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Current Climate Change Research Project Descriptions |
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Climate Change Resource Center
A reference Web site for resource managers and decisionmakers in the
West |
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Scientists
talk about climate change in the West
Topics emphasize information of interest to wildland managers and others who
want an understanding of the interaction among climate change, forests, wildfire,
water supplies, fish and wildlife, and associated values, and the implications
for wildland management. |
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Western Mountain Initiative
A collaborative research program on the effects of climatic variability
and change on mountain ecosystems in the Western United States.
Contacts: Don McKenzie,
Dave Peterson |
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Fire and Climatic Variability in the Pacific Northwest
Multiscale analysis of the relationships among climate, topography,
and spatiotemporal patterns in historical fire regimes in the inland
Pacific Northwest.
Contact: Don McKenzie |
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Climate Change, Carbon, and Forestry in Northwestern North America
Proceedings of a workshop involving different sectors of the forest community in Canada and the United States.
Contact: Dave Peterson |
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Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS)
A landscape- to global-scale vegetation distribution model developed
to simulate the potential biosphere impacts and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks
from
climatic change.
Contacts: Ron Neilson,
Jim Lenihan |
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Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center
The center is facilitating assessments of the effects of climate change
and ecological disturbance on various landscapes in the Pacific Northwest
and beyond.
Contact: Becky Kerns |
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Social and Economic Analysis of the Effects of Climatic Change
Research conducted by the Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics team.
Contact: Ralph Alig |
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Adaptation to Climatic Change on Olympic National Forest (Manuscript file)
Case study of how a national forest with diverse natural resources can develop a science-based strategy
for adapting to potential changes in the condition of natural resources caused by climatic change.
Contacts: Dave Peterson,
Kathy O’Halloran (Olympic National Forest). |
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Western Climate Initiative (Manuscript file)
A research-management partnership to assess and adapt to the effects
of climatic change on western ecosystems. Proposed by scientists in
the western research stations of the Forest Service, it will assess the
effects of climatic change on natural resources, develop a climate-smart
toolbox for resource analysis, and generate adaptive management options
for western national forests.
Contacts: Ron Neilson,
Dave Peterson. |
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Assessing and Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change on Western Ecosystems:
A Research-Management Partnership
A research prospectus by the Rocky Mountain Research Station,
Pacific Northwest Research Station, and Pacific Southwest Research Station. |
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Forest
inventory-based estimation of carbon stocks and flux in California
forests in 1990 (In preparation)
A White Paper by Jeremy Fried and Xiaoping Zhou, 14 November, 2007 |
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Fluorescence characteristics and biodegradability
of dissolved organic matter in forest and wetland soils from coastal temperate
watersheds in southeast Alaska
by Jason B. Fellman, David V. D'Amore, Eran Hood, and Richard
D. Boone |
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Climate and Carbon in Southeast Alaska: Beyond the Threshold
of change in a dynamic landscape
by Dave D'Amore and Rick Edwards |
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Yellow-cedar decline research view as [pdf] or [html]
Contacts: Paul Hennon, Dave D' Amore |