A big thank you to Dr. Mary Stampone and to everyone who attended “New Hampshire, New Normal,” and joined the conversation. You can find the replay and program description below, and links to resources Mary mentioned. Please join us in Tamworth on November 30, at 7PM, for a Community Climate Conversation. More information and please register HERE.
New Hampshire Climate Assessment 2021
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New Hampshire, New Normal
While the effects of climate change may not yet be as dramatic in New Hampshire as in some other places, its impacts are being felt by the tourism and other industries, by municipalities, in demographic changes to the state, and by the land and water and all who dwell therein. “New Hampshire, New Normal,” with New Hampshire State Climatologist Dr. Mary Stampone, is the first program in the Cook Memorial Library & Chocorua Lake Conservancy series “Climate & Community.” This program provides an overview of climate change in New Hampshire looking at recent past and possible future changes in temperature and precipitation, and offer context for interpreting changing weather patterns in a changing climate. The program includes findings from the New Hampshire Climate Assessment 2021, published in the summer of 2022 by Mary Stampone and colleagues Cameron Wake and Elizabeth Burakowski.
Dr. Mary Stampone. Photo courtesy of Mary Stampone.
Dr. Mary Stampone is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of New Hampshire where she teaches undergraduate courses on weather, climate, and natural hazards. As an applied climatologist, her research focuses on monitoring and modeling variability and change in regional-scale climate system processes with an emphasis on hydroclimatic hazards (i.e. drought, flooding, severe weather). Dr. Stampone also serves as the State Climatologist for New Hampshire, providing citizens, educators, and government agencies with weather and climate information in support of environmental management and adaptation activities. She co-authored the "Northeast" chapter of the 4th National Climate Assessment, served on the NH Coastal Flood Risk Science and Technical Advisory Panel, and continues to serve as a member of the NH Drought Management Team.
Banner image: Chocorua Lake in March 2022. Photo: Juno Lamb