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Climate Change and Nature CentersHow you can make a difference
Kerry L. Griffis-Kyle,
Associate Professor
Department of Natural Resources Management
© Kristian Bell—Getty Images/RooM RF
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Outline
• Climate
• How you can make a difference
If you are looking for resources/evidence/arguments about climate science and climate change
https://skepticalscience.com/
http://tiki.oneworld.org/global_warming/climate8.html© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
What is climate change?
Left ©Mellimage/Shutterstock.com: center © Montree Hanlue/Shutterstock.com: Right NASAhttp://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
A change in global or regional climate patterns
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Climate change
Preponderance of evidenceScientific consensus
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https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm
Climate versus weather
WEATHER: day to day, or year to year conditions
unpredictable
CLIMATE: long-term average of weather
predictable
© Katharine Hayhoe
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Climate versus weather
CLIMATE: long-term average of weather
predictable
© Katharine Hayhoe
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What is causing the climate to change?
© Robert A. Rohde
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What is causing the climate to change?
http://tiki.oneworld.org/planet-boundaries/pb5climate.html
NASA
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Climate change
Found on lawnsbynorman101.wix.com
IPCC 2015 synthesis report
Temperature
Precipitation
If we immediately start reducing the greenhouse gas
production
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Getting hot
© U.S. National Climate Assessment, 2014
Projections for end of the century
© Clipart Kid
Projected annually-averaged temperature change
Only 7 to 13 F annual average difference between ice age and interglacial period
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Getting dry
© U.S. National Climate Assessment, 2014.
© Michel Streich
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Romero-Lankao et al. 2014.
https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg2/WGIIAR5-Chap26_FINAL.pdf
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How do we manage for an environment that is getting extremely variable?
© DPUMC http://www.dpumc.org/wp-
content/uploads/2015/05/Flooding-with-Houston-skyline.jpg
© Jay Janner http://photoblog.statesman.com/dry-season-the-texas-
drought-of-2011
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© The Daily Conversation
USDA
© NBC
© Kendi Davies
Challenges are
bigger than borders
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© K.L. Griffis-Kyle
© The Daily Conversation
USDA
© NBC
© Kendi Davies
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Outline
• Climate
• How you can make a difference
http://tiki.oneworld.org/global_warming/climate8.html
Process with examples
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process
People modified from Collaborative Group Learning
Assess risks
Identify options
Prioritize optionsImplement
Monitor results
Connect with stakeholders
Revise
Identify stakeholders
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperativehttps://desertlcc.org/
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process
People modified from Collaborative Group Learning
Assess risks
Identify options
Prioritize optionsImplement
Monitor results
Connect with stakeholders
Revise
Identify stakeholders
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperativehttps://desertlcc.org/
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process:Identify and connect with stakeholders
http://www.uandimproved.com/collective-leadership-inspiring-collaboration-in-the-workplace/
Creativity in collaboration
http://www.diablotrust.org/
USDA National Reinvention Government LaboratoryU.S. Environmental Protection Agency AwardArizona Association for Environmental Education’s Organization of the Year AwardUSDA Forest Service National Rangeland Management Award
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Process
Assess risks
Identify options
Prioritize optionsImplement
Monitor results
Connect with stakeholders
Revise
Identify stakeholders
People modified from Collaborative Group Learning
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperativehttps://desertlcc.org/
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process:What is at risk?
Pulling invasive Water Chestnut https://jamestownaudubon2.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/nature-center-reports-on-progress-with-invasive-species-control/
Audubon Nature Center, NY
©Dan Watsonhttp://archive.signalscv.com/archives/154816/
Placerita Canyon Nature Center, CA
Climate related threats
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Process:What is at risk?
Biodiversity
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Process:What is at risk?
Ecosystem services
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Process:What is at risk?
Human well-being
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Process
Assess risks
Identify options
Prioritize optionsImplement
Monitor results
Connect with stakeholders
Revise
Identify stakeholders
People modified from Collaborative Group Learning
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperativehttps://desertlcc.org/
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process:What can you do about it?
• Indirect - Education
• Direct - Conservation of natural resources
©Kottie Christie-Blick. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/climate-stewards/talking-about.html
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Process:What can you do about it?
• Indirect - Education
• Direct - Conservation of natural resources
©Kottie Christie-Blick. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/climate-stewards/talking-about.html
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Process:Education - What can you do about it?
Warner Park Nature Center, Nashville, TN©2017 Friends of Warner Parks
Hands-on learning
Louis Robidoux Nature Center, Riverside CAhttp://www.rivcoparks.org/education/louis-robiduox/louis-robidoux-nature-center/
USFWS Steve Hillebrand
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Process:Education - What can you do about it?
• Strategies• Focus on outcomes
• Make it relevant
• Tie it to human actions
• Weave it throughout your curriculum
• Provide actions and hope
Resources handout
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Process:Education - What can you do about it?
© Maria (Masi) Mejia
Inclusiveness
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Process:Education - What can you do about it?
Government Agencies
NGOs
Universities and k-12
Funding
Private Foundations
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Process:What can you do about it?
