We intend to apply EEDS (ecoengineering decision scaling - Poff et al. 2015), centered on
USMC Camp Pendleton in southern California and will engage with DoD natural resource managers to target current
aquatic and semi-aquatic species conservation as well as advancing planning
processes. We will engage DoD staff and non-DoD authorities to elicit multi-jurisdictional
management goals, make use of existing and modeled data to assess the
non-stationary risks associated with these goals, explore risk tolerances
through visualizing “stress tests” (i.e., risk of failure of key performance
indicators across a range of future climates), and develop an adaptive
management tool designed as an interactive web application for DoD staff to
easily access relevant data and guide long-term planning and strategies. We
believe that by working with Camp Pendleton staff, we can also create a more
general management and implementation tool for EEDS for DoD natural resource
staff in a broad range of water-related management contexts.
Reference: Poff, L., C. Brown, T. Grantham, J.H. Matthews, M. Palmer, C. Spence,
R.W. Wilby, M. Haasnoot, G. Mendoza, K. Dominique, and A. Baeza. 2015.
Sustainable water management under future uncertainty with eco-engineering
decision scaling. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/nclimate2765.