Climate Change Impacts on Nutrient Runoff and the Effectiveness of Best Management Practices
Webinar Details
When:
Mar 9, 2016 1:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 00:57 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Jaison Renkenberger, Research Technician, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- Paul Leisnham, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- Hubert Montas, Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
Virtual Event Format:
Group Viewing Available:
Participate to understand collaborative modeling approaches that are available to assess the impacts of climate change on critical source areas (CSAs) of watershed nutrient pollution (e.g., N,P,TSS), how best management practices (BMPs) will perform under alternative climate trends, and possible extension approaches to improve BMP adoption.
Photo: USDA NRCS
Participate in this training to learn how CSAs and BMP effectiveness are affected by climate change, and to gather insights into the integrated research-extension-education approach needed to alter BMP adoption behaviors. There will be two main aims to this webinar: 1. Illustrating the usefulness of watershed-scale modeling to identify watershed pollution ‘hotspots’ and evaluating BMP effectiveness, under different climate scenarios; and 2. Understanding the effectiveness of adaptive diagnostic decision support tools that integrate biophysical modeling outputs with social research data on the attitudes and behaviors of agricultural producers to more precisely target BMPs.
This webinar is sponsored by the USDA Northeast Climate Hub, which builds on capacity within USDA to deliver science-based knowledge and practical information to farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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