Preview of Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008

Abstract: Climate plays an important role in shaping the environment, natural resources, infrastructure, economy, and
other aspects of life in all countries of the world. Therefore, variations and changes in climate can have substantial
environmental and socioeconomic implications.

Western Mountain Initiative (WMI), Program Report 2006 (338 KB, PDF)

Abstract: The objective of the Western Mountain Initiative (WMI) is to understand and predict the responses - emphasizing
sensitivities, thresholds, resistance, and resilience - of Western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change.

MRI Newsletter 10: The Western Mountain Initiative (WMI) (.PDF)

The Western Mountain Initiative (WMI) of the US Geological Survey (USGS) studies global change in the mountains of the
American West. This MRI Newsletter describes the functioning and the specialties of this Initiative, which we advance as
an excellent example of scientific collaboration. MRI talked with two of WMI’s principal investigators: Jill Baron, a USGS
scientist and Senior Research Ecologist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University,
and Dave Peterson, Senior Scientist with the USDA Forest Service at the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Seattle.
For the second part of the article they joined us in a discussion about the key leverage points in developing adaptation
strategies to deal with global change in mountains.  Access the Newsletter >

CCSP, 2008: Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources. A Report by the
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. [Julius, S.H., J.M. West (eds.),
J.S. Baron, L.A. Joyce, P. Kareiva, B.D. Keller, M.A. Palmer, C.H. Peterson, and J.M. Scott (Authors)]. U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, 873 pp.

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