GC11L:
Mountains as Sentinels of Change: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptation and Sustainable Development Posters


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Session ID#: 51486

Session Description:
Mountains exist in many regions of the world and are home to a significant fraction of the world population and to half of global biodiversity hotspots. Mountains make essential ecosystem services available.  Many of these high elevation regions act as water towers of the world providing freshwater to many lowland regions and many support unique flora and fauna and are critical habitat for rare and endangered species.  Mountain regions are particularly sensitive to global environmental changes.  Understanding how these “sentinels of change” respond to climatic and environmental variations can help societies that depend on these high-altitude resources to adapt and potentially mitigate the potential loss of essential services.    This session will focus on inter- and transdisciplinary approaches that assess the hydrological, ecological, societal and economic implications of environmental change and explore potential adaptation measures and sustainable development strategies for mountain regions.
Primary Convener:  Maria E Uhle, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States
Convener:  Elisa Palazzi, National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Torino, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Maria E Uhle, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States
Chairs:  Maria E Uhle, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States and Elisa Palazzi, National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Torino, Italy
OSPA Liaison:  Maria E Uhle, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climate Resilience across Topographic Gradients in the Highlands of Ethiopia (431821)
Benjamin F Zaitchik1, Belay Simane2, Michael Eggen3, Jeremy Foltz4 and Mutlu Ozdogan3, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Madison, WI, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
ClimateWIse: illuminating landscape hydrology in the montane tropics through interviews, data analysis, and multi-scale modeling (407811)
Perrine Hamel1, Kate A Brauman2, Martina Flörke3, Leah Bremer4, Alexandra Ponette-González5, Humberto Rocha6, Christof Schneider7, Patrícia Vieira Pompeu8, Leonardo Dominguez9, Carla Josef9, Andre Targa Cavassani10, Claudio Klemz11, Eileen Acosta12, Paulo Petry13 and Sandra Saad9, (1)Stanford University, The Natural Capital Project, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Alabama, Global Water Security Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (3)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (4)University of Hawaii, Department of Botany, Manoa, HI, United States, (5)University of Utah, Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)USP University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (7)University of Kassel, Center for Environmental Systems Research, Kassel, Germany, (8)Universidade Estadual do Mato Grosso do Sul, Unidade de Aquidauana, Aquidauana, Brazil, (9)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (10)The Nature Conservancy, Joinville, Brazil, (11)The Nature Conservancy, Florianopolis, Brazil, (12)The Nature Conservancy, Brasilia, Brazil, (13)The Nature Conservancy, Hollis, United States
Engaging Change: Using Seasonal Calendars to Anticipate Climate Change in the Pamir Mountains (392139)
Karim-Aly Kassam, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Morgan Laurent Ruelle, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States and Isabell Haag, Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany
Large-Scale Climate Data Meets Local Reality: Investigating Climate Change in the Pamir Mountains through Diverse Spatial and Methodological Lenses (429552)
Isabell Haag, Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany, Karim-Aly Kassam, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Morgan Laurent Ruelle, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States and Cyrus Samimi, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences, Research Group of Climatology, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany., Bayreuth, Germany
Localized Mountain Green Cover Index: Case study of Sripada Mountain in Sri Lanka (432767)
Malinda Halgamage Siriwardana1, Yuji Murayama2, Ronald C. Estoque3 and Siri Karunaratne1, (1)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan, Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research（Regional Environmental Impact Assessment Section, Tsukuba, Japan
Options for building resilience and food security in the highlands of Ethiopia (391943)
Belay Simane, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Detlef Mueller-Mahn, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Gianni Gilioli, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, Andrea Sciarretta, University of Molise, Molise, Italy, Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States and Jeremy Foltz, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States

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