Hi all- my name - Mark Ashton - Yale University - Professor of Forest Ecology and Silviculture

Working Group members: Please introduce yourself in the chat as well.

Hello - I'm Mark Urban, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UConn

Hi everyone. Laura Bozzi, director of programs at the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health

David Murphy, Director of Resilience Engineering, CIRCA

Hello - Susan Masino, Professor of Applied Science at Trinity College

Hello - I'm Diego Cerrai, Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and I am Manager and Associate Director of the Eversource Energy Center. Topic area: Weather, Climate, Impact Modeling

Working Group members only. Please have camera on.

Apologies in advance in case you missed my earlier message - I will need to reenter by phone at some point. Also I forgot to mention I was previously a member of Science and Tech working group.

And I forgot to mention that I was in the public health and safety working group (probably because of the many public water system issues)

Also, I was previously a member of the wetlands working group

Hello all, David Wagner I am professor ecology & evolutionary biology with expertise in conservation biology, invertebrate biodiversity, and effects of climate changes on plants and animals.

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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/governor/connecticut/

Thanks, Mark. Phew!

switching to phone!

@mark The New England Forestry Foundation received one of the USDA Climate Commodities grants that I think may be going after some of these questions, I hope.

Re: the BCA: CIRCA will be working on this with the seven Resilient Connecticut Phase III projects underway. I can elaborate offline.

@chris I have heard other states flag the lack of data for carbon flux from natural habitats for states trying to integrate those habitats into greenhouse gas inventories.

Yes, the EPA blue carbon committee I was on was for all of New England and it seemed like a widespread problem

https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Energy/Comprehensive-Energy-Plan/Comprehensive-Energy-Strategy

I wanted to flag that while in 2020 the Governor's Council was the only climate planning process happening, there are not multiple planning processes ongoing, like the Comprehensive Energy Strategy. We are going to try highlight those other planning processes in the GC3 working group meetings, but individual working group members may want to engage in those other planning processes directly.

In fact, DEEP encourages you to do that if you have interest and availability.

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Thanks Rebecca!

Rebecca,could you point us to how we might directly engage with say the comprehensive energy strategy?

The website link above shows you where to find meetings and email lists.

thanks.

My sense is that Mark's concerns about monitoring, especially in response to management action (and then using it for adaptive responses), are widespread - especially in all of the ecosystems that I'm familiar with.

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We need monitoring, modeling, mitigation as a dynamic strategy

You can find the equity lens developed by the Equity & Environmental Justice working group here: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DEEP/climatechange/GC3/GC3_Phase1_Report_Jan2021.pdf

Thanks again for the opportunity to participate, and for your time in volunteering for this important work.

In the short term, do we have a member from the EEJ WG who is also on this WG (as the liaison)?

Yes, thank you Ashley for facilitating all this!