Climate Change Initiative Workshop

The COMPASS Climate Change Initiative (CCI) brought together marine scientists across disciplines to synthesize existing research on the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems. Previous assessments and syntheses have addressed the physical and chemical changes associated with climate change, such as temperature, winds and currents.  At the time of the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment in 2007 ecological impacts were not well documented or clearly understood.  Since that time the science has progressed rapidly.  This effort will provide a synthesis of ecological impacts to help inform policy, management, and scientific research in advance of the next IPCC assessment.  

Multiple products from this initiative are in progress and will be released in 2011.