National Climate Assessment: Assessing Regional Climate Service
Through Cooperative Extension  Start Date:  CLIMAS
Investigators:   Cooperative Extension (CE) has over 100-years
of experience in delivering science-based decision support to
clientele from multiple sectors. The CE structure enables a high
level of connectedness and awareness of local issues and
provides opportunities to assess local and multi-sector climate
services needs. We will to work through CE offices to capture
snapshots of local climate science and services needs across
rural areas of AZ and NM. Since CE agents in these states work
closely with both private land owners/producers (e.g. ranchers
and farmers) and state/federal natural resource managers, we
will be able to assess both the needs and interconnections
between private and public resource managers, consistent with
the ‘nested matrix’ concept of assessing climate change impacts
and responses at multiple scales.  Public Files:    This project
is part of the US National Climate Ass