Upcoming Events
The Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Potential of Solar
Tuesday, June 20, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
3rd Annual Planetary Health Guest Lectureship
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 11:00 a.m. to Noon
The 3rd Annual Planetary Health Guest Lectureship will be held Wednesday, April 26 at the Bentson Healthy Communities Innovation Center. The event will feature Kelsey Wirth as the guest speaker.
Adaptive Forest Management
Tuesday, April 18, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Join the MCAP team on Tuesday, April 18 at Noon for our Adaptation in Action monthly webinar where we'll learn about adaptive forest management, including findings from the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change experiment in north-central Minnesota, tree species responses to climate change, and insights on best practices in adaptive planting and prioritizing areas for reforestation.
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.