California

 On behalf of the Southern Sierra Partnership, I am delighted to post our recently completed Framework for Cooperative Conservation and Climate Adaptation for the Southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains and associated datasets.

A few months back I was invited to a policy and technology forum at Stanford University, whose goal was figuring out how to overcome constraints to ramping up solar energy production in California. The forum brought together scientists, engineers, policy makers, and leaders of the solar industry and conservation organization to develop a “blueprint… to meet the challenges presented by the implementation of large scale solar.”

I'm a new subscriber to Data Basin working on climate adaptation for The Nature Conservancy's California field program. Part of my position supports a cooperative conservation planning process in the southern Sierra by forecasting potential vegetation responses to future changes in climate. My goal is to help put a face on what climate change may mean for the species and places our group cares most about.