Join us for the Society for Conservation Biology North America Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB) which is recognized as the most important meeting for conservation professionals and students working in North America. EcoAdapt's Lara Hansen, Jennie Hoffman and Eric Mielbrecht will be presenting: 

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Integration with Adaptation Planning Using a Conservation Planning Approach 

EcoAdapt's Jennie Hoffman, NatureServe's Patrick Crist and John Rozum, and the National Conservation Training Center's Michelle Haynes will lead a short course at the NACCB on climate change vulnerability assessments. The course is appropriate for those conducting watershed, resource management, conservation, or land use planning that wish to integrate climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning. The course will help natural resource managers and conservationists to: 1) assess the vulnerability of natural resources and human development to a variety of stressors including climate change, and 2) develop landscape-scale adaptation alternatives.

 

The course will take place on Sunday, July 15th, 2012, from 8am-5pm at the Oakland Marriot City Center, Oakland, CA. For more details, please see Trainings and Short Courses, http://www.scbnacongress.org/program/trainings-a-short-courses.html.    

 

Drs. Lara Hansen EcoAdapt) and Carolyn Lundquist (New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) are hosting this session at the NACCB. The session will explore why we need climate-informed monitoring in resource management planning, as well as examples of how it is being included in the real world. In addition to Carolyn and Lara, speakers will include Dr. Tess Freidenburg (MPA Monitoring Enterprise), Dr. Gail Dethloff (NPCA), Dr. Benet Duncan (NOAA), and Dr. John Bourgeois (California Coastal Conservancy).

 

The session will convene Monday July 16th 3pm-5pm at the NACCB, Oakland Marriot City Center, Oakland CA.  For more details, please see: http://www.scbnacongress.org/program/scientific-program.html#sym12 

 

EcoAdapt's Eric Mielbrecht will present Mountains to the Sea: Developing Spatially Explicit Climate Adaptation Opportunities for Western Washington Ecosystems, the work that he and Jessi Kershner have undertaken to develop an approach to spatially prioritize information for making better adaptation decisions. This talk will be part of a session created by the funders of a broader suite at projects aimed at evaluating a framework designed to guide those using spatial data in climate change assessments.

 

The session: Towards Conservation Assessment for Climate Adaptation: Presentation and Evaluation of a Framework, will be held Monday July 16th, from 3pm-5pm at the Oakland Marriot City Center, Oakland, CA. Find more details, please see:http://www.scbnacongress.org/program/scientific-program.html#sym9            

 

EcoAdapt's Jennie Hoffman will be presenting the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) as part of a tools cafe at the NACCB. Many coastal natural resource managers and communities have begun to plan for the impact of climate change on their local ecosystems and infrastructure and are finding that processes and approaches require the use of geospatial analysis and tools to model and visualize, the impacts of a changing climate on ecosystems and human infrastructure, explore the effects of potential management decision, and conduct effective public engagement. The variety of tools and lack of information on them make it difficult for practitioners to select tools most suited to their needs and capacities. This symposium will highlight the capabilities and limitations of a range of key tools for multi-sector climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning and implementation as well as provide an initial introduction to and resources for starting this work and understanding the utility and limitations of tools for it.

 

The tools cafe will take place Tuesday July 17th from 11am-1pm at the Oakland Marriot City Center, Oakland, CA. For more details, please see: http://www.scbnacongress.org/

   

The use and misuse of adaptation: linking community and natural resource strategies 

EcoAdapt's Lara Hansen will present The use and misuse of adaptation: linking community and natural resource strategies, as part of a session hosted by the Geos Institute titled The Art and Science of Climate Change Planning. Lara will present a paper created with EcoAdapt's Jennie Hoffman, Eric Mielbrecht and Rachel Gregg that explores the opportunities for improved adaptation created by cross-sectorial thinking, as well as some of the dangers of siloed planning.

 

The session will be held Thursday July 17th from 3pm-5pm at the Oakland Marriot City Center, Oakland, CA. For more details, please see; http://www.scbnacongress.org/program/scientific-program.html#sym22    

 

To register for any of the above listed NACCB events, please visit: http://www.conbio.org/Sections/NAmerica/scbnacongress/

    

Part panel presentation, part interactive talk show, this session will provide attendees with general guidance on making their work climate smart as well as case studies of implemented climate smart conservation. Presenters will discuss not simply project details, but the journey to making the project a reality. Presenters include the National Wildlife Federation's Bruce Stein, Manomet's Hector Galbraith, Trust for Public Land's Deb Love, and EcoAdapt's Jennie Hoffman.

 

The workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 2, from 1:30pm-3:00pm at the Salt Palace Conservation Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 

See http://www.landtrustalliance.org/training/rally for details on the rally and the program.