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Kathleen Miller
Climate Variability: Implications for Tuna Management Dr. Miller is playing the leading role in organizing the upcoming international multidisciplinary workshop: "The Challenge of Change: Managing for Sustainability of Oceanic Top Predator Species." The workshop, to be held at the University of California - Santa Barbara, will foster collaboration across the social, biological and ocean-atmospheric science communities in developing a research program focused on sustainable multinational management of tuna and other highly migratory marine top predator species in the context of climate-related uncertainty. Dr. Miller also prepared a comparative assessment of international tuna fishery management efforts in the Western and Central Pacific and Indian Oceans , focusing on the implications of climate-driven changes in tuna migratory patterns and abundance. A paper will appear in the journal Marine Policy [insert link to pdf?] . Game theoretic modeling work in support of the project is ongoing. This project is funded by NSF.
Urban Water Utilities and Climate Change Dr. Miller and Dr. Yates (RAL) are leading a new collaborative project: "Incorporating climate change information in water utility planning: A collaborative, decision analytic approach." The project is designed to help urban water providers incorporate probabilistic information about climate change in their planning by creating scientifically-sound and easy-to-use decision support tools, together with a structured assessment methodology. It will link streamlined representations of physical, ecological, and water management processes within a common framework to facilitate assessments of climate change vulnerabilities and options at the watershed scale. In FY07, the project team will working with a set of urban water providers distributed across the country to develop the assessment tools and apply them to a set of pilot case studies. The project will focus on evaluating risks, opportunities and adaptation options associated with the potential impacts of climate change on the water resources available to each of these utilities and on urban water demands. Work on this project is supported by NSF and by Awwa Research Foundation.
Climate Change and Water Resources Dr. Miller is serving as a Lead Author on Chapter 3 "Freshwater Resources and their Management" of the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report. She is collaborating with an international team to describe the potential impacts of climate change on water resources around the world and to evaluate vulnerabilities and adaptation options. As part of this work, Dr. Miller participated in the WGII Lead Authors meeting in Cape Town South Africa in September 2006. Work on this project is supported by NSF.
Wildfire Risk Management Decisions and Uncertainty Dr. Miller, working with Stacey Schulte, a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder completed a survey of residents in fire-prone areas of Clear Creek County Colorado to document their understanding of current and potential future wildfire risks, as well as the determinants of their risk-mitigation investment behavior. Preliminary results suggest that most residents understand their vulnerability, and have made investments to reduce their exposure. In addition, the majority have consciously chosen to accept the risks in light of the amenity value of living in their mountain communities. In FY07, further analysis of the results will incorporate property value data to determine the extent to which differences in the value of the structures on a property affect homeowners' decisions about how much to invest in vegetation management and other fire-hazard mitigation measures. Work on this project is supported by NSF.
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