1) Summary of Voting Results
1) Summary of voting results
2) Updated / Revised version of “Table 1” – the Priority Topics for FY15 (and FY16?)
(consisting of the top 5 ranked Activities for each Topic, including ties. Note that Activities 1 and 2 have been combined)
Yellow color shows Activities unlikely to be conducted without NPLCC support / Activity code from Appendix A / Priority Topic A: Effects of hydrological regime shifts on rivers, streams, & riparian corridors / Priority Topic B: Effects of changes in air temperature & precipitation on forests / Priority Topic C: Effects of changes in sea levels & storms on marine shorelines, the nearshore, & estuaries / Priority Topic D: Effects of changes in the hydrologic regime on anadromous fish / Priority Topic E: Invasive species, diseases, & pests & their effects on biological communities /
Blue color shows Activities where entities other than the NPLCC may be better suited to carry out the activities /
Cells with both colors highlight area where collaboration and joint
project funding might be particularly beneficial
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Data and information synthesis and sharing. Identify, compile, collate and integrate existing data and information concerning climate impact data and modeling, monitoring, and monitoring networks, TEK, etc. Focus areas include addressing special cross-border challenges; linking information and data across disciplines and habitats, and providing the information and data to decision makers in a way that makes it useful to them. (Information and data sharing to be as desired by Tribes / First Nations for TEK). / 1 & 2
Assess vulnerability and resilience of resource(s) to projected climate change. Identify critical stressors, valued/necessary resources (including Tribal and First Nations valued resources, corridors and refugia, etc.), anticipated changes, and locations of more vulnerable and less vulnerable resources. Include consideration of the effects of multiple stressors on the resource(s) / 7 / / /
Further clarify decision-maker needs for S-TEK information. Convene managers, scientists, and tribes to discuss specific sub-topics; review and summarize existing planning documents, etc. Identify management decisions and actions, share information on existing data, models, etc.; identify gaps and common needs / 12
Identify indicators of change: focal indicators, processes or thresholds that can serve as indicators of change, can be used to track climate change impacts, and can be used to assess the effectiveness of management actions (to indicate where changes in management actions may be necessary). / 10 / /
Conduct, support, or facilitate landscape conservation planning exercise(s) in a particular geography or region / 9
Develop tools and/or assist partner entities in applying existing tools to identify and inform managers of high priority conservation and/or restoration targets (species, locations, etc.). / 8
Conduct or support adaptation planning exercises to assist management decisions related to specific sub-topics, considering uncertainties in future climate / climate impacts. Identify how restoration activities and strategy development can/should be modified to account for climate-related changes (E.g., scenario planning exercises, triage analyses, contingency planning, etc.) / 11 /
Conduct or support stakeholder outreach by the NPLCC or by NPLCC partners. Goals of such outreach activities could include: communicating information on projected impacts to interested stakeholders; supporting with local community planning by conveying information on local impacts and on the availability of adaptation and mitigation actions, etc. Could include workshops, meetings, or other approaches. / 13
Improve information on how climate change will affect linkages between ecological and human resources (including tribal and First Nations subsistence activities) / 14
Develop downscaled / improved climate models and forecasts of changes in the resources, at appropriate scales; Develop specialty climate or topic models / 8
Evaluate relationships between existing infrastructure and infrastructure planning and projected changes in the hydrological regime (e.g., culverts and fish passage; road and trail access; hatcheries, etc.) / 19
3) Proposed modifications to the Activity list based on discussions during January meeting
· Combine activities 1 and 2. Activity 1 was originally defined primarily to support development of the NPLCC data management system. Now that the initial development of that system is complete, it is appropriate to consider further database-specific work as part of a larger set of possible activities aimed at improving the availability and use of existing data
Activity code / Rows highlighted in green list the 19 activity categories that are to be evaluated (the "short list") / Identified as potential activites for the following Priority TopicsWhite rows list the detailed activities that were identified (the 'long list')
1 / Improve cross-boundary data availability, integration, synthesis, and sharing
Improve cross-boundary data availability, integration and synthesis / A, B, C, D, E
Coordinate and share data collection activities, research results, tools, and management lessons for cross-border datasets / C, D, E
Assess stream gauge information being collected to determine what data is being collected, where, and if it is coordinated with anadromous fish information. Assess if similar systems are in place in both B.C. and the U.S. and what coordination efforts are in place. / D
2 / Identify, compile, collate and integrate existing data and information concerning climate impact data and modeling, monitoring and monitoring networks, TEK, etc. Make this information readily available for decision-makers (as desired by Tribes/First Nations for TEK).
Systematically compile, collate and integrate existing data and information on hydrologic regimes affected by precipitation, glaciers, and groundwater and make it available for decision-makers. Intensively monitored watersheds are an example of an ongoing effort that could serve as a pilot for improved coordination and collaboration. / A
Systematically compile, collate and integrate existing data and information on forest and forest species distribution, the predicted effects of climate on both, and make that information available to decision-makers. Inventory of existing monitoring networks and monitoring entities may be a precursor / B
Systematically compile and integrate existing data for water quality, especially temperature, and make it available to decision-makers / D
Collate existing data on monitoring networks; Provide a single location / database for sharing and accessing information [one or more of the Priority Topics - mentioned specifically for invasives, pests, pathogens, and diseases] / C, D, E
Develop a data portal or “climate clearinghouse” with a brief description of people, their projects, and how to contact them / Other / cross-topic
Assess existing coastal geomorphologic, hydrologic, hydrographic and meterological data and oceanographic models (e.g., transport and circulation and sea-level rise) for their application to projecting effects of climate change on NPLCC estuaries and nearshore marine / C
Assess stream gauge information being collected to determine what data is being collected, where, and if it is coordinated with anadromous fish information. Assess if similar systems are in place in both B.C. and the U.S. and what coordination efforts are in place. / D
Leverage related initiatives related to data platform, data sharing, coastal resilience, etc. E.g., WCGA, National Ocean Council, other regional planning bodies / C
Consolidate a unified hydrology for SE Alaska / A
· Rewording of several of the activities to clarify them and to shift the focus towards what the activity should accomplish, rather than the more specific how the activity should be conducted. Note that we have only done this for activities that were prioritized into “Table 1” above. The revised wording is included in Table 1.
