We, the Northeast Climate Consortium, provide scientific information, tools, and techniques that managers and other parties interested in land, water, wildlife and cultural resources can use to anticipate, monitor, and adapt to climate change in the Northeast region.
Ecological Modeling

Understanding how climate and landscapes affect species demography is critical to forecasting impacts on wildlife.  Productivity of species, such as this Acadian flycatcher sitting on her nest, is affected by weather and patterns in the surrounding landscape.  (Photo credit: W. Andrew Cox, University of Missouri-Columbia)

Stakeholder Participation

Adapting to our changing climate presents a wide range of challenges and opportunities. In Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) was created to assess vulnerabilities and identify adaptation strategies for all aspects of the natural and built environment.  (Photo credit: USFWS.)

Coastal Ecosystems

Significant environmental factors that affect the structure and function of estuarine and marine systems include temperature, sea-level rise, the availability of water and associated nutrients from precipitation and runoff from land, wind patterns, and storminess.  (Photo credit: USFWS.)

Agriculture

Sediment clogged the Connecticut River following Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011, dumping eroded soil into Long Island Sound.  The storm caused $7-$10 billion in damage and was responsible for considerable crop and livestock loss.    (Photo credit:  NASA, 2011.)

Cultural Resources

American Indian Tribes have continuously adapted to changing climates, culturally, physically, and politically, for thousands of years by adapting their lifestyles and cultural practices.  The August 2011 Climate Change Summit in Kashena, WI provided a forum to share climate change projections and experiences and begin discussing a climate change research agenda for...

Forest Habitats

Developing strategies for addressing global change, including changing climatic regimes, invasive species, and changing land use, is the grand challenge to sustainable management and conservation of forests around the globe.  Experimentally girdled black ash swamp within the Chippewa National Forest, MN.  Treatments are being used to anticipate the impacts of...

Big Rivers

Tropical Storm Irene brought floods to many parts of New England.  Here the muddy Deerfield River rages through Shelburne Falls, MA.  (Photo Credit: Jon Elder Robison, 2011.)

Through Tribal Eyes

The College of Menominee Nation has been researching Menominee perspectives on climate change through a series of interviews with tribal members. The interviews are presented in a video titled Through Tribal Eyes. The interviews are also being analyzed for peer-reviewed publication by USFS research scientists through the College of Menominee Nation & US Forest Service...

NECSC News

NE CSC Newsletter

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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NE CSC Investigators present at the Midwest Fisheries and Wildlife Conference.  

Symposium:  Application of GIS to Advance Fisheries Science 

Title:  A Stream Temperature Inventory Network and Decision Support Metadata Mapper for North East U.S. 

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Hurricane Sandy

Friday, November 9, 2012

As the Northeast Climate Consortium, we extend our deepest sympathy and concern to those across the United States that were negatively impacted by Hurricane Sandy.  Across the region serviced by the Northeast Climate Science Center, this extreme weather event has uprooted communities, disrupted livelihoods, and left death and destruction in its wake.  Hurricane Sandy, with its impact stretching across the northeast, midwest, and beyond, is exactly the type of incident for which the NECSC was established. Read more »

NE CSC Newsletter

Friday, November 9, 2012

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The Northeast Climate Center reacts to Hurricane Sandy and talks about adaptation measures.  As the Northeast Climate Consortium, we extend our deepest sympathy and concern to those across the United States that were negatively impacted by Hurricane Sandy.  Across the region serviced by the Northeast Climate Science Center, this extreme weather event has uprooted communities, disrupted livelihoods, and left death and destruction in its wake.  

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New Nature paper from NE CSC principal investigator

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Title:  Coastal eutrophication as a driver of salt marsh loss     Abstract:  Salt marshes are highly productive coastal wetlands that provide important ecosystem services such as storm protection for coastal cities, nutrient removal and carbon sequestration. Despite protective measures, however, worldwide losses of these ecosystems have accelerated in recent decades(1). Here we present data from a nine-year whole-ecosystem nutrient-enrichment experiment. Read more »

NE CSC Newsletter

Thursday, October 25, 2012

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Wednesday October 31, 3:30 pm ET

Northeast Climate Science Center Webinar Series presents, 

"El Nino and Mexican children: medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes"

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NE CSC Newsletter

Friday, October 19, 2012

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Secretary of the Interior Announces Climate Science Funding  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced funding of more than $10 million awarded by Interior's regional Climate Science Centers to universities or other partners for research to guide managers of parks, refuges and other resources in planning how to help species and ecosystems adapt to climate change.  READ MORE...

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