Southeast Coast Network Climate Science Strategy
DeVivo JC, Gregory MB, Curtis T, Byrne MW, Wright C. 2011. Southeast Coast Network Climate Science Strategy. Natural Resource Report. NPS/SECN/NRR—2011/436. Fort Collins, Colorado
The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) is one of 32 National Park Service Networks established to implement an integrated monitoring program under the Natural Resource Challenge. In 2001, the SECN began planning and implementing its long-term Vital Signs Monitoring Program, and completed its long-term monitoring plan in 2008. Beginning in FY2010, with the new Administration’s focus on climate change science, the SECN began planning for enhancing its original program as a part of the DOI and NPS strategy to improve the ability of resource managers to include climate change science in planning and management. The purpose of the Network’s new efforts, described in this document, is to conduct the SECN Vital Signs Monitoring Program within a broader coordinated partnership such that data can be used by NPS and other strategic partners to better plan for—and respond to—impacts caused by global climate change.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- DeVivo, Joseph; Gregory, M.; Curtis, Tony; Byrne, Michael; Wright, Christina
- Date of Issue
- 2011-08
- Units
- NRSS , SECN
- Keywords
- Amphibians, Birds, Climate Change, Groundwater, Plant Communities, salt marsh elevation, Sea Level Rise, Southeast Coast Network, Surface Water, vital signs monitoring