Contact:
Claudia Borchert, City of Santa Fe
ciborchert@santafenm.gov, (505) 955-4203
Karen Torres, Santa Fe County ktorres@co.santa-fe.nm.us (505) 992-9871
Dagmar Llewellyn, Bureau of Reclamation
dllewellyn@usbr.gov, (505) 462-3594Santa Fe Watershed Climate Change Workshop
The day begins with a brief overview on climate change and the projected impacts from three experts in the field, providing the foundation for our discussions. Dr. Park Williams is a research ecologist with Los Alamos National Lab studying forest repsonse to drought in the Southwest. Dr. Bill DeBuys is author of “A Great Aridness; Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest” and conservationist, and served as founding chairman of the Valles Caldera Trust. Dr. Dave Gutzler is a climatologist at the University of New Mexico and a climate change expert. Our facilitator, Dr. Karen MacClune, is a climate change expert with the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition who will guide the discussions, seeking your ideas and thoughts throughout the process. Amy C. Lewis is coordinating the registration and the summary report.
We have designed the workshop to be interactive. We are seeking your input on what kinds of impacts may occur in the Santa Fe watershed as a result of the projected changes in climate. We want to work with you to determine potential responses to these impacts, and how we should prioritized local and regional adaptation or resiliency efforts. The final product of this workshop is a report of your decisions and solutions that will be presented to the governing bodies of the City and County of Santa Fe and is part of a larger study undertaken by the City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe County and the Bureau of Reclamation under a federal WaterSMART matching grant. This report, together with the parallel studies, will help determine the future path of our watershed over the next 40 years. Working together, we can have a positive impact on the watershed and mitigate the effects of climate change while working toward a sustainable future.
Three core questions that we want the workshop to generate answers to:
1) What could projected climate change impacts mean for YOUR sector?
2) How should responses to those impacts be prioritized/ what impacts are most problematic?
3) How can we begin addressing those impacts locally? What actions can the City Council, citizens, local institutions, etc. begin implementing NOW to build resilience?
Proposed Agenda
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8:30-8:45 |
Introduction |
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8:45-10:30 |
Setting the Stage David Gutzler, UNM climate change expert – summary of climate change projections for the Santa Fe Watershed and the Southwest Park Williams, Los Alamos National Lab ecologist –Southwestern forest response to drought Bill DuBuys, author and Conservation Fund – historical/sociology impacts |
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10:30-10:45 |
Coffee break |
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10:45 – 11:30 |
What can we do with this information? |
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11:30-12:30 |
Parallel Breakout Session 1 Water or Ecology |
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12:30-1:15 |
Lunch |
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1:15-1:45 |
Parallel Breakout Session 1 continued |
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1:45-3:15 |
Parallel Breakout Session 2 – Land Use/Quality of Life or Agriculture and Food Security |
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3:15-3:30 |
Coffee break |
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3:30-5:00 |
Break out session results and Next Steps |
Refreshments will be provided throughout the day
