Transcript ARCN post workshopx - Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic

Climate Change Planning in
Alaska’s National Parks
INTERIOR ARCTIC PARKS
Post-Workshop Brainstorming
Session:
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
April 13, 2012
Common Issues
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Education
TEK in planning
Co-management
Cooperation at local level
Budget issues
Data coordination
Monitoring
Important Management Actions
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Hire/train technology innovators
Partner with agencies (NHSA) for
remote connectivity
Increased fire staff for suppression
Infrastructure for tourism
Coordinate data collection +
analysis between groups
Produce education products from
meetings for community
presentations
Native life education in classrooms
Collaborative scenario planning
area communities
Amend NPS policies to address
CC: review, refine and make
relevant
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Support for science based
information to inform decisions
Enterprise teams for response to
climate change impacts
Increased energy efficient facilities
& vehicles
Needs assessment & GAP
analysis or ARCN I&M program
Track & allow movement of new
species expanding area
Enterprise teams cooperate with
composed of other local, state &
federal personnel
Need to address increased staff &
more local hire
Possible Products
Report
pros
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Includes all details on process,
results, scientific background,
narratives, and discussion
Can be peer-reviewed; “official”
Can also be made available on line
cons
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Too long and unwieldy for many
audiences
Expensive to produce (full color
printing, binding, etc.
Possible Products
Poster
pros
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Includes some details on process,
results, scientific background,
narratives, and discussion
Highly portable
Many venues for presentation; wide
range of audiences
Can also be made available on line
cons
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Too brief to convey the full depth of
the process and results
Can’t fully convey narratives
Risk of misinterpretation
Possible Products
Video/Youtube
pros
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Can be made available on line
Appealing and accessible to a wide
range of audiences; compelling
Excellent format for narratives
cons
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Risk of misinterpretation
May be considered less “official” or
“serious”
Difficult to include all information and
background
Possible Products
Curriculum
 Trainings
 Community meetings
 Workshops
 Audio/podcast
 Other?
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Resources and Feedback from Participants
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Roger Kay
Science not always well integrated
 Wilderness issues poorly represented
 Stores may be misleading
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John Chase
Climate change contacts list
 Trip report
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Links to SNAP products
Maps, graphs, and charts
of climate projections
 By region or by park
 Temperature,
precipitation, season
length, thaw, freeze,
other?
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Central Alaska
Date of Freeze
Projections
5-model average
A1B scenario
2010s
2050s
2090s
Central Alaska
Date of Thaw
Projections
5-model average
A1B scenario
2010s
2050s
2090s
Central Alaska
Length of Growing
Season Projections
5-model average
A1B scenario
2010s
2050s
2090s
Links to public education topics
PDO education
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Poorly informed public
Strong impacts on perception of climate change
Links to public education topics
Fire
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Public knowledge?
Effects on tipping
points
Bettles fire 2004
http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/AlaskaMark/11?gallery=
Links to public education topics
Extreme Events
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Important in workshop
process
 Uncertain
 Important
 Effects on tipping
points
http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/arctic-storms/
Surveys
Audiences?
 Questions to ask?
 Information gaps?
 Ways to use the results?
 NPS limits on surveys
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Other groups that can do
this?
Missing Links
Mining industry
 Oil/gas industry
 More communities
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Understanding of
culture and values
 Place-based education
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