Adaptation workshops for Midwest professionals

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Everyone has a role to play in planning for our future climate

Interested in integrating climate projections and adaptation strategies into your work? We can help you locate and interpret local climate data, understand specific risks and vulnerabilities, and implement resilience plans. We offer sector-specific workshops and custom programming across a range of specialties.

Current sector-specific offerings:

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Building design and engineering

In our Resilience by Design workshop, participants work on a sample building project to examine climate hazards, assess risks, and identify and prioritize adaptation and resilience strategies. You’ll leave with skills to design and apply resilience strategies in your work. 

Learn more about Resilience by Design

Community planning

This program is aimed at communities working on comprehensive plans or other planning efforts. We provide training on local climate trends and projections, and lead discussions with community planners and other decision-makers to help identify and assess local climate challenges, evaluate future scenarios, and explore adaptation and resilience actions to achieve community goals and priorities.

If you’re interested in this program, please contact Extension Educator Kristen Schmitt

Natural resources and watershed planning

For forest and watershed plans and projects, such as updates to Comprehensive Watershed Management Plans under the One Watershed One Plan program, we help managers use a structured decision-making process to integrate climate data, identify climate vulnerabilities, select adaptation actions, and identify pathways for implementation. 

If you’re interested in this program, please contact Extension Educator Kristen Schmitt

Stormwater management

Communities are experiencing record flooding and costly impacts to critical stormwater infrastructure. Our FloodWise Communities program provides technical assistance and stormwater vulnerability assessment support to small- and medium-sized communities to support effective stormwater management.

Learn more about FloodWise Communities

Farm and agricultural management

Our Risk to Resilience series offers growers the opportunity to learn about changing weather patterns specific to our region, improve farm planning and resilience skills, and foster relationships with others looking to build sustainable and resilient operations.  

Learn more about Risk to Resilience