaches</span></b>: Adaptation should be incorporated into core policies, planning, practices, and programs whenever possible.</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prioritize the Most Vulnerable</span></b>: Adaptation strategies should help people, places, and infrastructure that are most vulnerable to climate impacts and be designed and implemented with meaningful involvement from all parts of society.</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Use Best-Available Science</span></b>: Adaptation should be grounded in the best-available scientific understanding of climate change risks, impacts, and vulnerabilities. </div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Apply Risk-Management Methods and Tools</span></b>: Adaptation planning should incorporate risk-management methods and tools to help identify, assess, and prioritize options to reduce vulnerability to potential environmental, social, and economic implications of climate change.</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>·<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Apply Ecosystem-based Approaches</span></b>: Adaptation should, where appropriate, take into account strategies to increase ecosystem resilience and protect critical ecosystem services on which humans depend, to reduce vulnerability of human and natural systems to climate change.</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Task Force will establish, by Spring 2011, a partnership committee composed of local, state, and Tribal representatives to consult with the Federal Government as it begins to implement the recommended actions. The Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, with the advice of the Task Force’s Agency Adaptation workgroup, will develop implementing instructions within 120 days for how agencies should undertake adaptation planning. Through this planning process, agencies will develop and implement strategic plans that identify how and where adaptation should be incorporated into their programs, policies, and regulations.</span></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Task Force will continue to meet over the next year as an interagency forum for discussing the Federal Government’s adaptation approach and to support and monitor the implementation of recommended actions in the Progress Report. It will prepare another report in October 2011 that documents progress toward implementing its recommendations and provides additional recommendations for refining the Federal approach to adaptation, as appropriate. The full report can be found at <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq" title="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq">www.whitehouse.gov/ceq</a>.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-33347788369691985712010-09-24T13:45:00.000-04:002010-09-24T13:45:09.234-04:00Climate Change and Shorebird Habitat: A New Assessment Tool<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Along the U.S. Atlantic coast, at risk from climate change are more than 100 nests of the Federally threatened Piping Plover at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge [28](NWR) in Virginia; valuable acres of habitat for Red Knots at Monomoy NWR [29]in Massachusetts; and prime nesting habitat for American Oystercatchers at Edwin B. Forsythe NWR [30]in New Jersey. All three sites are members of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN). While managers know that these sites and species are vulnerable, until recently they haven’t had any systematic way of assessing or prioritizing habitats and strategies for climate-change adaptation actions.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks to Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences’s new “Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Shorebird Habitat,” managers now have that capability. This innovative, Excel-based assessment and decision-making tool is the product of a partnership agreement between Manomet and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Northeast Region’s Division of Refuges. This partnership enabled Refuge Biologist Dorie Stolley to work for Manomet for a year, funded by the generosity of individual Manomet donors concerned about the impacts of climate change on shorebirds.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Refuges comprise more than half of the 83 WHSRN sites to date, therefore partnering with USFWS was a natural choice. With input from refuge managers and biologists, Stolley successfully designed the tool and piloted it at the three coastal refuges mentioned above. Participants at each workshop included federal, state, non-profit, and academic partners, as well as local refuge volunteer groups.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For Kevin Holcomb, Wildlife Biologist for E.B. Forsythe NWR, the workshops serve a dual purpose: “While the workshops help to inform future management decisions, they also provide a forum and opportunity to initiate a great dialogue with our federal, state, and local partners. We’re lucky to have such great relationships, and it’s already paying dividends.” </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stolley explains that “the tool guides participants through a series of worksheets and exercises designed to assess the vulnerability of coastal shorebird habitats to climate change, using three categories: effects of sea-level rise; effects of other climate-change variables, like predicted changes in temperature and precipitation; and the effects of increased frequency and intensity of storms. Once this is measured, the assessment outlines explicit strategies and adaptation options, and evaluates each option’s chances for success.” </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charles Duncan, Director of Manomet’s Shorebird Recovery Project, was involved in the design of the vulnerability assessment and sees it as a crucial addition to the WHSRN Site Assessment Tool, upon which it was modeled. “We must understand climate change vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies. Only then can we safeguard the investments of governments, individuals, and organizations involved in our hemispheric network of shorebird sites.” The development of this tool is an important step toward conserving vulnerable coastal sites that are critical for breeding, migrating, and wintering shorebirds. In particular, it also gives refuges a tangible means for addressing climate change issues in their planning documents (as recently mandated by the Federal government), such as Comprehensive Conservation Plans.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many thanks to those who participated in this collaborative project, particularly the staff at Chincoteague, E.B. Forsythe, and Monomoy NWRs; partners and volunteers of Forsythe NWR; Graham Giese of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies; and Courtney Schupp of Assateague Island National Seashore.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A video of Dorie Stolley presenting an overview of the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Shorebird Habitat at the USFWS Northeast Regional Office can be viewed via the USFWS Video Archives [31](45 minutes, .wmv file; Note: there is a glitch between the 3- and 6-minute marker).</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For more information, please contact Dorie Stolley (dorie_stolley@fws.gov [32]); Meredith Gutowski (mgutowski@manomet.org [33]), Conservation Specialist, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences; or any of the three National Wildlife Refuge pilot sites. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-80035056538680479992010-09-24T13:37:00.002-04:002010-09-24T13:37:09.894-04:00Department of the Interior Announces Locations of Climate Science Centers for Southeast and Northwest Regions<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">North Carolina State Univ. for SE; <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Oregon State, Univ. of Washington and Univ. of Idaho for NW<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">WASHINGTON, D.C.--Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the locations selected for the Department of the Interior’s Southeast and Northwest regional Climate Science Centers and the finalization of a cooperative agreement for the Alaska Climate Science Center, which opened on Sept. 1 in Anchorage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">North Carolina State University will host the Department of the Interior’s Southeast Climate Science Center. A consortium of three universities--Oregon State University, University of Washington and the University of Idaho--will lead the Northwest Climate Science Center. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">These are the second and third of eight planned regional Climate Science Centers—or CSCs--to be established by the Department. As previously announced, the first CSC, the Alaska CSC, is hosted by the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in Anchorage. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">“With the eight planned Climate Science Centers, we are laying the foundation for our coordinated strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on our land, water, wildlife, cultural heritage and tribal resources,” Secretary Salazar said. “It is one of the top priorities of the Department of the Interior to put science to work to help us deal with climate change.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Secretary Salazar initiated the coordinated climate change strategy in September 2009, with Secretarial Order 3289. The order called for establishing not only regional CSCs but also a network of “<b>Landscape Conservation Cooperatives</b>” that engage federal agencies, local and state partners, and the public in crafting practical, landscape-level strategies for managing climate change impacts on natural resources.<br />
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</span> <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">“These regional Climate Science Centers and their partnership networks will provide the science needed to understand which resources are most vulnerable to climate change and will work closely with natural and cultural resource managers faced with planning for those changes,” Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes said today. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The Southeast and Northwest CSCs were selected through an open competition. Climate science experts within the Department of Interior, U.S. Forest Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reviewed proposals from universities.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">North Carolina State University</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> brings major expertise in biology, climate change, and applied conservation and management to deal with the threat of rising sea levels and increased stress on freshwater resources in the Southeast. The university has connections to farmers, resource managers, business people and citizens across the Southeast. It also brings an array of science and research partnerships, creating a region-wide expertise network. <span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="all" /> <span style="color: black;">The consortium of the University of Washington, Oregon State University, and the University of Idaho</span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> provides expertise in climate science, ecology, impacts assessment, modeling, and advanced information technology. This expertise will be needed to deal with critical issues in the Northwest, where changes in temperature, rain, and snowfall could have significant impacts on streams and the salmon they support as well as forests and agricultural lands. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">In addition to today’s announcements, the Department will soon announce the host institutions for the North Central and Southwest Climate Science Centers. Interior intends to invite proposals in the spring of 2011 to host the remaining regional centers in the Northeast, South Central region, and Pacific Islands. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The CSCs will serve as regional “hubs” of the </span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, located at the headquarters of Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey. USGS is taking the lead on establishing the CSCs and providing initial staffing. Ultimately, funds and staff from multiple Interior bureaus will be pooled to support these centers and ensure collaborative sharing of research results and data. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Once fully instituted, the Climate Science Centers will be a “seamless network” to access the best science available to help managers in the Interior Department, states, other federal agencies, and the private and nonprofit sectors. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The science agenda of each CSC will be identified through a partnership steering committee that includes Landscape Conservation Cooperatives and other federal, state, and local partners to ensure that the CSC’s work is meeting the priority needs of resource managers in each region. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Within their respective regions, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives will focus on impacts that typically extend beyond the borders of any single national wildlife refuge, national park or Bureau of Land Management unit—such as the effects of climate change on wildlife migration patterns, wildfire risk, drought, or invasive species, to name a few. Twenty-one LCCs are planned through FY 2012, about half of which will be up and running by the end of 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To learn more about the Department of the Interior’s climate change strategy, visit </span><a href="http://doi.gov/whatwedo/climate/strategy/index.cfm" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://doi.gov/whatwedo/climate/strategy/index.cfm</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. This site features interactive maps of Climate Science Centers and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, as well as additional details on the services they will provide. Additional information can be found at </span><a href="http://nccwsc.usgs.gov/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://nccwsc.usgs.gov</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-47896302100970518822010-06-21T13:31:00.000-04:002010-06-21T13:31:18.711-04:00Obama Administration Officials to Convene Public Meeting of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force in Miami, FL, on June 23, 2010<div class="Default"><b><span style="color: windowtext;"></span></b><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Miami, FL – Obama Administration officials will hold a public meeting of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force in Miami, Florida, on June 23, 2010. This meeting is being organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and co-hosted by the Florida Energy and Climate Commission and the Miami-Dade County Office of Sustainability. The meeting provides an opportunity for senior members of the Obama Administration to listen to local and regional ideas, questions and concerns about climate change adaptation, and to describe federal efforts already underway to plan for climate change adaptation in this area, with an emphasis on hazard preparedness and mitigation and water resource management. