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Climate Change Learning Center

National Conservation Training Center (NCTC)

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Dealing with changing climate requires knowledge and ability to think about and approach conservation in new ways.  Our conservation mission – once as simple as protecting and managing parts and pieces – is now shifting to sustaining complex systems and functions at huge scales.  The impacts of global climate change affect the way we do business now and into the future.  Be prepared for that future.

We must understand climate change as an overarching challenge that requires us to reconsider every aspect of organizational and program operations and performance. We must rapidly develop the capacity to envision and deliver conservation across connected networks of habitats, based on scientific understanding and predicitions of species' needs and abilities to adapt.

Training Opportunities - Climate Science and Climate Change

Using the FWS Strategic Plan for responding to accelerating climate change as a guide, the NCTC is consolidating training opportunities for FWS staff to increase their knowledge of climate science and climate change as they relate to resource management. NCTC is also partnering with others to bring field scientists and practitioners new learning opportunities in the form of courses, workshops, seminars and webinars.

Through these opportunities, participants can examine how to refocus their conservation efforts by applying the Strategic Habitat Conservation (SHC) framework from local to landscape scale through biological planning, conservation design, conservation delivery, decision-based monitoring, and assumption-driven research. Participants will become familiar with new emergingtools such as structured decision making, adaptive resource management, predictive modeling and population viability analysis

• National Wildlife Federation and USFWS/NCTC co-sponsored webinars: "Safeguarding Wildlife from Climate Change" CSP3902
  • Archive of past webinars  - Past webinars are available for viewing
    
    



• NCTC Climate Change Webinar Series
  • Resource Management Implications of Global Climate Change Webinar Series
    This recorded series captures the state of our Agency knowledge on climate change
    
    
• Upcoming NCTC-Sponsored Courses and Workshops:
• Resource Management Implications of Global Climate Change CSP3181, February 8-12, 2010