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Resource
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Description
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Type & URL
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Audience
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| Climate Change Tree and Bird Atlases |
The Climate Change Atlases can be used to examine the current distribution of tree and bird habitats in the eastern United States, and how these habitat distributions might change in response to different climate scenarios. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Nature Serve Climate Change Vulnerability Index |
The NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index can help identify plant and animal species that are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Using the Index, you apply readily available information about a species’ natural history, distribution and landscape circumstances to predict whether it will likely suffer a range contraction, population reductions, or both during the coming years. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Climate Wizard |
A web-based mapping program developed by The Nature Conservancy and partners that allows non-technical as well as technical users to view historic and projected future temperature and rainfall maps around the world (with finer-scale data for the United States). |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Scanning the Conservation Horizon |
Released by the National Wildlife Federation and partners, this guide offers conservationists and resource managers a way to understand the impact of climate change on species and ecosystems and will support efforts to safeguard these valuable natural resources.
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Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Notre Dame Collaboratory for Adaptation to Climate Change |
A resource for research, education, and collaboration in the area of adaptation and climate change. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Notre Dame. Our team at Notre Dame, and The Nature Conservancy’s Great Lakes Project. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources,
General |
| Climate Change Knowledge Exchange |
Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) is a joint project of Island Press and EcoAdapt. It is aimed at building a shared knowledge base for managing natural systems in the face of climate change. |
Online Content
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General |
| Ohio State University Climate Change Webinars |
1-hour webinars including presentations on climate change impacts on forests, water quality, working lands, impacts on Great Lakes ports and harbors, stormwater, and more. |
Online Content
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General |
| Habitat Priority Planner |
An inventory of habitat or land use types for coastal communities. User can create maps and reports of climate change impacts after simulating "what if" scenarios |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Household Emissions Calculator |
US EPA carbon footprint calculator and suggested actions to reduce impact |
Online Content
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General |
| EPA Climate Ready Estuaries: synthesis of adaptation options for coastal areas |
The guide will give you an overview of key climate change impacts on coastal areas; existing adaptation options; and selected resources for further information |
Planning Guide
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General |
| Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange |
Lists climate change related tools and updates its site when new tools become available. |
Online Content
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General |
| Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Non-point Sources |
Allows users to explore possible effects of climate change on watersheds and water quality. It combines national watershed data, GIS, modeling tools, and assessment tools. |
Online Content
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General |
| Building Coast-Smart Communities |
Introduces people to the challenges coastal communities face and main options for addressing them. Local government authorities, planning departments, chambers of commerce, civic groups and residents associations all can host this game in their communities. |
Online Content
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General |
| NERRS Climate Training |
This is a list of documents and websites that NERRS felt were valuable as additional resources. |
Online Content
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General |
| NERRS Climate Change: Science, education and stewardship for tomorrow’s estuaries |
This paper outlines the capabilities and strengths of the reserve system, as well as potential short and long-term activities, to address climate change in critical coastal area. |
Report
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General |
| TNC Great Lakes interactive map |
Learn about TNC Great Lakes conservation projects, including climate change adaptation. |
Online Content
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General |
| TNC Climate Wizard |
Illustrates various IPCC climate change scenarios in the US. Users can view averages and changes in temperature and precipitation in the past 50 years and projections into the future. |
Online Content
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General |
| Integrated Planning for Resilient Communities: A Technical Guide to Integrating Hazard, Ecosystem and Land Use Planning |
This toolkit is designed to support integrated planning that addresses hazard mitigation and ecosystem-based planning within a land use planning context. The toolkit crosses disciplines and cross jurisdictional boundaries and can highlight the benefits of ecosystem conservation on hazard exposure and vice versa. This document provides an explanation of the integration of three decision-support tools and methods, and the implementation of an integrated analysis of hazards, ecosystem conservation goals, and land use measures. |
Online Content
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General |
| Agriculture and Forestry resources |
US EPA carbon sequestration science, practices, and tools resources |
Online Content
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Agriculture |
| Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy |
A section of the UWEX Sustainability Capacity Center. In this time of record-high energy prices, recognition of the tie between national security and energy independence, utility system reliability and global climate change concerns, energy efficiency is a key approach among the remedies. A local government or business must act strategically to make the most of every Btu. This section of the UWEX Sustainability Capacity Center will include links with information on how to measure current energy use and to create an energy plan with the technologies and practices, programs and policies that maximize energy efficiency and cost savings. |
Online Content
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Business |
| Carbon Value Analysis Tool |
CVAT is a screening tool to help companies integrate the value of carbon dioxide emissions reductions into energy-related investment decisions. The tool has two main purposes:
Test the sensitivity of a project's internal rate of return (IRR) to "carbon value" (the value of GHG emissions reductions). CVAT integrates this value into traditional financial analysis by ascribing a market price, either actual or projected, to carbon emissions reductions; facilitate the development of emissions reduction strategies by developing a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) across a portfolio of projects. CVAT ranks projects so managers can prioritize them according to their implicit cost per tonne of carbon emission reduction. |
Online Content
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Business |
| Digital Coast |
Climate change data, tools, training, and case studies to aid in the understanding of and planning for changes to coastal communities. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
