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Vulnerability Assessments in Support of the Climate Ready Estuaries Program: A Novel Approach Using Expert Judgement, Volume II: Results for the Massachusetts Bays Program (External Review Draft)
EPA is announcing the release of a draft report entitled, Vulnerability Assessments in Support of the Climate Ready Estuaries Program: A Novel Approach Using Expert Judgment, Volume II: Results for the Massachusetts Bays Program for a 30-day public review and comment period. An external peer review will be conducted simultaneously by letter. Public comments received on the draft report within 30 days after the release of the FRN will be considered by EPA in their revisions. [Federal Register Sep 8, 2011]
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Vulnerability Assessments in Support of the Climate Ready Estuaries Program: A Novel Approach Using Expert Judgement, Volume II: Results for the Massachusetts Bays Program (External Review Draft). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-11/058B, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
The aim is to synthesize place-based information on the potential implications of climate change for key ecosystem processes in each estuary, in a form that will enable managers to undertake management adaptation planning.
Description:
As part of the Climate Ready Estuaries (CRE) program, the Global Change Research Program (GCRP) in the National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has prepared a report exploring a new methodology for climate change vulnerability assessments using Massachusetts Bays’ salt marsh ecosystem as a demonstration.
URLs/Downloads:
Vulnerability Assessments in Support of the Climate Ready Estuaries Program: A Novel Approach Using Expert Judgment, Volume II: Results for the Massachusetts Bays Program (PDF, 103 pp, 694 KB, about PDF)Climate Ready Estuaries, Volume II: Tables and Figures (PDF, 51 pp, 2435 KB, about PDF)
FR Notice: Sep 8, 2011
Massachusetts Bays Web site (Contact: Jay Baker: Jason.Baker@state.ma.us)
EPA Climate Ready Estuaries Web site
Peer Review Report and EPA Response to Comments (PDF, NA pp, 166 KB, about PDF)