Department of the InteriorRegional Climate Science Centers

Secretarial Order 3289 (9/14/09): DoI “protecting our country’s water, land, fish and wildlife, cultural heritage and tribal lands and resources from the dramatic effects of climate change that are already occurring”

Climate Science CentersRegional hubs of the National Climate Change

and Wildlife Center

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

“Deep Science” Delivering

Fundamental Climate-Impact

Science to Resource Managers on a Regional Basis

“Applied Science”On-the-Ground

Applied Science and Adaptive

Management

Complementary Efforts CSCs & LCCs

Climate Science Centers (CSCs)

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

(LCCs)

• Additional collaborators: Boise State U., Idaho State U., Montana State U., Oregon Health and Science University, Portland State University, University of Idaho, University of Montana, University of Oregon, Washington State University, Idaho National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Western Regional Climate Center

Northwest CSCUI UW OSU

• Anticipated: ~$2M/yr targeted research, $1.3M/yr federal payroll

• Awarded: $0.7M/yr, emphasis on training graduate students and on infrastructureo OSU – Program managemento UW – Communicationso UI – Cyberinfrastructure

Northwest CSC

CSC Next Steps• Identify graduate students to work on

year 1 projects

• Develop stakeholder engagement process

• Hire permanent director

• Establish Advisory Council (fed-state-tribal) and Science Implementation Panel

• Develop science plan

• Hire federal science staff

• Implement climate “boot camp”

CSC Science Plan

• Priorities guided by Advisory Council

• Specific strategies developed by Science Implementation Panel

• Broad stakeholder engagement, focused on DoI priorities in landscape and species management

• Coordination with LCCs

RISA - Climate Decision Support Consortium

(CDSC)PIs Mote, Lach

• OSU, UO• BSU, UI • UW• Extension• $0.7-1m/yr for 5 yrs

Organizational Constellation

OCCRI

CDSC

CSC

UW CoEnvIdaho

EPSCoR

Connecting CSC and CDSC: PWM, program manager, stakeholder input processes

CDSC goals

• Form a research agenda around the needs of stakeholders

• Assemble needed expertise to address key questions

• Design and apply decision support tools to translate the research answers into practical applications

• Generalize the results of those tools for other applications

• Evaluate the effectiveness of our efforts.

Envision scenario tool

CDSC priorities

• Establish broad process of stakeholder inputs to science plan (coordinated with CSC)

• Serve US National Climate Assessment

• Develop scenarios and tools to support planning processes

Building on 15 years of fine work by CIG

CMIP5SRES A1B etc

replaced by RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6, RCP8.5

Stakeholder inputs

Regional scenarios next-generation climate, hydrology, vegetation,

land use

US National Climate

Assessment

CMIP5 global model outputsNARCCAP regional runs

regional climateprediction.netstatistical downscaling