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Climate Change Planning in Alaska’s National Parks

INTERIOR ARCTIC PARKS Post-Workshop Brainstorming Session: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? April 13 , 2012. Climate Change Planning in Alaska’s National Parks. Common Issues. Education TEK in planning Co-management Cooperation at local level Budget issues Data coordination Monitoring.

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Climate Change Planning in Alaska’s National Parks

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  1. INTERIOR ARCTIC PARKS Post-Workshop Brainstorming Session: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? April 13, 2012 Climate Change Planning in Alaska’s National Parks

  2. Common Issues • Education • TEK in planning • Co-management • Cooperation at local level • Budget issues • Data coordination • Monitoring

  3. Important Management Actions • 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 • 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

  4. Possible Products Report pros • Includes all details on process, results, scientific background, narratives, and discussion • Can be peer-reviewed; “official” • Can also be made available on line cons • Too long and unwieldy for many audiences • Expensive to produce (full color printing, binding, etc.

  5. Possible Products Poster pros • 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 • Too brief to convey the full depth of the process and results • Can’t fully convey narratives • Risk of misinterpretation

  6. Possible Products Video/Youtube pros • Can be made available on line • Appealing and accessible to a wide range of audiences; compelling • Excellent format for narratives cons • Risk of misinterpretation • May be considered less “official” or “serious” • Difficult to include all information and background

  7. Possible Products • Curriculum • Trainings • Community meetings • Workshops • Audio/podcast • Other?

  8. Resources and Feedback from Participants • Roger Kay • Science not always well integrated • Wilderness issues poorly represented • Stores may be misleading • John Chase • Climate change contacts list • Trip report

  9. Links to SNAP products • Maps, graphs, and charts of climate projections • By region or by park • Temperature, precipitation, season length, thaw, freeze, other?

  10. Central Alaska Date of Freeze Projections 5-model average A1B scenario 2010s 2090s 2050s

  11. Central Alaska Date of Thaw Projections 5-model average A1B scenario 2010s 2050s 2090s

  12. Central Alaska Length of Growing Season Projections 5-model average A1B scenario 2010s 2050s 2090s

  13. Links to public education topics PDO education • Poorly informed public • Strong impacts on perception of climate change

  14. Links to public education topics Fire • Public knowledge? • Effects on tipping points Bettles fire 2004 http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/AlaskaMark/11?gallery=

  15. Links to public education topics Extreme Events • Important in workshop process • Uncertain • Important • Effects on tipping points http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/arctic-storms/

  16. Surveys Audiences? Questions to ask? Information gaps? Ways to use the results? NPS limits on surveys Other groups that can do this?

  17. Missing Links • Mining industry • Oil/gas industry • More communities • Understanding of culture and values • Place-based education

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