Workshop on Scenarios of Future Climate

November 4, 2009 - The Climate Workshop presentations are now available online. They are accessible by following the presentation title link below.

Conference Attendee List

 

Workshop sponsored by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, the UW Climate Impacts Group and the Univ. of Idaho's Water Resources in a Changing Climate.

Draft agenda

Wednesday, October 28

9:30 Registration and refreshments

10:00 Welcome and overview of workshop; introductions; description of CIG, OCCRI, IdCC

Philip Mote, OCCRI

10:15  Climate scenarios 101: Which model is "best"?

Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

11:00  Climate scenarios 101: Regional modeling and the North American Climate Change Assessment Project

Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research

11:45 lunch on your own

1:15  Applications 101: Municipal water supply adaptation planning

Lorna Stickel, Portland Water Bureau

1:45  Climate scenarios 101: Translating global models to the local scale

Ed Maurer, Santa Clara University

2:30  Applications 101: Landscape Conservation Cooperatives for decision support

Vicki Finn, US Fish and Wildlife Service

3:00 break

3:15  Climate scenarios 101: Quantifying uncertainty and decision-making under uncertainty for climate adaptation

Phil Duffy, Climate Central  and Stanford University

4:00  Applications 101: EPA perspective and activities

Peter Beedlow

4:30-5:15  General discussion: What is needed from the science community?

Thursday, October 29

8:30  Climate scenarios/Applications 102: Selection of models and practical applications

Levi Brekke, US Bureau of Reclamations

9:15  Applications 101: BPA perspective

River Management Joint Operating Comm. (RMJOC)

Columbia River Treaty 2014/2024 Review

Nancy Stephan, Bonneville Power Administration; Seshu Vaddey, US ACE

10:00  Climate scenarios 101: Regional modeling and statistical downscaling

Eric Salathé, University of Washington

10:45 break

11:00 Applications 101: Climate hazards, landscape planning, and CAPIS(Examples PDF)

Jeff Weber,  Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development

11:30-12:00  General discussion: How can we work together? How can we inform and influence a new national climate service?

12:00 adjourn

The purpose of the conference (June 24 10-2:30) is to highlight research at Oregon’s universities on climate change.  Anyone is welcome to attend.

The retreat (2:45 on June 24 to June 25 at noon) provides an opportunity for OCCRI researchers to articulate a vision for research in climate change topics and outline both short-term and long-term priorities. It is restricted to OUS faculty.

Final agenda 

Conference - June 24

10:00 Welcome and overview of conference and of OCCRI

Philip Mote, Director, OCCRI

10:15  Oregon Global Warming Commission and its relationship to OCCRI

Angus Duncan, Chair, OGWC

10:30  Climate change research at the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at UO

Dave Hulse, Bart Johnson, Cass Moseley, Bob Doppelt

10:45 research snippets

Human dimensions

Ron Mitchell, UO - influence of climate science on policy-making process

Gail Achterman, INR OUS - laws and policies needed for reducing emissions and adapting

Hannah Gosnell, Geosciences OSU - carbon sequestration through forest management

11:00 break

11:15 Climate change research at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, OSU

Nick Pisias, Associate Dean, COAS

11:30 research snippets

Greenhouse gas sources and sinks

Rick Colwell, COAS OSU - biogeochemistry of C-1 metabolism

Andrew Rice, PSU - isotope chemistry to constrain methane budget

Steven Perakis, Forest Ecosystems and Society OSU - role of precipitation in carbon and nitrogen cycling

Chris Butenhoff, PSU - greenhouse gas inventories and variability

Bev Law, Forestry OSU - carbon cycle in forests

Species and ecosystems

Joseph Ebersole, Fisheries and Wildlife OSU - freshwater temp for fish habitat

Kate Field, Microbiology OSU - waterborne pathogens

Jeff Miller, Rangeland Ecology & Management OSU - sensitivity of moth behavior to temperature

Gil Rilov - changing species mix in intertidal zone; role for climate?

Jason Phillips, COAS OSU - invasive marine organisms

Dick Waring, Forestry OSU - climate change and tree distribution

12:15 lunch

1:15 research snippets

Community engagement efforts

Andre LeDuc, UO

Steve Brandt, OR Sea Grant OSU

Deborah Maddy, Extension OSU

Physical climate system

Julia Jones, Geosciences OSU - trends at HJ Andrews Forest

Chris Daly, NACSE OSU - PRISM geospatial climate mapping

Parker Wigington, EPA - hydrologic landscape regions

Scott Leibowitz, EPA - snow model

Heejun Chang, PSU - hydrology and water resources

Anne Nolin, OSU - mapping snow and glaciers

Peter Ruggiero, OSU - vulnerability to coastal hazards

Roger Samelson, OSU - fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean and sea ice

Laurence Padman, ESR - Antarctic ice shelves

Andreas Schmittner, OSU - modeling centennial scale climate change

Paleoclimate

Bryan Black, Hatfield Marine Science Center OSU - paleoclimate using marine and freshwater organisms

Robert Harris, COAS OSU - borehole temperatures

Dan Gavin, Geography UO - paleocology and response of forest biodiversity to climate change

Ed Brook, Geosciences OSU - ice core records of changes in trace gases and climate

2:15  State political perspective on adapting to and reducing climate change

Dave Van’t Hof, Governor’s Office

2:30 adjourn

Final agenda - retreat

24 June

2:45 Breakout groups - develop a vision for OCCRI

4:00 Plenary reports from breakout groups

5:30 reception

25 June

8:30 Breakout groups - what are the low-hanging fruit?

10:00 ------------ break

10:15 Breakout groups - what are some long-term research goals?

11:30 Report in plenary

12   adjourn

Many thanks to the OCCRI retreat planning committee

Ron Mitchell, UO

Denise Lach, OSU

Dave Hulse, UO

Allison Aldous, The Nature Conservancy

Andrew Rice, Portland State University