2016 Climate Change Workshop Documents and Resources

Workshop Documents

• Final Meeting Report
• Meeting Agenda
• Workshop Program (Agenda and Presentation/Poster Session Abstracts)
• Meeting Outcomes
• Climate Models, Climate Projections, and Uncertainty: A Primer for Southeast Alaska (Handout – Jeremy Littell, Alaska Climate Science Center, USGS)
• Streamflow and Watershed Classification Session Resources
  • Discharge Models in the Gulf of Alaska (Handout from the Streamflow team)

Session Presentations

• Keynote Session
  • Alaska Climate Change Overview – Julianne Thompson, USFS Tongass National Forest
  • Downscaled Climate Change Projections for Southeast Alaska and Considerations for Modeling, Management, and Planning – Jeremy Littell, Alaska Climate Science Center, USGS
    • ****NEW Jeremy shared an update March 30, 2017, you can find his presentation here: Practical Notes on Using Climate Projections in SE Alaska
  • At the Edge of the Wider Water: Southeast Alaska Climate and Pacific Ocean Variability – Rick Thoman, National Weather Service
  • Alaska Monitoring and Assessment Program and Future Monitoring in Southeast Alaska 2017-2020 – Amber Bethe, ADEC
  • Working Together to Collect Environmental Data in Transboundary Waters – Terri Lomax, ADEC
  • Developing a Regional Monitoring Network – Sue Mauger, Cook InletKeeper
  • USFS Approaches to Adaptation Planning – Julianne Thompson, USFS Tongass National Forest
• Streamflow and Watershed Classification
  • Overview of Runoff Models – Janet Curran, USGS
  • Regression Approaches to Discharge Modeling – Janet Curran, USGS
  • Runoff Modeling for the Gulf of Alaska Region – Dave Hill, Oregon State University
  • Applications of Discharge Models to Climate Impacts – (Climate change sensitivity index for Pacific Salmon habitat in southeast Alaska) Colin Shanley, The Nature Conservancy
• Freshwater Temperature Session
  • Overview of Auke Creek Climate Related Studies: How Longterm Monitoring can help us Understand Local Adaptation – John Joyce, NOAA
  • Heterogeneous Climate Change Impacts are anticipated at Salmon Spawning Sites on the Copper River Delta: Implications for Natural Resource Managers Across Coastal Alaska – Luca Adelfio, USFS Chugach National Forest
  • Spatiotemporal Analysis of Historical and Future Climate Effects on Stream Temperatures in Southeast Alaska – Sanjay Pyare, University of Alaska Southeast
  • Linking Landscape Characteristics and Stream Temperature in the Coastal Temperate Rainforest of Southeast Alaska – Michael Winfree, UAF
  • Alaska Stream Temperature Community: Data Storage, Harvesting and Dissemination – Ryan Toohey, USGS
• Anadromous Fish and Habitat Ecology Session
  • Climate Change and the Freshwater Habitats of Pacific Salmon on the Tongass National Forest – Gordon H. Reeves, USFS PNW Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon
  • More than the Sum of the Parts: Integrating Nature’s Complexity into Climate Change Impact Assessments for Pacific Salmon – J. Ryan Bellmore, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Juneau, Alaska
  • Predicting the Response of Salmon Spawning Habitat to Changing Hydrologic Regimes in the Salmon Forests of Southeast Alaska – Matthew Sloat, Wild Salmon Center
  • Some Observations on Climate Effects on Salmon Populations in Southeast Alaska Based on Multi-decadal Monitoring of Selected Populations and Fisheries – Leon D. Shaul, ADF&G Commercial Fisheries Division

Background Documents

• EcoAdapt. 2014. A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Aquatic Resource 
  in the Tongass National Forest. EcoAdapt, Bainbridge Island, WA.
• Bryant, M.D. 2009. Global Climate Change and Potential Effects on Pacific Salmonids in Freshwater Ecosystems of Southeast Alaska. Climate Change 95:169-193. US Forest Service Southern Research Station.

Freshwater Temperature Resources

• IMPLEMENTATION PLAN: BRISTOL BAY REGIONAL WATER TEMPERATURE MONITORING NETWORK – Prepared by Sue Mauger, Cook Inletkeeper and Tim Troll, Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust for the Western Alaska Landscape  Conservation Cooperative and the Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Partnership October 2014
• Stream temperature data collection standards for Alaska:Minimum standards to generate data useful for regional-scale analyses (Mauger et al. 2015 Journal of Hydrology)
• Stream Temperature Action Plan: Steps to protect Alaska’s wild salmon habitat from the impacts of thermal change – Prepared by Sue Mauger, Cook Inletkeeper, August 2012
• Stream Temperature Data Collection Standards and Protocol for Alaska: Minimum Standards to Generate Data Useful for Regional-scale Analyses – Prepared by Sue Mauger, Cook Inletkeeper and Rebecca Shaftel, Dr. E. Jamie Trammell, Marcus Geist, and Dan Bogan, Alaska Natural Heritage Program, UAA, December 2014
• ADEC Water Quality Monitoring Map
• Southeast Alaska Regional Stream Temperature – Map (UAS GIS Library)

Adaptation Plans

• A Climate Adaptation Strategy for Conservation and Management of Yellow-Cedar in Alaska (Hennon et al. 2016 USDA General Technical Report)

Other Resources

• Mountain Streams Offer Climate Refuge – Future holds hope for biodiversity in cold-water streams

  • Slow climate velocities of mountain streams portend their role as refugia for cold-water biodiversity (Isaak et al. 2016 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)