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">In 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies. When President Obama signed the Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, on October 5, 2009, he called on the Task Force to provide a progress report within one year on agency actions in support of a national climate change adaptation strategy and recommendations for any further measures. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">WHO: </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;"> Rob Verchick, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;"> James Murley, Chair of the Florida Energy and Climate Commission<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;"> Katy Sorenson, County Commissioner (District 8) and Chair of the Budget, Planning and Sustainability Committee<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;"> Harvey Ruvin, Chair, Miami-Dade Climate Change Advisory Task Force and Clerk of Court of Miami-Dade County<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">WHAT: </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">Interagency<b> </b>Climate Change Adaptation Task Force Public Meeting and Press Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">WHEN: </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">Wednesday, June 23, 9:00 am – 12:00 p.m. public meeting following by a press conference from 12:15 – 1:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">WHERE: </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">Miami-Dade County Commission Chambers, located at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, 111 NW 1st Street, 2nd Floor, Miami, FL 33128<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">WATCH: </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">The meeting will be webcast live at: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://miamidade.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=168" title="blocked::http://miamidade.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=168">http://miamidade.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=168</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">The press conference will be webcast at: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://miamidade.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=170" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://miamidade.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=170">http://miamidade.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=170</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-16937323575664830352010-05-11T16:02:00.000-04:002010-05-11T16:02:29.316-04:00FWC launches climate change website<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Find out what fish and wildlife managers are doing to help wildlife adapt to potential climate change impacts. Measure your carbon footprint. Tap into age-appropriate climate change lessons. These exciting features and more can be found on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) new website, <a href="http://www.myfwc.com/ClimateChange" title="blocked::http://www.myfwc.com/ClimateChange">MyFWC.com/ClimateChange</a>. The website is dedicated to educating the public about the impacts of climate change to the state’s fish and wildlife resources and how the agency is addressing those impacts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“We hope the FWC climate change website will become a must-visit resource for individuals and organizations wanting to learn more about climate change and its impact on wildlife,” said Doug Parsons, the FWC’s climate change program coordinator. “The FWC has established itself as a leader nationally on this issue, and we look forward to working with our wildlife partners to improve the information on the website as this issue unfolds in the years to come.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Florida’s geography and position as home to threatened and endangered wildlife puts the state in a unique position for experiencing the effects of climate change. Acknowledging that fact, the FWC began addressing climate change in 2007, when the commission passed a resolution directing staff to develop recommendations for conserving fish and wildlife in the face of climate change. In 2008, the FWC hosted a climate change summit, which brought together leading experts and professionals in the field to share their knowledge. Immediately following the summit, the FWC formed climate change teams. The website confirms the FWC’s commitment to addressing this complex issue.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-40356584153706509022010-04-29T11:52:00.001-04:002010-04-29T11:52:47.418-04:00Climate Change Adaptation Task Force<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><o:smarttagtype name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/object_element.gif" class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies. When the President signed the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-signs-an-Executive-Order-Focused-on-Federal-Leadership-in-Environmental-Energy-and-Economic-Performance"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance</span></a>, on October 5, 2009, he called on the Task Force to develop, within one year, Federal recommendations for adapting to climate change impacts both domestically and internationally. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">See <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/adaptation">http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/adaptation</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<h2><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Interim Progress Report<o:p></o:p></span></h2><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">On March 16, 2010, the Task Force <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ceq/20100315-interagency-adaptation-progress-report.pdf"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">released an Interim Progress Report</span></a> which outlines the Task Force’s progress to date and recommends key components to include in a national strategy on climate change adaptation. These six components include:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Integration of Science into Adaptation Decisions and Policy <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Communications and Capacity-building<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Coordination and Collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Prioritization<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">A Flexible Framework for Agencies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Interim Progress Report is available for 60 days of public comment. <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/adaptation/submit"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Submit your comment here</span></a>: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/adaptation/submit">http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/adaptation/submit</a> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<h2><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Workgroups<o:p></o:p></span></h2><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force formed workgroups to consider the capabilities of the Federal Government to respond to the impacts of climate change on various critical sectors, institutions, and agency mission responsibilities. The workgroups are focused on the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Agency Adaptation</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">: Develop recommendations on how agencies should plan and implement adaptation efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Science Inputs to Policy</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">: Develop recommendations to couple the production of scientific and technical support to adaptation planning, prioritization, and resilience building within the USG, in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and internationally.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Insurance</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">: Develop recommendations on opportunities for the United States Government to support insurance and adaptation issues.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Water Resources Adaptation</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">: Develop recommendations on how Federal water management agencies should plan and implement adaptation actions related to climate impacts on water resources.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">International Resilience</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">: Develop recommendations on opportunities for the United States Government to support and lead international adaptation efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Health:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Develop recommendations focused on educating and communicating with policymakers, public health officials, healthcare professionals, and the public; building early warning systems, identifying vulnerable populations; forecasting, modeling, and predicting the health impacts of climate change; and building capacity to better prepare for and respond to those impacts.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Fish, Wildlife and Plants:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Develop recommendations on how Federal agencies, state, local, and tribal governments should plan and implement adaptation efforts related to climate impacts on wildlife, fish, and plants.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Structure for Coordination and Collaboration:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Develop recommendations on the structure for U.S. Government adaptation efforts and on how Federal agencies can coordinate adaptation activities with other Federal agencies, state, local, and tribal governments, and the private sector and civil society.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Urban: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Develop recommendations on how Federal agencies in conjunction with state, local, and tribal governments can implement adaptation efforts related to climate impacts on urban environments, communities and infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Coasts and Oceans:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Develop recommendations to strengthen resiliency of coastal communities and marine and <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place> environments and their abilities to adapt to climate change impacts and ocean acidification. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Land: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Develop recommendations on how Federal land management agencies in conjunction with state, local, and tribal governments and private landholders can address adaptation related to climate impacts on land.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Communications:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Develop recommendations on how the Federal Government can better communicate messages regarding climate change adaptation and resilience within and outside the government.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><h2><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Listening Sessions<o:p></o:p></span></h2><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force workgroups have hosted twenty listening sessions with key stakeholders and experts. The listening sessions are designed to engage the expertise and recommendations of external organizations into the workgroup deliberations early in this review process. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<h2><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Final Product<o:p></o:p></span></h2><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In October 2010, the Task Force will report to the President on the development of domestic and international dimensions of a <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> approach to climate change adaptation and what Federal Agencies are doing to support this effort. The Task Force also will recommend additional aspects to consider in the development of a comprehensive national strategy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Fish and Wildlife Face Significant Risks as the Climate Changes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Our nation’s fish and wildlife are expected to be significantly impacted now and in the future as the climate continues to fluctuate.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">New research will help understand future climate conditions and impacts to species and their habitats. Projects include studies of alterations in <st1:state w:st="on">Florida</st1:state>’s ecosystems, potential impacts on Great Lakes’ fish, sea-level rise impacts on <st1:placename w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype> marshes, and the effects of melting glaciers on <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state>’s freshwater coastal systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">“The U.S. Geological Survey has funded 17 new projects through the National Climate Change and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wildlife</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>,” said USGS Associate Director for Biology Susan Haseltine. “Our future holds new climate conditions and new habitat responses, and managers need projections based on sound science to assess how our landscapes may change and to develop effective response strategies for species survival.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Several projects are summarized below, and descriptions of all projects can be found at <a href="http://nccw.usgs.gov/">http://nccw.usgs.gov/</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Preserving <st1:state w:st="on">Florida</st1:state>’s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Unique</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Land</st1:placetype></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Florida</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> has diverse ecosystems and a unique climate. To understand how it will fare in the face of climate change, scenarios must be developed that consider this uniqueness. USGS scientists are doing just that by creating Florida-specific models regarding which species and habitats will increase or decline based on potential rainfall and temperature change as well as impacts of human-induced land use and land cover change.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">What’s the Future for <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place> Fish?<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place> support a multi-billion-dollar fishing and tourism industry, but little is known on how climate change could affect their fish species. USGS scientists and collaborators are updating models to predict 50 to 100 years in the future how water level, water temperatures and ice cover will change in the <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place>. Scientists will explore how warmer water temperatures may affect fish growth and consumption rates and forecast algal production and fish variability in Lakes Michigan and Huron.