NEWS:

Sept 2009 | Everglades reseach team welcomes two new Master of City Planning Interns this fall. For information coming up.

Sept 2009 | Everglades Research team moves to new research space at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning- MIT

July 2009 | Everglades Research Manager - Juan Carlos Vargas chairs symposium at the International Conference in Landsacpe Ecology in Salzburg and participate in climate change discussion events.

May 2009 | Research Intership gets offered to MIT graduate student Christopher Horne.

CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS

DRAFT CALENDAR OF MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS FOR YEAR TWO 

Note: this is a tentative calendar drafted by the Everglades MUSIC research team with the goal of illustrating scheduling and organization of meetings for year two of the project. The Research team can make changes to the number, content, participants involve and schedule of the meetings indicated here as consider appropriate.
Do not circulate this calendar without research team authorization

M1 - September 11, 2009 – Meeting with Ecoteam members: Assessing Year 1, Planning Year 2

• Presentation of website
• Discussion of results from June workshop results
• Presentation of “expected outputs of project”

• Discussion:  (Goal: help research team decide on Year 2 strategy and tasks)
• Species and habitat impacts of climate change scenarios: what is feasible and desirable for next year and beyond
• Utility of downscaled climate change model output in expert-based development of simple spatial models?
• Species selection for Climate Envelope Modeling (appropriate and relevant?)
• Rule-based models for direct and predictable consequences of SLR on species or habitat?
• Developing spatial conservation strategies, Simulating Conservation actions (on and off site)

M2 - Oct (2nd week): 
Morning: Technical Working Group: Working Session on Species and Habitat Impacts of Climate Change

• Report on climate model output reformatting and availability

• Presentation of draft simulations of conservation strategies for review and critique

Afternoon: General Workshop with Stakeholders: Human Responses to Climate Change

• Review of Work Since Last Meeting
• Discussion of results from June workshop results
• Presentation of website
• Presentation of scenario bundles
• Working session
• Presentation of static geoplan population models
• Presentation of MIT dynamic population shift under SLR model
• Development of first round urban and agricultural land use change scenarios and model rules

Jan. (2nd week): 

• Technical Working Group: Species and Habitat Impacts of Bounding Alternative Futures Scenarios
• Preliminary presentation of alternative futures allocations

•  Joint work session reviewing preliminary climate envelop modeling setup (climate clips and shifts)
• What are climate envelopes telling us?  What does overlay of climate envelope shift and future land use tell us?

            General Stakeholder Workshop What are the default scenarios, and can we do better?

• Presentation of alternative futures architecture and models
• Preliminary presentation of first round alternative futures allocations
• Influence of basic patterns and policies on human population allocation
• Review and critique of first-round allocations
• Workshop: development of second-round allocation rules 
• goal: "better than trend" for people and conservation

April   (3rd week): 

• Technical Working Group: Species and Habitat Impacts First Review
• Review and critique baseline climate envelope models as run on first-round scenarios
• Suggest revisions in modeling approaches for next round

            General Workshop with Stakeholders

• Presentation of Round 2 Scenarios
• Evaluation indicators discussion and survey

June  (1st week): 

• Technical Working Group: Species and Habitat Impacts Final Review
• What conclusions can we defensibly draw from impact modeling results?
• What direction can we provide for future research in this area?
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            General Workshop with Stakeholders: Final Review of Alternative Futures

• Conceptual Evaluation of Alternative Futures: Directions and Agenda

Aug  (4th week): General Workshop with Stakeholders: Alternative Futures for Southern Florida and their Likely Impacts on Trust Resources

• Final Presentation of Website and final project results