U.S. National Park Service

Researchers are collaborating with regional ecological analysis, monitoring, and restoration groups to facilitate their use of climate data in their regular operations and in their long-term planning/analysis. The impact of climate variability and change, especially as temperature and precipitation regimes shift (resulting in differing time of onset for spring, reduced snowpack, etc.), necessitates a better understanding of these shifts and the implications these changes have for practices of ecological management and restoration.

This project examines the impacts of drought and climate change on climate sensitive sectors in the Southwest, focusing on agriculture, outdoor recreation, and tourism. Drafted a funded grant proposal on Economic Impacts on Drought on Agriculture, Recreational Tourism, and Rural Communities to a combination of NIDIS and the Arizona Department of Water Resources.