“State of the Climate 2013” report available

Just last week NOAA and the American Meteorological Society released the most recent annual report on The State of the Climate.
This report is the “24th edition in a peer-reviewed series published annually as a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.”
You can find information about the report, and download a copy of the full report (26 Mb; 280 pages) at
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2014/20140717_stateoftheclimate.html
Many thanks to Rob Walton for forwarding this link to me.

The PNW Climate Science Conference draft agenda is now posted!

This Just In from the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington:

The draft PNW Climate Science Conference agenda is now posted!

Washington Governor Jay Inslee giving the Keynote Address

http://pnwclimateconference.org/

September 9-10, 2014
Seattle, WA

The draft program for the Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference is now available at http://pnwclimateconference.org/program.html. This year’s conference will be held on September 9-10 at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The Pacific Northwest Climate Science conference will include invited speakers, plenary sessions of broad interest, and more targeted concurrent sessions exploring the impacts of climate variability and change on the people, natural resources, and infrastructure of the Pacific Northwest. Talks are geared for a range of audiences, including policy- and decision-makers, resource managers, and scientists from academia, public agencies, sovereign tribal nations, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

The Planning Committee is pleased to announce that Washington State Governor Jay Inslee will be delivering the conference Keynote Address on Wednesday, September 10 from 1:30-1:50 pm.

 Registration Reminder – Early bird registration available until August 20, 2014. A limited number of student/tribal registrations are available. See the registration page for more information.

http://pnwclimateconference.org/registration.html

Lodging Reminder – The University District offers several options for lodging that are within walking distance of the University of Washington campus or provide a free shuttle to campus. Rooms can fill quickly (and room rates will rise accordingly) so you are encouraged to make your reservations early. A limited number of rooms have been set aside at a block rate of $149/night at Hotel Decca. This rate is only available until August 7, 2014 or until all block rate rooms are taken, whichever comes first. See the conference website for more information on lodging: http://pnwclimateconference.org/lodging.html.

Stay tuned for further updates, including the draft program for the conference poster session. We look forward to seeing you in September!

 

A Note about this Blog

Greetings – For now, this blog is a tool for the project team to communicate with participants. That team is Jeff Weber of DLCD and Joe Cone, Monty Johnson, John Stevenson, and Kirsten Winters of Oregon Sea Grant at OSU, and hosted at OSU. Because of OSU procedures, it’s not practical to include everyone outside of OSU as posters. But if you would like something posted, please contact one of the team identified above. Thanks.

Welcome

Information for participants in the North Coast Climate Adaptation project and workshops being led jointly by Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development.

See the Download Resources page, above, for reference materials and other important information.