NEWS

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Have any examples of climate-smart practice that you could share with the NE RISCC community? The 2025 NE RISCC Symposium will feature contributed talks! To learn more and submit your summary, please click here. Submissions will remain open until November 25, 2024 at 5:00 pm with notifications of acceptance by January 25, 2025.

• Planning for Plant Diversity with Climate-Smart Nursery Natives - NE RISCC will host a workshop at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Agriculture, Food & Environmental Systems In-service conference, on November 21st from 1 - 2:30 pm. The workshop will share and solicit feedback on an upcoming resource identifying climate-resilient native garden plants for Northeastern states.

• Listening Session: Managing resilient plant communities through the identification of climate-adapted native species - On December 18 from 11 am - 12 pm Eastern, join researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst to learn about new modeling methods to predict the composition of plant communities under future climates, then share your perspectives and feedback about the project to help inform the development of climate-adapted native species priorities. Register here.

• Save the date for our annual RISCC symposium! March 11-12, 2025 from 11 am - 3 pm EST.

NEW RESOURCES:

• Latest Research to Practice Paper: Where there’s a when there’s a way

• New original research: Guidelines for Climate-Smart Invasive Species Management

RECENT EVENTS:

• Shifting phenology & windows of opportunity for control of invasive species - This coffee talk explored how phenological phases have shifted, the implications for effective management, and how management calendars can adapt. Read more in our latest Research to Practice Paper.

• Identifying Range Shifting Invasive Species - This discussion was co-hosted by NE RISCC/NE CASC to learn about tools for range shifting invasives. View the recording here or read the summary.

• Invasive knotweed and climate resiliency: Coffee Talk - Manager/researcher duo Brian Colleran and Élisabeth Groeneveld held this coffee talk on the invasive knotweed-climate change feedback loop. View the recording here.

• Guidelines for climate-smart invasive species management: Coffee Talk - This event provided an opportunity to hear about new stakeholder informed guidelines and provide feedback. View the recording here.

• Marine and Coastal Invasives in a Changing Climate: Virtual Networking - This virtual networking event connected practitioners and researchers to discuss work on marine and coastal invasive species in a changing climate.

• Chemical & Mechanical Control in a Changing Climate - This listening session was an opportunity to tell researchers about information needs related to changing control methods - stay tuned for future RISCC research in this area.

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We have migrated our listserv to Google Groups. This should have happened automatically. But please check your spam folder for listserv emails now coming from ne-riscc@groups.umass.edu. Sign up to hear about news and events from the RISCC leadership team, and post to the listserv to ask for help from experts across the Northeast U.S.