Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science

01/22/2025

Join in today, Wednesday, January 22th at 2pm ET, for the second webinar in the Rooted in Research: Winter Timber Harvest in a Changing Environment Webinar Series hosted by the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station in collaboration with NIACS, the USDA Northeast and Northern Forests Climate Hubs, and the USDA Forest Service Eastern Region State, Private, and Tribal Forestry.

This webinar will share the latest research on soils and explore how monitoring moisture and to assess operability and impact can promote sustainable in winter. Learn more and register: https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/webinars/winter-timber-harvesting

01/21/2025

Join us today at 12pm ET for the first webinar in the Managing Forests as Habitat in a Changing World monthly webinar panel discussion series. The “Collaborative Recovery and Conservation of Threatened and Endangered Species. Are We Still Being Successful?” panel will feature Kirtland’s warbler management, biology, and policy experts who will share the story and lessons learned from collaborative conservation.

NIACS and the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub are co-sponsoring this monthly webinar series with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forest Ecology Working Group and the National Conservation Training Center. The full series will feature interactive panel discussions that explore shifting impacts on habitats, options for natural resources management, and provide examples of ecological , actions, and collaborative stories.

Learn more and register for the full series: https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/hubs/northern-forests/topic/managing-forests-habitat-changing-world-panel-discussion-webinar-series

01/16/2025

Reminder! Register for the Adaptation Planning and Practices online training! This interactive training is for forest and natural resource managers, landowners, and stewards located in the Midwest and Northeast regions of the US to learn about climate change impacts and develop project-specific climate adaptation plans using the Adaptation Workbook.

The course starts January 27. There are no registration fees thanks to the support of the USDA Forest Service and the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub.

Learn more and register:

Date Mon, 1/27/2025, 2:00pm - Mon, 3/17/2025, 2:00pm ET Location Online at AdaptationWorkbook.org and in virtual meeting rooms (Zoom) Description The Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS) and USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub are offering an Adaptation Planning and Practices online...

01/14/2025

Join in tomorrow, Wednesday, January 15th at 2pm ET, for the first webinar in the NEW Rooted in Research: Winter Timber Harvest in a Changing Environment Webinar Series hosted by the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station in collaboration with NIACS, the USDA Northeast and Northern Forests Climate Hubs, and the USDA Forest Service Eastern Region State, Private, and Tribal Forestry.

This webinar will provide an overview of winter conditions and climate change impacts in northern forests and showcase a site-specific case study.

Learn more and register: https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/webinars/winter-timber-harvesting

01/10/2025

New Guide Alert 🚨 "Climate Change Considerations for Forest Operations in Northern Forests" is a new guide that was developed to identify practices for adapting forest operations to climate change. This guide provides an in-depth overview of climate changes and how they can impact forest operations, considerations for incorporating climate change into operations planning, and practices to reduce or avoid climate-related risks when timber harvesting.

This guide is joint product of the USDA Forest Service Eastern Region State, Private, and Tribal Forestry, the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub, and NIACS. It is currently published as a USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station General Technical Report Postprint on the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub website.

Read the guide:

Climate change is altering current weather patterns and may complicate forest operations. This guide was developed to identify practices for adapting forest operations to climate change. Key topics discussed include climate change impacts on operations in northern forests, considerations for plannin...

01/08/2025

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Forest Ecology Working Group and the National Conservation Training Center are joining the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub and NIACS to sponsor a new 12-part monthly webinar series. "Managing Forests as Habitat in a Changing World" will feature interactive panel discussions that explore shifting impacts on forest habitats and adaptation options for natural resources management. Panels will represent a diversity of scientists and natural resources managers and will provide examples of ecological silviculture, restoration actions, and collaborative conservation stories.

Webinars will take place on the third Tuesday of every month from 12:00-1:30pm ET starting on January 21.

Learn more and register: https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/hubs/northern-forests/topic/managing-forests-habitat-changing-world-panel-discussion-webinar-series

01/06/2025

Registration is still open for the Adaptation Planning and Practices online training for forest and natural resource managers, landowners, and stewards located in the Midwest and Northeast regions of the US. This is an interactive training to learn about climate change impacts and to identify adaptation actions for ecosystems (rural and urban), habitats, and resource areas. Throughout this training participants will develop project-specific climate adaptation plans using the Adaptation Workbook and will receive coaching and feedback from our team in structured weekly web-based lectures and group discussion meetings.

The course starts January 27. There are no registration fees thanks to the support of the USDA Forest Service and the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub.

Learn more and sign up: https://forestadaptation.org/online-training-2025

12/20/2024

Happy Holidays from our team. We are wishing everyone a happy, safe, and restorative holiday season.
📸 USDA Forest Service photo by Michael Elza.

12/19/2024

Join NIACS, the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, the USDA Forest Service Eastern Region State, Private, and Tribal Forestry, and the USDA Northeast and Northern Forests Climate Hubs for a new Rooted in Research webinar series, Winter Timber Harvest in a Changing Environment.

This four-part webinar series will explore changing winter conditions and their consequences for timber harvesting in the Northeast and Upper Midwest. Presentations by and discussions with scientists and natural resource professionals will share the research behind changing winters, soil monitoring to inform operations, and adaptations to support winter timber harvests in a changing environment. Webinars will take place in January 2025 on Wednesdays from 2-3pm ET, starting Wednesday, January 15, 2025.

12/17/2024

How do trees move? And how is the movement affected by climate change? Learn more about how scientists model this movement with the Climate Change Tree Atlas from this USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station article.

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12/16/2024

Last week our team members Mattison Brady and Samantha Myers presented at the The Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative Annual Conference. They were part of a collaborative panel on new climate projections with a focus on extreme precipitation in the Northeast. The panel consisted of a combination of discussion and shorter presentations providing overviews of climate projections and a systems view of climate change, shifting precipitation regimes, and impacts on forests. Along with Mattison and Sam, the panel consisted of Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux (Vermont State Climatologist), Ali Kosiba (University of Vermont), and Jonathan Winter (Dartmouth).

12/13/2024

Last week was our in-person staff retreat. It was so nice to connect as a team because many of us hadn't seen each other for months, and some of us hadn’t even met in real life before last week! Our week was packed with trainings (thank you to Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) and University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension), a field tour and bird watching (thank you to the Aldo Leopold Foundation), team-building activities, discussing partnership priorities and goals, and strategizing how to best serve the diverse needs of our partners and audiences.

Happy to see these faces!
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