Lainie Brice Publishes a BLM Literature Database on the CAS Website
Lainie Brice has added her capstone communication project to the Climate Adaptation Science webpage! She created this website via R and R Shiny to house the data from her CAS team's study, “Impacts of climate change on multiple use management of Bureau of Land Management land in the Intermountain West (USA)” (Brice et al., 2020). The graduate trainees in her team, which included Brett Miller, Hongchao Zhang, Kirsten Goldstein, Scott Zimmer, and Guen Grosklos conducted this project as part of the NSF NRT-funded Climate Adaptation Science (CAS) program.
According to Lainie's website: "The United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is tasked with managing over 248 million acres (>1 million km2 of public lands for multiple, often conflicting, uses. Climate change will affect the sustainability of many of these land uses and could further increase conflicts between them. Due to institutional constraints and limited resources, natural resource managers are not always aware of or able to employ the most current scientific knowledge in their land management. To help address these gaps, we conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature that discussed potential impacts of climate change on the multiple land uses the BLM manages in the Intermountain West. While the focus of this study was the BLM, the literature database we created has a much broader scope. We hope that it is a useful resource for anyone interested in the effects of climate change on public land across the United States."
