The Climate Science Aliance - South Coast is a team of individuals and organizations that work together and demonstrate innovative thought, action, and leadership to conserva and manage the communities and natural resources of the South Coast Region in the face of a changing climate. The Alliance supports science focused partnerships for sharing ecosystem-based resiliency approaches, climate-smart conservation training, and youth education and engagement.
The mission of the Climate Hubs is to develop and deliver science-based, region-specific information and technologies, with USDA agencies and partners, to agricultural and natural resource managers that enable climate-informed decision-making, and to provide access to assistance to implement those decisions.
The National website for the USDA Climate Hubs is now up and running.
The NOAA Fisheries draft Climate Science Strategy (NCSS) is designed to increase the production, delivery, and use of climate-related information to marine and coastal resource managers, resource users and others at regional to national scales. Changes in ocean ecosystems are impacting the nation’s valuable living marine resources and the people, businesses and communities that depend on them.
The National Adaptation Forum is a biennial gathering created by a group of professionals from the private and public sectors concerned about the need to respond to and prepare for the effects of climate change.
The Forum represents a collective effort to enhance the resilience of the Nation's communities, resources and economy in the face of a changing climate. The goals of the forum are to:
Project GoalThe Goal of the Central Valley Landscape Conservation Project is to, identify climate-smart conservation actions in partnership with scientists and natural resrouce managers that will maximize the adaptive capacity of priority species, habitats, and ecosystems to support an ecologically connected Central Valley landscape. |
This project will conduct a vulnerability assessment, develop climate‐smart adaptation strategies and actions, and generate implementation plans for focal habitats of the South and Central Coast regions of the CALCC, with a specific focus on four Southern California National Forests (Angeles, San Bernardino, Cleveland, Los Padres). This effort will provide information and tools for USFS planning and management (e.g., NEPA analyses, Forest Plan Revisions, Climate Change Performance Scorecard – “Scorecard”) and other natural
Wetland heterogeneity along the Southern California coast combined with the variety of infrastructure constraints and other anthropogenic stressors makes it difficult for managers to know which tools to use and how to best apply them to inform restoration and management for their specific circumstance. This project develops a method for managers to assess climate change vulnerabilities at specific wetland locations.
When restored, this floodplain corridor on the Upper Pajaro River will connect 2 million acres of core habitat in adjacent uplands and link exceptionally rich natural communities in three climatically diverse coastal mountain ranges. This project will develop a suite of climate-smart restoration practices in the Central Coast Ecoregion and pilot those practices on the Upper Pajaro River as a case study.
This conference builds upon a consensus reached at the 2011 Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in Wageningen, focusing on three main themes: farm and food systems, landscape and regional issues, and the integrative and transformative institutional and policy aspects that will bridge across scales to link science and practice to ensure food security, poverty alleviation and multiple ecosystem services.
See the conference website to register and for more information:
Check out the February 2013 issue of ESTUARY News magazine, a special issue on local and Northern California climate change planning.
Vision: California supports diverse and thriving ecosystems through lasting cooperative conservation partnerships
