dedication point - season 2, episode 4: Climate Modeling in the intermountain west
a conversation with scott zimmer, former graduate student at utah state university, and a rangeland management specialist with the bureau of land management.
episode summary:
Former Utah State University master's student Scott Zimmer discusses his research on climate models that predict vegetation and habitat changes in the Intermountain West. We discuss what these projections tell us about our rapidly changing landscapes, and how these findings can be used by land managers.
relevant links:
The paper Scott co-authored in “Rangeland Ecology and Management”: Agreement and Uncertainty Among Climate Change Impact Models: A Synthesis of Sagebrush Steppe Vegetation Projections (click here to access a freely available pre-print of the paper)
Another paper relevant to Scott’s research: Impacts of climate change on multiple use management of Bureau of Land Management land in the Intermountain West
