NCCWSC Climate Change Science and Management Webinar Series


Providing the Science for Natural and Cultural Resource Adaptation to Climate Change
  • Speaker: Dr. Shawn Carter, Senior Scientist
  • Affiliation: USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center
  • Thursday, January 24, 2013, 2:00 PM Eastern

The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC) works to provide natural resource managers with the scientific tools and information they need to develop and execute... (Read More)

The Potential Influence of Changing Climate on the Persistence of Rocky Mountain Native Salmonids: What Information Will We Need to Manage for the Future?
  • Speaker: Jeffrey Kershner, Steven Hostetler
  • Affiliation: USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, USGS National Research Program
  • Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 3:00 PM ET

Bioclimatic models predict large reductions in native trout across the Rocky Mountains this century but lack specific details regarding how this change will occur. This project addresses the need for more complete... (Read More)

Predicting Climate Change Threats to Estuaries in the Pacific Northwest
  • Speaker: Deborah Reusser
  • Affiliation: Western Fisheries Research Center
  • Thursday, October 25, 2012, 4:00 PM ET

Pacific Northwest estuaries offer a diversity of habitats critical to fish and fowl. Global climate change and sea-level rise will have profound effects on estuarine fish, shellfish and wildlife populations and their... (Read More)

Downscaling climate change models to local site conditions: effects of sea-level rise and extreme events on coastal habitats and their wildlife
  • Speaker: John Takekawa
  • Affiliation: Western Ecological Research Center
  • Thursday, September 27, 2012, 3:00 PM ET

Coastal land managers are faced with many challenges and uncertainties in planning adaptive strategies for conserving coastal habitats at the land-sea interface under future climate change scenarios.  As transitional... (Read More)

Geo Data Portal: Translating Climate Data for Geographic Analysis
  • Speaker: Nathaniel Booth and Adam Terando
  • Affiliation: CIDA, NCSU
  • Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 3:00 PM ET

Landscape studies of climate change impacts often require a large range of data products and processing. The Geo Data Portal (GDP) was developed with support from the NCCWSC in response to the wide practice in... (Read More)