Evaluating Data Needs and Capacity in the North Central Region and Coordinating an Assessment of Regional Climate Impacts

Start Date

2011-08

End Date

2014-08

Release Date

2011

The North Central Consortium (NCC) is led by Colorado State University (CSU), and includes member universities from the University of Colorado (CU), Colorado School of Mines (Mines), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), University of Wyoming (UW), Montana State University (MSU), University of Montana, Kansas State University (KSU) and Iowa State University (ISU). The North Central Consortium, through its core center at Colorado State University, conducted a set of three research tasks for the Department of the Interior's North Central Climate Science Center (NC CSC). These tasks included: (1) organizing and hosting a workshop to frame the IT and data exchange needs to model climate impacts on DOI Landscapes; (2) developing and implementing a pilot study to evaluate data integration capacity and the IT interface challenges between federal, state, university, and public domains related to data storage, analysis, and information exchange; and (3) co-coordinating an assessment of potential climate impacts and adaptation strategies across the Great Plains region as input for the National Climate Assessment.

ScienceBase WMS

• National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
• North Central CASC

Data source

Input directly