The first three webinars from the Climate Learning Network are now available streaming online free of charge on the newly created climate variability portal site, climatewebinars.net.

Our new webinar portal, climatewebinars.net, now houses the Climate Learning Network's first three highly successful and well-attended webinars on climate variability. Soon, the fourth webinar will be available for download as well. 

Listed below are the webinars now available streaming at no charge on the portal with the date they were delivered and a brief description. 

Webinar 1: A Method for Building Trust and Collaboration in Addressing Climate Change Impacts (Part 1 - Working with Cooperators)

Original Broadcast Date: 8/5/2015: Dr. Steve McNulty, the USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub - SERCH) Director, presents his ELFLAND method for communicating climate change. ELFLAND is a method that teaches trust building to develop a realistic dialogue about climate change with diverse audiences.

Click here 

Webinar 2: A Method for Building Trust and Collaboration in Addressing Climate Change Impacts (Part 2 - The General Public)

Original Broadcast Date 8/20/2015: In this second installment, Dr. McNulty discusses strategies for effective communication of climate variability with the general public and provides suggestions for tools and resources that potential climate communicators will find useful in education and outreach efforts. 

Click here

Webinar 3: Vulnerability Assessments: What We Did and What We've Learned

Original Webcast Date 9/15/2015: Dr Chris Swanston, project lead for the CCRF as well as a research ecologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station and the director of the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, discusses how he and his team used the Climate Change Response Framework (CCRF), a cross-boundary approach among scientists, managers, and landowners to incorporate climate change considerations into natural resource management, to create 9 vulnerability assessments on forests across 19 states, involving hundreds of collaborators and co-authors since 2010. He covers the process used to create vulnerability assessments and a few lessons he and his team learned from the experience. 

Click here 

Webinar 4: Agricultural Climate Adaptation Practices 

Drs. Brenda Ortiz, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist at the College of Agriculture at Auburn University, Mark Risse, Director of Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant and Georgia Power Professor of Water Policy at the University of Georgia, Dr. Clyde Fraisse Associate Professor in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences discuss climate and weather data for the Farmer's Site Specific Toolkit. adaption and mitigation opportunities for livestock and poultry producers, tools and information for a climate‬ resilient agriculture ‬in the Southeast USA.

Link forthcoming 

Register now for Webinar 5: Stories from the Field by Laura Lengnick, author of Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate.