NE CASC News

An interactive web-based habitat map for the Northeast is now available for use in ecological analyses and for understanding and anticipating the effects of climate change on forested, agricultural, and freshwater systems across the U.S. and Canada. Developed by The Nature Conservancy

A new paper led by U.S. Geological Survey Ecologists Erik Beever (Research Ecologist, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center) and Michelle Staudinger (Science Coordinator, Northeast Climate Science Center) addresses the importance of including adaptive capacity of species as a fundamental component when assessing vulnerability to rapid climate change.

NE CSC PI Curt Griffin is involved in a project that is releasing a website called “Whenology”.  The website is the only one of its kind to combine the multiple datasets needed to understand the effects of climate change on fall migration of birds. Users accessing the site will see recent trends in temperature, “brown-down” (i.e. when plant productivity starts declining as summer transitions to winter), and the timing of fall migration.

The Northeast Climate Science Center is seeking applicants for a full time Communications and Outreach Manager located at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  The individual selected for this position will be responsible for organizing outreach in line with the mission of the NE CSC as well as coordinating and executing the major elements of our Communications and Outreach Plan.

Wendy Dorman is a zoologist and ornithologist with an MS in biology from Winthrop University. She is currently working on a second MS in Geographic Information Science at Eastern Michigan University.

Calling all scientists who are interested in improving their climate science communication skills!  Please join us for a half-day training on “Communicating Climate Science” at UMass Amherst on June 15th, 2015.  The training, led by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-sponsored by the Northeast Climate Science Center and the USDA Northeast Climate Hub, will focus on

Learn about our new project led by NE CASC Postdoctoral Fellow, Alex Bryan.  Got a question about climate information?  Give Alex a call!

New research shows that Lake Erie’s dead zones are actually quite active, greatly affecting fish distributions, catch rates and the effectiveness of fishing gear.  

A new report on the vulnerability of Central Appalachian forests is now available online, co-authored by NE CSC PI Frank Thompson:  "Central Appalachians forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Central Appalachians Climate Change Response Framework project."

Check out this new flyer for the TranStorm Tool, led by NE CSC PI Ken Potter.  The tool allows communities to identify vulnerability to high runnoff flows and flodding from extreme rainfall events, before damage occurs.

An extreme precipitation event in 2008 cost one town more than a million dollars in infrastructure repairs. Now, other municipalities can simulate how their homes, businesses, and facilities might fare if they experienced a similar event.