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[…]
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Great Lakes Network Climate Education & Outreach Strategies: An Integrated Approach
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[…]
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Potential Effects of Climate Change on Inland Glacial Lakes and Implications for Lake-Dependent Biota in Wisconsin
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)[…]
Midwest Climate Watch
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[…]
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Stormwater Working Group – Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)
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 Conservation Working Group – Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)
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[…]
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Plants & Natural Communities Working Group – Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)
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[…]
Milwaukee Working Group – Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts
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.[…]
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Human Health Working Group – Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)
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[…]
Green Bay Working Group – Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)
The Green Bay Working Group is identifying the stressors and vulnerabilities on the Green Bay ecosystem and how climate change may affect those vulnerabilities.
