‘I’ve seen, in my lifetime, changes in the seasons’

Live near Lake Erie? Instructors Steve Ackerman and Margaret Mooney, both of them Badgers, discuss Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region, their new free online course. You’re invited to join them, and fellow learners from around the lakes, here.

New free course on Great Lakes’ changing climate

Great Lakes climate is changingThere’s a new MOOC (massive open online course) available called Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region. It’s free, goes for four weeks and started today. But you can still join after today and get all the content. The host is the University of Wisconsin. The course, its website says, “will feature a new season each week through short lectures and activities covering Great Lakes weather, observed changes in the climate and societal impacts of climate change.” Learn more and sign up here. Watch a video preview.

Check out this new climate change website

climate website for GBYou’ve read about the “Global Change, Local Impact” webinar series by Ohio State’s Climate Change Outreach Team (most recently here and here). Now you can access recordings of all the webinars, together with helpful support information, all on a single website. Check it out.

What global warming may do to Great Lakes wildlife

climate change flierOhio State’s Climate Change Outreach Team presents “Climate Change Impacts on Wildlife,” a free public webinar, from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, May 29. Speaking will be scientists Benjamin Zuckerberg, head of the University of Wisconsin’s Climate Change Ecology lab, and Ohio State Ph.D. alumna Amy Iler of the University of Maryland and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Details and online sign-up here.

National Climate Assessment poem, Midwest edition, #6: Great Lakes at Greater Risk

Lake ErieKey Message 6 for the Midwest, “Increased Risks to the Great Lakes,” from the third National Climate Assessment, released May 6, 2014 (first post):

Climate change will exacerbate

A range of risks to the Great Lakes,

including changes in the range and distribution of certain fish species,

increased invasive species and harmful blooms of algae,

and declining beach health.

Ice cover declines

will lengthen the commercial navigation season.

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Great Lakes forests and climate change: A new way to show how to deal with it

climate change webinarStephen Handler of the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science presents a free webinar, “Adaptation and Forest Management in Great Lakes Forests: Custom-made, Real-world Examples,” from noon to 1 p.m. March 25. Click here for more information and to register. Handler coordinates the Northwoods Climate Change Response Network. His talk is part of a series sponsored by Ohio State’s Climate Change Outreach Team.

Climate change, carbon storage, and the future of Great Lakes forests

peter curtisOhio State’s Peter Curtis presents “Predicting Carbon Storage of Great Lakes Forests in the Year 2050” in a free webinar from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27. Curtis is an ecology professor and directs the Forest Carbon Cycle Research Program at the University of Michigan Biological Station in Michigan’s Northern Lower Peninsula. His talk is part of a series sponsored by Ohio State’s Climate Change Outreach Team. Get details and register.

How climate change could affect Great Lakes fish and fishing

great lakes fishing

Ohio State’s Climate Change Outreach Team presents “Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries in Lakes Michigan and Huron” from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, featuring speakers from NOAA, USGS, the National Wildlife Federation and the University of Michigan. The renewable energy webinar we mentioned yesterday starts at the same time, so in case you miss this one for that one, the team does archive its webinars for later viewing. (Photo: Michigan Sea Grant.)