Climate Change and Oklahoma
Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS)
The Oklahoma Climatological Survey maintains an extensive array of climatological information, operates the Oklahoma Mesonet, and hosts a wide variety of educational outreach and scientific research projects. See the website for the OCS Statement on Climate Change and its Implications for Oklahoma.
http://climate.ok.gov/
Carbon Sequestration
USDA – Carbon Sequestration
The U.S. Department of Agriculture site on carbon sequestration and useful links to additional information.
http://www.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservices/carbon.shtml
USDA - Office of Environmental Markets
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Markets is developing uniform standards and market infrastructure that will facilitate market-based approaches to agriculture, forest, and rangeland conservation.
http://www.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservices/OEM/index.shtml
http://www.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservices/carbon.shtml
USEPA – Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s with helpful information about carbon sequestration in agriculture and forestry.
http://www.epa.gov/sequestration/
USEPA – Geologic Sequestration
Information on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's roles and responsibilities pertaining to the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/co2_geosequest.html
USDOE – Carbon Sequestration
The U.S. Department of Energy has created a nationwide network of federal, state and private sector partnerships to determine the most suitable technologies, regulations, and infrastructure for future carbon capture, storage and sequestration in different areas of the country.
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/sequestration/index.html
Climate Change Research & Adaptation
USEPA – Climate Change
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's site on all aspects of climate change. Information about news, science, and policy for communities, individuals, businesses, states, localities and governments.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
USFWS – Conservation in a Changing Climate
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's proposed Strategic Plan for Climate Change lays the foundation for the agency's role in the Department of the Interior's national efforts to conserve fish and wildlife in a rapidly changing climate.
http://www.fws.gov/home/climatechange/
U.S. Global Change Research Program
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) coordinates and integrates federal research on changes in the global environment and their implications for society.
http://www.globalchange.gov/
USFS – Climate Change Adaptation Programs
The U.S. Forest Service has several inter-related programs to help forests, grasslands and humans mitigate and adapt to global climate change.
http://www.fs.fed.us/climatechange/
USFS – Global Climate Change Research
The U.S. Forest Service has more than two decades of climate change research, which is supported by other research in watershed hydrology, fire management, nutrient cycling, wildlife and forest management. Forest Service Research and Development provides long term research, scientific information, and tools that can be used by managers and policymakers to address climate change impacts to forests and rangelands. Climate change-related activities are carried out within Research Stations covering the whole country.
http://www.fs.fed.us/research/climate/
USFS – Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC)
The U.S. Forest Service and its Climate Change Resource Center provides information and tools to land managers to address climate change in project planning. The CCRC offers educational information, decision-support models, maps, simulations, case studies, and toolkits.
http://www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/index.shtml
USGS – National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recognizes that relatively little scientific information exists on which to inform adaptation or management of fish and wildlife in the face of climate change. As the science agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, it is meeting this challenge through the new National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center. Climate change crosses jurisdictional boundaries and affects all earth processes. The Center is therefore being designed with input from Federal, State, and Tribal science and management agencies; non-governmental organizations; academic institutions; and others having an interest in conserving America's fish and wildlife resources.
http://nccwsc.usgs.gov/
USGS – Geologic CO2 Sequestration Research
Assessment Methodologies
http://energy.er.usgs.gov/health_environment/co2_sequestration/index.htm
Helpful Definitions
http://energy.er.usgs.gov/health_environment/co2_sequestration/co2_definitions.html
USACOE – Response to Climate Change
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mission of the Responses to Climate Change Program is: To develop, implement, and assess adjustments or changes in operations and decision environments to enhance resilience or reduce vulnerability of USACE projects, systems, and programs to observed or expected changes in climate.
http://www.corpsclimate.us/
NASA – Global Climate Change
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) currently has more than a dozen Earth science spacecraft/instruments in orbit studying all aspects of the Earth system (oceans, land, atmosphere, biosphere, cyrosphere), with several more planned for launch in the next few years.
http://climate.nasa.gov/
NOAA – Climate Program Office
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s research laboratories, Climate Program Office, and research partners conduct a wide range of research into complex climate systems and how they work.
http://www.climate.noaa.gov/about_climate/
http://www.climate.noaa.gov/cpo_pa/risa/
Regional Partnerships
Southwest Partnership for CO2 Sequestration
The Southwest Regional Partnership (SWP), was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy and its National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) as one of seven regional partnerships charged with evaluating available technologies to capture and to reduce the emissions intensity of greenhouse gases in the southwest region through a carbon sequestration. Member states include include Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, Nevada, Texas, and Wyoming.
http://www.southwestcarbonpartnership.org/
Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program
The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) is a new, southern United States focused climate hazards preparedness program which aims to bridge the gap between climate science and local-level climate hazard planning processes
http://www.southernclimate.org/
Southern Group of State Foresters
Provides leadership in sustaining the economic, environmental and social benefits of the South's forests, and works to identify and address existing and emerging issues and challenges that are important to southern forests and citizens. See the website for the groups position statements on climate change and Guiding Principles for a Practical and Sustainable Approach to Forest Carbon Sequestration Projects in the Southern United States.
http://www.southernforests.org/legislation/position-statements/climate-change
Association of State Wetlands Managers
It is ASWM's goal to facilitate a working dialogue and to establish an informative resource on the topic of climate change and its effect on wetlands.
http://www.aswm.org/science/climate_change/climate_change.htm
Emissions Calculators
Fuel Economy.gov
Gives CO2 emissions for different makes and models of automobiles.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm
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