The EBM Tools Network, NatureServe, and the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve Coastal Training Program are pleased to present a workshop on Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change: a Conservation Planning Approach at the 2011 Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) Conference in San Diego on May 23.

This half-day participatory training will:

• Provide methodological, technical, and scientific guidance for conducting climate change vulnerability assessment and development of adaptation alternatives for landscape scale planning 
• Assist participants in assessing the vulnerability of resources and infrastructure from a variety of stressors including climate change
• Support the enhancement of strategies and options for resource management.

Participants in the training will:

• Acquire key sources of information in the very dynamic area of climate change effects assessment and adaptation planning
• Identify the utility of data and tools in climate change adaptation planning, and apply it to your work
• Become acquainted with the framework and key concepts of an integrated land-sea planning decision support toolkit and the Refuge Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) developed in partnership with US Fish and Wildlife Service.

For more details about the 2011 H2O Conference, visit http://www.coastalconference.org.

To register for this training, contact Kristen Goodrich, Coastal Training Program Coordinator, at kgoodrich@parks.ca.gov. Priority will be given to conference attendees.

***If you can’t make this workshop but are interested in a similar workshop for your own project or event, please contact the EBM Tools Training Coordinator John Rozum at john_rozum@noaa.gov to discuss the feasibility.***