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
CPO staff, collaborators, and funded scientists engage in discussions on topics like climate impact on humans, indigenous peoples’ climate information needs, and the importance of the Southern Ocean in climate models, resulting in key research outcomes.
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA) program, a NOAA CAP/RISA team, researchers publish article proposing new methods for inclusive engagement to better prepare for the future with climate change.
CPO employees Ariela Zycherman and Morgan Zabow will present at NOAA’s third Equity in Action Symposium to discuss environmental justice and equity efforts across NOAA and the ways in which RISA and NIHHIS contribute to the President’s Justice40 Initiative.
This virtual webinar, titled Planning for Fire: Wildfire, Water Quality, and Local Preparedness in the West, highlights graduate student work on local fire risk reduction planning and water quality planning in the face of wildfire risk.
The Green Infrastructure, Climate, and Cities Seminar invites researchers and practitioners from around the country to come and present ideas for resilient, sustainable cities in response to climate extremes.
Based on California wildfires, this research team develops empirical models to improve burn severity and high-severity patch area maps with vegetation regimes to create efficient wildfire burn severity maps that will improve land use management by policy makers.
The project exhibits on-the-ground details being incorporated into existing drought monitoring processes.
Alaska Climate Specialist Rick Thoman is playing a critical role in contributing to local and national coverage of historic Typhoon Merbok and its detrimental impacts on Western Alaskan Native communities.
Dwyer was hired as a Climate Adaptation Program Specialist to support NOAA RISA in the U.S. Virgin Islands. His position will help establish critical interagency and community-based partnerships necessary to further climate adaptation planning and preparedness.
Ms. Moehlenkamp attended the Palau Indigenous Knowledge Exchange to participate in traditional forms of aquaculture and navigation, exploring Indigenous coastal solutions to climate change mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and building alliances for a united Pacific.