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NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program
NOAA's Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program supports research that addresses complex climate-sensitive issues of concern to decision-makers and policy planners at a regional level.
Related Organizations: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Resource Category: Funding
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Aquarius: A Modeling System for River Basin Water Allocation
Aquarius is a software application developed by the Rocky Mountain Research Station of the U. S Forest Service and Colorado State University. The modeling system depicts the temporal and spatial allocation of water flows among competing traditional and nontraditional water uses in a river basin. The program can be used to determine economically efficient water destination strategies by systematically examining, using a nonlinear optimization technique, the feasibility of reallocating unused or marginally valuable water storage and releases in favor of alternative uses.
Related Organizations: Colorado State University, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
Authors or Affiliated Users: Gustavo E. Diaz, Thomas C. Brown, Oli Sveinsson
Resource Category: Data and tools
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Colorado Climate Preparedness Project Adaptation Database
The Colorado Climate Preparedness Project (CCPP) was initiated to to assist Colorado in continuing to prepare itself for climate variability and change by providing a catalog of climate vulnerabilities and current adaptation activities in the state. The project focuses on five key sectors that were identified by the state advisory team as particularly sensitive to the impacts of climate variability and change including: Water; Wildlife, ecosystems and forests; Electricity; Agriculture; and Climate-sensitive tourism and outdoor recreation.
Related Organizations: University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment (WWA) - RISA
Resource Category: Adaptation Websites
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Hazards - United States (Hazus)
Hazards-United States (Hazus) is a nationally applicable standardized methodology that contains models for estimating potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. Hazus uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to estimate physical, economic, and social impacts of disasters. It graphically illustrates the limits of identified high-risk locations due to earthquake, hurricane, and floods. Users can then visualize the spatial relationships between populations and other more permanently fixed geographic assets or resources for the specific hazard being modeled, a crucial function in the pre-disaster planning process.
Related Organizations: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Resource Category: Data and tools
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Chicago Community Climate Action Toolkit
The Field Museum's Chicago Community Climate Action Toolkit includes over 60 multimedia tools to help communities develop and carry out local climate action projects that build on community strengths and improve quality of life. The tools available document the experiences of community partners, present the basics of climate science as they relate to the Chicago, Illinois region, and provide ideas for local climate action.
Related Organizations: The Field Museum
Resource Category: Education and Outreach
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Modeling Bird Distribution Responses to Climate Change: A mapping tool to assist land managers and scientists in California
This site allows users to see current and future maps of bird species distributions, vegetation, or climate variables. Using sophisticated species distribution modeling techniques, this site presents current and potential futures for bird communities in California based on different climate model outputs. Future bird distributions are based on regional climate model projections for the periods 2038-2070 (IPCC Scenario A2) and 2080-2099 (IPCC Scenario A1B). Models were developed for over 80 California Partners in Flight (CalPIF) focal species, of which 60 non-special-status species are represented in this tool.
Related Organizations: California Avian Data Center (CADC)
Resource Category: Monitoring and Reporting
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Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) and Portal
The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) launched in November 2010 as a new National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathways project. It builds on the efforts of the Climate Literacy Network and the establishment of the Climate Literacy: Essential Principles of Climate Science, to steward a broad collection of educational resources that facilitate students, teachers, and citizens in becoming climate literate.
Related Organizations: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Technical Education Research Centers (TERC), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Resource Category: Education and Outreach
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Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA)
JAWRA is a publication on multidisciplinary water resources issues. JAWRA papers present ideas derived from multiple disciplines woven together to give insight into a critical water issue, or are based primarily upon a single discipline with important applications to other disciplines. Papers often cover the topics of recent AWRA conferences such as riparian ecology, geographic information systems, adaptive management, and water policy. .
Related Organizations: American Water Resources Association
Resource Category: Solutions
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Learn More About Climate - Climate Change and Colorado's Future
An initiative of CU-Boulder's Office for University Outreach in the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies, LearnMoreAboutClimate.colorado.edu seeks to 1) extend the University's vast scientific expertise to raise awareness about climate change; 2) inspire an informed dialogue about climate change among Coloradans; and 3) encourage Coloradans to make lifestyle changes that contribute to the health of our state and planet.
Related Organizations: University of Colorado at Boulder
Resource Category: Education and Outreach
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Lessons Learned from Delaware Lidar
A case study of Delaware's efforts to obtain LiDAR elevation maps of its coastline and the lessons that can be learned from the process, this short report may be useful to other states or localities looking to assess impacts from sea level rise and storm surge using LiDAR technology. After describing Delaware's need for LiDAR data in its coastal planning process, the authors address the specific lessons the state learned. These lessons relate to the need for properly scoping and defining a LiDAR mapping project, the need for data standardization, and the need to ensure that end users (in this case, planners) are sufficiently competent with information systems to put the elevation data to good use.
Related Organizations: Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC)
Resource Category: Assessments
