Final Report: Support for the Seventh Annual Northwest Climate Conference
Dates
Date Reported
2017-05-05
Citation
Final Report - Seventh Annual Northwest Climate Conference: .
Summary
The Northwest Climate Conference (formerly the Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference) annually brings together more over 250 participants to share scientific results, challenges, and solutions related to the impacts of climate on people, natural resources, and infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest region. The 2016 conference was held November 14 – 16, 2016 in Stevenson, Washington at the Skamania Resort Conference Center. The conference includes a broad range of climate-related topics from all sub-regions of the Northwest, attracting participants from Alaska to California and from the coast to the interior West. It provides a forum for presenting emerging policy and management goals, objectives, and information needs related [...]
Summary
The Northwest Climate Conference (formerly the Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference) annually brings together more over 250 participants to share scientific results, challenges, and solutions related to the impacts of climate on people, natural resources, and infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest region. The 2016 conference was held November 14 – 16, 2016 in Stevenson, Washington at the Skamania Resort Conference Center. The conference includes a broad range of climate-related topics from all sub-regions of the Northwest, attracting participants from Alaska to California and from the coast to the interior West. It provides a forum for presenting emerging policy and management goals, objectives, and information needs related to regional climate impacts and adaptation. It is the region’s premier opportunity for a transdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and ideas about regional climate, climate impacts, and climate adaptation science and practice. Conference participants include policy- and decision-makers, resource managers, students, and scientists from academia, public agencies, sovereign tribal nations, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.
This year’s conference had a greater focus on climate adaptation than in previous years. In addition to regular sessions on climate impacts, the conference included daily plenary sessions and special sessions entitled “Conversations about our Climate Challenges”, “Beyond Paris”, “4th National Climate Assessment”, “Developing a Comprehensive Strategy for Sea Level Rise: Local and State Government Perspectives“, “The Regional Climate Enterprise - where do we go from here?”, “Statistics in Practice for Analysis of Climate Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigations“, and “Climate change research and policy/planning/management applications in the Skagit River basin“.