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">San Francisco</span></u></st1:placename><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype></span></u></st1:place><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Marshes under Siege<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">San Francisco</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> marshes are at risk from sea-level rise, storms, altered salinities, changes in sediment loads and more. This threatens plant communities and species such as the salt marsh harvest mouse, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state> clapper rail and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> black rail, which are all listed as either federally endangered or threatened. USGS scientists are developing models for this area to predict sea-level rise, effects on species and habitats, and whether marshes can grow at sustainable rates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Climate on the Move: Where Will It Go?<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">What if managers could map where climate conditions will likely occur in the future? Or visualize how habitats will respond and move? USGS scientists are working to make this happen, helping to protect our nation’s natural resources. They are creating climate models for North America and smaller scaled models for the contiguous <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state>. Data will be incorporated into an online Web interface where managers can download information and produce maps of future climate conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Camouflage Trying to Keep Up with Climate Change<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Many species undergo a seasonal change of coat color to match the presence or absence of snow. As the climate changes and snowpack declines, species may have white coats on non-snowy backgrounds. One species impacted by this is the snowshoe hare, which are prey for the federally threatened <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> lynx. Animals could face population decline or respond by adapting or moving. USGS scientists are tracking snowshoe hares to evaluate their responses, using data to make projections for the next 30 to 50 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Are Melting Glaciers Disturbing <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state>’s Flow?<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">As the climate changes and glaciers melt, the flow of freshwater in the <st1:place w:st="on">Gulf of Alaska</st1:place> is altered, and impacts are felt across coastal ecosystems. For example, fish feed on phytoplankton and zooplankton and these organisms could be negatively affected as increased water flows bring higher levels of iron and nitrate. Scientists are studying these processes and impacts, with particular focus on the <st1:place w:st="on">Copper River</st1:place>, which relies on nearby mountain glaciers and is the Gulf’s largest freshwater source. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Trout at Risk in the West<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Some native trout populations in the western <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> are at risk for extinction, with many proposed for or listed under the Endangered Species Act. The recovery of these species is a challenge as climate change is likely to raise water temperatures, alter wildfire occurrences, and increase demand for water resources. USGS scientists are studying how climate change will influence fish habitats and providing data to managers to help them assess extinction risks and develop appropriate response strategies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Islands and Seabirds Faced with Sea-Level Rise<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">As the climate continues to change, sea-level rise may inundate coastal and low elevation Pacific islands. The <st1:place w:st="on">Northwestern Hawaiian Islands</st1:place> provide habitat for the largest assemblage of tropical seabirds in the world (14 million birds and 22 species) and 11 endangered species of terrestrial birds and plants. Even small increases in sea level may result in critical habitat loss. USGS scientists are mapping current species distribution and identifying the areas and species that are most vulnerable to sea-level rise. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Thirsty Plants in the Arid Southwest<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">A warmer climate can bring dryer conditions, threatening plant species in the arid southwestern United States as well as the wildlife that depend on these plants for habitat and food. USGS scientists will expand on existing models that outline climate change impacts to plant populations and include up to 30 plant species. Focus will be placed on plants supporting wildlife of greatest concern. These models will also be used to project changes in wildlife populations. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">The National Climate Change and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wildlife</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> and other scientific programs elements of the USGS will work closely with eight regional Climate Science Centers being established by the Department of the Interior. These centers will provide scientific information, tools and techniques needed to manage land, water, wildlife and cultural resources in the face of climate change. The USGS and the DOI centers will also work closely with a network of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives in which federal, state, tribal and other managers and scientists will develop conservation, adaptation and mitigation strategies for dealing with the impacts of climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The USGS provides science for a changing world. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/" title="USGS Homepage">www.usgs.gov</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Subscribe to USGS News Releases via our <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/list_server.asp">electronic mailing list</a> or <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/rss/newsroom.rss">RSS</a> feed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-85565430683722752972010-03-16T13:44:00.003-04:002010-03-16T13:47:37.110-04:00Obama Administration Officials Release Progress Report on Work of Climate Change Adaptation Task Force<div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>WASHINGTON</b> – <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Today, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released an interim progress report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. The report outlines the Task Force’s progress to date and recommends key components to include in a national strategy on climate change adaptation. The components include: integration of science into adaptation decisions and policy; communications and capacity building; coordination and collaboration; prioritization; a flexible framework for Agencies; and evaluation. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“The Administration believes we must prepare for the inevitable effects of climate change,” said Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. “We know that climate-related changes are already observed in the United States. The Federal Government must adapt and improve resilience to minimize risk to people, natural places, and key infrastructure. Adaptation will require thoughtful, preventative actions and investments, and demand new approaches and preparation from nonprofit, private and government entities.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">"The impacts of climate change are closely tied to our economy and national security; they affect all aspects of our society and ecosystems. This inter-agency effort will deliver on the President's promise to base decisions on good science," said Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator. "This Task Force is focused on enhancing the resilience of the natural environment, the built environment and human institutions to climate change and ocean acidification."<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">“Effective policy demands the latest and best scientific information,” said Shere Abbott, Associate Director for Energy and Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. “To this end, the Administration is strengthening the U.S. Global Change Research Program to support evidence-based actions aimed at adapting to climate change, even as we work to mitigate the effects of climate change and deepen our understanding of its consequences for human well-being and ecosystems.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">In 2009, CEQ, OSTP and NOAA initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies. When President Obama signed the Executive Order focused on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance on October 5, 2009, he called on the Task Force to develop, within one year, Federal recommendations for adapting to climate change impacts both domestically and internationally. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">In October of 2010, the Task Force will report to the President on the development of domestic and international dimensions of a U.S. approach to climate change adaptation and what Federal Agencies are doing to support this effort. The Task Force also will recommend additional aspects to consider in the development of a comprehensive national strategy. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Federal Adaptation Planning<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">There is substantial activity underway in the U.S. to adapt to climate change and build resilience. Several States, cities and counties have begun to assess risks and develop adaptation strategies. The Federal Government also is taking action. However, the Task Force has determined that significant gaps in the U.S. Government’s approach to this effort remain. To address these gaps, the Task Force identified the need to develop the following:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">-<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>A unified strategic vision and approach <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">-An understanding of the challenges at all levels of government<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">-Organized and coordinated efforts across local, State and Federal agencies<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">-Strong links between, and support and participation of, Tribal, regional, State, and local <br />
partners<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">-Coherent research programs to identify and describe regional impacts <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">-Relevant climate change and impact information that is accessible to and usable by<br />
decision-makers and practitioners on the ground<o:p></o:p><br />
-Comprehensive and localized risk and vulnerability assessments<o:p></o:p><br />
-A strategy to link resources, both financial and intellectual, to critical needs<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">-A robust approach to evaluating and applying lessons learned<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Task Force seeks to address these gaps and recognizes that adaptation and resilience will require a set of thoughtful, preventative actions and investments, and will demand new approaches and preparation from all segments of society. To promote this, the Task Force determined a national strategy should address at a minimum the following six components: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Science Inputs to Adaptation Decisions and Policy.</b> The Task Force may recommend approaches for coordinating, developing, distributing and integrating science, from physical to socioeconomic, into all aspects of adaptation.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Communications and Capacity-building. </b>The Task Force may develop recommendations for communicating climate change impacts, adaptation, and resilience and for building capacity within the U.S. Government, including prioritizing opportunities for additional training and resources.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Coordination and Collaboration. </b>The Task Force may develop recommendations for structuring the national adaptation strategy within the Federal Government and for increasing and improving coordination and collaboration across the Government and with partners.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Prioritization.</b> The Task Force may consider and make recommendations for how to identify priorities. The Task Force has begun work on several areas that may require a coordinated government response, and is developing recommendations for water resource management and for international adaptation and resilience. The Task Force will add additional areas as it continues its work.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>A Flexible Framework for Agencies. </b>Adapting to climate change and building resilience requires planning within and across agencies. There is no single planning approach appropriate for all agencies, but each should use a consistent framework to facilitate coordination and allow agencies to leverage common tools and methods. The Task Force may implement agency pilots to further develop and test the framework, and will continue to develop recommendations on the common tools required to support implementation. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Evaluation. </b>Adaptation plans must allow for a “feedback” mechanism, whereby new information, lessons learned, and modified priorities can be incorporated into ongoing adaptation processes. Evaluation and lessons learned will help provide clear guidance for decision-making that enhances adaptation and resiliency. The Task Force may develop recommendations for how to evaluate the success of adaptation and resilience-building efforts. