Program Committee• Nicholas Bond, JISAO and Washington State Climate Office• Robert Elleman, US EPA Region 10• Lynn Helbrecht, Washington Department of Fish and

Wildlife• Lief Horwitz, USGS Northwest Area• Philip Mote, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute• Trevor Murdock, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium• David Patte, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region• Amy Snover, Climate Impacts Group• Von Walden, Idaho EPSCoR, "Water Resources in a Changing

Climate”• Francis Zwiers, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium

Conference Sponsors• Climate Impacts Group (CIG)• EcoAdapt• Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative

(GNLCC)• Idaho's "Water Resources in A Changing Climate" EPSCoR

Project• Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean

(JISAO)• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)• North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC)• Northwest Climate Change Collaboration (C3)• Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI)

Conference Sponsors• Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)• Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

(CESU), UW School of Forest Resources• The Resource Innovation Group, in affiliation with The

Center for Sustainable Communities at Willamette University

• Washington Department of Ecology• Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife• U.S. Department of Interior Northwest Climate Science

Center• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region• U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

Conference Planning & Logistics

• Lara Whitely Binder, Climate Impacts Group• Ingrid Tohver, Climate Impacts Group• Adrienne Karpov, Climate Impacts Group• Zenobia Levy, Climate Impacts Group• Sasha Wittman, Climate Impacts Group• Debbie Confer, PNW CESU• Hilary Papendick, UW School of Forest

Resources/Evans School of Public Affairs

Conference Agenda Overview: DAY 1Plenary 1a: Welcome, Invited Speaker: Dean Lisa

Graumlich, PNW National Climate Partnerships

Plenary 1b: Glimpse of conference concurrent sessions, Ed Miles recognition

-- LUNCH --

Concurrent Session A: Marine & Aquatic EcosystemsSpecial Session: Climate, Coasts & Estuaries

Concurrent Session B: Vulnerability Assessment, Adaptation Planning & Human Responses to Climate Change

Poster Session: 55 posters, 12 major topic areas, 300 friends & potential collaborators … and free beer & wine

Conference Agenda Overview: DAY 2Plenary 2: Invited Speaker: Jeremy Littell; U.S. National

Climate Assessment

Concurrent Session C: Hydrology & Freshwater Resources

Concurrent Session D: Terrestrial Ecosystems Special Session: Vulnerability Assessment & Adaptation Planning for PNW Natural Resource Management

-- LUNCH –(optional) National Climate Assessment Information Session

Plenary 3: Invited Speaker: Francis ZwiersPNW Climate Trends & ExtremesInvited Speaker: Trevor Murdock

Meet up with colleagues, old &

new, via the Climate

Connection Board

Dinner