NCCWSC Projects | National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center

FY 2016 Projects

Year(s)	Title	Principal Investigator(s)
2016 - 2018	Assessing the Impact of Future Climate on Hawai‘i’s Aquatic Ecosystems	Yin-Phan Tsang (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
2016 - 2018	Biodiversity and Climate Modeling Workshop Series	Douglas Beard (National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center)
2015 - 2016	Climate Change and Evolutionary Adaptive Capacity (EVAC): Bridging the Gap between Science and Management	Laura M Thompson (National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center)
2016 - 2018	Developing a Climate-informed Integrated Population Model for Migratory Birds
2016	Eco-drought Actionable Science Working Group	Jeffrey Morisette (National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center and Climate Science Centers)
2016 - 2017	Evaluating the Effects of Climate and Land Use Change on Fisheries Production in Inland Lakes	David Bunnell (Great Lakes Science Center)
2015 - 2017	Global Synthesis of Climate Change Effects on Inland Fish	Bonnie J Myers (National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center) Abigail J Lynch (National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center)
2016 - 2017	Integrating Climate Change Research and Planning to Inform Wildlife Conservation in the Boreal Forests of the Northeastern U.S.
2016	Producing Usable Science: Testing the Effectiveness of Stakeholder Engagement in Climate Research	Alison Meadow (University of Arizona)
2016	Providing Natural Resource Managers with Guidance on the Application of Climate Information for Decision-Making	Casey Brown (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
2016 - 2023	Safe Operating Space for Walleye: Managing Inland Recreational Fisheries for Climate Change	Daniel Isermann (WI Cooperative Fishery Research Unit)

FY 2015 Projects

Year(s)	Title	Principal Investigator(s)
2015 - 2018	A Value and Investment Assessment of Marine and Inland Fisheries Globally	Abigail J Lynch (National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center and Climate Science Centers) Douglas Beard (USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center)
2015 - 2017	Assessing the Impacts of Drought on Migratory Waterbirds in Key Conservation Regions of the Western U.S.	Bruce Dugger (Oregon State University)
2015 - 2017	Assessing the Vulnerability of Ecosystems to Drought in the Western U.S.	Seth Munson (USGS Southwest Biological Science Center)
2015 - 2017	Ecological Drought: Assessing Vulnerability and Developing Solutions for People and Nature	Molly Cross (Wildlife Conservation Society) Kimberly R. Hall (The Nature Conservancy) Shawn L Carter (National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center)
2015 - 2018	Five-year Reviews of the Climate Science Centers – Assessing the Science, Partner Engagement, and Utility for Natural Resources Conservation	T. Bruce Lauber (Cornell University) Douglas Austen (American Fisheries Society) Richard C. Stedman (Cornell University)
2015 - 2017	Global Assessment of River Fish Production and Potential Global Change Implications	William W. Taylor (Michigan State University) Abigail J Lynch (USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center)
2015 - 2017	Managing Forests for Drought	John B Bradford (Colorado Plateau Field Station, SBSC)
2015 - 2018	National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center Science to Action Fellowship	Dana M. Infante (Michigan State University)
2015 - 2017	Phenological Overlap and Synchrony in Migratory Birds	Madeleine A Rubenstein (USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center)
2015 - 2017	River’s End: Mapping Patterns of Stream Drying in the Western United States	Jason Dunham (Corvallis Research Group, FRESC)
2015 - 2018	The Effects of Drought on Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout: The Role of Stream Flow and Temperature	Colleen Caldwell (New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit) Abigail J Lynch (National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center and Climate Science Centers)
2015 - 2018	Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Drought Across the U.S.	Simon Costanzo (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Integration and Application Network) William Dennison (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)