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: black;">In preparing its October 2010 report, the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force will refine recommendations around structural issues like improving the integration of science into policy development and developing a framework for Federal Agency adaptation. It also will continue to work on cross-cutting topics like water resources management and international adaptation. The Task Force will establish additional workgroups, including those to inform the national strategy in the areas of communications, coordination and collaboration across government and with partners, evaluation, </span>and other priority issues<span style="color: black;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In addition, the Task Force will hold a series of regional outreach meetings, conduct pilot activities, and accept public comment on its interim progress report for 60 days on the CEQ website at: </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/initiatives/adaptation" title="blocked::http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/initiatives/adaptation">http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/initiatives/adaptation</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6480114704123782656&postID=8556543068372275297" name="_Hlt256408562"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6480114704123782656&postID=8556543068372275297" name="_Hlt256408563"></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-43515593379094584752010-03-05T12:09:00.001-05:002010-03-05T12:09:52.592-05:00Secretary Salazar Announces University of Alaska as Host of Nation’s First Regional Climate Science Center<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><o:smarttagtype name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="State" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">WASHINGTON</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state>—Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Department of the Interior has selected the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Alaska</st1:placename></st1:place> as the first of eight planned regional <span style="color: #333333;">Climate Science Centers</span> in the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">“With rapidly melting Arctic-sea ice and permafrost, and threats to the survival of Native Alaskan coastal communities, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state> is ground zero for climate change,” said Secretary Salazar. “We must put science to work to help us adjust to the impacts of climate change on <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state>’s resources and peoples.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In addition to the <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state> region, Climate Science Centers will be selected in seven additional regions throughout the country as directed by a 2009 Secretarial Order on climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Secretary Salazar also announced today that the Department will </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">be seeking grant proposals <span style="color: black;">for four more Climate Science Centers in the next few weeks-- including centers in the Northwest, Southeast, Southwest and North Central regions. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Joining Secretary Salazar in today’s teleconference were Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes and Dr. Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, which runs the existing National Climate Change and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wildlife</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">“<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Regional</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Climate</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Centers</st1:placetype></st1:place> and their networks will provide science about climate change impacts, help land managers adapt to the impacts, and engage the public through education initiatives,” Secretary Salazar said. “In short, Climate Science Centers will better connect our scientists with land managers and the public.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In looking at criteria for choosing <st1:placename w:st="on">Climate</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype> locations, Secretary Salazar noted that the Department determined “the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Alaska</st1:placename> is uniquely qualified to serve as host for the <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state> region both because of its location and expertise.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> “<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state> has tens of millions of acres of public lands under Interior’s jurisdiction,” Secretary Salazar also noted. “A strong functioning partnership between federal and state agencies, Native communities, and other stakeholders will enable the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Alaska</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Climate</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> to hit the ground running,” the Secretary said. Interior hopes to have the new climate science center at the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Alaska</st1:placename> formally established in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anchorage</st1:place></st1:city> within six to eight weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">On September 14, 2009, with Secretarial Order No. 3289, Secretary Salazar put into action the Department’s first-ever coordinated strategy to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">address current and future impacts of climate change on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s land, water, ocean, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The plan called for establishing not only the regional “<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Climate</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Centers</st1:placetype></st1:place>” but also a network of “Landscape Conservation Cooperatives” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">that will engage federal agencies, local and state partners, and the public in crafting practical, landscape-level strategies for managing climate change impacts within the eight regions. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Within their respective regions, these cooperatives will focus on impacts that typically extend beyond the borders of any single national wildlife refuge, national park or Bureau of Land Management unit—such as the effects of climate change on wildlife migration patterns, wildfire risk, drought, or invasive species.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Salazar said that together the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Climate</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Centers</st1:placetype></st1:place> and the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives form “the cornerstone of our strategy.” The Climate Science Centers will recruit staff from USGS and partner organizations, as well as cadres of scientists and information specialists.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">To learn more about this our climate change strategy, visit our new website at <span style="color: #1f497d;"><a href="http://doi.gov/whatwedo/climate/strategy/index.cfm" title="blocked::http://doi.gov/whatwedo/climate/strategy/index.cfm">http://doi.gov/whatwedo/climate/strategy/index.cfm</a></span>. This site features interactive maps of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Climate</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Centers</st1:placetype></st1:place> and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, as well as additional details on the services they will provide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-43348062719491374392010-02-22T09:13:00.002-05:002010-02-22T09:15:51.894-05:00EPA Announces New Website to Help State and Local Governments Tackle Climate Change<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p>EPA just launched a new Web site to help state and local governments<o:p></o:p> understand, plan, and implement strategies to reduce greenhouse gas<o:p></o:p> emissions within their jurisdictions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The State and Local Climate and Energy Program Web site,<o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate"> www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate</a>, brings together EPA resources to serve as<o:p></o:p> a one-stop shop for government officials seeking information on climate<o:p></o:p> change and clean energy. The site provides:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Resources on energy efficiency, renewable energy, waste<o:p></o:p> management, workforce development, health, adaptation, and more.<o:p></o:p> “How to” information for developing a climate change action plan<o:p></o:p> or greenhouse gas inventory along with maps showing which states<o:p></o:p> and localities have them in place. Guidance on evaluating policy<o:p></o:p> and program options and measuring results.<o:p></o:p> A calendar of upcoming climate change and clean energy webcasts<o:p></o:p> and conferences. Podcasts and video recordings of State and Local<o:p></o:p> Climate and Energy Program webcasts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Featured Resource: Assessing the Multiple Benefits of Clean Energy: A<o:p></o:p> Resource for States<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">This resource will help state energy, environmental, and economic policy<o:p></o:p> makers identify and quantify the many benefits of clean energy. This<o:p></o:p> groundbreaking document is the first to organize and present a<o:p></o:p> comprehensive review of the multiple benefits of clean energy, together<o:p></o:p> with an analytical framework that states can use to assess those<o:p></o:p> benefits during the development and implementation of clean energy<o:p></o:p> policies and programs. Access the resource at:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/resources/benefits.html">http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/resources/benefits.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">To be notified of upcoming Webcasts, hear about state and local climate<o:p></o:p> and energy news, and learn of enhancements to the Web site, join the<o:p></o:p>State and Local Climate and Energy Listserv by visiting:<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/listservs/index.html">http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/listservs/index.html</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-80273939952037636222010-02-18T09:25:00.001-05:002010-02-18T09:25:18.921-05:00Wildlife Conservation Society Climate Change Job Opening<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="State" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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</style><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Title: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Assistant Conservationist (Climate Change)<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Department & Program: </span></b><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">North America</span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Program<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Reports to: </span></b><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">North America</span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Climate Change Program Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Location: </span></b><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Bozeman</span></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">, <st1:state w:st="on">MT</st1:state> (or <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Application deadline: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Looking to fill position immediately<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been dedicated to conserving the earth's<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">biodiversity since its establishment in 1898 as the New York Zoological Society (NYZS). As part of WCS’s Global Conservation Program, the North America Program saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues, crafting science-based solutions, and taking conservation actions that benefit nature and humanity. The North America Program employs approximately 50 people in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> and has an annual operating budget of about $5.5M; US-based programs comprise approximately 70% of this. WCS focuses on three major conservation outcomes including: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">i)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Saving the Best of the Wild<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">ii)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Conserving Priority Species<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">iii)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Resolving Critical Wildlife Challenges including Climate Change, Local Livelihoods, Wildlife Health, Natural Resource Use, and Ecological Connectivity. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">This position will provide support to efforts that address the Climate Change challenge at several landscapes in North America, including the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Adirondack</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, and Arctic Alaska.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Position Objectives: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Climate Change Assistant Conservationist will provide scientific, conservation, and<b> </b>technical support for climate change adaptation projects at several landscapes across <st1:place w:st="on">North<b> </b>America</st1:place>, aimed at applying best-available climate change science to identify or modify<b> </b>conservation and management practices.<b> </b>The Climate Change Assistant Conservationist is expected to work in close collaboration with<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">landscape, challenge and project leaders within the WCS North America Program as well as scientists and managers at other organizations, universities and government agencies, and diverse stakeholders at particular landscapes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Duties and Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Work with the North America Climate Change Program Coordinator to implement<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">climate change adaptation projects and synthesize lessons learned on climate change<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">adaptation across North American landscapes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Provide support to existing adaptation efforts by contributing ideas on how to approach<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">adaptation planning and implementation, helping to facilitate climate change workshops<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">and working group meetings, contributing to workshop report writing, and other project<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Build, maintain, and facilitate cross-agency and cross-organizational working groups.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Contribute to the development of new projects aimed at implementing the Wildlife<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Conservation Society North America Program’s climate change strategic plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Synthesize, analyze, and interpret emerging climate change science for conservation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">practitioners and policy-makers, and stay abreast of the latest developments in climate<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">change adaptation for biodiversity conservation and other sectors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Report project findings in peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as through<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">appropriate internal and external communication vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Provide climate change adaptation expertise to national, regional and local climate<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">change planning efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Contribute to grant writing and other development activities related to raising funds for<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">climate change projects in <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Demonstrated commitment to the mission of the Wildlife Conservation Society.