MVPGR Tour for Secure Water Future Digital Tools for Water Resource Management Extension Workshop participants. Gave tour on vernal pool ecology and natural history, and discussed water and climate science, education, and stewardship on the MVPGR, and future facilities. Workshop description: Across the Western US, forests, farms, ranchlands, and people rely on an increasingly volatile and vulnerable water supply. Climate change will challenge these water resources through more frequent and intense heat waves, longer and deeper droughts, reductions in winter snowpack, and increases in atmospheric and plant water demand. Effective water management in this new normal will require developing and using a broad suite of information and resources. This workshop will showcase several resources that can be used by water users and water managers alike to support climate-informed decision-making. Workshop participants will be introduced to tools including OpenET for gathering near real-time crop water usage, the Groundwater Accounting Platform for water balance and trading, OpenAg for assessing climate impacts on agriculture, the Water Data Decisions Dashboard, and the Climate Toolbox for gathering historical drought data. Workshop participants will benefit from a start-to-finish example and in-depth tutorials informing the stages of their decision-making to manage water resources more effectively in the West.

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