Recent Symposia
NE RISCC Symposium 2024
The 2024 NE RISCC symposium was held via Zoom on February 27 and 28, 2024. Over 400 participants and panelists tuned in to our program that covered management and research perspectives from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. Recordings are available here.
Past Symposia
RISCC Symposium 2023
The 2023 RISCC management symposium took place virtually via Zoom on February 14-15th, 2023. We had a record turnout of 397 participants over two days of important discussions. Recordings are available here.
RISCC Symposium 2022
The fifth annual RISCC management symposium took place virtually via Zoom on January 19th and 20th, 2022. Around 240 participants joined to learn about and discuss topics ranging from marine invasive species risks to floodplain forest restoration, and carbon consequences. Recordings are available here.
RISCC Symposium 2021
The fourth annual RISCC Management Symposium was held virtually via Zoom on January 20th and 21st, 2021. Recordings of webinars and discussions can be found here.
Organized Session at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2020
Connecting research and practice is a challenge within all fields, and invasion ecology is no different. Translational Invasion Ecology provides a framework by which to develop and apply actionable science to one of the world’s top environmental challenges. The RISCC network organized a session at the recent annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America that unveiled the paradigm of TIE and provided examples of how researchers and resource managers are successfully working together to improve the management of invasive species. You can view the recorded presentations here.
NAISMA 2019
The NE RISCC Management Network hosted two special sessions and a workshop at the North American Invasive Species Management Association conference in lieu of our annual symposium.
We heard a variety of talks about the science behind climate change and invasive species interactions, policy and management implications, and how to be prepared for the changes yet to come. In the workshop, we worked together to figure out how to incorporate climate change into our on-the-ground management decisions and what research would be useful for closing remaining knowledge gaps.
RISCC Symposium 2018
The second annual RISCC Management Symposium was held Thursday July 12, 2018 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This one-day symposium featured talks from an international group of invasive species experts, as well as interactive discussion sections deisgned to connect the research and management communities.
RISCC Symposium 2017
The first RISCC Management Symposium was held at the UMass Amherst campus on July 27 and 28, 2017.
The objective of the meeting was to bring together natural resource managers and scientists to discuss how climate change might affect invasion risk in the northeastern region and to identify ways to translate research into management action.
RISCC Management Workshop 2016
The first Northeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Management Workshop (initially called the Northeast Invasive Species and Climate Change, or NISCC, workshop) was held on July 21, 2016. It was convened by the Department of Interior Northeast Climate Science Center (NE CSC), the New York Invasive Species Research Institute (NY ISRI), and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) as a first step in a conversation to address the question “How can we manage for upcoming biological invasions in the light of climate change?”. The objective of the workshop was to bring together a small group of climate scientists and invasive species scientists, managers, and policy makers from New York and New England to promote a two-way dialogue to 1) review the state of current research on the topic; 2) share regional knowledge about current management strategies; and 3) identify specific information needs of managers surrounding invasive species and climate change.