James uses custom developed Python scripts to analyze climate data for ClimateWise projects. He produces maps and data tables that show the expected changes under various emissions scenarios across the United States. He has a B.S. in Geography from the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR.
Geoff leads business strategy and partnership activities for the Geos Institute. Geoff retired from a technology career at Intel Corp where he held various positions in marketing, strategic planning and business development. During his 18 years at Intel, he built on his prior product and strategic marketing experiences at other leading technology companies to help drive Intel’s industry initiatives and to enhance the business value of wireless and other technologies under development at Intel Labs. His focus at Geos Institute is the realization of a long held dream to transition to the non-profit world while using the business skills he developed in the technology sector.
Geoff holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Connecticut.
Leveraging Esri’s data driven pages functionality with custom python scripts, we created a series of twelve maps to show the intrinsic potential of Coho salmon in the Rogue River Basin.
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As a companion to the book Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation, we created an interactive web mapping application to give readers a virtual tour of the ten biogeographically unique regions of the world featured in the book.
Local leaders often obtain local projections as the first step in understanding their vulnerabilities to climate change. At the Geos Institute, our staff scientists prepare local climate change projections based on the best available climate change science, presented at scales that are appropriate for local decision making.
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Working with Geos Institute scientists is a great experience. They are reliable, flexible, committed to their work, and assure the best outcomes using their technical expertise.
Susan Roothaan, A Nurtured World
Tonya Graham
Major infrastructure projects, such as highway systems, bridges, and ports, are critically important to our health and safety and need to be built with future climate conditions in mind. The following article was first published in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure, which created the Envision rating system for large infrastructure projects in conjunction with the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Similar to the LEED rating system for buildings, Envision works to help infrastructure developers create more sustainable projects. We are happy to help ISI provide information about how to incorporate climate change projections into infrastructure projects.
Marni Koopman
I recently went on a trip with my daughter to Canada. It was a LONG trip because we live on the west coast of the U.S. and traveled all the way to the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. We traveled for over 17 hours each way. We highly recommend the Bay of Fundy! But this story isn’t about that….
We had a 3.5 hour layover in LAX between our first and second flights. I planned that we would leisurely stop and eat, get through customs, and easily make it to the next flight. Instead we walked down long empty hallways with no idea about whether we were going the right way, made numerous wrong turns, got sternly reprimanded because we were “supposed to go through the purple door,” and barely made it to our flight, feeling hungry, rushed, and confused. As I was looking for the purple door, I thought “THIS is exactly what its like right now for communities wanting to plan for climate change.”
Climate change is causing discernable impacts to natural resources and human communities around the globe. As impacts worsen and accelerate, local leaders are beginning to respond with adaptation actions. Actions that are not coordinated across sectors, however, are likely to cause competition, conflict, and natural resource degradation. Adaptation strategies that are developed for a single sector often shift the impacts of climate change to other sectors and future generations rather than contributing to community-wide resilience. This article introduces an approach called whole community adaptation that relies on cross sector integration, multistakeholder engagement, and an iterative approach of learning and improvement over time.
The Ashland Climate Challenge has officially been “Kicked Off”! On November 15th 2016, over 300 people streamed into the Historic Armory to learn about the Ashland Climate Challenge and the community-wide Climate and Energy Action planning process that is now underway. Ashland is on the road to a clean energy future.
The Kickoff was opened by a talented group of young musicians – the Daniel Chávez Quartet. Mayor John Stromberg welcomed the crowd. Next, we heard from Dr. Scott Denning, Atmospheric Scientist with Colorado State University. Dr. Denning described how climate change is simple, serious, and solvable. It is simple because we have had a basic understanding of the heat storage properties of CO2 and other greenhouse gases since before light bulbs were even invented. It is serious because our climate defines where we live, how our homes are built, and what foods we can grow. As climate change accelerates, our basic systems will have a hard time keeping pace. And the good news is that climate change is solvable – experts have estimated that it would cost 1% of global GDP to change our energy systems away from fossil fuels. We’ve made changes of that magnitude before, and with great pay back in local economic growth, higher quality of life, better health, and other benefits. In fact, one of the most notable investments of that magnitude was when much of the world invested in indoor plumbing. And boy was it worth it.
Dr. Denning’s talk was followed with powerful and mesmerizing poetry and music from OSF performers Kimberly Scott, Carolina Morones, Miriam Laube, Mildred Ruiz Sapp and Steven Sapp of UNIVERSES, and Claudia Alick of Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Performances were interspersed with panel discussions and presentations about the City’s support for a community-wide Climate and Energy Action plan and the recently appointed Ad-hoc Committee tasked with guiding that process. We also heard from other cities and SOU about how they are tackling climate change. Speakers included Bryan Sohl, Roxane Beigel-Coryell, Adam Hanks, and Matt McRae.