Climate Ready Ohio
The Climate Ready Ohio PowerPoint slides are designed to replace or complement some of the slides in NOAA’s Climate Ready Great Lakes. In addition, these notes provide suggestions for small[...]
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Climate Change
Climate Change is a global problem, but a specific subset of its challenges are already affecting the Great Lakes Region.
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Species Migration
Insects like the monarch butterfly are predicted to migrate north as temperatures rise across the Great Lakes region.
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Crop Yields
If climate change continues as predicted, corn and soybean yields in Great Lake states like Ohio and Indiana could decrease 20-30% by 2049 and 40-80% by 2090.
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Forest Diversity
Changing precipitation and higher temperatures could change what types of trees grow in the Great Lakes region, potentially causing great losses to these states’ timber industries.
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Rising Temperatures
Rising temperatures and increased extreme rainfall events could increase water contamination through thousands of combined sewer systems in the region.
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Droughts and Floods
Climate Change will increase both droughts and floods in the Great Lakes region, severely affecting agriculture, an important industry in most Great Lakes states.
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Drinking Water
More than 11 million people rely on Lake Erie for their drinking water, putting them at risk for illness from contaminated water.
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Great Lakes Port & Harbor: Infrastructure Matrix & Dredging Cost Estimate Tool
The Matrix was designed to help communities identify the current “value” of their navigational and port infrastructure, allowing them to extrapolate the potential costs for maintaining these resources in the[...]
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Preparing Coastal Communities and Businesses for Climate Change: Focus Group Results
The Great Lakes sensitivity to climate variation is like the “bird in the coal mine;” serving as an early indicator of potential environmental, social and economic issues that will become[...]
Climate Ready Great Lakes
Climate Ready Great Lakes consists of three modules designed to help create a Great Lakes region that is “climate ready.” Toward this end, these modules provide stakeholders and decision makers[...]
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Final Report: NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP) Project
Final Report on a three-year effort by Sea Grant and NOAA partners to begin to address climate impacts to ports, harbors and stormwater management facilities in the Great Lakes region.[...]
Final Report: NOAA GLERL Climate & Hydrologic Modeling Activities
Final Report: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory‘s Climate and Hydrologic Modeling Activities Associated with the Project “NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP): Coastal Resource Management/Water Resources Management” 2010 report[...]
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Presentation: Global Climate Change & Uncertainty
Powerpoint slide series (52 slides) developed by Dave MacNeill (NY Sea Grant) for use in addressing general audiences on the topic of climate change and it’s associated uncertainty. Communicating Uncertainty[...]
Port Asset Values and Economic Impacts: New Tools for Estimating Risks of Water Level Changes & Failing Infrastructure
Article by Dale Bergeron (MN Sea Grant) and Gene Clark (WI Sea Grant) which appeared from Great Lakes Seaway Review, July-September 2010. Port Asset Values & Economic Impacts
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A Comparison of Visualization Software
A simple table allowing comparison of the features of various visualization software products that can be used to visualize the impacts of climate change. Comparison of Visualization Software
Topographic/Bathymetric Models for the Harbors of Toledo and Duluth/Superior
This project utilized geographic information systems (GIS) and 3D visualization software to synthesize the most recent topographic and bathymetric (topo/bathy) data available and visualize the potential impacts of increased variability[...]
Great Lakes Climate News and Events- Ice cover on Great Lakes climbs rapidly March 4, 2014
- Webinar: Predicting Carbon Storage of Great Lakes Forests February 20, 2014
- Great Lakes ice show provides a silver lining to winter February 20, 2014