NE CASC News

Funded through the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN), Researchers from Drexel University are conducting research in the Boston and Philadelphia regions in order to gauge climate change priorities of various stakeholders. We are currently looking for environmental experts in Boston and in Philadelphia to participate in a brief phone interview to gain your insight on this important topic.

NE CSC Principal Investigator Radley Horton (Columbia University), Affiliated Investigator Jerry Melillo (Marine Biological Laboratory), and Science Coordinator Michelle Staudinger (USGS) have played important roles in the preparation and release of the recent National Climate Assessment. 

The Northeast Climate Science Center proudly presents its 2013 Annual Report!  The document details the research capacity of the NE CSC Consortium, highlights several projects and research areas

AMHERST, Mass. – Analyzing thousands of breeding bird surveys sent in by citizen scientists across the western United States and Canada over 35 years, wildlife researchers report that most of the 40 songbird species they studied shifted either northward or toward higher elevation in response to climate change, but did not necessarily do both.

Dr. Robert Thieler and colleagues at USGS (Nathaniel Plant and Dean Gesch) and Columbia University (Radley Horton), recently completed their study evaluating sea-level rise impacts in the northeastern U.S. 

Michelle Staudinger, Northeast Climate Science Center (NE CSC) Science Coordinator, will give a talk on May 6th at the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife "Brown Bag Lecture Series" on "Climate Impacts on Ecological Systems in the Northeastern United States".

Fellow David Johnson had a letter featured in Science last week, entitled "Weeds Making Waves", which described an alternative method for dealing with coastal weeds.  “Phragmites australis is an aggressive, invasive weed that cannot be purged. It grows 6 meters tall and pushes out many wetland species.

NE CSC Fellow Thomas Bonnot at the University of Missouri is featured in a story on Mid-Missouri Public Radio for his work developing models that predict how climate change will effect forests and wildlife.

The PIs of the NE CSC funded project A Decisions Support Mapper for Conserving Stream Fish Habitats of the NE CSC Region, will be holding a Stakeholder’s webinar: "NE CSC Fish Habitat Data Viewer Planning", on Wednesday May 7, 2014.

NE CSC Principal Investigator Ken Potter and colleagues are using “storm transposition” to evaluate the vulnerability of communities to the kinds of flood risk that are likely to increase due to climate change. 

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II has released its report Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability as the second volume of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).

CANCELLED: AMHERST, Mass. – Daniel Hillel, professor emeritus of soil physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Israeliwater and soil scientist who developed micro-irrigation to improve agriculture in the Negev desert, will speak on “Water supplies, water requirements and agricultural water use efficiency in a changing climate”