GLIN==> WEBINAR Opportunity: Is Your Habitat Restoration for Great Lakes Areas of Concern Project Climate Smart?

Please join us next Thursday, January 20, 2011 for a webinar that includes both a presentation and an open discussion of steps to integrate climate change impacts into your upcoming project for NOAA Great Lakes Restoration 
Initiative (GLRI) funding. Presenter will hone in on the pieces outlined in the most recent NOAA FFO essential to make your project "climate-smart," meaning, designed to be viable despite climate change and its potential impacts.  

>From NOAA's recent FFO: 
"“Because climate change is anticipated to have significant effects on the Great Lakes, project goals and strategies should also be designed to be viable despite climate change and its potential impacts. Projects should demonstrate that climate change information has been or will be considered in the project design. Examples of vulnerabilities that may need to be addressed in project design include: is the project area expected to remain suitable for the species/ habitats of interest; if replanting is to be done, will the species/cultivars used be appropriate for future as well as current conditions; do engineering designs account for plausible changes in temperature, precipitation (type, intensity, and timing), water level, flooding, ice cover, and sedimentation as a result of climate change; or will the proposed connectivity design still work in a changed climate."

Thursday January 20, 2011
2:00pm to 4:00pm EST
Host and Speaker: Patty Glick, Senior Global Warming Specialist, National Wildlife Federation


PLEASE RSVP for log-in information by Wednesday January 19 to: Celia Haven, havenc at nwf.org


For those of you who will be attending tomorrow's Michigan SPAC meeting in Lansing, please see the National Wildlife Federation representatives with any questions.