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Master’s degree in science-related field and 3-4 years experience, or Ph.D. and 1-2 years<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience). Research<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">background in understanding ecological or hydrological consequences of climate change<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">preferred.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Knowledge of current trends in climate change research, and practices and issues in<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">biodiversity conservation under climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Experience translating science research into practical and applied guidance for<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">conservation and management, preferably on the topic of climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Demonstrated strong writing and oral communications skills to effectively communicate<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">project findings to a broad constituency, including both scientific and lay audiences (e.g.,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">scientists, policy staff, managers, donors, and the general public).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Demonstrated ability to organize and facilitate workshops and working group meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Record of successful fundraising, grant writing, or research proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">• Willingness to travel to and work with partners in multiple locations across North<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">America</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV, and list of 3 references via WCS’ website<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">(</span><span style="color: #810081; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.wcs.org/about-us/careers/opportunities-in-the-field.aspx</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">). Questions regarding the position can be directed to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/mcross@wcs.org">mcross@wcs.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-82605357646184422312010-02-03T14:58:00.002-05:002010-02-03T15:01:06.627-05:00SAFEGUARDING WILDLIFE FROM CLIMATE CHANGE WEB CONFERENCE SERIES<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><o:smarttagtype name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="State" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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</style><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">A partnership between the National Wildlife Federation and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Fish and Wildlife Service<o:p></o:p></span></b> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The U.S. Fish and Wild Service and National Wildlife Federation have developed a series of web conferences to increase communication and transfer of technical information between conservation professionals regarding the increasing challenges from climate change. This program is being facilitated by the USFWS's <st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Conservation</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Training</st1:placename> Center (NCTC).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">You are invited to attend: Thursday, February 18, 2010, 2:30PM - 4:00PM EST<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Topic: "<b>Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change: Case Studies for<o:p></o:p></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Species and Systems</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Instructor: Joshua J. Lawler, <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Forest</st1:placename> Resources, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Washington</st1:placename>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Seattle</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">WA</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">General Information about the Conference Series:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://training.fws.gov/CSP/Course_descriptions/CSP3902.htm">http://training.fws.gov/CSP/Course_descriptions/CSP3902.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Instructions for registering:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">YOU MUST REGISTER BY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 5:00PM ET TO JOIN THIS WEBINAR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The web conferences last about 1 to 1.5 hours including a question-and-answer session. Topics are climate change and wildlife-related and will include scientists from academia, government, and private conservation organizations. The conferences are targeted at a technical level equivalent to that of a graduate seminar and assume that the participants already have some knowledge of and background with the topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The web conferences use the Microsoft Live Meeting software program. Conference advertisement and registration is through DOI LEARN. All conferences, including questions and answers, are recorded and available in NCTC’s web library. To view archived webinars in this series, go to:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> <a href="http://training.fws.gov/CSP/Resources/climate_change_webinars/safeguarding_wildlife_cc_archives.html">http://training.fws.gov/CSP/Resources/climate_change_webinars/safeguarding_wildlife_cc_archives.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">If you have any questions regarding the Climate Change webinars, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Donna C. Brewer, Curriculum Manager, Conservation Science and<o:p></o:p></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Policy</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Fish & Wildlife Service, National Conservation<o:p></o:p></span><st1:placename w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Training</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Shepherdstown</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">WV</st1:state></st1:place> <o:p></o:p>304/876-7451,donna_brewer@fws.gov<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Naomi Edelson, Sr. Manager, State Wildlife Programs, National<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Wildlife Federation, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">National Advocacy Center</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place>, DC<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">202/ 797-6889, edelsonn@nwf.org<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Registration Information: Registration for all of the webinars is through DOILearn. To register go to: <a href="https://doilearn.doi.gov/">https://doilearn.doi.gov/</a> and follow these instructions:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Department of Interior Applicants:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Log in DOI Learn using your Log-in name and password.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Click on "Course Catalog" tab.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Click on "Catalog".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In the search menu box, type CSP3902 and click "Search".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Click on title of webinar.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Scroll to the webinar session you are interested in.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Enter $0 in the amounts estimated and enter "Agency" for who is funding.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Click on "Preview Schedule".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Under "Options", click "Apply".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">You will receive an email from me two days prior to the webinar with instructions <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">on how to log-on through Live Meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Non-Department</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Interior Applicants</st1:placename></st1:place>: There is not a tuition charge for these <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Webinars. To register, navigate to: <a href="https://doilearn.doi.gov/">https://doilearn.doi.gov/</a> and follow these <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">instructions:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> 1. Use the “Public Catalog Login” in DOI Learn to register for the Webinars<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> 2. Once in the Catalog, search on “Safeguarding Wildlife from Climate Change” or <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> "CSP3902"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> 3. Click on title of topic<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> 4. Scroll down the course description until you find the webinar session you are <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> interested in<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> 5. Select “Apply”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> 6. Fill out the registration form; where it asks for Payment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Type, select “none required”; Click “Go”; then click on “Submit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Order”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Due to your computer configuration, you might receive an error message that says your application will not go through. If this happens, in the Payment Type, select "credit card" and in the name of the credit card holder, type your name. The Data Steward will know not to ask for credit card information sine she knows there is not tuition due.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> 7. You will receive an email from me two days prior to the webinar with <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> instructions on how to log-on through Live Meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">If you have any questions registering, please contact me at the address and/or phone number below.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">On January 21<sup>st</sup>, 2010 the State Department posted a public notice on the Federal Register for recommendations for US authors and reviewers to the 5<sup>th</sup> Assessment Report of the IPCC. Qualified <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> experts who wish to be considered should submit an electronic application and supporting material to the United States Global Change Research Program website <a href="http://www.globalchange.gov/" title="blocked::http://www.globalchange.gov/">http://www.globalchange.gov</a> . Please distribute this information to climate change experts that you work closely with on adaptation issues. It would be beneficial to have experts from wildlife disciplines to be part of the IPCC, particularly those who are knowledgeable of the needs of state fish & wildlife agencies. The deadline for nominations is February 15<sup>th</sup>, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-88221157386065334132010-01-25T09:03:00.001-05:002010-01-25T09:03:26.179-05:00Wildlife Conservation Society Climate Adaptation Coordinator Position Open<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) seeks a strategic, analytical conservationist to build adaptation to climate change into our global field programs and to represent WCS on this issue in global policy forums. This full-time position, based at WCS’s headquarters, the Bronx Zoo in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, offers the opportunity to join an extraordinary team of committed conservationists, to influence conservation practice in over fifty countries, and to build a reputation in one of conservation’s fastest growing fields.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">WCS saves wildlife and wild places through a global program of landscape, seascape, and species conservation projects employing over 3,000 in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the world’s oceans. In global policy forums, we are listened to as scientists and conservationists with unrivalled field experience and success.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Climate Adaptation Coordinator will have three main areas of responsibility:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="ListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Working with our regional, country, landscape, seascape, and species programs to ensure that each incorporates planning for adaptation to climate change and to promote cross-program learning;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Representing WCS at global policy forums to promote successful approaches to climate adaptation and the central role of biodiversity conservation in this endeavor;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="ListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Spearhead the development of an organization-wide climate adaptation strategy and help fundraise to implement this strategy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The successful candidate will have: an advanced degree in landscape ecology, climate change ecology, modeling climate impacts on natural systems, conservation biology, or a related field; GIS skills; experience implementing strategic initiatives across a global organization; demonstrated ability to thrive in an organization characterized by a highly educated and mission-driven workforce; and strong interpersonal and communications skills including the ability to summarize concisely scientific findings. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Apply by sending an application letter and CV together with the names and contact information for three referees to recruitment@wcs.org, and Pamela Watim (<a href="mailto:pwatim@wcs.org">pwatim@wcs.org</a>). For more information about Wildlife Conservation Society and a full job description, please visit our website at: <a href="http://www.wcs.org/">http://www.wcs.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #253c1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">R</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">esource managers are often required to make tough decisions, especially when the science is uncertain. However, these decisions must be defensible if called into question. