The
Harvard Forest and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are pleased to
host the workshop:
Future Scenarios of Landscape Change: Tools and Tactics
When:
Friday, August 17, 2012
Where: Harvard
Forest, Petersham, MA AND via online
webinar for out-of-region participants.
Description: 1-day workshop on emerging scenario tools and
tactics for understanding landscape vulnerability and resilience to global
change with a focus on stakeholder engagement, quantitative landscape modeling,
and scenario visualization.
Registration:
To
register for the workshop conference by JULY 15.
If
you plan to attend online, please include the note "via webinar" in
that box for travel plans. Once you have filled out the form, please press
"submit."
Funding
support provided by a grant to the Harvard Forest via NSF DEB-1057617,
Landscape Vulnerability and Resilience to Global Change.
DRAFT
AGENDA
Future
Scenarios of Landscape Change: Tools and Tactics
9:00
am Welcome and Background on LTER Scenarios Activity
David
Foster, Harvard Forest
9:15
am New England Forest Landscape Scenarios Project - Overview
Jonathan
Thompson, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute – CONFIRMED
9:30
am Tools and Tactics: Stakeholder Engagement
•
Approaches
and Lessons from Maine Sustainable Solutions Initiative Alternative Futures
Project Spencer Meyer, Robert Lilieholm, University of Maine - CONFIRMED http://crsf.umaine.edu/files/2012/05/AltFutures_Handout_5.7.12_web.pdf
•
Stakeholder
Considerations and Options for the New England Forest Scenarios Project Joe Maccarron, REOS Partners - CONFIRMED http://reospartners.com/
•
Discussion
– 30 min.
11:00
am Tools and Tactics: Quantitative Landscape Modeling
•
Advances
in Landscape Modeling from Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning
Representative from
University of Alaska Fairbanks - INVITED www.snap.uaf.edu/
•
Opportunities
for Expanding the Land Use Module for LANDIS-II
Sarah Beukema, ESSA
Technologies – CONFIRMED http://essa.com/
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Discussion
– 30 min.
12:30
pm LUNCH
1:30
pm Tools and Tactics: Visualization of Scenario Output - To Be Determined
3:00
pm Discussion: Implications and Next Steps for LTER Network Scenario Working
Group
•
Follow-up
on ideas and recommendations from last workshop for advancing scenarios as a
network activity
•
Preparing
for ASM in September
•
Ideas
for new or joint proposals
4:00
pm Adjourn
