Current Research

 Using NASA Resources to Inform Climate and Land Use Adaptation

Contact: Andrew J. Hansen

with Scott Goetz, Forrest Melton, Bill Monahan, Ramakrishna Nemani, Tom Olliff, David Theobald and John Gross

Funding: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Abstract:

Designation of US Department of Interior Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) emphasizes the important

threat that climate and land use change pose to biological resources in national parks and on other federal lands.

Developing strategies for management and adaptation in the coming century requires improvements in our ability to

forecast biological responses under future scenarios, assess spatial variation in the vulnerabilities of biological

resources, and design multi-scale management strategies based on vulnerability and management feasibility.

For more information on this research, see http://www.montana.edu/lccvp/index.html