Climate Change & the Future of Outdoor Adventuring

Amy Snover, Director of the UW Climate Impacts Group, joins Crosscut’s Northwest Newsmakers host, Monica Guzman, to discuss a range of topics, including the impacts of climate change to outdoor recreation, such as increases in areas burned and changes in snowpack, how we reframe the challenge of climate change in order to make it more manageable, the effects of a changing climate on our youth’s relationship to the outdoors, and how we protect the outdoors while still making adventuring easily accessible.

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About the speakers:

Amy Snover serves as director of the Climate Impacts Group, as university director of the U.S. Department of the Interior Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center and as affiliate associate professor in the UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. She works to improve society’s resilience to natural and human-caused fluctuations in climate by bridging the gap between science and decision-making. Working with a broad range of stakeholders, Snover helps develop science-based climate change planning and adaptation guidance, identify research priorities and advise on strategies for building climate resilience.

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