Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK)
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Collaborative science team for resource managers facing diverse issues surrounding climate variability and change.
A team of USGS researchers, including the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), are developing a regional-scale mechanism that facilitates federal agency collaboration on providing decision support tools for understanding climate variability and change throughout the Northern Rockies landscape. Our efforts tie in closely with the USDI-Fish and Wildlife Service’s Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative, and with the USDI-National Park Service’s scenario planning efforts, along with the entire suite of public and private partners from state water resource managers to agricultural producers to private land trusts. The goal is to develop a true collaboration where managers and researchers from federal, state, university and NGO programs work on conservation issues together. The intended result is to provide extension services that result in more effective management decisions, focusing on questions surrounding climate issues that are most relevant to fisheries and wildlife biologists, foresters, water managers, park superintendents, agricultural producers, and other natural resource specialists. NOROCK’s climate change related research will help build these tools, while new and innovative research will keep momentum toward progress in providing dynamic, scientifically sound decision support tools to natural resource managers in the area of climate change and ecosystem science.
The Team:
1. Builds upon existing partnerships to COLLABORATIVELY provide science and data products for responding to climate change to advance outcome-based adaptive management for conservation across the landscape.
2. Underwrites the ability to support ecosystem resilience and resource management objectives considering climate effects INTEGRATED with ongoing stressors; considers risk assessment for landscapes and populations.
3. In collaboration with resource managers, develops and provides DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS to address their needs that are TIMELY, USEFUL, and RESPONSIVE.
4. Provides climate services, sustained observations, applied and basic research, and models to support a robust ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK.