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">It is often unclear what the full impact of an environmental problem will be and what kind of impacts (both intended and unintended) the solution may have. There is growing scientific consensus that a major shift in climate is underway worldwide, with profound implications for natural resource management. Adaptation to climate change will be an especially challenging issue for management agencies because decisions will be made, in many cases, based on an incomplete understanding of climate change impacts, particularly at the local level. Adaptive management and structured decision making are critical tools for making management decisions with incomplete information and high levels of uncertainty. Structured decision making is a decision analysis process that can help overcome challenges by breaking down difficult decisions such that a decision can be acceptable to a broad range of stakeholders. Adaptive management allows decision making to proceed even in the face of profound uncertainty about outcomes by treating management decisions as testable hypotheses. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Recognizing the importance of adaptive management and structured decision making, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Science & Research Committee is developing a series of workshops for state fish and wildlife agencies to provide them with the tools for making decisions in a scientifically defensible manner. The first workshop at the 2009 North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference focused on using adaptive management and structured decision making for invasive species management. For the second workshop the Science & Research Committee, in collaboration with the Associations Climate Change Committee, will present how adaptive management and the structured decision making process can be used to address climate change adaptation issues and can also be built into State Wildlife Action Plans revisions, as well as revisions for other plans. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, March 22<sup>nd</sup> from 8am-12pm during the 2010 North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Milwaukee</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">WI</st1:state></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For more information please contact Dr. <st1:personname w:st="on">Arpita Choudhury</st1:personname> at <a href="mailto:achoudhury@fishwildlife.org">achoudhury@fishwildlife.org</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-37451659564900911742010-01-22T10:56:00.001-05:002010-01-22T10:56:17.010-05:00Manomet receives a $750,000 grant for Sustaining Ecosystem Services in the Face of Climate Change<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><o:smarttagtype name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="State" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Manomet</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype> for Conservation Sciences has received a three-year $750,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation, based in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Troy</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state></st1:place>, to develop climate change adaptation strategies for rural resource sectors, such as forestry and agriculture. The three-year project titled “Moving from Vulnerability to Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Services in the face of Climate Change” will focus on developing management strategies and policies for building resilient ecosystem services—those goods and services nature provides to people, such as clean water, food production, clean air, wood, flood control, space for recreation, and wildlife, many of which are essential to human survival and well-being. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Scientists know the climate will change and affect these services. The project will help landowners and communities learn how to adapt to impending changes by developing and implementing strategies that make the ecosystem services more resilient to climate change. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The project will work with four key sectors influencing rural landscapes in <st1:place w:st="on">New England</st1:place>: forestry, agriculture, rural residential development, and conservation lands (such as state parks and wildlife refuges). The project will develop climate change adaptation strategies with individual landowners or managers and larger-scale watersheds and counties. Project sites will be located in southeastern <st1:state w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:state> and southern and mid-coast <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maine</st1:place></st1:state>. The project is one of the first in the nation to focus on building climate change resilience into ecosystem services through practical, on-the-ground management actions. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">“This project is about getting climate change adaptation going now, on the ground, by working with people who live and work in rural landscapes,” said Manomet’s President Dr. John Hagan. “This is an opportunity to do something locally while participating in a larger national effort to learn how to confront climate change. The <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:place></st1:city> climate change conference last December made some progress, but we can’t wait for 180 nations to see eye-to-eye in order to get to work and protect our ‘quality of place.’”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">“We need to do all we can to minimize climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but we also need to adapt to the changes we know will take place,” noted Dr. Hector Galbraith, Director of Manomet’s Climate Change and Energy Initiative. “In a best case scenario, New England’s climate by the end of the century could be like <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state>’s climate today, with all kinds of implications for <st1:place w:st="on">New England</st1:place> agriculture and forestry, rural communities, and wildlife species. We have to start thinking ahead, and thinking ahead will lead to more sustainable and resilient systems to all kinds of stressors, not just to climate change.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The National Wildlife Federation will be working on the project with Manomet to identify local, state, and national policies that would help landowners and communities adapt to climate change.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Recently, the Kresge Foundation established a new program in climate change, energy<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">efficiency, and renewable energy. The investment in Manomet’s work reflects the Foundation’s commitment to work in partnership with like-minded organizations to protect the planet and promote its long-term sustainability for future generations. “Manomet is playing a leadership role in helping people tackle the practical challenges of climate change,” said John Nordgren, Kresge’s Senior Program Officer and leader of its Climate Change Adaptation Program. “Manomet has a long and well-established reputation for knowing how to work with land managers to get things done on the ground.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">As one of the nation's oldest non-profit environmental research organizations, <b>Manomet </b>is dedicated to conserving natural resources for both humans and wildlife. Through science and public engagement, Manomet works to integrate society’s social, economic, and environmental values to create sustainable systems for present and future generations. Manomet’s headquarters are in <st1:city w:st="on">Plymouth</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:state>, but it also has offices in <st1:state w:st="on">Maine</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on">Vermont</st1:state>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chile</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Learn more about Manomet at <b><a href="http://www.manomet.org/">www.manomet.org</a></b>. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The <b>Kresge Foundation </b>(<b>www.kresge.org</b>) is a $2.9 billion private, national foundation that seeks to influence the quality of life for future generations through its support of nonprofit organizations in six fields of interest: health, the environment, community development, arts and culture, education, and human services.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Rob Kluin, Communications Director<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Manomet</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> for Conservation Sciences<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1b703a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">rkluin@manomet.org<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Robin O'Malley joined the U.S. Geological Survey this week to serve as the policy and partnership coordinator for the USGS National Climate Change and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wildlife</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">O’Malley comes to the USGS from the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economic and the Environment, where he was the Director of Program Development. Previously he directed the <st1:placename w:st="on">Heinz</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype>’s Environmental Reporting Program, which published <i>The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> </i>in 2002 and 2008.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">O’Malley will focus on science and resource management partnerships instrumental to the center’s success. Dr. Susan Haseltine, associate director of biology at USGS, said O’Malley’s expertise is ideally suited for the job.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">“Climate change crosses jurisdictional boundaries, so to be effective in planning for and reducing the effects of climate change on our natural resources, we must work with partners from many agencies and organizations,” Haseltine said. “With his background, passion, and solid reputation in the ecological and wildlife conservation community, Robin will help build those partnerships in a timely, effective manner.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">O’Malley has extensive experience in the Department of the Interior (DOI), where he led government efforts to establish a biodiversity information network throughout the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>. From 1993 to 1996, he was chief of staff for the National Biological Survey, where he was responsible for many program development and implementation activities, as well as budgeting and outreach. O’Malley also served as a special assistant to former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt; a DOI deputy science advisor; an associate director for natural resources at the White House Council on Environmental Quality; and a senior environmental advisor to Governor Thomas H. Kean of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:place></st1:state>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">He holds a master’s degree from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Harvard</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>'s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The <a href="http://nccw.usgs.gov/">USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center</a> was funded by Congress in 2008 to improve the capacity of fish and wildlife agencies to respond to climate change. The center’s research addresses high-priority climate change effects on fish and wildlife.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</style><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">An Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Workshop </span></b><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">2010 North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"> </st1:city></st1:place></span></b><br />
</div><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><st1:place style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Milwaukee</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">WI</st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8am-12pm March 22</span><sup style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">nd</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #253c1d; font-size: 12pt;">R</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">esource managers are often required to make tough decisions, especially when the science is uncertain. However, these decisions must be defensible if called into question. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is often unclear what the full impact of an environmental problem will be and what kind of impacts (both intended and unintended) the solution may have. There is growing scientific consensus that a major shift in climate is underway worldwide, with profound implications for natural resource management. Adaptation to climate change will be an especially challenging issue for management agencies because decisions will be made, in many cases, based on an incomplete understanding of climate change impacts, particularly at the local level. Adaptive management and structured decision making are critical tools for making management decisions with incomplete information and high levels of uncertainty. Adaptive management allows decision making to proceed even in the face of profound uncertainty about outcomes by treating management decisions as testable hypotheses. Structured decision making is a decision analysis process that can help overcome challenges by breaking down difficult decisions such that a decision can be acceptable to a broad range of stakeholders. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Recognizing the importance of these tools, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Science & Research Committee is developing a series of workshops for state fish and wildlife agencies to provide them with the tools for making decisions in a scientifically defensible manner. The first workshop at the 2009 North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference focused on using adaptive management and structured decision making for invasive species management. For the second workshop the Science & Research Committee, in collaboration with the Associations Climate Change Committee, will co-sponsor a workshop </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">to present how adaptive management and the structured decision making process can be used to address local climate change adaptation issues and can also be built into State Wildlife Action Plans revisions, as well as revisions for other plans, for climate change adaptation. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The workshop will use local examples to demonstrate how adaptive management and structured decision making can be used for climate change-based, natural resource issues. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The workshop will be held </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">at the 2010 North American Wildlife & Natural Resources Conference in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Milwaukee</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">WI</st1:state></st1:place> on the morning (8am-12pm) of March 22nd.