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Box 5 -1. North Carolina specific projects funded by the National USGS Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSQ in 2009. Development and Dissemination of High - Resolution National Climate Change Dataset. Principal Investigator: Jaime Collazo, NC State University. Source: http: / /nccw.usgs.gov/ documents /Summary _ for_NCCWSC - Collazo.pdf Modeling the response of imperiled freshwater mussels to anthropogenicallyinduced changes in water temperature, habitat, and flow in streams of the southeastern and central United States. Principal Investigator: Thomas Kwak, North Carolina Cooperative Research Unit. Source: http: / /nccw.usgs.gov/ documents /Summary _ for_NCCWSC- Kwak.pdf Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are science partnerships between the Fish and Wild- life Service (USFWS), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), states, federal resource management agencies, tribes, NGOs, universities, and other stake- holders within a given geographic area. The goal of the LCCs is to carry out the elements of the FWS's Strategic Landscape Conservation (biological plan- ning, conservation design, conservation delivery, monitoring, and research) by providing scientific and technical support for landscape conservation carried out in an adaptive management framework to address climate change and other landscape scale stressors. The LCCs will prioritize strategic habitat conservation, conservation planning, research, and development of inventory and monitoring programs and assist scientists and resource managers as they deal with uncertainty. They will also facilitate iden- tification of shared needs and priorities among part- ners in the region, and focus science support and conservation around these needs at the landscape scale. The LCCs will comprise a national network of interdependent units that provide a link between science and conservation delivery. With an initial federal investment of $25 million in FY2010, the Service and USGS will begin standing - up eight of these cooperatives across the country in the following geographic areas: Pacific Islands, Great Plains, Plains and Prairie Potholes, South Atlantic, North Atlantic, Great Northern, Arctic, and Cali- fornia (Figure 5 -8). As a stakeholder in the LCC process, the NCWRC may play a key role in devel- oping conservation priorities, research needs, part- nerships, and regional plans that both compliment the SWAP and meet the needs of the South Atlantic (Figure 5 -9) and Appalachian LCC. Photo: www.thinkstockphotos.com