This workshop will be an active, hands-on training for attendees of the Great Lakes Coastal Assembly. The goal for the workshop is to describe and use a decision-support framework, the Adaptation Workbook, designed for practitioners to use in ecological and nature-based project planning within the Great Lakes watershed. The decision-support framework supports practitioners to document the potential vulnerability to disturbances and the intensification of seasonal weather patterns; and to clearly articulate how adaptation tactics can increase the adaptive capacity of the system to better cope with changes over time.
Participants will:
- Learn about current and anticipated effects of a changing climate in the Great Lakes Region.
- Scale climate impacts down to the local level by considering how site-level characteristics will be affected by changes in climate at a regional scale.
- Select climate adaptation strategies applicable to project specific goals.
- Identify adaptation tactics that enhance the ability of ecosystems to adapt to, or cope with changing conditions in the context of sustainable ecological management.
- Learn about resources and tools available to support managers adapting systems to climate change.
