CIG Weekly Seminars

Spring Quarter 2005

Outreach, Classes, and Seminars

In This Section . . .

The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) hosts weekly seminars on a variety of topics related to the scientific and social dimensions of climate variability, climate change, climate impacts assessment, and adaptation to climate impacts. Seminars are held during the academic year and are open to the public.

Seminars for this quarter are scheduled for:

Wednesdays, 2:00-3:30

(unless otherwise noted)

CIG Conference Room (2nd Floor, Lisa Li Building)
4909 25th Ave. NE, Seattle

(Note: The Lisa Li building is the building formerly known as the King Building. The Lisa Li Building is located northeast of the UW campus across from University Village shopping center on 25th Ave NE. The building is located behind Washington Mutual and next to the Burke Gilman Trail.)

Information for presenters

Date	Speaker	Topic
Wednesday March 30	NO SEMINAR (Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Meeting)
Wednesday April 6 Special Time & Location: 3:30-5:00, Atmospheric Sciences Building (ATG) 310	Part 1 (20 min.) Ed Sarachik, CSES/CDG Nate Mantua, CSES/CIG Part 2 Alan Hamlet, CIG, UW Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering	Quarterly global climate update Presentation Quarterly regional climate update Presentation Energy related applications of long-range climate forecasts Abstract / Presentation
Wednesday April 13	Tim Beechie, Watershed Program, Northwest Fisheries Science Center	Some potential consequences of climate change and altered runoff regimes for stream and riparian ecosystems Abstract / Presentation
Wednesday April 20	Jeremy Littell, UW College of Forest Resources and CIG	Ecological context of climate impacts on fire: Wildland fire area burned in the western U.S. 1916-2003 Abstract / Presentation
Wednesday April 27 Special Time & Location: 3:30-5:00, Physics/Astronomy lecture hall (PAA room A102)	Peter Ward, UW Earth and Space Sciences, Professor of Paleontology	Did super greenhouse conditions cause mass extinctions in the past? Abstract / Presentation
Wednesday May 4	Sara Jo Breslow, Doctoral Candidate, UW Environmental Anthropology	Social dimensions of salmon habitat restoration in the Skagit valley Abstract / Presentation Suggested background reading: “Farmers’ Perceptions of Salmon Habitat Restoration Measures: Loss and Contestation”
Wednesday May 11 Special Time & Location: 3:30-5:00, Atmospheric Sciences Building (ATG) 310	Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland)	A Summary of Regional Climate Modeling Research at PNNL Abstract / Presentation
Wednesday May 18	Ken Bible, Research Scientist/Site Director, Wind River Field Station and Canopy Crane Research Facility, UW College of Forest Resources	Long-term carbon dynamics of an old-growth Douglas-fir forest Abstract / Presentation
Wednesday May 25	Ed Miles, CIG; Doug Canning, Washington Department of Ecology; Tom Leschine, UW School of Marine Affairs	Integrated assessment of coastal resources (discussion of needs) Abstract / Presentation
Wednesday June 1	Bob Francis, CIG, UW School of Fisheries	What we know, don't know, and need to know about taking climate impacts on aquatic ecosystems down (or up) to the watershed scale for integrated assessment Abstract / Presentation