NEWS

• Dr's. Philip Mote of OCCRI and Peter Clark of OSU Geosciences selected as Lead Author and Coordinating Lead Author (respectively) for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 5 (AR5), June 23, 2010

• Mountain Topography May Complicate Rated of Global Warming, notes OSU's Dr. Chris Daly, May 25, 2010

• Dr. Philip Mote, OCCRI Director, co-authors National Research Council "Adapting to Climate Change" report, May 20, 2010

• OSU's Dr. Chris Daly interviewed for Scientific American podcast "Mountain vs. Valley Temps Stretch Apart With Climate Change", April 29, 2010

• OCCRI Researcher Kathie Dello says late March snow in Oregon not unusual (Gazette-Times), March 31, 2010

• OSU Researchers find PNW forest fires may play a minor role in climate change when compared to fossil fuel use, February 1, 2010

• OSU Researchers Implicate Climate Change in Oceanic "Dead Zones" off the coast of the PNW, January 31, 2010

• By various measures, the largest waves recorded at buoys off the Northwest coast have grown substantially larger since the mid-1970s, January 26, 2010

• Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, addresses the question of "How do scientists envision the future of climate change?" at the weekly OSU Faculty Club meeting, January 21, 2010

• OCCRI Affiliated Researcher Dr. Heejun Chang speaks on climate change policy at the US-S. Korea Relations Conference at the Brookings Institute, January 5, 2010

• Carl Schreck of the Oregon Cooperative Wildlife and Fish Research Unit at Oregon State University explains research that is exploring the effects of climate change on fish, December 15, 2009

• “Federal forests could be tasked with fighting global warming”, The Oregonian article on forests in OR acting as carbon sinks, December 10, 2009

• “Protecting the Forests, and Hoping for Payback”, NY Times article on forests in the American West as carbon sinks, December 4, 2009

• “An analysis of a Survey of Oregon Coast Decision Makers Regarding Climate Change”, Oregon Sea Grant, December 4, 2009

• Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, quoted on NPR’s “All Things Considered: Stolen E-mails Raise Questions on Climate Research”, December 4, 2009

• “How Science is Done Right”, Hasso Hering editorial in the Albany Democrat Herald, “Because of the e-mails purloined from a university in England, climate science got a black eye in the last couple of weeks. But at about the same time, Oregon State University publicized a new study that sounds like a model of how scientific conclusions are supposed to be reached.”, December 4, 2009

• Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, responds to the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) emails, December 3, 2009

• An open letter to the climate science community re: the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) emails, from Dr. Benjamin Santer, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercompariosn, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, December 2, 2009

• Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, expects “El Nino will be the dominant climate factor this winter in the Pacific Northwest”, November 6, 2009

• Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, quoted in Time Magazine’s “Why Are Kilamanjaro’s Glaciers Fading?”, November 3, 2009

• “Bird communities following high-severity fire: Response to single and repeat fires in a mixed-evergreen forest, Oregon, USA”, Journal of Forest Ecology and Management, October 23, 2009

• Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, appears on NPR’s “Philosophy Talk”, October 22, 2009 (airs November 29)

• Kathie Dello of OCCRI presents an overview of Oregon climatology at KOHD TV’s (Bend) storm spotter training, October 3, 2009.