Watershed Visualizations of Climate Change

UW Climate Impact GroupSeminar Presentation

Grant R. Jones, FASLAJones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects

Christopher L. Overdorf, ASLAJones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects

Jennifer L. Knauer, ASLAJones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects

January 10, 2008

•Absence of communication and visualization tools

•The format of climate change results are limiting

•Regional adaptation initiatives need to know where the vulnerable landscapes are

•So why visualize climate change?

A landscape is an interconnected system

The concept of healthy landscape armatures as a guide for design is not new

•Climate change may affect landscape form and function•GIS can assist this characterization of change over time•A regional assessment of climate change effects & opportunities

•Puget Sound Partnership’s Action Agenda•A Puget Sound HUC framework prototype – let’s do it together