* WHAT: Expert briefing for reporters on the impacts
of climate change on the Pacific Northwest
* WHEN:
Thursday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
* WHERE:
Faculty Club, University of Washington, Seattle
*
WHO: Climate researchers from the University of
Washington and experts from the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency and the state Department of Health
DETAILS: Global climate change is in the headlines as nations involved in the Kyoto climate treaty finish their negotiating session in Marrakech, Morocco. Top experts who did the definitive study of climate change in the Pacific Northwest explain why the results of the Marrakech conference matter here, as well as results of their latest research. They will discuss how climate change might affect regional salmon runs, urban water supply, forests, precipitation, flooding and droughts, hydropower and human health. The panel will look at what the City of Seattle and others are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and UW Marine Affairs Professor Ed Miles will give a keynote address "From Rio to Marrakech: The Past, Present, and Future of International Climate Change Negotiations."
Sponsors include the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the UW (UW and NOAA); the UW School of Marine Affairs and Climate Impacts Group; the Environmental Health Center/National Safety Council; and the Puget Sound Science Writers' Association. (NOTE: Partial funding for the event comes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under a cooperative agreement with the Environmental Health Center.)
The briefing is open to all journalists. Advance registration is requested (lunch will be provided). Contact Kristin Marstiller at (202) 974-2469 or marstilk@nsc.org. For an agenda, see http://jisao.washington.edu/PNWimpacts/CIGNews.htm.
DIRECTIONS:
The UW Faculty Club is across the street from the Husky Union
Building (see http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?55,54,971,534
for an online map, and click on the red circle). To reach
campus from Interstate 5, exit at Northeast 45th Street and
travel east on 45th Street past 15th Avenue Northeast. Turn
right at 17th Avenue Northeast and enter the UW campus. At
the gatehouse, tell the attendant you are a reporter
attending the climate change briefing and you will be
directed to the closest available parking to the Faculty
Club.
Philip Mote
Climate Impacts Group at the
UW
Atmospheric scientist, lead author of 1999 report on
the impacts of climate variability and change on the Pacific
Northwest
Richard Palmer
UW professor of civil
and environmental engineering
Hydrologist, expert in urban
water supply planning; is advising Seattle and Portland on
climate change issues
Nathan Mantua
Climate
Impacts Group and UW research scientist
Atmospheric
scientist, lead author of the original 1997 paper linking
Pacific decadal variability to salmon abundance
David
Peterson
UW professor of forest resources
Forest
ecologist, authority on the connection between climate
conditions and forest growth
Edward Miles
Climate
Impacts Group and UW professor of marine affairs
Expert in
international policy and climate impacts; founder and
director of Climate Impacts Group
Richard
Hoskins
Washington State Department of
Health
Expert on climate change and human health.
Washington state public health geographer and a senior
epidemiologist with the State Department of Health; also on
the clinical faculty in the UW Department of
Epidemiology
Anthony Socci
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Staff member in the Climate Protection
Partnerships Division in EPA's Air Office. Formerly with the
U.S. Global Change Research Program, where he organized
seminars on science issues related to climate change for
congressional members and staff
K.C. Golden
City
of Seattle
Adviser to the mayor on energy and climate
change issues
