4th annual Pacific Northwest climate science conference
The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to convene and exchange scientific results, challenges, and solutions related to the impacts of climate on people, natural resources, and infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest. This conference is an opportunity to stimulate and showcase decision-relevant climate science in the Pacific Northwest.
The Conference aims to transcend the typical discipline-based science conference to stimulate and develop a place-based understanding of the connections between climate and decisions that affect the people and resources in the region. They seek presentations, either oral or poster, that describe the region’s climate variability and change over time; connections between climate and forest, water, fish, and wildlife resources; climate-related natural hazards such as wildfire, drought, flooding, invasive species and shoreline change; and the emerging science of ocean acidification.
They also seek case studies of efforts to incorporate science into planning, policy, and resource management programs and decisions; new approaches to data mining or data development; decision support tools and services related to climate adaptation; and fresh approaches or new understanding of the challenges of communicating climate science
Keynote Speaker:
- Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon
Invited Plenary Speakers:
- Kathy Jacobs, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, on leave from University of Arizona (confirmed)
- Ed Maibach, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University (confirmed)
- Rick Spinrad, Vice President for Research, Oregon State University (confirmed)