Activity code / Original wording / Revised wording10 / Identify focal indicators, processes or thresholds that can serve as indicators of change, can be used to track climate change impacts, and can be used to assess the effectiveness of management actions to indicate where changes in management actions may be necessary. / Identify indicators of change: focal indicators, processes or thresholds that can serve as indicators of change, can be used to track climate change impacts, and can be used to assess the effectiveness of management actions (to indicate where changes in management actions may be necessary).
12 / Conduct workshops to further clarify decision-maker needs: Convene managers, scientists, and tribes to discuss specific sub-topics. Identify management decisions and actions, share information on existing data, models, etc.; identify gaps and common needs / Further clarify decision-maker information needs with respect to the Priority Topic. Could include workshops, review of existing documentation, etc. Bring together perspectives from managers, scientists, and tribes; identify existing data, models etc., identify information gaps and common needs. May be done for sub-topics within the Priority Topic
13 / Conduct or support stakeholder outreach workshops and meetings, either convened by the NPLCC or by NPLCC partners. Goals of such outreach activities could include: communicating information on projected impacts to interested stakeholders; supporting with local community planning by conveying information on local impacts and on the availability of adaptation and mitigation actions, etc. / Conduct or support stakeholder outreach by the NPLCC or by NPLCC partners. Goals of such outreach activities could include: communicating information on projected impacts to interested stakeholders; supporting with local community planning by conveying information on local impacts and on the availability of adaptation and mitigation actions, etc. Could include workshops, meetings, or other approaches.
4) Summary: Identification of potential actions for several Priority Activities
Activity description / Ongoing work / Possible Focused Actions for FY15 (and FY16?)1 & 2 / Data and information synthesis and sharing. Identify, compile, collate and integrate existing data and information concerning climate impact data and modeling, monitoring, and monitoring networks, TEK, etc. Focus areas include addressing special cross-border challenges; linking information and data across disciplines and habitats, and providing the information and data to decision makers in a way that makes it useful to them. (Information and data sharing to be as desired by Tribes / First Nations for TEK). / Conservation planning atlas;
Data for Topics A-D;
GIS data inventory (complete)
Cross-boundary workshop: Topic B, A.
Existing work from partners on Topics A-D, NCAP work related to Topic E / · Increase awareness of data that already available and actively promote/provide data/information to decision-makers
· Expand ideas above to include previous data/projects from Partners (climate clearinghouse)
· Identify/track what information is being sought and / or used by decision-makers (e.g. network analyses on data use)
· Document and highlight roadblocks for data sharing and integration (and identify ways to overcome those roadblocks)
· Add one or more priority datasets (as identified by the GIS technical team) to the NPLCC data management system
· Additional support for hydrology data in SE Alaska
· Implement suggestions from EcoAdapt workshops and others on the data platform, data needs, and data presentation
7 / Assess vulnerability and resilience of the resource(s) to projected climate change: identify critical stressors, valued/necessary resources (including Tribal and First Nations valued resources, corridors and refugia, etc.), anticipated changes, and locations of more vulnerable and less vulnerable resources. Include consideration of the effects of multiple stressors on the resource(s) / Represented in FY14 RFP;
Funded work in FY13 and earlier related to Topics A, B, D, E;
Upcoming workshop on Topic C;
Partners are also actively conducted vulnerability assessments / · Develop/provide an inventory and synthesis of vulnerability assessments that have been conducted in the NPLCC, including an examination of the use/non-use of existing studies
- Note that there are quite a few methods used for "vulnerability assessments"; there is some research being done on what is used / not used and why; and inventory of existing/past VAs might be available from USGS
· Look at scale/scope of assessments and applicability to decisions at, potentially, different scales from the VA itselft
· Support (jointly with Partner?) specific/individual vulnerability assessment that includes consideration of multiple domains
Do any work within this area in conjunction with a identified decision-maker(s) with an expressed need?
12 / Further clarify decision-maker needs for S-TEK information. Convene managers, scientists, and tribes to discuss specific sub-topics; review and summarize existing planning documents, etc. Identify management decisions and actions, share information on existing data, models, etc.; identify gaps and common needs / Three USGS led 1-day workshops related to Topic B (needs followup), Topic C, and Topic A (regionally focused, upcoming).
Terrestrial / forest workshop;
EcoAdapt workshop on manager needs from data platform;
National LCC project creating a compilation of (ecosytem or climate related?) decisions that are being made / · Summarize previous work; both within the NPLCC and nationally
· Identify and track what information is being sought / used by decision-makers (e.g. network analyses on data use)
· In any workshops planned for FY14 aim to define information needs and activities around a strategy for a set of management decisions
· Have a meeting/workshop/discussion with managers and decision-makers who have successfully incorporated climate information in their decisions: what worked for them?
· Key informant interviews
· Provide a discussion forum at existing conference
· Decision-focused (rather than topic-focused) identification of needs: Seek out a particular (type) of decision that is being made now or in the near future that affects a large landscape and which could be sensitive to climate -- then work with those managers/decision-makers and interested stakeholders
· Need for information on cumulative effects/cumulative impacts (esp. relevant in BC with a large portion of the landscape as Crown lands and a relatively small number of decision makers who need to think about everything)