Global Change Fellows Complete Week of SDM Training

For the second year in a row, the SE Climate Science Center has taken a group of graduate students for training at the National Conservation Training Center in Structured Decision Making (SDM).
SDM is an approach to decision making that can be used in environmental management where there are issues of uncertainty, complexity and multiple stakeholders. The process allows for multiple scenarios to be evaluated and trade-offs to be considered.  The SE CSC is developing a focus in SDM with the intention of creating a cadre of trained professionals.
Pictured in the photo are SE CSC staff, Cari Furiness and incoming SE CSC Global Change Fellows: Adam Dale, Liliana Velazquez Montoya, Marketa Zimova, Nitin Singh, and Michaela Foster. Four additional graduate students joined us: Elissa Ashley, David Jensen, Wilmer Reyes, and Laura Villegas Ortiz. Students are represented by such diverse fields as agricultural resource economics, civil engineering, entomology, forestry and environmental resources, and hydrology.