Presentation Module: Visualizing Changes in the Great Lakes
Which Great Lakes factors will increase and which will decrease as a result of climate change? There’s little doubt that climate change will have wide-ranging impacts on the Great Lakes[…]
Which Great Lakes factors will increase and which will decrease as a result of climate change? There’s little doubt that climate change will have wide-ranging impacts on the Great Lakes[…]
The Great Lakes region includes almost 10,000 miles of shoreline (more than the U.S. East Coast), and 20% of the world’s surface freshwater. There are 85 million residents (a quarter[…]
Research was conducted by scientists at Wisconsin DNR, USGS, and University of Wisconsin to evaluate the impact of projected future climate scenarios on habitat suitability for Common Loons (Gavia immer)[…]
The Midwest Climate Watch website, available from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center, highlights real-time weather and climate information for the Midwest, including much of the Great Lakes region. Information provided[…]
Recent analysis of historical data, combined with climate model downscaling, suggest that the southern Wisconsin precipitation events of 2008 are part of a trend toward wetter conditions and more intense[…]
Soil is the foundation of Wisconsin’s agriculture. Soil particles eroding from agricultural lands both degrade the soil resource, potentially reducing agricultural productivity, and pollute rivers and streams, which impacts Wisconsin[…]
The WICCI Plants and Natural Communities Working Group’s mission is to focus on plants and their natural communities including ecological function and processes. It addresses the use of natural areas[…]
Climate change is expected to have certain, but unforeseen, consequences on the urban environment. There have been few comprehensive assessments of climate change impacts on metropolitan areas in the US.[…]
Human health could be impacted by climate change in a variety of ways. Warmer temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increases in extreme weather events can combine with other factors to[…]
The Green Bay Working Group is identifying the stressors and vulnerabilities on the Green Bay ecosystem and how climate change may affect those vulnerabilities.