Join us for our next seminar - Climate Indicators for Agriculture, February 1, 2021 at 2pm Eastern
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U.S. Agriculture is a multibillion-dollar industry with important national and international implications, as well as a high level of risk exposure to weather and climate. The diversity in production types and geographies create additional challenges for managing climate risks that create and exacerbate existing stresses within a complex economic, cultural, and social environment. The Climate Indicators for Agriculture report provides a discrete set of indicators that describe linkages between climate trends and variability with U.S. agriculture in recent decades. Together, they represent an overall view of how climate change is influencing U.S. agriculture; individually, they provide useful information for supporting management decisions. The report draws from observation networks and datasets maintained by NOAA ASOS, USDA NASS, State mesonets, universities, and others to represent trends in climate that influence agricultural production across the U.S.
Dr. Art DeGaetano is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University and Director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC), whose mission is to enhance the use and dissemination of climate information to a wide variety of sectors in the Northeast. Dr. DeGaetano serves as an editor for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Dr. Eugene Takle, Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) at Iowa State University, emphasizes climate science modeling and analysis for investigating the causes and future impacts of climate change. Dr. Takle’s team conducts meteorological measurements and analyses of surface-level and tower data to improve the predictive skill of wind forecast models, understand wind-farm power reduction due to turbine wakes, and evaluate the impact of wind farms on crops.
Dr. Dennis Todey is the Director of USDA’s Midwest Climate Hub in Ames, IA. Dr. Todey’s work focuses on climate impacts and interactions with agricultural issues in the Northern Plains and Corn Belt, the development of climate decision-tools, and support for decision-making for specialty crops in a changing climate. He is well known as a speaker and media source on multiple climate issues and is the former president of the American Association of State Climatologists.
Dr. Margaret Walsh is the Senior Ecologist in USDA’s Office of Energy and Environmental Policy. Dr. Walsh focuses on Climate Assessments, Analysis, Decision-Support Tool Development, International Science, Food Systems and Security, and Sustainability. She is the author of the Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System report, and on the steering committee for the U.S. National Climate Assessment.
