FREE WEBINAR!
Part of the Social-Ecological Resilience and Changing Landscapes series.
Follow this link to learn how to participate in the webinar.
Presented by Imtiaz Rangwala (Western Water Assessment) and Renee Rondeau (Colorado Natural Heritage Program)
Next week’s webinar (Wednesday, February 8th, Noon-1:00 PM (MST)) will focus on Developing Scenarios for the Landscape Scale. Scenarios are increasingly used to help decision-makers think about projected changes and how to make decisions under uncertainty. The webinar will outline a process for developing landscape-scale scenarios, building on an example from southwestern Colorado. Presenters will explain how they selected three model projections to represent a range of plausible hydroclimatic futures for 2035. They will then describe how to choose decision-relevant climate attributes and focus in on specific ecological impacts. Finally, they will talk about how to translate this information into narrative scenarios that are accessible to the public and utilize communication strategies that make projected changes relevant and tangible, including the use of historical benchmark events (e.g. a recent drought) and climate analogues (e.g. in 2035 town A will have a climate similar to the current climate of town B). This webinar will be presented by Imtiaz Rangwala (Climate Scientist, Western Water Assessment and NOAA) and Renee Rondeau (Conservation Planning Team Lead, Colorado Natural Heritage Program).
This webinar series is sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, North Central Climate Science Center, University of Montana W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, United States Geological Survey, The Nature Conservancy, Mountain Studies Institute, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado, and NOAA.
