The CA LCC projects often can be classified into several of the identified topic areas and thus are listed more than once under the following topics. For simplicity sake, the projects are only listed under the two topic areas that they align with most closely though they may be relevant to more than two topic areas.

San Diego Climate Science Alliance

The San Diego Climate Science Aliance 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.

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Central Valley Landscape Conservation Project

Central Valley biodiversity is highly vulnerable to numerous stressors including continuing land use changes, increasing temperatures, drought, and loss of important habitats. This project, in partnership with natural resource managers and scientists, identifies climate-smart conservation actions that will maximize the adaptive capacity of priority species, habitats, and ecosystems to support an ecologically connected Central Valley landscape. 

Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning for National Forest Lands in Southern California

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

Incorporating Climate-Smart Adaptive Strategies into Wetlands Recovery in Coastal Southern California

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.

Implementing Climate‐Smart Restoration along California’s Central Coast

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.

Managing Coast Redwoods for Resilience and Adaptation in Changing Climate

This project will synthesize available science on redwood climate resilience strategies at a workshop and related field trip involving the National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish & Wildlife, private landowners, scientists and non-governmental organizations. The resultant comprehensive strategies will help managers prepare coast redwoods for climate change and land-use stressors. 

 

Structured Decision Making for Conserve San Francisco Bay Tidal Marsh Ecosystems

This project brings together natural resource managers, conservation coordinators and planners, and scientists within the San Francisco Bay to develop a spatially-explicit decision framework that accounts for uncertainties about climate change. Management priorities will be those that yield the greatest expected conservation benefits across the Bay considering multiple objectives including endangered species recovery, tidal marsh ecosystem integrity and services, and human health and safety over the next century.

Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment

This project assesses the potential effects of climate change on tidal marsh habitats and bird populations, identifies priority sites for tidal marsh conservation and restoration, and developes a web-based mapping tool for managers to interactively display and query results in the San Francisco Bay. Management actions that are robust or that fail under the climate change scenarios can be identified through the mapping tool.

The Environmental Change Network

This project will develop a foundation for monitoring environmental change by identifying where and what to monitor in order to evaluate climate-change impacts. Initial focus was on landbirds, however a framework will be developed that recommends standardized monitoring for other taxa and environmental attributes. Ultimately, this project will answer the question "How do we monitor the ecological consequences of climate change?"

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