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Wildlife</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Federations</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Climate</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Change</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Town Hall</st1:placetype></st1:place> meeting will follow in the afternoon to complete a day of climate change discussions.</b> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If you have any questions please contact Dr. <st1:personname w:st="on">Arpita Choudhury</st1:personname> at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/achoudhury@fishwildlife.org">achoudhury@fishwildlife.org</a></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p>Governor Schwarzenegger Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Comprehensive Climate Strategy, Announces Climate Adaptation Advisory Panel And Unveils Google-Earth Based Applications to Show Climate Change Risks<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">'s Climate Adaptation Strategy (CAS) final report, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive, multi-sector analysis will enhance the state's management of climate impacts from sea level rise, increased temperatures, shifting precipitation and extreme natural events. The CAS final report summarizes the latest science on how climate change could impact the state and provides recommendations on how to manage against those threats. It focuses on seven different sectors – public health, biodiversity and habitat, ocean and coastal resources, water management, agriculture, forestry, and transportation and energy infrastructure - and lays out several recommendations focused on reducing climate risks to people, the environment and infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The CAS report and recommendations can be found on the state's climate change portal at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.climatechange.ca.gov">www.climatechange.ca.gov</a> <<a href="http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/">http://www.climatechange.ca.gov</a>> . <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The creation of the Climate Adaptation Advisory Panel, in partnership with the Pacific Council on International Relations, will further assess <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>'s climate change risks and help develop a set of independent adaptation recommendations to implement CAS: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The independent, non- partisan group will build off the CAS final report focusing on three key hazards that are most likely to have increasing impact on <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> as the climate changes <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-These include increased wildfires and extended fire seasons, rising sea levels along 1,100 miles of coastline and reduced availability of water with reduced snow pack in the Sierras and extended periods of drought<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The panel, made up of 23 prominent business, labor, government and private sector leaders, will develop recommendations for consideration by the Governor and his administration, the Legislature and other stakeholders in July 2010<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Additionally, the Governor unveiled two new Google-Earth based applications that will allow Californians to see the risks of climate change impacts in their communities: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-Setting the standard for displaying and transferring climate change information, the Cal-Adapt prototype application will allow users to explore the risks of global warming in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> and help make better-informed localized adaptation decisions<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-Funded by the California Energy Commission and Google.org, the Stockholm Environmental Institute has also developed a Web site using the Google-Earth platform to display an interactive tour on climate change <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-Users can access these Google-Earth based applications through visiting the state's climate change portal at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation">www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation</a> <<a href="http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation">http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation</a>> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Background: <o:p></o:p></span></u><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-Gov. Schwarzenegger signed Executive Order S-13-08 <<a href="http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/11035/">http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/11035/</a>> in November 2008, which directed the Natural Resources Agency to identify how state agencies can respond to rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, sea level rise, and extreme natural events associated with climate change<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The Natural Resources Agency has worked with state agencies (California Emergency Management Agency; California Environmental Protection Agency; Business, Transportation and Housing Agency; Health and Human Services Agency; California Office of Information Security and the California Department of Food and Agriculture) during the last two years to develop the CAS<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">An Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Group under the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) with assistance from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been tasked to consider the capabilities of the Federal government to respond to the impacts of climate change across various critical sectors, institutions, and agencies. Five initial working groups (science policy, agency process, water, insurance, and international assistance) will review existing policies, operations, procedures, and other tools that affect the Federal government’s response, and suggest options for improving the government’s capacity for adaptation to climate change. <o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Agency Adaptation Workgroup is tasked with identifying approaches for agencies in climate change adaptation planning related to internal agency operations, policies, and processes. It will also identify agency-level operational activities necessary to assess climate risks and plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of these activities prospectively. A critical component of the work of this group will be identifying opportunities for actions by agencies that reduce risks, facilitate resilience, and build adaptive capacity. The workgroup is charged with developing a report to the Interagency Committee by the end of the year. The report will include recommendations on adaptation planning and implementation, encompassing intra-agency and inter-agency considerations. It will summarize the key issues, the Federal government’s capabilities, and challenges in responding to climate change, suggest possible improvements in the Federal government’s capacity for climate change adaptation, and recommend policy and other options for consideration by the Interagency Committee. <o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The workgroup held a series of “listening sessions” with local, state, and tribal governments and private sector partners. The purpose was to engage stakeholders involved in related planning processes and gather input on how federal agencies can work with partners to design and implement adaptation plans. During these sessions, participants were asked to consider the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Are there key programs, policies, or other actions that Federal agencies should adopt to support or guide their climate change adaptation planning? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="ListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Are there adaptation planning and implementation resources, studies or reports that the workgroup should consider in its work?</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="NoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On the 16<sup>th</sup> of November, 2009 the workgroup held a listening session in the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Truman</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Room</st1:placename></st1:place> of the White House Conference Center for State Fish & Wildlife Agencies on their work with State Adaptation Strategies. A teleconference line was made available for those who could not attend in person. Each state participant was given time to answer the questions listed above. <b>States that could not participate in the Listening Session are encouraged to email their replies to <a href="mailto:AgencyAdaptation@ceq.eop.gov">AgencyAdaptation@ceq.eop.gov</a> with the subject line: “(organization) listening session-(Date).” Comments are still welcome by the workgroup.</b></span>
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</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 2in; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Common Themes</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">One of the common threads throughout the listening session was the <b>lack of coordination and communication among federal agencies</b>. There is also a perception of competition among state agencies to be the first to move ahead in climate change impact assessment and adaptation planning. Several state participants reported that there is confusion within their agency about the roles of many federal agencies within the framework of climate change adaptation. This lack of coordination translates into lack of communication with state agencies as well as support and guidance on critical issues. <o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Several states indicated that a <b>national adaptation strategy</b> would be essential for future adaptation planning particularly as states are beginning to update their State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) for climate change. <o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In addition, a few states mentioned the need for <b>adaptive management training for state agencies</b>. Adaptive management and structured decision-making are important tools that state agencies need to be more comfortable practicing, particularly when managing for climate change.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Overview of State Participants Adaptation Activities and Challenges<o:p></o:p></span></u></b>
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">California</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<u>CA Adaptation Plan</u>-The multi-sector plan involved close participation by stakeholder groups which helped create an open and transparent process. CA Department of Natural Resources was a key player in the creation of this document. The final version will be out for release soon: <a href="http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation/">http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation/</a><o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-California DFG is also co-chair (with <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Nevada</st1:place></st1:state>) of the WAFWA climate change committee.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Idaho</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Idaho</st1:state></st1:place> is just beginning to coordinate and plan for climate change adaptation.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-They are working with USFWS on the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (<st1:state st="on">Oregon</st1:state>, <st1:city st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Montana</st1:state>, and <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Wyoming</st1:place></st1:state> are also participating in that project): <a href="http://www.fws.gov/science/SHC/pdf/DoIGreatNorthernLCCNarrative10092008.pdf">http://www.fws.gov/science/SHC/pdf/DoIGreatNorthernLCCNarrative10092008.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Pennsylvania</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:state></st1:place>’s Governor created a Climate Change Advisory Council to begin drafting an adaptation plan. The plan, which crosses sectors, is currently under review. <o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The Fish & Boating Commission and the Wildlife Commission are beginning to update their SWAP. At this time they are uncertain if it will be a large or small update.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Missouri</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The need for information on which parts of SWAPs would be most useful to federal agencies and partners was identified.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Missouri</st1:state></st1:place> is trying to determine how to integrate agriculture and wildlife agencies respective adaptation plans.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Alaska</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">- <st1:state st="on"><span style="color: black;">Alaska</span></st1:state><span style="color: black;"> has formed a Sub-cabinet on Climate Change to prepare an <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state> climate change strategy which consists of an Adaptation Workgroup and a Mitigation Workgroup: <a href="http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/">http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<span style="color: black;">Alaska Department of Fish and Game has also formed a Think Tank to </span>identify likely impacts to fish and wildlife.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Oregon</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state> is currently updating their SWAPs for climate change. <o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state> also has an online Fish & Wildlife adaptation strategy: <a href="http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/preparing_oregons_fish_wildllife%20.pdf">http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/preparing_oregons_fish_wildllife%20.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Minnesota</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:state> created a strategic plan in 2009 on energy and climate for their agency that identifies adaptation and mitigation strategies.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-A new inter agency adaptation team was created and will host a Climate Change Adaptation Summit in December to identify what the research and policy needs are for the state.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Wisconsin</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The WI DNR, in partnership with the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Wisconsin</st1:placename></st1:place> and other state agencies and institutions are part of the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI). This taskforce consists of a science council, advisory committees, and 18 different working groups that assesses and anticipates climate change impacts on <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Wisconsin</st1:state></st1:place>’s different sectors. The taskforce has downscaled climate models to the local level for WI: <a href="http://www.wicci.wisc.edu/">http://www.wicci.wisc.