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Celebrating 10 Years!

During the past decade the Climate Hubs have grown and expanded their collaborative efforts, enabling more climate-informed decision making and assistance in implementing those decisions.


   


10 years of USDA Climate Hubs

Empowering land managers to build a climate-resilient future


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Over the past ten years the Climate Hubs have built trust by working across the USDA and with partners to support climate-informed decisions for robust agriculture, healthy forests, and resilient communities. The USDA Climate Hubs continue to expand upon their priorities: a better understanding of the full range of potential climate change impacts; accelerating development of science-based solutions; informing deployment of adaptation strategies; and building tools for farmers, ranchers, and foresters to understand how to implement climate-informed and nature-based solutions.



Stories from Our First 10 years


This is a collection of stories from Climate Hub partners and employees that highlight a few of the significant ways the Climate Hubs have provided support to the forestry and agriculture communities over the past decade.

Frost Freeze Tool Illustrates Growing Season Changes

Drought Learning Network Brings Resource Managers Together

Highlights from the Past 10 Years


  • Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Fellowship

    Sang Lee Farms, in Peconic, New York, transitioning to third generation, grows more than 100 varieties of specialty vegetables, heirloom tomatoes, baby greens, herbs.

    The Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Fellowship curriculum provides farmers, foresters, and advisors with the information they need to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. We also work to bring climate…

  • Grass-Cast: Grassland Productivity Forecast

    An example set of 3 Grass-Cast maps showing what conditions would be if the precipitation received from the date that the maps were created and August 31st is above, near, or below normal, and approximatley what the grassland production in an area would be by percent compared to its 38-year average.

    Every spring, ranchers face the same difficult challenge – trying to guess how much grass will be available for livestock to graze during the upcoming summer. An innovative Grassland Productivity Forecast or “Grass-Cast…

  • Southwest Drought Learning Network

    Vegetation Drought

    The Southwest Drought Learning Network (SWDLN) links climate service providers with resource managers to increase community resilience when facing current and future drought events. This peer-to-peer knowledge exchange…

  • CalAgroClimate

    A vineyard on a sunny day.

    CalAgroClimate offers five tools for stakeholders: Heat Advisory, Frost Advisory, Crop Phenology, Pest Advisory, and Agroclimate Indicators.

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