Climate Toolbox Workshop for The Wildlife Society
The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center organized a 3.5 hour workshop entitled 'Strategies and Tools for Wildlife Conservation and Management in a Changing Climate Workshop' on Feb 7, 2025 8:30 am - 12:00 pm at the 2025 Joint Meeting of the Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society and Oregon Society of American Foresters in Salem, Oregon. The workshop was led by Katherine Hegewisch (UC Merced) and Elise Elliott-Smith, Lindsey Thurman, and Betsy Glenn from the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC).
This workshop provided an introduction for wildlife researchers and managers about how climate systems work, how to access and interpret different future climate projections, and hands-on training with The Climate Toolbox – an online resource of web tools for visualizing past and projected climate and hydrology of the U.S.
We covered the following topics during the workshop:
- Introduction to climate change in the Pacific Northwest
- Climate adaptation analysis tools and management strategies
- Introduction to species vulnerability assessments and adaptive capacity
- Introduction to climate modeling and The Climate Toolbox
- A hands-on exercise using The Climate Toolbox