Vision

WyACT will establish lasting and nationally competitive capabilities and infrastructure that improves predictive understanding of the coupled human-environment impacts of climate change on water availability. WyACT will enable Wyoming’s communities to anticipate and prepare for significant and lasting changes in water availability.

Mission

Our mission is to 1) implement a transdisciplinary framework of co-production of knowledge that directly involves Wyoming communities, sovereign tribes and government; 2) improve representation of socioeconomic, ecological, and hydrological interactions in integrated models that predict responses to climate change induced reductions in water availability and associated disturbances; and 3) enhance the economic development of Wyoming by leveraging investments in cyberinfrastructure, workforce development and statewide, regional and national partnerships. 

Diagram showing the links in biophysical and socioeconomic models to be used and their integration using co-produced scenarios