Some of you may remember the Patrick Brown and Nature kerfuffle. I’ve got a whole future post that on “Patrick Brown didn’t go far enough” and one of the “emperor has no clothes” issues is that many climate modelers don’t, or can’t, incorporate actions of people on the landscape to adapt. Often, they don’t involve or model the work of what we might call “adaptation communities” or specialists in hydrology, wildlife, botany, forests and so on. As historically, in science world, physics (as in atmospheric modeling and vapor pressure deficits and so on) is cooler than.. all the other sciences. And as I’ve said before, the models don’t include new and improved technologies that the US is spending megabucks on, either (think wildfire sensors and unpersonned helicopters). It looks like one of the talks is by a person studying ignitions.. which seems important.
So I wanted to give a shout-out to the sciences who always seem to be at the bottom of the scientific pecking order.. the social scientists. And these have continuing ed credits for the Society of American Foresters and the Wildlife Society.
Forest Service R&D has a week devoted to their work: ScienceX Human Dimensions week. Here’s a link. Here’s the agenda:
Monday, Mar. 25 Recreating Equitably
Tuesday, Mar. 26 Partnering with Communities
Wednesday, Mar. 27 Valuing Benefits of Nature
Thursday, Mar. 28 Managing Urban Forests
Friday, Mar. 29 Preparing for Wildland Fire
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I don’t know where this fits, but Dave Mertz had a great opinion piece on the Congressional grilling – read, witch-hunt, on the Black Hills (continuing) fiasco of industry driven management.
Dave, you done good!
OK I’ll find and post.