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Isle Royale The National Park Service (NPS) is conducting climate change scenario planning workshops around the U.S., and with GLISA's collaboration, a workshop was held in 2013 for Isle Royale National Park. GLISA worked with NPS to develop localized...
Project Members: Laura Briley, Cat Hawkins Hoffman, John Gross, Richard Rood, Rachel McLoughlin, Kimberly Channell, admin admin |
Downscaled projections data portals The goal of this project is to provide the users of climate projections with up to date information on the available portals of downscaled climate projections data for the United States and globally. This site provides several capabilities to the...
Project Members: Galia Guentchev, Caspar Ammann, Joe Barsugli, Katherine Hegewisch, Richard Rood |
Agricultural Best Management Practices and Models - Assessing Vulnerability To help protect both people and nature influenced by agriculturally-dominated watersheds in the Great Lakes region, the research, conservation, and agricultural outreach community must collaborate to understand how climate change will influence the...
Project Members: Laura Briley, Daniel Brown, Elizabeth Gibbons, Hannah Heyman, Kimberly Hall, Patrick Doran, B.J. Baule, Niro Haryamen Mohd Rais, Michelle Homan |
Indicator Suite and Winter Adaptation Measures for the Chicago Climate Action Plan This project was designed to help the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program (IISG), GLISA and NOAA’s Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC) formulate a suite of climate change indicators for local officials and their partners to assist them in...
Project Members: Laura Briley, Martin Jaffe, Molly Woloszyn |
Climate and Extreme Weather Resilience for the Region of Peel, Ontario This project piloted a method to create access to credible, locally-relevant climate data for several communities related to Lake Ontario in the Region of Peel, one of the most populous and urbanized areas of the Canadian Great Lakes basin. The...
Project Members: Laura Briley, Chandra Sharma, Elizabeth Gibbons, Stewart Dutfield, Harris Switzman |
Climate Scenarios for Hydrological Modeling This project is intended to inform how to incorporate climate model projections into hydrological modeling. More broadly, this process includes how to select an appropriate data set(s) of climate projections, whether or not the projections should...
Project Members: Laura Briley, Richard Rood |
Great Lakes Snow and Climate Change These are resources related to snow in the Great Lakes region and how snow is expected to change under climate change.
Project Members: Laura Briley, Daniel Brown, Jeff Andresen, B.J. Baule, Richard Rood |
CMIP Climate Information for the Great Lakes We are investigating the CMIP3 and CMIP5 global climate models for the information they provide about Great Lakes climate change. Our assessment includes both an evaluation of the quality of information they provide and a description of the climate...
Project Members: Laura Briley, Daniel Brown, Richard Rood, Frank Marsik, Benjamin Lowden, B.J. Baule |
Arctic Oscillation: Climate Variability in Great Lakes The Arctic Oscillation (North Atlantic Oscillation) is a dominant mode of variability in the middle and high latitudes of the northern hemisphere. This is a project to support the development of briefing material for the National Park Service in...
Project Members: Richard Rood, Frank Marsik, Alexia Prosperi, admin admin |
Michigan Public Health and Climate Change GLISA is working with the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) to develop a Climate Profile Report for the State of Michigan. The Climate Profile Report is a synthesis of historical and future climate information for the state, with...
Project Members: Laura Briley, Lorri Cameron, Daniel Brown, Richard Rood |
GLAA-C In collaboration with GLISA, the goal of GLAA-C is to bring together researchers and practitioners to develop actionable climate adaptation programs for cities in the Great Lakes region. GLAA-C works with cities in the Great Lakes region to develop...
Project Members: Laura Briley, Daniel Brown, Ashlee Grace |
Assessing and Communicating Risks from Climate Variability for the Michigan Tart Cherry Industry This project compiled weather and climate information to provide the cherry industry with reliable adaptation resources and strategies. The research results continue to inform industry leaders on best practices for mitigating risks and appropriating...
Project Members: Hannah Heyman, Daniel Brown, Elizabeth Gibbons |