Climate Ready Great Lakes Training Modules

The Climate Great Lakes Training Series is comprised of 3 training modules. All are available for download now!

For NOAA in the Great Lakes climate services is an area of emphasis and planned expansion. NOAA in the Great Lakes works through its active climate working group, towards the development of strategic partnerships and funding critical climate projects that create a climate-literate public that understands its vulnerability to a changing climate and makes informed decisions. The Climate Ready Great Lakes training modules are 3 presenations tailored towards helping to create a Climate Ready Great Lakes. That means, you will have information on what you are adapting to, why and how. This project was sponsored by the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network and the NOAA Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Team.

Each of the modules consist of a presentation and supplemental materials. To read about the modules, click on the tabs below to read more and to download the presentations. Presentations all have notes and have an abundance of slides that you can use to tailor towards your specific community.

For questions regarding these modules or the project, contact Rochelle Sturtevant (rochelle.sturtevant@noaa.gov).

Module 1: "What Am I Adapting To? "

PREDICTED IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

This module presents an overview of predicted climate change impacts in the Great Lakes region, including predicted changes in temperature, storm events, Great Lakes water levels, lake ice cover, and other factors. This module will be designed to assist local decision makers in understanding the potential range of variability in climate change predictions, and how these changes are likely to impact local communities.

3D figure of earth's surface temperature

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Module 2: "What is an Adaptation Plan?"

Now that you know what you are adapting to, what are the next steps to creating an adaptation plan?

PLANNING PROCESSES AND STRATEGIES FOR ADAPTING TO PREDICTED IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Module 2 presents a planning process that will help communities conceptualize the effects of regional climate change predictions for their local areas so they can assess their vulnerabilities. This determines the impacts for which they will need to develop an adaptation plan. The second part of the module describes strategies for adaptation in relation to the following topics: stormwater management, drought, infrastructure, ecosystems, and urban heat.

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Module 3: "What Tools are Available to Help Me?"

TOOLS AND INFORMATION

A perennial rain garden is one of the many tools that a community can use to implement a climate adaptation plan

This module highlights tools that have been developed by NOAA, Sea Grant and other federal agencies to assist local communities with assessing climate change vulnerability, as well as planning to adapt to predicted climate change impacts. The module highlights tools developed by NOAA's Coastal Services Center, assists decision makers in selecting the tool most appropriate for their community, and prepares them to acquire and use the tools they select.

To download, "Climate Adaptation Tools" click here >>