Title: Oceans and Coastal Communities in a Changing Climate: Findings from the Fourth National Climate Assessment Seminar No. 5 in the NCA4/NOAA 11-part Seminar Series: The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States MP4 and PDF of the slides are here: https://www.globalchange.gov/engage/webinars#OneNOAA%20NCA4
Speakers: Jeff Payne, Director, Office of Coastal Management, NOAA, and Andrew Pershing, Chief Scientific Officer, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Sponsors: US Global Change Research Program and NOAA's National Ocean Service Science Seminar; coordinators are Katie Reeves <kreeves@usgcrp.gov> and Tracy.Gill@noaa.gov
Abstract: The Nation’s authoritative assessment of climate impacts, the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (NCA4 Vol. II) was released in November 2018. This presentation will address the impacts of climate change on oceans and and coastal communities and ecosystems in the United States.
About the Speakers: Dr. Jeff Payne is the Senior Executive Service director for the Office of Coastal Management, and under his leadership, the nation’s coastal management activities are coordinated to address the significant challenges affecting our coastal communities. Payne previously served as the deputy director of NOAA’s Coastal Services Center. During that time he also led the Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team, a NOAA-wide effort to improve the value of NOAA services to the Southeast region states, Puerto Ricco, and U.S. Virgin Islands. From 2009 to 2010, he served as the acting deputy chief of staff for NOAA. He was deputy director of NOAA's Office of Policy and Strategic Planning in Washington, D.C. and served in the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President as the budget examiner for NOAA and the Marine Mammal Commission. He also served a year in the U.S. House of Representatives as the American Geophysical Union Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow.
Dr. Andy Pershing has served as Chief Scientific Officer for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute since 2014 and continues to run the Ecosystem Modeling Lab. Prior to becoming CSO, Andy had a joint appointment as a faculty member in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and as a research scientist at GMRI. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of changing conditions in the Gulf of Maine, and he is an expert on how climate variability and climate change impact the ecosystems in the northwest Atlantic. He uses a variety of techniques, including analysis of past changes in the physical and ecological conditions, as well as advanced mathematical and computer models of how marine populations change through time. Andy has worked primarily on zooplankton, especially rice grain-sized crustaceans called copepods, but he has also studied lobsters, herring, cod, salmon, bluefin tuna, and right whales. He is actively involved in regional efforts to understand and adapt to climate change.
