This fall climate change will be a bunch of fun and games for staff at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm Farm. The reserve, located off Lauholm Farm Road in Wells, is one of four estuarine research centers across New England that has been chosen to take part in a climate adaptation project. The other centers are located in Cranston, R.I., Barnstable, Mass. and Dover, N.H. The project, which began last fall, includes a series of role-playing scenarios, dubbed “Climate Games,” organized by environmental experts at the University of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “They bring their climate expertise and experience in role playing activities,” said Dr. Christine Feurt, Wells Reserve’s coordinator of the coastal training program and a leader of this project. “They have done these all over the world and now they are bringing it to our hometown, right here in Wells.”

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