Upcoming Events
MCAP Director Heidi Roop to give Keynote at 2023 Ag-Urban Partnership Forum
March 1, 2023, 9:00 a.m. to Noon
Register today for the 2023 Ag-Urban Partnership Forum to learn more about the ways that agricultural and urban partners are working together to prepare for extreme weather events and improve water quality around Minnesota. This fourth annual event will focus on extreme weather resiliency, featuring MCAP Director, Heidi Roop, as the keynote speaker.
February MCAP Webinar - The Minnesota Climate Action Framework
February 21, 2023, 12:00 p.m. CT
Join us on Tuesday, February 21 for our monthly webinar series featuring Sharon Stephens, Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), and Amanda Farris, MCAP's Senior Program Manager. Sharon will provide an overview of the Minnesota Climate Action Framework followed by a presentation from Amanda on MCAP's work to support the development of climate resilience indicators and metrics to monitor the State's progress in implementing the strategies laid out in the Framework.
2023 Minnesota Climate Adaptation Awards Ceremony
Saturday, January 28, 2023
6:30 - 9:30 p.m. CT
Join us on Saturday, January 28, 2023 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at The Bell Museum to recognize Minnesota's climate adaptation leaders who are paving the way to a more resilient Minnesota for our future.
MCAP News
Advancing Health & Disaster Resiliency in Minnesota
This paper from the Minnesota Department of Health describes a novel effort to develop, promote, and evaluate the application of climate projection data for emergency management planning through the co-production of knowledge with local emergency managers.
PhD Student Opportunity
Dr. Heidi Roop and Dr. Melissa Kenney are seeking applicants for a PhD-level graduate research assistant to drive the Extension and social science research agenda for the USDA-funded Dashboard for Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management (DAWN) project. This position is jointly supported by the Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership and the Institute on the Environment.
Full position and application details are available at: https://z.umn.edu/climate-phd
Questions can be directed to Heidi Roop and Melissa Kenney.
International report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, sea levels
The "State of the Climate 2020", the authoritative summary on global climate by the American Meteorological Society, was published on August 8, 2020. The 2020 summary is the 31st of these annual reports, and it was created with the input from 530 scientists across 60 countries and tens of thousands of measurements.
