EcoAdapt -::- Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change

Freshwater Future and EcoAdapt team up again to offer the 6th climate adaptation symposium to learn how to incorporate climate change elements into existing work, connect with climate adaptation resources for your work, and netwo... [show full overview]

Freshwater Future and EcoAdapt team up again to offer the 6th climate adaptation symposium to learn how to incorporate climate change elements into existing work, connect with climate adaptation resources for your work, and network with others.

This event is two events in one "Watershed Savvy: Incorporating Climate Adaptation into Your Existing Work" and "Community Savvy: Make Your Neighborhood More Resilient to Climate Change". The workshops included ways to help participants start developing adaptation projects- by exploring the following questions and grant resources:

What is climate adaptation and what will it mean for your community?
How can climate change impact your organization's work?
What are the communities around the Great Lakes and across the country doing to build climate resistance?
How can you make your organization's work climate-savvy?
Freshwater Future's Climate Grants Program

For more information on the Climate Change Symposium trainings go to Freshwater Futures http://www.freshwaterfuture. org/resources/climate/climate- symposium.html.

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Agenda
Adaptation 101 and Climate Change Impacts in the Great Lakes- Lara Hansen
How to Make Your Community and Work Climate Savvy- Alex Score
Is this adaptation quiz show?- Lara Hansen
Implementing Your Plan and Moving from Awareness to Action- Alex Score
Adaptation Hurdles: How to Finish the Race- Ann Baughman

Great Lakes Region-specific information

EcoAdapt's State of Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Lakes Region - A project to survey, catalog, and assess climate adaptation activities in the Great Lakes region, especially focusing on freshwater-related efforts in the natural and built environments.
Great Lakes Climate Adaptation Toolkit - One component of Freshwater Future�s Great Lakes Community Climate Program, to assist with implementation of on-the-ground adaptation projects.
NOAA's Climate Ready Great Lakes Training Modules - Great source of information on impacts, adaptation, and tools.
NOAA�s Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers�A Great Lakes Supplement
Improving the Odds: Using Climate-Readiness Planning to Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem. National Wildlife Federation. 2010.
Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts Good source for regional information and resources, including climate projections.
Great Lakes Restoration & the Threat of Global Warming. Dempsey, D., J. Elder, and D. Scavia. 2008. A Report by the Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition

Web Tools and Resources

Adaptation Collaboratory - a resource for research, education, and collaboration in the area of adaptation and climate change.
Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) - An online, georeferenced adaptation website with case studies, library resources, tools, and more.
CRiSTAL- Community-based Risk Screening Tool � Adaptation and Livelihoods
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA)
Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS)
NOAA�s Digital Coast - Provides tools, training, data, and case histories of how these tools have been used for climate adaptation and other coastal management issues, which includes CanVis, Open-source Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (OpenNSPECT), and Habitat Priority Planner.
Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments ICLEI, King County, and the Climate Impacts Group. 2007
WWF Climate Witness Program - Beyond witnessing climate change impacts many Climate Witnesses demonstrate real action and set examples that we can all follow.