Pacific Northwest Region

Columbia River Basin Impacts Assessment: Preparing for Climate Change

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A five part webinar series on policy, planning & practice in the Pacific Northwest Region

Reclamation Climate Change Policy
Toni Turner, Program Manager
tturner@usbr.gov

Find out about climate change policies and legislation that have resulted in Reclamation-wide activities to address climate change. An overview of DOI, Reclamation, and PN Region actions will be presented including more details on the Assessment. View video >>

Developing Future Climate Change Flows
Jon Rocha, Civil Engineer (Hydrologic)
jrocha@usbr.gov

Understand the steps necessary to generate future climate change hydrology (flow) using meteorological data from Global Climate Models. A presentation of Assessment efforts will be provided and examples from previous efforts. View video >>

Using Future Climate Change Flows
Bob Lounsbury, Hydraulic Engineer
blounsbury@usbr.gov

Learn how future climate change flow is used in a network model like MODSIM-DSS to evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on reservoir operations, storage volume, flow and other metrics. Use of this model in the Assessment will be reviewed and other examples given. View video >>

Integrating Climate Change and Groundwater
Jennifer Johnson, Hydraulic Engineer
jmjohnson@usbr.gov

Learn how meteorological data or flow data generated in the climate change process can be used to evaluate the impacts of climate change on groundwater. A discussion on how groundwater will be documented in the Assessment will be provided and an example application provided. View video >>

Finding Climate Change Information and Data Sources

Understand how to access climate and hydrology data that will be generated in the Assessment as well as those data that have already been generated in the PN Region. GIS staff will present information on links, available data, and downloading data.

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Contact

Carri Hessman
Program Manager
(208) 378-5106
chessman@usbr.gov

Bureau of Reclamation
Pacific Northwest Regional Office
1150 North Curtis Road, Suite 100
Boise, Idaho 83706-1234