WySEaSON

Mission:

At WySEaSON, our mission is to enable understanding and detection of climate change impacts on the dynamic interactions between natural and human systems. We achieve this through coordinated measurement infrastructure and methodologies, supporting stakeholder-driven research and education.

Vision:

We aim to provide trusted, high-quality, and freely available data and information on coupled human-environment systems. Our focus is on their responses to changing water availability in Wyoming and the surrounding region, ensuring that our community and stakeholders are well-informed and equipped to respond to these changes.

Research Focus:

Our primary research question investigates how climate-driven changes to precipitation and snowpack influence human-environment interactions in the headwaters of major river drainages of western Wyoming. This involves observing, detecting, and quantifying the impacts of climate change on hydrological, ecological, and socioeconomic systems over years to decades.

Goals:

• Foster stakeholder and community involvement in climate change research.
• Develop observational datasets to improve forecasts and build scenarios using local and regional biophysical and socioeconomic models.
• Provide essential climate change impact information to communities, stakeholders, educators, scientists, and decision-makers.
• Support community-driven research anticipating climate-driven shifts in water availability.