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Climate Change Impact on Western US Residents: Water Crisis and Ecosystem Shifts

Explore the impact of climate change on people in the Western US, from water scarcity to changing ecosystems. Learn how urban sprawl and drought conditions affect Lake Mead and Nevada's average precipitation over time.

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Climate Change Impact on Western US Residents: Water Crisis and Ecosystem Shifts

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  1. How has/is/will climate changeimpact(ed)/ingpeople livingin the Western US?

  2. What’s the Problem?

  3. Water http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

  4. Lake Mead

  5. Urban Sprawl in the LV Valley

  6. Changing Ecosystems http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/disappearing-plants

  7. How has/is/will climate changeimpact(ed)/ingpeople livingin the Western US?

  8. What’s the Question? Knowing and Predicting

  9. What’s the Question? Knowing and Predicting Forecasting

  10. Weather vs. Climate • Weather - a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. • Climate – the average set of all phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere over periods of at least 30 years.

  11. Can we?

  12. Scientific Issues • Systems Thinking • Human nature • Silos • Socio-political influences • Power • Modeling • Consensus • Tools • Data • Quality and Integrity • Storage • Complexity

  13. Data vs. Information • Data - Raw, unprocessed measurements. • Information - Data + Context

  14. Spatial vs. Temporal • Spatial data - Data that that is linked to locations in geographic space, usually via features on a map. • Temporal data - Data that can be linked to a certain time or period between two moments in time.

  15. What does this tell us?

  16. Average Precipitation in Nevada During March (1895-1940)

  17. Metadata

  18. Inscriptions as Data

  19. How has/is/will climate changeimpact(ed)/ingpeople livingin the Western US?

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