This one-and-a-half-day workshop will provide an important first step in building a critical information bridge between the climate science community and the numerous, diverse business sectors and public interests that rely on the health and well being of plants.
If you are in the landscape architecture, golf course design and management, conservation, horticulture, gardening, nursery management, arboreta, botanical gardens or public land management areas, you will benefit from this important event.
As a workshop participant, you will:
- Obtain a greater understanding of climate change science and how it may potentially affect the plant sector.
- Learn about and help identify the breadth of issues facing the plant-related sectors as a result of climate change.
- Gain greater awareness of the resources available to help you and your organization better adapt to climate change.
- Provide your views on the types of information products needed to better navigate climate change.
In addition, all participants are invited to join us in commemorating the completion of the U.S. Climate
Reference Network (USCRN) with an evening program and reception on Sunday, November 16th from 6:00-8:00 PM at
The Grove Park Inn.
The USCRN is a network of climate stations developed as part of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) initiative whose primary goal is to provide future, long-term, homogeneous
observations of temperature and precipitation that can be coupled to long-term historical observations
for the detection and attribution of present and future climate change. The USCRN has installed and
commissioned all 114 sites, thus completing the design for the contiguous United States. The first
two sites were placed in the Asheville, North Carolina area: one in the North Carolina Arboretum
(Bierbaum Site) and the other at the North Carolina Horticultural Crops Research Center (Backlund Site).
For more information about the USCRN program, please visit www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/uscrn.
A tour of the North Carolina Arboretum, one of the nation's largest and most beautiful,
will be offered to all participants of the conference on Sunday, November 16 from 2:00-4:00 PM.
For additional tour details, please click here.
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