An assessment of the Midwest climate adaptation network: A call for improved coordination and collaboration.

Climate adaptation and the management of climate impacts require cross-sectoral and regional coordination and collaboration, but presently there is no thorough assessment of the adaptation network in the Midwest United States to evaluate how well it achieves such collaboration. We investigated the climate adaptation network across the Midwest to inform the strategic agenda for a climate adaptation boundary organization in Minnesota - the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership (MCAP). We identified 150 organizations and more than 500 unique connections between them.

Building a Practice-Based Research Agenda for Wildfire Smoke and Health: A Report of the 2018 Washington Wildfire Smoke Risk Communication Stakeholder Synthesis Symposium.

: As climate change is expected to result in more frequent, larger fires and associated smoke impacts, creating and sustaining wildfire smoke-resilient communities is an urgent public health priority. Following two summers of persistent and extreme wildfire smoke events in Washington state, the need for additional research on wildfire smoke health impacts, risk communication, and risk reduction, and an associated greater coordination between researcher and practitioner communities, is of paramount importance. On 30 October 2018, the University of Washington hosted a Wildfire Smoke Risk Communication Stakeholder Synthesis Symposium in Seattle, Washington.