FY 2014 Projects

Year(s)	Title	Principal Investigator(s)
2014 - 2016	Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Inland Fisheries	Craig Paukert (Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)
2014 - 2015	Best Practices and Approaches to Managing Social Science Data	Michelle Wiest (University of Idaho)
2014 - 2015	Collecting and Applying Schitsu’umsh Indigenous Knowledge and Practices to Climate Change Decision Making	Rodney Frey (University of Idaho) Jeremy Kenyon (University of Idaho) Leanne Campbell (Coeur d’Alene Tribe)
2014 - 2017	Evaluating Adaptations of Desert Bighorn Sheep to Climate Change in the Southwestern U.S.	James W Cain (New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)
2014 - 2015	Phenology Tracking in Migratory Mule Deer: Connecting Remotely Sensed Metrics of Greenness with Movement, Forage Quality, Nutrition and Demography	Matthew J Kauffman (Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)
2014 - 2015	The Effects of Drought on Vegetation Phenology and Wildlife	Jesslyn Brown (Geographic Science Team, EROS)
2014 - 2016	Using Scenario Planning to Inform Land and Wildlife Management: A Pilot Project for Boreal Forests in the Northeastern United States	Molly Cross (Wildlife Conservation Society)
2014 - 2015	Using the Past as a Prelude to the Future to Assess Climate Effects on Native Trout across the United States	Jeffrey L Kershner (USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center) Robert Al-Chockhacy (USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center) Clint C Muhlfeld (USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center)

FY 2013 Projects

Year(s)	Title	Principal Investigator(s)	Contains
2013 - 2016	Development of the Climate Registry for the Assessment of Vulnerability (CRAVe)	Laura M Thompson (USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center) Robin O'Malley (USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center)
2013 - 2017	The Impacts of Drought on Fish and Wildlife in the Southwestern U.S. Effects of Climate on Scaled Quail Reproduction and Survival The Effects of Drought on Desert Bighorn Sheep The Effects of Drought on Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout: The Role of Stream Intermittency The Effects of Drought on Southwestern Pronghorns	James W Cain (New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit) Grant Harris (USFWS, Southwest Region, Biological Sciences Division) Colleen A Caldwell (New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit) Andrew Todd (USGS Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center) Matthew P. Zeigler (New Mexico State University, Dept. Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology) Scott A Carleton (New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)

FY 2011 Projects

Year(s)	Title	Principal Investigator(s)
2010 - 2011	Climate Change and Federal Land Management: Assessing Priorities Using a Social Network Approach	Mark Schwartz (University of California, Davis) Mark Lubell (UC Davis)
2011 - 2015	Climate Change and Resilience of Sport Fisheries in Lakes	Steve Carpenter (University of Wisconsin) Jake Vander Zanden (University of Wisconsin)
2011 - 2016	Developing New Strategies for the Global Assessment of Inland Fisheries and Predicting the Response of Inland Fisheries to Regional Climate Change	William W. Taylor (Michigan State University)

FY 2010 Projects

Year(s)	Title	Principal Investigator(s)	Contains
2010 - 2012	USFS-USGS Climate Change Project	William B Hughes (Georgia Water Science Center) C. Andrew Dolloff (U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station)

