More Monitoring Insights on Climate Change

Long-term monitoring in parks provides us with insights and information that can be acted on by park managers. Here are some of the projects and stories that illustrate what we are learning about climate change and park resources.

Monitoring & Climate Change

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  Marine Heatwaves

  When a massive seabird die-off coincided with an extreme marine heatwave, we knew the ocean ecosystem had dramatically changed.

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  Clear Waters

  Despite their protection in parks, high alpine lakes are sensitive to changes in the environment.

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  An Ocean on the Edge

  A multi-agency rocky intertidal monitoring network tracks the many threats to the Pacific coast.

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  Vital Signs & Climate Change

  Monitoring in an Uncertain Future

  Dive into a collection of stories about how six San Francisco area vital signs are being impacted by climate change.

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  Alaska Park Science

  Reckoning with a Warming Climate

  This collection of articles provides a glimpse of the science related to climate change in the high-latitude parks of Alaska.