| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 54.80 |
| Liaison | Daniel Dixon |
| Submission Date | March 1, 2019 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Maine
IN-25: Innovation B
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.00 / 1.00 |
Karina
Graeter Sustainability Coordinator Office of Sustainability |
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Name or title of the innovative policy, practice, program, or outcome:
The Climate Change Institute - Climate Futures Initiative
A brief description of the innovative policy, practice, program, or outcome that outlines how credit criteria are met and any positive measurable outcomes associated with the innovation:
Climate Futures is an ongoing initiative of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. Started in 2014, Climate Futures offers a transparent framework for assessing impacts and addressing vulnerability across local, regional, and global scales in a changing climate. Climate Futures provides climate data and visualization tools that can be used in conjunction with commodity data to facilitate the development of plausible future scenarios for stakeholder mitigation, adaptation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship efforts. Recent publications and products include:
A. Software/data analysis products:
1. ClimateReanalyzer: physical climate data analysis
2. Green10: Air Quality software
3. Layers: Boundary conditions data (eg. topography, vegetation, hydrology)
b. Publications:
1. Coastal Maine Climate Futures - Birkel and Mayewski, 2018
2. Ice Core and Climate Reanalysis Analogs to Predict Antarctic and Southern
3. Hemisphere Climate Changes - Mayewski et al., 2017
Which of the following impact areas does the innovation most closely relate to? (select up to three):
Research
Public Engagement
Air & Climate
Public Engagement
Air & Climate
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