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About the Organon

Organon: a seven-step cycle showing key components of resilience-based planning.

The Organon is an adaptive system for climate change planning.

It provides an organizing framework, guiding principles, project examples, and information resources for building resilience and adaptation into environmental and human health activities.

Adaptation refers to adjustment in natural or human systems to a new or changing environment that exploits beneficial opportunities or moderates adverse effects. This is key for maintaining long-term resilience (the ability to tolerate and recover from impacts.

The Organon is not just a theoretical concept, but a practical tool for planning, designing, and implementing adaptive actions for resilient natural resources and human communities.

Click the links below to read more about the underlying concepts and practical uses of the Organon.

What Key Concepts Are Behind the Organon?

How Can I Use the Organon?

Organon Team

Core Development Group 

Jordan West, EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), Integrated Climate Sciences Division 
Anna Hamilton, Tetra Tech, Inc. 
Jen Stamp, Tetra Tech, Inc. 
Ian Reilly, ORISE Fellow at EPA 
Candace May, EPA ORD, Integrated Climate Sciences Division  

Technical Advisory Group 

Britta Bierwagen, EPA ORD, Integrated Climate Sciences Division 
Joe Ebersole, EPA ORD, Pacific Ecological Systems Division 
Emily Eisenhauer, EPA ORD, Integrated Climate Sciences Division
Caitlin Gould, EPA ORD, Integrated Climate Sciences Division
Susan Jackson, EPA Office of Water, Health and Ecological Criteria Division 
Matt Konfirst, EPA Region 3 
Rochelle Labiosa, EPA Region 10 
Kate Mulvaney, EPA ORD, Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division 
Raven Nee, ORISE Fellow at EPA 
Peg Pelletier, EPA ORD, Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division 
Regina Poeske, EPA Region 3 
Adam Reilly, EPA Region 1 
Hudson Slay, EPA Region 9 
Cathy Wigand, EPA ORD, Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division 

Adaptation Organon

  • About the Organon
    • What Key Concepts Are Behind the Organon?
    • How Can I Use the Organon?
  • Explore the Steps
  • Ecosystem Examples
    • Coral Reef
    • Cold Water Fish
    • Stream
    • Salt Marsh
  • Inclusive Collaboration
    • Introduction to Inclusive Collaboration
    • Organon Collaboration Best Practices
      • Overarching Best Practices
      • Best Practices by Step
  • Partner Projects
    • Region 9 Wetland Program Development Grants
    • Region 3 Chesapeake Bay Solutions-Driven Research Project
    • Region 5 Red Lake Nation Stream Monitoring and Management
  • Resources
Contact Us About the Organon
Contact Us About the Organon to ask a question, provide feedback, or report a problem.
Last updated on December 9, 2024
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