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National Climate Partnerships in the Pacific Northwest

National Climate Partnerships in the Pacific Northwest. Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference Panel Discussion:. Panel Members: Philip Mote – Climate Impacts Research Consortium Kevin Whalen – Northwest Climate Science Center

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National Climate Partnerships in the Pacific Northwest

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  1. National Climate Partnerships in the Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference Panel Discussion: Panel Members: Philip Mote – Climate Impacts Research Consortium Kevin Whalen – Northwest Climate Science Center Sean Finn – Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative Mary Mahaffy – North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative Chris Lauver – Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

  2. Why Partnership Efforts? Report - Large Landscape Conservation: A Strategic Framework for Policy and Action McKinney, Scarlett & Kemmis, 2010 “…there is a gap in governance and a corresponding need to create informal and formal ways to work more effectively across boundaries.” Barriers to Landscape Conservation • Lack of scientific information • Lack of capacity to organize • Lack of a strategy to coordinate • Fragmented financial investments http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1808_Large-Landscape-Conservation

  3. National Climate Partnerships in the Pacific Northwest CIRC NW CSC Coordination Collaboration CESUs NW LCCs Other Agency/ Organizations’ Regional Efforts

  4. IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE Climate Research Impacts Consortium (CIRC) Philip Mote Oregon Climate Change Research Institute Director Oregon State University

  5. NOAA Regional Integrated Science and Assessments Projects

  6. Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC)* • NOAA-funded RISA project (9/2010-) renewable after 5 years, one of 11 nationally • Focused on applying climate research to landscape and watershed mgmt decisions for adaptation • OSU (lead), UO, UW, BSU, UI • Coordinating with other RISA projects, CSCs, and National Climate Assessment • Developing research and action agenda in concert with CSC, sharing 2 staff, 5 Council members (and the map) with NW CSC *formerly CDSC

  7. NW Climate Science Center • DoI-funded Center (9/2010-) renewable after 5 years, one of 8 nationally • Focused on applying climate research to habitat, species, and other resource mgmt decisions • In the process of implementing research agenda • Universities (OSU-UW-UI): $0.7m/yr for grad student training, additional $?/yr for science • Coordinating with other CSCs, RISAs esp CIRC

  8. CIRC Emphasis • Connections within and beyond region • Building knowledge-to-action networks • Balance of natural and social science

  9. Providing the Science for Natural and Cultural Resource Adaptation to Climate Change IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE NW Climate Science Center Kevin Whalen Interim NW Climate Science Center Director USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey

  10. Climate Science Centers--Regions Alaska 2010 2010 North Central Northwest 2012 2011 Northeast National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center Southwest 2011 Pacific Islands Southeast South Central 2010 2012 2012 “Fuzzy Boundaries”

  11. Key CSC Characteristics • University/federal cooperative – access capabilities feds don’t have • Training of grad students – pipeline • Small federal staff • Filling regional gaps • Synthesis / assessment / aggregation • $3-4 m/year, majority in flexible federal funds • Will build significant cyber infrastructure network • At each CSC: university federal node • Eight nodes plus NCCWSC • Feeding LCCs and other application-oriented efforts (e.g. designed for more than researchers)

  12. Atmospheric Research and Modeling (primarily universities) Downscaled Global Climate Models and Derivative Products Impact Science DOI Climate Science Centers Ecosystem Response & Forecasting Science-based, university collaboration Regional Habitat & Population Response Forecasting Habitat & Species Response (Food, Habitat, Recruitment) Resource Management-based Partnerships (Landscape Conservation Cooperatives + others) Adaptive Management & Monitoring Site Specific Species or Populations Response

  13. Stakeholder Advisory Committee Other Resource Management Partners Prioritized Science Agenda Science Partnerships: (Federal, state, university, other) DOI Climate Science Center Great Basin LCC Great Northern LCC North Pacific LCC

  14. IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) Sean Finn Science Coordinator U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

  15. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs)

  16. GNLCC Goal: • Coordinate, facilitate, promote and add value to large landscape conservation to build resource resilience in the face of climate change and other landscape-level stressors through: • Support Science Development • Effect Coordination • Inform Conservation Action • Monitor and Evaluate • Communicate and Educate • 1.16 million KM2 • 5 States, 2 Provinces • Integrated Partnerships with neighboring LCCs, NW and NC Climate Science Centers, PNW and RM CESUs, Province of British Columbia

  17. Purpose: • Initiate dialogue and identify strategies for effective landscape conservation by Federal Land Managers • Strengthen relationships among Federal Land Managers in the Great Northern Area • Outcomes: • Status of AGO, GNLCC and other Federal landscape programs • Brainstorm and identify strategies about how to create a system of connected Federal lands • Useful applications for emerging landscape tools and science products available to your staff • Recommended priorities for AGO, GNLCC and other landscape initiatives and programs

  18. GNLCC Climate-related Projects 2010-2011, GNLCC funded 14 climate science and data delivery projects totaling $1.67 million Title Funds in thousands • Assemblage, Format and Delivery of Downscaled Climate Data and Projections for the GNLCC • Development of a Regional Stream Temperature Model for Mapping Thermal Habitats and Understanding Effects of Climate Change in Pacific Northwest Streams • Forecasting the impacts of Climate Change in the Columbia River Basin: Threats to Fish Habitat Connectivity • Development of a Transboundary Decision Support System to Guide and Implement Conservation, Land Use, Energy, Transportation, and Climate Change Management and Monitoring $ 30 $122 $130 $135