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An inventory of habitat or land use types for coastal communities. User can create maps and reports of climate change impacts after simulating "what if" scenarios |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Coastal Ecosystem Restoration |
Assists users in breaking down coastal ecosystem conservation projects into manageable steps (categorized into planning, implementation, performance assessment, adaptive management, and dissemination of results) |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| NatureServe Vista |
Analysis system that can help planners make land use and planning decisions while keeping a conservation framework in mind. Can assist users with carrying out conservation assessments and planning projects, to help planners incorporate conservation principles in land use planning, and evaluate current and potential land use strategies. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Visualizing Coastal Erosion |
Interactive website allowing users to see the effects of coastal erosion in Ozaukee County, WI. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| NOAA Historical Maps and Charts |
Covers the land and waters of the United States of America, including territories and possessions (past and present). |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| CITYgreen |
CITYgreen analyzes the ecological and economic benefits of tree canopy and other green space. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources, Stormwater Managers |
| i-Tree |
i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree Tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of community trees and the environmental services that trees provide. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| NOAA Seminar Series: "A Climate Change Decision Support System for Water Managers" |
Riverside Technology, inc. has developed a Climate Change Decision Support System (DSS) as part of a NOAA SBIR project to provide water managers with information to assess the potential impact of climate change on water resources. The DSS provides tools to help water managers explore the range of current GCM climate projections, develop scenarios of climate-adjusted streamflow, and export datasets needed to test adaptation alternatives for managing future risks to water supply. The presentation will describe the current capabilities of the DSS, provide example products, and discuss future enhancements. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Lake Superior Streams |
Water quality, biodiversity, and stormwater references and toolkits |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources, Stormwater Managers |
| Climate Change Project-Level Guidance |
This document is one tool in a suite of tools and approaches being developed by The Nature Conservancy to help practitioners, conservation organizations and decision makers respond to the impacts of climate change around the world. |
Planning Guide
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Urban Forests and Climate Change |
The CUFR Tree Carbon Calculator is the only tool approved by the Climate Action Reserve's Urban Forest Project Protocol for quantifying carbon dioxide sequestration from GHG tree planting projects. The CTCC is programmed in an Excel spreadsheet and provides carbon-related information for a single tree located in one of sixteen United States climate zones. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Climate Change Continuing Education Webinar Series |
US FS webinar series geared to help land managers, consulting foresters, and private forest landowners stay informed on the latest science and tech transfer tools related to forest-based adaptation and mitigation of climate change. Each webinar is archived. |
Online Course
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Conservation and Natural Resources, Policymakers |
| CanVis Visualization Software |
A program to simulate potential impacts of climate change on coastal communities. Used for policy-making, planning, and presentations. |
Online Content
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Conservation and Natural Resources, Govern Policymakers, Stormwater Managers |
| Guidelines for K12 Global Climate Change Education |
The North American Association for Environmental Education and the National Wildlife Federation provide these guidelines, summarized for the 4th, 8th and 12th grade. Content addresses: questioning and analysis skills, earth and environment processes and systems, living systems, humans and their societies, humands and environment, skills for analyzing and investigating environmental issues, personal and civic responsibility. |
Report
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Educators |
| Green Communities |
Helps communities in creating the planning framework to help reduce environmental impacts. |
Online Content
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Government |
| Environmental Planning for Small Communities (TRILOGY) |
This program offers a complete one-stop introduction to a wide range of environmental issues and decisions that affect small to medium-sized communities. It offers communities the chance to judge their own needs and preferences, and to make informed decisions on their own. |
Program Guide
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Government |
| FEMA HAZUS |
Hazus is a nationally applicable standardized methodology that contains models for estimating potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. |
Online Content
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Government, Policymakers |
| Nonpoint-Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (N-SPECT) |
Provides projects and maps of runoff volume, pollutant load, pollutant concentrations, and total sediment load. Users can investigate potential water quality impacts from land use choices and climate change. |
Online Content
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Policymakers, Stormwater Managers |
| Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (ISAT) |
GIS extension to calculate the percentage of impervious surface area within a user-selected geographic area. This information can be used to predict how different management scenarios may impact local water quality. |
Online Content
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Policymakers, Stormwater Managers |
| Coastal Inundation Toolkit |
Provides the tools and information communities need to understand and address coastal flooding. |
Online Content
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Stormwater Managers |
| Michigan Low Impact Development Manual |
This manual is intended to facilitate broad application of LID techniques throughout Michigan, but some techniques may be useful in using this technology in Ohio. |
Guidebook
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Stormwater Managers |
| LID for Big Box Retailers |
The purpose of this project is to provide large building and site footprint high volume retailers with strategies that integrate innovative and highly effective Low Impact Development (LID) stormwater management techniques into their site designs for regulatory compliance and natural resource protection at the local levels. |
Online Content
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Stormwater Managers |
| Low Impact Development (LID) Urban Design Tools Website |
This site provides watershed managers with a new set of tools and techniques that can be used to meet regulatory and receiving water protection program goals for urban retrofits, re-development projects, and new development sites. |
Online Content
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Stormwater Managers |
| Planning for Healthy Places with Health Impact Assessments |
A ‘how to’ guide for conducting health impact assessments (HIAs), developed by the American Planning Association and the National Association of County & City Health Officials, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This online course will explain the value of conducting an HIA and the steps involved in conducting an HIA. Throughout the course, examples of health impact assessments have been highlighted and discussed. |
Online Content
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Public Health |