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Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX)

This program from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) helps volunteer scientists and community leaders work together to use science, especially Earth and space science, to tackle community issues and advance local priorities related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change. Goals of the program include launching 100 partnerships, engaging over 100 AGU members, catalyzing 100 shareable solutions, and improving the lives of 10 million people by 2019. The program focuses on:

Climate Smart Farming Tools

To help producers and communities meet the challenges of extreme weather events, changing growing seasons, and variation in precipitation, the Cornell Climate Smart Farming program has developed a variety of free, on-line decision-making tools for farmers in the Northeastern United States. These tools combine local weather station, climate, and agricultural data to help farmers make informed management decisions in both the short- and long-term.

Gulf TREE (Tools for Resilience Exploration Engine)

Gulf TREE (Tools for Resilience Exploration Engine) is a search engine; it uses a decision-support tree to match Gulf Coast users with relevant climate resilience tools. The brief set of questions help users quickly, easily, and confidently sift through the plethora of resilience-building tools to help them find one (or more) tools that are most relevant to their needs.

Climate Change Field Guide for Northern Minnesota Forests

Climate change is a growing concern for forests across Minnesota. Foresters, land managers, and landowners are considering how to prepare for future conditions and how to evaluate risks for particular sites.

This guide, a downloadable PDF, highlights key information that can be used during field visits or forest planning. The developers hope that the guide will help foresters consider climate change risks together with local site characteristics, and help people design adaptation actions that meet management goals.

Developing an Early Warning System to Prevent Heat Illness

As summer months come and go in North and South Carolina, many people are noticing more days of intense heat or uncomfortable humidity each year. To some, it’s little more than a growing inconvenience—but to others, the increasing heat burden is becoming a matter of life and death.

Green Infrastructure Benefits Handout

This two-page handout, downloadable in PDF format, summarizes the benefits of green infrastructure. It also includes short success stories and key points covered during NOAA’s Green Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience training.

Cattle Heat Stress Forecast Maps

Seven-day forecasts of temperature, humidity, wind speed, and cloud cover from the National Weather Service serve as inputs for Cattle Heat Stress Forecast Maps. The prediction of animal stress is based on an equation that combines weather forecast data to estimate cattle heat stress response, and produces a map showing stress categories by color. The U.S. Department of Agriculture offers daily maps for the current day and forecasted out six additional days, and provides maps for six regions of the contiguous United States.

Building Resilience in the Face of Ocean Acidification

Alaska's 33,904 miles of shoreline (more than four times that of Florida) means that the marine environment plays a critical role in the state’s economy and traditional way of life. The state's high-latitude setting also makes it vulnerable to rapid environmental change.

Many Native Alaskans depend on subsistence harvesting both for cultural practices and for survival. According to NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service, more than 55,000 jobs in Alaska are supported by the seafood industry. In 2015, the industry contributed $2.4 billion to Alaska's gross domestic product.

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Extreme Weather Leads to Collaboration in Boulder

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It was was quite literally a dark and stormy night in Boulder, Colorado, on September 12, 2013. Extreme weather rocked the city that night, eventually sparking new conversations about climate change.

Hawai'i Social Network Analysis

In 2012, Pacific RISA launched a multi-year social network analysis project to examine communication patterns and how climate information spreads across different sectors and places in the Pacific Islands region. Using the December 2012 release of the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) report as a springboard, researchers collected data on the professional and scientific networks of climate change stakeholders.

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