• Indirect - Education
• Direct - Conservation of natural resources
©Kottie Christie-Blick. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/climate-stewards/talking-about.html
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
• Landscape planning
• Improve system resiliency
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
• Landscape planning
• Improve system resiliency
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
Hjort et al. 2015. Why geodiversity matters in valuaing nature’s stage. Conservation Biology 29:630-639
Landscape planningInclude diversity of nonliving structure
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Process:Identify and connect with stakeholders
Google map of Texas Nature Centers https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=31.4506664043377%2C-96.43798800000002&spn=15.108657%2C33.815918&msa=0&mid=1VOdhfjO89cnDCVIXLJ_01QHOW4Y&z=4
© FloridaWildlifeCorridor.org
Landscape planningHabitat corridors
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Process:Identify and connect with stakeholders
Landscape planningConnectivity vs. planned fragmentation
Google Earth Image© Cady May
© Joe Drake
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
• Landscape approaches
• Improve system resiliency
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
Houston Arboretum and Nature CenterHouston, TXhttps://houstonarboretum.org/support/master-plan/ 2014 ASLA Landmark Award Recipient.
© Design Workshop, Inc. Austin and Reed Hilderbrand
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
Ecosystem
state
New
Ecosystem
state
Improve system resiliency
Manage for the system to self correct
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
Ecosystem
state
New
Ecosystem
state
Manage for the system to self correct
Improve system resiliency
Cibolo Nature Center, Boerne, TX
April 27, 2010 May 2, 2011
© Kip Kipharthttps://www.learner.org/jnorth/monarch/spring2011/c052611_4.html
© 2016 The State Journal-Registerhttp://visuals.sj-r.com/illinois-river-flooding-at-havana-june-25-2015/
Havana Nature Center, Illinios
X
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
Canyon Lakes cleanupSociety for Conservation Biology TTU Chapter
Invasive Species Removal
Hawaii Nature Center© Bank of Hawaii
Improve system resiliency Reduce local stressors
Barton Springs, Austin TX© City of Austin
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
© Save the Bay
Improve system resiliency Restoration
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
Barton Springs Salamander © Austin Community Foundation
Rio Grande Silvery MinnowBob Pos USFWS
© Houston ZooHouston Toad captive breeding and head-starting
Improve system resiliency Restoration
Austin Nature and Science Center
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Process:Conservation - What can you do about it?
© K. Griffis-Kyle
© J. Goetting
Improve system resiliency Improve/protect habitat
Chippewa Nature CenterMidland, MIHabitat improvements funded by MDNR© CNC
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Process
Assess risks
Identify options
Prioritize optionsImplement
Monitor results
Connect with stakeholders
Revise
Identify stakeholders
People modified from Collaborative Group Learning
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperativehttps://desertlcc.org/
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process:What is most important?
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Process:What is most important?
ConservationWhat is vulnerableWhat will you loseWhat will you gain
What can you do something about?
USFWS© Tammy Branston CDFW
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Process:What is most important?
Assess vulnerabilities
American Bullfrog
Great Plains Toad
Red-Spotted Toad
Ambystomatid Salamander
Couch’s Spadefoot
Low-land Leopard Frog
Canyon Treefrog
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Process:What is most important?
Assess vulnerabilities
American Bullfrog
Great Plains Toad
Red-Spotted Toad
Ambystomatid Salamander
Couch’s Spadefoot
Low-land Leopard Frog
Canyon Treefrog
© Cady May
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Process:What is most important?
Rochlin et al. 2013. Climate change and range expansion of the Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus)… PLOS One http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060874
Which species are moving and where
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Process
Assess risks
Identify options
Prioritize optionsImplement
Monitor results
Connect with stakeholders
Revise
Identify stakeholders
People modified from Collaborative Group Learning
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperativehttps://desertlcc.org/
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process:Get out and do it – and keep track of the effects
© Seppo Leinonen, www.seppo.net
Different groups may take on different roles
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Process:Get out and do it – and keep track of the effects
© Tom Harvey TPWD
Volunteers collect marsh grass at the NRG EcoCenter, Cedar Bayou for transplant to wetlands along Dickinson Bayou close to Galveston, TX
Rancho Diana Nature Park, San Antonio, TX© Native Plant Society of Texashttp://npsot.org/wp/story/2011/1816/
ImplementCitizen Science
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Process:Get out and do it – and keep track of the effects
Warner Park Nature Center, Nashville, TN©2017 Friends of Warner Parks
Cibolo Nature Center, Boerne TexasMonarch Joint Venture© Kip Kiphart
MonitorCitizen Science
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Process
Assess risks
Identify options
Prioritize optionsImplement
Monitor results
Connect with stakeholders
Revise
Identify stakeholders
People modified from Collaborative Group Learning
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperativehttps://desertlcc.org/
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Process:How well are things working?
• What is working?
• How well is it working?
• What needs to be changed?
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You can make a difference
© K.L. Griffis-Kyle 2017
Kerry Griffis-Kyle [email protected]