Boumans, Roel; Christin, Zachary

Using Model Integration to Create Baseline Carbon Budgets in the Snohomish River Basin

This report presents a framework for scientists, academic institutions, and land stewards to integrate existing biophysical models within a single modeling platform, allowing for model interactions and more robust systemic outputs from all models. This enables more fully informed, and better decisions concerning land use planning, salmon restoration, storm water projects, forestry practices, flood risk reduction and other areas. The Multi-scale Integrated Models of Ecosystem Services (MIMES) demonstrates in this study how current demographic and ecological trends place immense pressure on the natural environment further threatened by climate change creating significant economic implications. MIMES is the first platform used to integrate existing local, national, and global models to systemically answer questions related to sea-level rise, flood risk, and restoration needs.