FY 2009 Projects

Year(s)	Title	Principal Investigator(s)
2009 - 2011	A Visualization Approach for Projecting Future Distributions of North American Bioclimates	Sarah Shafer (U.S. Geological Survey)
2009 - 2011	Assessing the Vulnerability of Species and Ecosystems to Projected Future Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest	Sarah Shafer (U.S. Geological Survey)
2008 - 2010	Avian Conservation in the Prairie Pothole Region, Northern Great Plains: Understanding the Links Between Climate, Ecosystem Processes, Wetland Management, and Bird Communities	Susan K Skagen (USGS Fort Collins Science Center)
2009 - 2011	Can Camouflage Keep up with Climate Change? Connecting Downscaled Climate Models to Adaptation for a Key Forest Species	Michael S Mitchell (University of Montana) L. Scott Mills (North Carolina State University)
2009 - 2011	Can Mammals Mediate Climatically-Induced Vegetation Transitions in Alpine Ecosystems of the Western United States?	Robert C Klinger (Yosemite Field Station, WERC)
2009 - 2011	Characterizing Uncertainty in the Impact of Global Climate Change on Large River Fishes: Missouri River Sturgeon Example	Mark L Wildhaber (Columbia Environmental Research Center)
2009 - 2011	Development and Dissemination of High-Resolution National Climate Change Dataset (Geo Data Portal)	Jaime Collazo (North Carolina State University)
2009 - 2011	Forecasting Climate Change Induced Effects on Recreational and Commercial Fish Populations in the Great Lakes	David Bunnell (Great Lakes Science Center)
2009 - 2011	Forecasting Climate Impacts on Wildlife of the Arid Southwest at Regional and Local Scales Using Downscaled Climate Models	Charles Van Riper (Sonoran Desert Field Station, SBSC)
2008 - 2008	Forecasting the Effects of Land-Use and Climate Change on Wildlife Communities and Habitats in the Lower Mississippi Valley	Stephen P Faulkner (USGS Leetown Science Center)
2008 - 2010	How will Florida’s Biodiversity Respond to Climate Change?	Thomas J Smith (Southeast Ecological Science Center)
2009 - 2011	Impacts of Climate Change and Melting Glaciers on Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of Alaska	John Crusius (Alaska Science Center)
2009 - 2011	Impacts of Climate-Induced Changes in Plant Phenology on Migration, Breeding, and Redistribution of Sub Arctic- and Arctic- Nesting Avifauna	David H Ward (Alaska Science Center)
2008 - 2010	Managing the Nation's Fish Habitat at Multiple Spatial Scales in a Rapidly Changing Climate Downscaled Climate Change Modeling for the Conterminous United States (National Assessment) Predicting Coldwater Fish Habitat in Lakes of the Glacial Lakes Region under Changing Land Use and Climate Regimes (Local Assessment) Projected Climate and Land Use Change Impacts on Aquatic Habitats in the Midwestern United States (Regional Assessment) Projected Climate and Land Use Change Impacts on Aquatic Habitats of the Lower Colorado River Basin (Regional Assessment) Projected Climate Change Impacts on Stream Dwelling Smallmouth Bass Populations in the U.S. (Local Assessment) Projected Land Use Change for the Conterminous United States (National Assessment) Projected Vulnerability of Brook Trout to Climate and Land Use Changes in the Eastern U.S. (Regional Assessment)	Craig Paukert (USGS Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)
2009 - 2011	Modeling and Projecting the Influence of Climate Change on Texas Surface Waters and their Aquatic Biotic Communities	Reynaldo Patino (Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)
2009 - 2011	Modeling the Response of Freshwater Mussels to Changes in Water Temperature, Habitat, and Streamflow	Thomas J Kwak (North Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)
2009 - 2011	Predicting Climate Change Threats to Key Estuarine Habitats and Ecosystem Services in the Pacific Northwest	Deborah A Reusser (Newport Duty Station, WFRC)
2009 - 2011	Predicting the Risk of Species Extinctions Due to Sea-Level Rise in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands	Michelle H Reynolds (Kilauea Field Station, PIERC)
2008	Project Climate Change for the Conterminous United States (National Assessment)	Dana Infante (Michigan State University) Lizhu Wang (International Joint Commission)
2009 - 2011	Quantifying Vulnerability of Quaking Aspen Woodlands and Associated Bird Communities to Global Climate Change in the Northern Great Basin	Susan L Earnst (Snake River Field Station, FRESC)

FY 2008 Projects

Year(s)	Title	Principal Investigator(s)
2007 - 2007	Climate Change: A Challenge to Bird Conservation in Arid and Semi-arid Regions	Susan K Skagen (U.S. Geological Survey)
2008 - 2011	Fate of Endangered Species in San Francisco Bay Tidal Marshes with Sea Level Rise	John Y Takekawa (San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, WERC)
2007	Impact of Past and Future Stream Temperature and Flow Changes on Endangered Atlantic Salmon	Robert W Dudley (Maine Water Science Center) Glenn A Hodgkins (Maine Water Science Center)
2007 - 2008	Quantifying the Influence of Climate Change on Rocky Mountain Ungulates	Matthew J Kauffman (USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)
2007 - 2008	The Potential Influence of Changing Climate on the Persistence of at Risk Native Salmonids	Jeffrey L Kershner (USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center)