Essays, Presentations and Articles from PRBO
Essay: Conservation in a Changing World: Climate Change and Thresholds. By John Wiens, PhD, PRBO's incoming Chief Conservation Science Officer
PRBO PowerPoint Presentations (click on links below to see a pdf of the following presentations):
Global Change and Designed Landscapes- Not Your Grandmother's Watershed
Mt Tamalpais Watershed Symposium: Preservation, Extinction, and Change on a Local Scale,
Marin Municipal Water District, April 11, 2008
By Ellie M. Cohen, PRBO President and CEO
Mitigation and Adaptation through Adaptive Conservation
North Bay Watershed Association presentation, April 4, 2008
By Ellie M. Cohen, PRBO President and CEO
PRBO, Climate Change, and the Role of Conservation in Securing Our Future
March 26, 2008
By Ellie M. Cohen, PRBO President and CEO
Climate Change and the Role of Conservation in Securing our Future
January 2008
By Ellie M. Cohen, PRBO President and CEO
Riparian habitat & flood management: innovative approaches during rapid climate change
December 2007
By Ellie M. Cohen, PRBO President and CEO
PRBO Observer columns on birds, climate change, and conservation:
Science and Advocacy in a Quickly Changing World
Global Warming and PRBO
Notes From the Austral Summer
Rockfish, Murre Diet, and Ocean Climate Change
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Other Resources
Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources PDF of Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4. Really first of its kind from the US government.
Climate Change and Forests of the Future: Managing in the Face of Uncertainty, Millar et.al.
Climate Change and Public Lands, White Paper by Kevin Sweeney
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Links
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Evolutionary Applications, an online scientific journal with papers you can download for free!
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/eva?cookieSet=1
Interactive Global Sea Level Rise Map, powered by Google
http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=38.0167,-122.1803&z=7&m=2
Hotter and Drier: The West’s Changed Climate. March 30, 2008, http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/west/contents.asp
(links to study by the Rocky Mountain Climate Institute and NRDC that includes showing that West US temperatures increase 2x faster than world average)
Unquiet Ice Speaks Volumes on Global Warming. By Robin Bell. Scientific American, February, 2008. Free online at: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-unquiet-ice
Association of State Wetland Managers- a list of all recent research on wetlands and climate change: http://www.aswm.org/science/climate_change/climate_change.htm#1
Climate change and bird migration research from Inter-Research, Climate Research: http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/cr/v35/n1-2/
CAP- California Applications Program/California Climate Change Center-- for up to date news articles and references (with links to scientific papers):
http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/cap_references.html
http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/reading_room.html
Also see our What You Can Do page for more helpful links [click here]
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