Date
Type
- Conference
Sponsoring Organization
Northeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change
Location
UMass Amherst campus
The first RISCC Management Symposium will be held at the UMass Amherst campus on July 27 and 28, 2017.
The objective of the meeting will be to bring together natural resource managers and scientists to discuss how climate change might affect invasion risk in the northeastern region and to identify ways to translate research into management action.
Session topics will include:
- Range shifts and adaptation
- Developing watch lists
- Species-species interactions
- Communicating science
- Policies and funding
- Early detection and rapid response systems
- Lessons learned from research
- Lessons learned from management
- Data collection tools
- Emerging threats and climate migrants