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Tropical Pacific Islands are increasingly vulnerable to drought, which can cause severe drinking water shortage, extensive crop damage, and harmful impacts on ecosystems. Established in 2019, the Pacific Drought Knowledge Exchange (PDKE) facilitates collaborative relationships between scientists and resource managers in the region, aiming to provide customized, accessible drought data and products to support planning and management. PDKE is funded and guided by an alliance of federal and state agencies, associations, and non-profit organizations, and is implemented by science staff from the...
Water Resources Adaptation
USGCRP’s Coasts Interagency Group developed a three-part podcast series focused on the science of coastal decision-making. The series follows up on a series of federal seminars the group hosted in 2021 and brings similar content to a public audience. The episodes were released beginning in November 2022 via the NOAA Ocean Podcast, addressing: equity and justice in coastal planning what the latest behavioral science research can tell us about how people make conservation and environmental decisions perspectives from a panel of government experts on the science of coastal decision-making , and...
Coasts
As climate change continues to transform recovery from and resilience to extreme events, USGCRP agencies are collaborating to share learning on climate adaptation and empower risk-informed decision-making. The FEMA National Exercise Division is working with local, state, and Tribal, and federal partners (including USDA, NOAA, and EPA) to deliver regional climate adaptation seminars, highlighting partnerships and resources to support the emergency management community and state, local, and Tribal partners in adapting to climate change impacts. This progressive series of exercises aims to...
Adaptation
The Initiative for Enhancing Capacity for Climate Risk Assessment and Catalyzing Partnerships to Inform Decisions in Latin America and the Caribbean, or LACI , is a collaborative effort between USGCRP, the U.S. Group on Earth Observations , and regional partners, including AmeriGEO and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research . LACI’s core team includes members from USGS, NOAA, NSF, NASA, USAID, DOI, and DOS. The overarching vision for LACI is to provide opportunities for partnerships between Caribbean, Latin American, and North American countries to enhance capacity for climate...
International Adaptation
Plankton—organisms that drift with ocean currents—are critical to marine ecosystems and are highly sensitive to changes in their environment, including in the temperature, salinity, pH level, and nutrient concentration of the water. Bio-GO-SHIP is a partnership between NOAA, NASA, and university researchers aiming to develop new understanding of the link between physical and chemical characteristics of ocean water and global ocean plankton diversity, abundance, and biogeochemical roles in the context of a changing ocean. A global quantification of plankton biodiversity, size, structure, and...
Biodiversity & Ecosystems Carbon Cycle Oceans
In December 2021, USDA launched a year-long monthly climate literacy training course for its employees, aiming to help develop a more climate-informed workforce for the U.S. Government. During live seminar events, expert speakers from NOAA, DOI, USDA, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector provided information and responded to questions on a range of climate change related topics, including the foundational science of climate change, the effects of climate change and extreme events on croplands, animal agriculture, and forests, and climate adaptation and mitigation response...
Education Agriculture & Food
In 2022, USGCRP initiated an assessment of the condition of nature within the United States, with anticipated release in 2026. The First National Nature Assessment (NNA1) will provide a comprehensive picture of the Nation’s lands, waters, and wildlife and how they might change in the future, including their interactions with climate, the economy, public health, environmental justice, and national security. Like other USGCRP assessments, NNA1 will draw on expertise from the federal government, Indigenous communities, academia, and the private sector; establish an array of public engagement...
Ecosystems & Biodiversity National Nature Assessment
Since 2015, USGCRP’s IGIM has convened an annual U.S. Climate Modeling Summit . The Summit brings together representatives from the U.S. CMIP-class climate model development centers and from operational climate prediction programs, with the goal of improving the coordination and communication of national climate modeling goals. Alongside many of the summits, a technical workshop focused on a high-priority modeling topic facing the U.S. and international modeling communities has also been convened. In 2021, the workshop focused on Earth system predictability. Outcomes included identification of...
Modeling
The CDC’s Heat and Health Tracker , developed in collaboration with NOAA and its NWS, provides local heat and health information to help communities prepare for and respond to extreme heat events. This includes monthly and future projections of the expected number of days that are at or above a dangerous level of heat based on climatological norms. The Heat and Health Tracker also includes a Heat-Related Illness and Temperature map of the rate of emergency department visits associated with heat-related illness per 100,000 visits by region.
Extreme Events Human Health
Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions in the atmosphere that move moist air from the tropics to higher latitudes, producing heavy rain and snow upon landfall. They provide much of the rainfall in the western United States and are frequently associated with extreme weather across large parts of the country. The international Atmospheric River Tracking Method Intercomparison Project ( ARTMIP ) is seeking to improve understanding of the linkages between climate change and atmospheric rivers. ARTMIP consists of participants from national laboratories, universities, and research centers...
Extreme Events Modeling Physical Climate