  19. Partner Forums – an engagement of conservation practitioners and partnerships that share conservation challenges in an eco-geographic context to identify specific conservation needs for priorities • Ecologically relevant geography • Similar ecological process or systems • Related landscape issues Rocky Mountains Columbia Basin Shrubsteppe

  20. IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC) Mary Mahaffy Interim Science Coordinator U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

  21. North Pacific LCC • Includes: • 4 States • 2 Provinces • Extends over 2,200 miles from north to south • Coastline: 38,200 miles • Area: ~ 204,000 mi2 • Public lands: ~ 78% • Ocean Boundary - not defined Base Funded This Year - USFWS

  22. NPLCC Governance & Structure Interim Planning Team • January 2011 - Drafted Governance and Structure Charter Steering Committee • Federal (U.S. & B.C.), State, Provincial &Tribal • First Meeting May 2011 • Framing Workshop October 2011 Capitalize on Existing Partnerships/ Strategies and Plans

  23. Feedback Partner Meetings • Primary focuses/roles included: • Information resource • Promote common decision base • Management focus • Coordinate efforts/Communication forum • Help focus and pool resources; avoid duplication • Adaptation strategies • Large-scale connectivity • Organization • Different roles • Build on partnerships • Framework – communication between resource managers and scientists/information providers

  24. Climate Related Projects $800,000 – 11 Science Projects • Landscape-scale analyses and information (wetland ecosystems hydrology, sea-level rise, and forest soils) • Vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning • Conservation planning and priority tools • Habitat connectivity • Cross boundary data integration • Forum discussions – coastal/marine, freshwater habitats $63,000 – Additional Efforts • Support 2 students Univ. Washington and Univ. Alaska, SE – synthesis of existing research/tools • Support 3 regional climate science workshops http://www.fws.gov/pacific/Climatechange/nplcc/

  25. Example of Discussion of Stressors DRAFT

  26. IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs) Chris Lauver Pacific Northwest CESU Research Coordinator National Park Service

  27. What are CESUs ? COOPERATIVE ECOSYSTEM STUDIES UNITS form a national network to provide research, technical assistance and education to federal agency resource managers • Government - academic partnerships • Cooperative: federal agencies and partners work together on projects in many disciplines (biological, physical, social and cultural sciences) • Purpose: provide resource managers with high-quality science by linking agencies to academic partners • Operate under a local “master” Cooperative Agreement allows agencies to transfer project funds to partners • Benefits: Low overhead rates; agencies can select researchers; 5 year projects

  28. Current Participation 17 units, 13 Federal Agencies, 250+ academics and NGOs • 17 CESUs • 13 Federal Agencies • over 240 universities (including more than 40 minority serving institutions), state, tribal and non-governmental partners • Since 1999, approximately 5,000 projects involving over $100M • Some agencies have duty-stationed employees at CESU host universities

  29. Many projects are run through CESU’s Preliminary Figures for 10 CESUs, 2001-2010 CESU $ thru CESU # Projects CHWA 9,198,645 145 DESO 17,253,846 358 GRPL 9,672,601 340 GRRI 11,152,894 232 HAPI 37,596,121 145 NOAT 8,752,993. 277 Pacific NW 28,397,228 347 PSAC 10,779,167 180 Rocky Mountain 88,464,215 1436 SOAP 9,491,591 238 Totals $ 230,759,301 3698 PENDING: CALI, COPL, GRBA, GLNF, GUCO, NWAK, SOFL

  30. Academic Partners • University of Washington (host) • Eastern Washington University • Washington State University • Western Washington University • Central Washington University • Heritage University • Oregon State University • University of Oregon • Southern Oregon University • Oregon Institute of Technology • Portland State University • University of Idaho • St. Mary’s University of Minnesota • University of Vermont • University of Alaska-Anchorage • University of Alaska-Southeast • Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game • University of British Columbia • Federal Partners • Bureau of Land Management • National Park Service • US Geological Survey • US Forest Service, Research • US Fish and Wildlife Service • Natural Resource Conservation Service • NOAA • Bureau of Reclamation • Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement • US Army Corps of Engineers 28 Partners for the Pacific Northwest CESU

  31. Pacific Northwest CESURecent Collaborations • More than 40 climate change projects (poster) • Support to North Cascadia Adaptation Partnership project; joint FS-NPS collaboration on CC; http://www.northcascadia.org/ • Collaborating with graduate student at CSC and Alan Hamlet (UW) on project assessing CC impacts to access to federal lands • Serving on North Pacific LCC and C3 group • LCCs (FWS) using CESU network to fund science projects National CESU web site: http://www.cesu.psu.edu/ PNW CESU web site: http://www.cfr.washington.edu/research.cesu/

  32. Partnerships Working Together Partnerships enable a level of conservation that no single agency or organization can accomplish alone. Engage in collaborative and complementary efforts together.

  33. Coordination Steering/Advisory Committees: NW CSC – includes CIRC and LCCs CIRC – includes NW CSC NPLCC – includes NW CSC National Workgroup LCCs and CSCs: • Engagement • Kind of science each responsible for

  34. Integrated Science & Management

  35. Integration Data Management Data Delivery

  36. Integration Access and Visualization Analysis and Interoperability LC MAP Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal

  37. Collaborations Pacific Northwest CESU • University of Washington (3 NPLCC, 1 GNLCC) • University of Alaska, SE (1 NPLCC) Rocky Mountains CESU • University of Montana (1 NPLCC, 2 GNLCC)

  38. Panel Discussion • How can we better meet your needs? • How can we better connect with your efforts? • How can we help place useful tools in the hands of managers? • What regional collaborations should we be aware of that we are not working with?

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