Project Components and Leads
Education: Develop educational infrastructure to train students at all levels and provide public outreach on climate change issues.
Component Lead: David Hassenzahl, UNLV
Climate Modeling: Develop a capability to model climate change at a regional and sub-regional scale and assess its effects on ecosystems and resources to evaluate the effects of different future climate scenarios and adaptation strategies.
Component Lead: Darko Koracin, DRI
Ecological Change: Develop data collection, modeling, and visualization infrastructure to determine and analyze effects of climate change on ecosystems and disturbance regimes.
Component Lead: Franco Biondi, UNR
Water Resources: Develop data collection, modeling, and visualization infrastructure to better quantify and model changes in water balance and supply under climate change.
Component Lead: Michael Young, DRI
Policy, Decision-Making and Outreach: Develop data collection and modeling infrastructure to assess climate change effects on human systems and responses to better understand institutional and societal aspects of climate change and to enhance policy making and outreach to communities and stakeholders
Component Lead: William Smith, UNLV
Cyberinfrastructure: Develop a data portal and software frameworks that will support interdisciplinary climate change research via integration of data from observational networks and modeling.
Component Lead: Sergiu Dascalu, UNR