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Western Hemispheric

Migratory Species Initiative

WHMSI

 

WHMSI is building country capacity to conserve and manage migratory wildlife.  It improves hemispheric communication on conservation issues of common interest, provides training in priority areas, strengthens the exchange of information needed for informed decision-making, and provides a forum to address emerging issues such as new threats to migratory species, or the connections between wildlife disease and human diseases. 

 

 

 

        

 

Climate change adaptation workshop for shorebird conservation in the Southern Cone

October 21-24 of 2009

Agenda

 

 

MANOMET is one of the nation's oldest independent environmental research organizations, working to achieve a more sustainable future.

The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN) is a hemispheric alliance of conservation, business, community, and government organizations united to protect over 22 million acres of wetlands and the wildlife and human communities that are dependent on them.

 

During the Capacity building initiative developed on Rio Gallegos, Argentina, representatives from the four WHSRN sites in the Southern Cone met. 33 attendees from four places of the south cone belonging to San Antonio Oeste, Río Gallegos, Reserva de la Costa Atlántica de Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, partners of Península Valdés, Argentina (site to be nominated in the near future as a WHSRN Site of Regional Importance) and Bahía Lomas, Chile.

 

The workshop was made possible thanks to the OAS/FEMCIDI fund through the WHMSI initiative. During the capacity building activity developed last year in Argentina 33 participants gathered to discuss about the impacts of climate change on shorebirds and to figure best ways of deal with this relevant natural issue. The agenda’s main point was to capacitate people in the uses of simulation sceneries tools to implement those as alternatives to the adaptation and mitigation of climate change

 

This workshop has come up with a very useful summary of experiences and exchanges of ideas. Part of the main outputs is The SLAMM a toll that simulates (maps and predictions) the mainstreams of conversion process of wetlands and coast; as well as consequences of the side level rise on these areas. For more information please follow the links below the picture

Rio Gallegos, Argentina, October 21-24 of 2009.

Learned Lessons

on the Workshop

Workshop Report 

Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model 6

SLAMM 6

Find here two documents for The Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model 6 (SLAMM 6). This is one of the more commonly used models to simulate and predict the dominant processes involved in wetland conversions and shoreline modifications during long-term sea level rise due to climate change. 

SLAMM6 Beta Manual

 

SLAMM6 Beta Quick Guide

 

Speakers Presentations File
Xico Vega Bienvenida e introducción
Hector Galbraith Será el cambio climático una amenaza importante para las aves playeras en el Cono Sur? Qué sabemos/no sabemos?
Hector Galbraith Impacto Climático en especies migratorias: aves y tortugas marinas
Hector y Marianne Vulnerabilidad y adaptación   

Hector Galbraith

“Una década del PCMB: lecciones aprendidas y retos futuros”   
Marianne Fish Adaptación al cambio climático, medidas para tortugas marinas: Métodos para determinar las opciones de adaptación
Hector Galbraith Adaptación y acción: la experiencia de Massachusetts   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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