Possible Slides for Nat’l LCC meeting…..draft…..ideas

1. Possible Slides for Nat’l LCC meeting…..draft…..ideas

2. Why Are “We” Doing This? • The future in the modern imagination has always stretched out ahead like a broad highway drawing us onward with the promise of tomorrow. Now rather suddenly, as it becomes impossible to ignore dramatic physical changes taking place across the Earth, the future looms like an urgent question. Whatever the coming century brings, it will not unfold smoothly as some improved but largely familiar versions of life as we know it. This is the only thing that seems certain. Dianne Dumanoski, The End of the Long Summer

3. Topic Identification for first and second year RFP’s – found in our initial operating plan Agriculture Energy Climate Change Habitat Conservation Land and Resource Management Planning Water

4. “No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be” • Isaac Asimov

5. PPP-LCC Initial Ops Plan • Published December, 2009 • Identified Agriculture, Energy, Climate Change, Habitat Conservation, Water as top 5 “needs” • Our initial 3 projects were • Downscaled climate model • Regional Assessment of Fish Habitat Condition • Completion of the NWI Inventory

6. Our Next 6 “phase 2” projectsAlso based on initial needs… • Iowa wetland assessment and restorable wetland inventory • Land-use conversion risk in the Northern Great Plains • Glacial Ridge NWR post-restoration assessment • Fish Passage – new designs related to climate change • Wind • Grassland Bird conservation on working landscapes – spatial analysis linking populations to habitat

7. Decision Analysis Workshop Identifying Science Needs for the PPP-LCC Our process for determining which projects to fund resulted in good science… BUT the funded projects defined our science needs…. After the 2011 process was complete, we agreed that for FY12 and beyond our science needs should drive which projects we fund…. Decision Analysis workshop was the first step in defining long term science needs that will result in better science and more objective methods to allocate resources. “We” are the LCC!

8. Evaluation – Project review and selection processes. • Technical Committee Role. • Subcommittee role in PPP-LCC • Full Technical Committee role • Steering Committee Role. • The importance of pre-meeting material • Tech team only provides a recommendation • Evolution of process / criteria

9. Example of early round of reviews

10. Selection Process • Steering Committee Discussions • Portfolio considerations • Collaboration across projects

11. Lessons Learned • It’s a process of constant improvement • Need for well understood criteria • Sub-group approach helpful • Time needed for adequate review • 90 % of folks will not get good news • Science needs must drive the RFP process not the other way around. • Integration of fun and opportunity to be creative is important to the success of the group.

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13. WALCC FY2011 Activities Timeline

14. RFP: Broad Scope of Activities • Data compilation, recovery or synthesis • Providing information fundamental to understanding climate change effects on habitats and ecosystems of western Alaska • Providing vulnerability assessments of habitats or ecosystems • Incorporating a Traditional Ecological Knowledge component in the project (e.g. data collection, analysis, synthesis). • Improving availability of, and analytical interfaces to, geospatial and baseline data fundamental to understanding climate change effects on habitats and ecosystems of western Alaska • Providing tools and training to land and resource managers for strategic decision making or long-term planning

15. Must Address LCC Goals • Support coordination and collaboration among partners to improve efficiencies in their common science and information activities, • Identify and support research, and data collection, analysis, and sharing that address common information needs, • Enable synthesis of information at landscape and eco-regional spatial scales, • Communication to enhance understanding regarding effects of climate change in Western Alaska • Enhance resource management through applied science and technology transfer • Identify opportunities for coordinated management strategies for natural and cultural resources

16. RFP Evaluation: Tiered Process • SC evaluates proposals • First Tier Criteria (equal weights) • scientific contribution to landscape scale baseline information on key ecosystem components and/or services, • Ecological or Ecosystem Response to System/Climate Change, • Breadth of Understanding (integration) • Applicability to conservation and adaptation decision making • Partnership building / leveraging. • Second Tier Considerations • spatial scale and transferability of data/knowledge throughout WALCC, • PI experience in Alaska, • PI capability / productivity • SC selection based on both project evaluations and integration of final suite for providing foundation for the LCC.

17. WALCC Priority Information Needs

18. WALCC FY2011: 12 Projects

19. WALCC FY12 Pilot Program: Timeline lateSept Decision to do FY2012-2013 Pilot Program SC tasked with generating topic ideas Mid-Nov Select two topics: primary – Coastal; secondary –Hydrology SC id’s potential members of Organizing Team late Nov O.T. recruited – 21 individuals, 15+ programs Two conf calls, many emails,

20. Organizing Team Recommendations Refined program Objectives,Changing Coastal Storms & their Impacts Key program components,- Establish direction based on strong conceptual model foundation & via collaboration w/ on-going activities - some wide area components, w/ perhaps some focal areas6 suggested components Appropriate strategies for achieving the objectives - potential leveraging opportunities for some components,- other components best via RFP?

21. WALCC FY12 Pilot Program: Timeline lateSept Decision to do FY2012-2013 Pilot Program SC tasked with generating topic ideas Mid-Nov Select two topics: primary – Coastal; secondary –Hydrology SC id’s potential members of Organizing Team late Nov O.T. recruited – 21 individuals, 15+ programs Two conf calls, many emails, early DecSC agrees on refined topic, components, strategies Jan RFP language; two partnership efforts Feb RFP announced; 30 days; receive 28 proposals