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The WICCI will be releasing an Assessment Report in 2010 that recommends adaptation strategies that can be implemented by different sectors. <o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Vermont</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Vermont</st1:place></st1:state> is working with their cooperative units on data processing and analysis to develop an adaptation management framework.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-They are working with different partners on biodiversity and connectivity.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Massachusetts</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-For the past year and a half <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Massachusetts</st1:place></st1:state> has worked with Manomet to identify vulnerable habitats through an expert panel process. These habits are identified in their SWAPs. <o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-They are now in the process of developing adaptation planning for the state across all sectors.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The MA DFW is also a member of the Climate Change and Wildlife Alliance-Massachusetts: <a href="http://www.climateandwildlife.org/">http://www.climateandwildlife.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Nevada</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Nevada</st1:place></st1:state> is working with partners to rewrite their SWAPs. They are using the AFWA Guidance Document for that process as well.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-NatureServe will be hosting a workshop in NV on the use of the NatureServe Vulnerability Index: <a href="http://www.natureserve.org/prodServices/climatechange/ClimateChange.jsp">http://www.natureserve.org/prodServices/climatechange/ClimateChange.jsp</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">New York</span></b></st1:state></st1:place><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-The Governor drafted an Executive Order for an action plan across all sectors for adaptation and mitigation.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> also has a Sea Level Task Force that is creating recommendations for state legislation as it pertains to sea level rise.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Texas</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-<st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Texas</st1:state></st1:place> has no formal committees or task force for climate change.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-They will be updating their SWAPs for climate change.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">-TWRP is working with Katherine Heyhoe from Texas Tech and the coop units to leverage resources.</span>
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</style><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Summarized notes by <st1:personname st="on">Arpita Choudhury</st1:personname>, Science & Research Liaison for the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies<o:p></o:p></span></b>
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<br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; 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text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Section of Fisheries are partnering with other federal and state agencies, academia, local units of government, and citizen volunteers to better understand and respond to the potential effects of climate change on Minnesota’s glacial lake resources and fish communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">The first effort is dubbed “<st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Sustaining</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Lakes</st1:placetype></st1:place> in a Changing Environment” or SLICE.<span style=""> </span>SLICE is designed to understand, predict, and respond to the outcomes of major drivers of change such as development, agriculture, invasive species, and climate change on lake habitats and fish populations.<span style=""> </span>Climate change has the potential to exacerbate the harmful effects of other watershed or in-lake perturbations.<span style=""> </span>We are exploring processes and mechanisms at the watershed scale that drive patterns in water quality and fish habitat in a diverse set of 24 sentinel lake watersheds spread across the state’s major land types (See Lake Map).<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p>Our approach is to augment ongoing ‘snapshot’ data collection efforts in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">many MN lakes with an intensive focus to understand processes in a few representative sentinel systems.<span style=""> </span>This represents a novel and promising direction in water resource and fisheries management.<span style=""> </span>Further, cooperation with multiple entities charged with aquatic resource management ensures rigor (e.g., the right people doing the job), efficiency, relevance, and shared ownership in common-held goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">The first phase of SLICE runs from 2008 – 2011.<span style=""> </span>Partners are collecting comprehensive datasets on watershed stressors, water quality, zooplankton, aquatic plants, and fish populations.<span style=""> </span>These datasets are informing comprehensive baseline reports for each sentinel lake to form the foundation of future explorations.<span style=""> </span>Analysis teams will also be busy in 2011-2012 identifying a set of lake habitat and fish indicators that exhibit little natural variability but respond predictably across a gradient of lake habitat conditions.<span style=""> </span>These results will be used to set a long-term monitoring schedule; moving SLICE into its implementation phase.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Minnesota DNR Fisheries is also participating in a large-scale research project sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) focused on the effects of climate change on fish habitat. DNR Fisheries researchers will team up with the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) at the <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Minnesota</st1:placename> (<st1:city st="on">Duluth</st1:city>) to investigate the effects of climate and land use change on cisco (tullibees) in a number of <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:state> lakes.<span style=""> </span>Populations of cisco in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:state> are especially vulnerable to climate change, because the state is in the southern part of the species range. A requirement for cold, well oxygenated water make cisco an excellent indicator species for understanding the effects of climate chan</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">ge on many of our deeper lakes in the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">The USGS National Climate Change and <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Wildlife</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Climate</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> (<a href="http://nccw.usgs.gov/"><span style="">http://nccw.usgs.gov/</span></a>) is funding this research so state management agencies can develop climate change adaptation strategies.<span style=""> </span>Deep lakes with exceptional water quality will be specifically targeted because they will represent important sanctuaries for coldwater fish in a climate-warmed <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:state>. After identifying these potential refuge lakes, watershed protection efforts can be initiated that will protect these systems from any additional nutrient enrichment that would likely exacerbate climate-induced losses of cisco thermal habitat. Landscape ecologists at NRRI will assist with modeling the </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBi_FOi-5TqYWptHLz6yGgcJnlFOxcUmqZ1iabDkB16aV3rlOUniUp8xPyz26oi5Mm7Wtj0RnJqvNSll_d-hL3oU4UaC1i82m0BSd58f_NEW2AZ9Sg5pDHe454eMXvEMcaMuprPlPxhwT/s1600-h/MN+image+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBi_FOi-5TqYWptHLz6yGgcJnlFOxcUmqZ1iabDkB16aV3rlOUniUp8xPyz26oi5Mm7Wtj0RnJqvNSll_d-hL3oU4UaC1i82m0BSd58f_NEW2AZ9Sg5pDHe454eMXvEMcaMuprPlPxhwT/s320/MN+image+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400645303093826306" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">effects of climate and land use change on cisco habitat using newly developed, downscaled climate and land use projections that allow for analysis at very high geographic resolutions. Results of the <st1:state st="on">Minnesota</st1:state> cisco study will be integrated with the analyses of several other state, federal, and university research partners who will be studying the effects of climate and land use change on fish habitat in the Rocky Mountain West, Desert Southwest, and <st1:place st="on">Northeast US</st1:place>. The research will allow state management agencies like the Minnesota DNR to develop strategies that strengthen the resilience of fish habitat in lakes and streams against the effects of climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">For further information regarding SLICE contact SLICE coordinator <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Ray</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Valley</st1:placename></st1:place> <a href="mailto:ray.valley@state.mn.us"><span style="">ray.valley@state.mn.us</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">For further information regarding The Cooperative USGS climate change grant contact Peter Jacobson <a href="mailto:peter.jacobson@state.mn.us"><span style="">peter.jacobson@state.mn.us</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-72633735856700818312009-10-26T15:38:00.001-04:002009-10-26T15:40:13.589-04:00Virginia Board of Game and Inland Fisheries Endorses New Climate Change Strategy Document<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CACHOUD%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Virginia</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s Wildlife Action Plan identifies more than 900 species that are being impacted by the loss or degradation of their habitats. Many of these species could become extinct or extirpated from the Commonwealth if steps are not taken to reverse these trends. In coming decades, climate change will exacerbate and intensify many of the existing threats and will likely result in new sets of impacts and stressors. <i> Virginia’s Strategy for Safeguarding Virginia’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need from the Effects of Climate Change</i> was created to provide initial guidance on actions <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Virginia</st1:place></st1:state>’s conservation community can implement immediately to enhance the conservation of wildlife and habitats in the face of climate change while more comprehensive adaptation strategies are developed. Conservation strategies include specific actions for conserving species and habitats, developing new data and climate modeling resources, and implementing new outreach efforts related to climate change. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:Arial;">The document was prepared by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fish, National Wildlife Federation, and Virginia Conservation Network with funding provided by Wildlife Conservation Society’s Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund and USFWS’s State Wildlife Grants Program.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">For more information please contact Chris Burkett: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Chris.Burkett@dgif.virginia.gov">Chris.Burkett@dgif.virginia.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114704123782656.post-4580220494712599852009-10-23T11:18:00.005-04:002009-10-30T09:54:03.531-04:00Montana' Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks convene 1st Meeting of their Climate Adaptation Working Group<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; font-family: arial;"> <p class="MsoNormal">The State of Montana's Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) convened its first meeting of its Climate Adaptation Working Group on October 16, 2009 in Helena Montana. There were 21 participants representing government and the NGO community. Montana's Climate Adaptation Working Group is the result of the State's effort to implement the Western Governors Association Wildlife Corridor Initiative and comes just after the State has compiled its new Crucial Areas and Connectivity Assessment, now provisionally called the Montana Decision Support System. <o:p></o:p></p></div> <p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">Some of the highlights from this first meeting include: <o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">1. Building the architecture for a robust plan. Given the fact this is the first plan for the State, that climate predictions are still imprecise at the fine scale, and that capacity and resources to perform detailed modeling and monitoring for the entire State, all its biodiversity, and all ecoregions is limited, this group aspires to build a planning framework to insert climate data and climate impacts as information comes online and is refined. The building blocks for the plan include the the Montana Decision Support System; regional information from ongoing or planned efforts in the Crown of the Continent, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the Northern Great Plains; federal efforts to assess climate impacts on public lands; statewide climate data efforts with the University of Montana, NatureServe, the Nature Conservancy and US Geologic Survey; and interstate efforts with the activities of the Western Governors Association, with NGOs that are working to connect planning efforts between states such as National Wildlife Federation and Defenders of Wildlife. The Working Group hopes to create the basic architecture of an initial plan that the State can refine as adaptation knowledge and resources come online over time (i.e., Montana Climate Adaptation Plan version 1.0). <o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">2. Discreet tasks. The Working Group was subdivided into several smaller task teams with discreet objectives. The overall goal of the working group is to develop a plan to assess climate impacts and develop management recommendations for conserving species, habitats and ecological processes in Montana based on observed and expected impacts. As such, task groups looking at species, habitat and ecological process exposure to climate change were established (i.e., vulnerability risk assessment). Other task groups include data collection, climate modeling, outreach (to the Governor's office, to other states and to federal partners), and Working Group coordination.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> For more information please contact: Amielle DeWan at adewan@defenders.org</o:p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0