Effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystem & associated social & economic considerations in the Yakima River Basin.

Yakima River Eastern Washington State 6200 mi²

Alec Maule – Project Leader DeWayne Cecil – Chief Science Applications, Climate Change Mark Mastin & Frank Voss (WaWSC) - Physical models Chris Lynch, (BOR-Yakima) - Water management (RiverWare) Jim Hatten & Tom Batt – Habitat criteria, GIS, DSS Matt Mesa & Jill Hardiman – Bioenergetics Pat Connolly & Russ Perry – Fish pop analyses, Cohort survival Jessica Montag (Ft Collins, CO) — Social Scientist Lynne Koontz (Ft Collins, CO) – Economist David Graves & Laura Gephart - Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Linking models to predict CC effects: Yakima River Basin Habitat Physical Population Community Bioenergetics Social & Economic analyses

Stakeholders’ Workshop Conceptual Model

Tribal Well-Being

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