Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Given the very strong El Niño event and its likely persistence for several more months, the Western Water Assessment, a NOAA RISA program at CU Boulder, hosted a panel of local experts from NOAA ESRL and the National Weather Service on Friday, Oct. 23. They also released a 2-pager highlighting ENSO’s prospective impacts in Colorado.
El Niño Impacts for Colorado: Panel Discussion and 2-Pager Read More »
A special issue of Climate Risk Management focuses on the role that boundary organizations narrow knowledge gaps to support adaptation, but also build capacity and networks that strengthen societal resilience. For the past five years, the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences + Assessments (GLISA), NOAA’s Great Lakes RISA office, has experimented with the boundary chains concept and approach.
From Southern Florida to Maryland, RISA teams (CISA and SCIPP), Sea Grant programs, and other organizations coordinated a rapid response effort to map coastal flooding during Hurricane Joaquin using a new smartphone app developed by Wetlands Watch.
RISA and Sea Grant team up with states to map flooding during Hurricane Joaquin Read More »
NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program is announcing five new five-year awards totaling $19 million to research institutions from Honolulu to New York City to improve the ability of those seeking to prepare for and adapt to climate variability and change.
Supporting preparedness and resilience in a changing climate: RISA announces FY15 awards Read More »
Greg Carbone, a RISA PI, is co-author on a paper published in the Journal of Climatology. The paper–“Assessment of NARCCAP model in simulating rainfall extremes using a spatially constrained regionalization method”–appeared online on Sept. 14.
Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA), the RISA team in the Carolinas region, has launched a new website and logo.
CISA RISA team launches new logo and website Read More »
The RISA Program Will Be Hosting Two Webinars to provide general information about the program and answer any questions on the upcoming FY16 Competition. Please Click On Article Title for Webinar Information and Further Details.
RISA Competition Webinars: Schedule Released Read More »
The CPO-sponsored National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) in June 2015 has funded the Drought Risk Management Research Center (DRMRC), at the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The center will focus on research to improve drought monitoring, impacts assessment and risk management in close partnership with NIDIS and its federal, state, tribal and local partners, domestically and internationally. These efforts will advance preparedness for drought events and contribute to mitigation of its impacts.
New center to advance drought research, preparedness Read More »
The Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC, a NOAA RISA team), in collaboration with the USGS Northwest Climate Science Center and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative have released the first edition of a new magazine.
Pacific Northwest RISA announces new Northwest Climate Magazine Read More »
The Great Basin Climate Forum series, a partnership of the California-Nevada Applications Program (CNAP) RISA and the Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, brought together over 90 attendees from around the Great Basin region to discuss “What can we learn from the past four years of drought?” on April 8, 2015.
Great Basin Climate Forum hosts spring forum Read More »