At the Aspen Ideas Festival, SFI External Professor Brian Enquist describes a project to develop a geographic inventory of forest assets for western North America and model how climate change will effect species distribution.
When advances in bioinformatics, high performance computing, and mathematical modeling are coupled with the latest climate models, he says, a picture emerges of the health of our future forests, with resolutions right down to our own backyards.
The project is a first step toward a global climate-species modeling effort -- and perhaps a compelling way to help ordinary people visualize the effects of climate change in their own terms.
The talk was part of a panel discussion titled "What Will the World Look Like 50 Years From Now?"
Enquist is introduced by SFI Trustee Jerry Murdock.
Watch Enquist's presentation at the Aspen Ideas Festival (35 minutes, June 27, 2014)