Climate Resilience and Information: Opportunities with Tribes and the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Partners National Congress of American Indians Annual Convention

(October 10, 2016)

Doug Kluck Regional Climate Services Director Doug.kluck@noaa.gov Kansas City, MO – 816-994-3008

Rising Demand for Climate Information with Regional Perspectives

Health Agriculture Energy Transportation

Sustainability of Marine Ecosystems

Coasts and Climate Resilience Climate Impacts on Water Resources

Changes in Extremes of Weather and Climate

Who and Where are we?

Also: -National Marine Fisheries Service -National Ocean Service -Oceanic & Atmospheric Research

Climate Extremes

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/time-series

Temperature & Precipitation Trends

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/

National Integrated Drought Information System (Drought Early Warning Systems – DEWS)

Drought.gov

• Drought Early Warning System (DEWS)

• Informing Planning • Tribal • States • Federal Agencies

• Enhancing Monitoring • Drought/flood

• Regional Web Portal

Early warning: provision of timely and effective information, through identified institutions, that allows individuals exposed to a hazard to take action to avoid or reduce their risk and prepare for effective response-International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

NIDIS Tribal Focus

https://www.drought.gov/drought/tribal-engagement-nidis

Tribal Engagement Activities: - Missouri Basin - Four Corners - Pacific Northwest - Southern Plains

Missouri Basin

Basin Tribal Discussion ‘14

- 16 Tribes

- Drought and Climate challenges

- Opportunities

- Tribal Colleges & Governments

Lower Brule Community College, Summer 2013

Missouri Basin Activities: Drought Early Warning System

1) Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance (GPTWA) Climate Partnership – Standing Rock, Oglala Lakota Nation, Flandreau Santee, Rosebud Sioux Tribes – Two successful climate grants (w/BIA, NDMC, AASC, HPRCC)

• Development of Water Resource Vulnerability Assessments Process and Guidebook • Development of Water Resource Vulnerability Assessments to Build Tribal Resilience

2) Wind River Tribes – supporting drought resilience, capacity building and planning w/DOI’s Climate

Science Center

3) Four Kansas based tribal efforts w/BIA, Haskell Indian Nations U., others – Prairie Band Potawatomi, Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in KS and NE,

Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas and Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska – Kansas Drought Tournament – Kansas Governor’s Water Conference – Tribal Session

Where NOAA and partners have the capacity and similar goals we would like to partner with tribes on such opportunities.

Kansas Based Tribes Water/Climate Summary

Providing timely climate data and information to the public for cost effective decision making since 1987

Wind River: Development of a Climate and Drought Summary

Providing timely climate data and information to the public for cost effective decision making since 1987

Wind River: Development of a Climate and Drought Summary

Indigenous People’s Climate Change Working Group (w/Dan Wildcat, Haskell Indian Nations University)

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toolkit.climate.gov

Providing a Toolkit for Climate Resilience: “Federal agencies will create a virtual climate resilience toolkit that centralizes access to data-driven resilience tools, services, and best practices, including those developed through the Climate Data Initiative.” (President’s Climate Action Plan, 2013)

https://toolkit.climate.gov/

http://toolkit.climate.gov/topics/tribal-nations .

Tribal Climate Resilience Toolkit

• Climate change in your county: Plan with a new tool

NOAA's newly updated Climate Explorer offers downloadable maps, graphs, and data tables of observed and projected temperature, precipitation and related climate variables dating back to 1950 and out to 2100.

https://toolkit.climate.gov/tools/climate-explorer

National Climate Assessment (NCA)

• National Climate Assessment 4.0

– To be published late 2018

– Call for authors

– Tribal Chapter

– 13+ Agencies

• Focus where concerns are highest in “real-time” • Early Warning System tool • Flexible response to climate extremes • Popular w/states, feds, tribes, private interests (4000+) • Presenters: AASC, NDMC, RCC, USDA

Central Region Monthly Climate & Drought Webinars

Quarterly Regional Climate Summary & Outlook

Midwest

Missouri Basin

Great Lakes

https://www.drought.gov/drought/resources/reports

Pacific Region Eastern Region Western Region Alaska Region Rio Grande/Bravo Basin Gulf of Maine Region Midwest Region Caribbean Climate

Monitoring the Past and Data

• Monitoring: State of the Climate

• Data (weather, climate, radar, satellite, etc…)

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/

Assessments: 2012 Drought

• State by state assessment of impacts

• Economic damages

• Causes

(http://www.drought.gov/drought/content/resources/reports)

Missouri River Assessments

• More variable annual runoff – Upper basin

• Tendency to wetter side

• 2011 Flood to 2012 Drought

https://www.drought.gov/drought/dews/missouri-river-basin/reports-assessments-and-outlooks

Forecasts, Outlooks and Warnings

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/forecasts/

• Seasonal Outlooks • http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

• Daily Weather Forecasts • weather.gov

• All Warnings and Advisories

• weather.gov

• Drought Conditions and Outlooks • Drought.gov

Thank You Please feel free to contact me, Georgia Madrid or

Linda Belton anytime for more information

NOAA Contacts: Georgia Madrid: Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, EEO/Diversity Program Office Email: georgia.madrid@noaa.gov Phone: 303-497-6732 (w), 303-775-5767 (c) Tribal Affiliation: Taos Pueblo/Navajo, enrolled: Taos Pueblo Doug Kluck: Regional Climate Services Director National Center for Environmental Information Email: doug.kluck@noaa.gov Phone: 816-994-3008 (w), 816-564-2417 (c)

Photo Credit: Rob Wilson Photography