Pacific Region RCSD Assessment Worksheet
Use this form to add or update a climate assessment to Piko (Worsheet Version June 2012)
Acronym
PACN
Name/Title
Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network
Lead Agencies, Institutions and Organizations
NPS
Contacts(names, emails)
Greg Kudray, Greg_Kudray@nps.gov
Partnering Agencies, Institutions, and Organizations
Cooperative Agreements with the Univ. of Hawaii, Univ. of Maryland, NatureServe, Univ. of Washington and others as needed. USGS is primary inter-agency partner, also have an upcoming agreement with the USFWS. Contracting with Alta Vista for a vegetation mapping inventory.
Assessment Type
Climate Science
Needs And Capabilities
Needs
Capacity
Capabilities
Risk and Vulnerability or Problem-focused
Area of Applicability
International and National
National and Regional
Regional/Local or Problem-focused
Focus Area
Fresh Water Resources and Drought
Coastal Inundation/Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Community Resilience
Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Region/Locale
Central North Pacific
State of Hawaii
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Remote Islands
Western North Pacific
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
Guam
Republic of Palau
Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI)
Other Western North Pacific
South Pacific
American Samoa
Australia
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Other South Pacific
Pacific Basin
Global
Focus Area
Completed
Ongoing
Planned
Proposed
Description
We operate within Pacific Islands National Parks primarily although we may support some activities outside the parks. Our program initially undertook an assessment of inventory and monitoring needs to identify baselines inventories necessary and also the ecological indicators (called Vital Signs) that we systematically measure long-term to evaluate trends in resource conditions. One of those inventories was weather/climate, which is guiding the planned establishment of 10 new weather stations. Other Vital Signs are biological or physical and integrated as well as possible. We and our data contribute to park condition assessments and other park planning/management activities.
Url
http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/pacn/index.cfm
Keywords
Climate Science Risk and Vulnerability or Problem-focused National and Regional Fresh Water Resources and Drought Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems South Pacific American Samoa Guam Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Western North Pacific Central North Pacific State of Hawaii Ongoing
Worksheet
Assessment-NPS_PACN