Start Date/Time: Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:30 PM
Ending Date/Time: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:30 PM
Location: Friday Harbor Laboratories, San Juan Island, WA
Climate scientists and society are struggling to foresee the manifestations of global and regional climate change. An evaluation of the impacts of climate change require interdisciplinary teams that can evaluate 1) the current factors that effect local climate, 2) how larger-scale forces influence those local factors and 3) how to manage climate-sensitive resources in the face of future climate changes. Developing research areas that inform public policy requires interactions between climate scientists, resource scientists, the public, and policy-makers. This PCC Summer Institute/Friday Harbor Symposium provides an intensive overview of key regional climate change issues of scientific and societal interest
Monday, September 14
Tuesday, September 15
The Present: Patterns of Variability and Change in the Historical Record, Session Chair Todd Mitchell (UW)
Panel Discussion: Regional climate variability and trends (PHIL MOTE, MIKE WALLACE, MARK STOELINGA)
Downscaling Methods and Uncertainty, Session Chair Tom Ackerman (UW)
Panel Discussion (ERIC SALATHÉ, PHIL MOTE, CHRIS BRETHERTON), Moderator: Tom Ackerman
Wednesday, September 16
The Past: Paleoclimate and environmental perspectives of the Holocene, Session Chair Eric Steig (UW)
Panel Discussion: Paleo variability and impacts (MICHAEL O’NEAL, BRIAN MENOUNOS, ERIC STEIG)
Climate Change Impacts on the Western US, Session Chair LuAnne Thompson (UW)
Climate change impacts on the PNW region (continued), Session Chair Amy Snover (UW)
Panel discussion: Ecosystem threshold responses (JAN NEWTON, TERRIE KLINGER, CLAUDIA MILLS)
Thursday, September 17, 2008
Planning for climate change, Session Chair Lara Whitley Binder (UW)
Panel Discussion: The role of climate science in adaptation planning (AMY SNOVER, SPENCER REEDER, NATE MANTUA)
Reading sessions, focusing on the following papers, were conducted in August and September, led by Nate Mantua.
Mantua, N.J., and P.W. Mote. (In review). The underlying rhythms: Characteristics of Pacific Northwest climate. Chapter 4 in A. K. Snover, E.L. Miles, and the Climate Impacts Group, Rhythms of Change: An Integrated Assessment of Climate Impacts on the Pacific Northwest, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Mote, P.W., A.F. Hamlet, and E.P. Salathé. 2008. Has spring snowpack declined in the Washington Cascades?. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 12: 193-206.
"The Weather of the Pacific Northwest" by Cliff Mass. Chapters 1 and 2 (pages 1-27)(available in the UW libraries)
Menounos, B., Osborn, G., Clague, J.J. and Luckman, B.H. (2008) Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in western Canada Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.1018.
Walker, I. R. and Pellatt, M.G. (2003)Climate Change in Coastal British Columbia-A Paleoenvironmental Perspective. Canadian Water Resources Journal. Vol. 28, No. 4, pgs. 531-566.
Chatters, J.C., Butler, V.L., Scott, M.J., Anderson, D.M. and Neitzel, D.A. (1995), A Paleoscience approach to estimating the effects of climatic warming on salmonid fisheries of the Columbia River basin, p. 489-496. In R.J. Beamish [ed.] Climate change and northern fish populations. Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 121.
Smithers, J. and Smit, B. (1997) Human adaptation to climatic variability and change. Global Environmental Change. Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 129-146.
Dessai, S. et al. (2009) Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation?, p. 64-78. In Adger, W.N., Lorenzoni, L., and O'Brien, K.L. [Eds]. Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Executive Summary of the Washington State Climate Change Impacts Assessment, available online at: http://cses.washington.edu/db/pdf/wacciaexecsummary638.pdf