Presentations for 3rd Annual Climate Change Research Conference

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| Wednesday, September 13, 2006| Thursday, September 14, 2006| Friday, September 15, 2006|

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006
Date/Time	Presenter	Presentation Title	Link
1:00 - 1:20 p.m.	James Boyd (Vice Chair, California Energy Commission)	Welcome and Introduction	Download PDF file 236 kb
1:20 - 1:50	Shankar B. Prasad (Deputy Secretary for Science and Evironmental Justice, California Environmental Protection Agency)	California Climate Policy Landscape	Download PDF file 124 kb
1:50 - 2:20	Kelly Birkinshaw and Guido Franco (California Energy Commission)	Climate Change Research and PIER: Status and Future Activities	Download PDF file 744 kb
2:20 - 3:30	Keynote Speaker: James Hansen (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)	Is There Still Time to Avoid Disastrous Human-Made Climate Change?	Download PDF file 3.8 MB
3:30 - 3:50	BREAK
Inventory Methods and Options to Reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Session Chair: Steve Shaffer (California Department of Food and Agriculture)
3:50 - 4:10	Frank Mitloehner (University of California, Davis)	Measurement of GHG Emissions From Dairy Farms	Download PDF file 3.3 MB
4:10 - 4:30	William Salas (Applied Geosolutions)	Developing a Biochemical Process-Based Model for Estimating GHG Emissions From Dairy Farms	Download PDF file 9.9 MB
4:30 - 4:50	Johan Six (University of California, Davis)	Regional Projections of Net GHG Emissions and Reductions in California Agriculture	Download PDF file 600 kb
4:50 - 5:10	Richard Howitt (University of California, Davis)	Economic Analysis of Reduction Options for Growers	Download PDF file 588 kb

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
Date/Time	Presenter	Presentation Title	Link
Regional Climate Modeling I Session Chair: Nehzat Motallebi (California Air Resources Board)
8:00 - 8:20 a.m.	Lisa Sloan (University of California, Santa Cruz)	Modeling Effects of Land-Use Changes on California's Climate	Download PDF file 1.3 MB
8:20 - 8:40	Alexander Gershunov (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)	Can Regional Models Capture Precipitation and Temperature Extremes? Performance of Regional Spectral Model (RSM) in Five-Decade Reanalysis	Download PDF file 9.5 MB
8:40 - 9:00	Michael Dettinger (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)	Translating Climate Change Model Uncertainty Into Impacts Models	Download PDF file 1.8 MB
WESTCARB: Carbon Sequestration Session Chair: Lawrence Meyer (California Energy Commission)
9:00 - 9:30	Sandra Brown and John Kadyszeski (Winrock International)	Removing Hazardous Fuels from Forests to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Uncharacteristically Severe Wildfires	Download PDF file 2.2 MB
9:30 - 10:00	Sally Benson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)	Pilot Testing of CO₂ Sequestration Deep Underground Geological Formations in California	Download PDF file 2.1 MB
10:00 - 10:20	BREAK
Aerosols and Regional Climate Session Chair: Guido Franco (California Energy Commission)
10:20 - 10:50	Steve Cliff (University of California, Davis)	Particulate Measurement During SUPRECIP-2: Establishing the Foundation for a Long-Term Aerosol Observatory in California	Download PDF file 1.8 MB
10:20 - 10:50	Odelle Hadley (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)	Black Carbon and Aerosol Analysis in Rain and Snow During SUPRECIP-2	Download PDF file 2.3 MB
10:50 - 11:20	Dan Rosenfeld (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)	Aerosols Suppressing Precipitation in the Sierra Nevada: Results of the 2006 Winter Field Campaign	Download PDF file 4.4 MB
11:20 - 11:45	Mark Jacobson (Stanford University)	Numerical Study of the Effects of Aerosols and Irrigation on Snow, Rain, and Regional Climate of California	Download PDF file 1.6 MB
11:45 - 1:10 p.m.	LUNCH Keynote Speaker: Benjamin Santer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Recent Advances in Detection and Attribution Studies	Download PDF file 1.5 MB
Impact and Adaptation Studies: Part I Session Chair: Amy Leurs (Union of Concerned Scientists)
1:10 - 1:40	Daniel Cayan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)	Climate Scenarios Analysis: Some Critical Elements for California's Future Pathway	Download PDF file 1.0 MB
1:40 - 2:10	William Reisen (University of California, Davis)	California's Dynamic Mosquito Populations: Effects of Climate on Encephalitis and West Nile Outbreaks	Download PDF file 2.7 MB
2:10 - 2:40	Michael Kleeman (University of California, Davis)	Potential Air Quality Impacts	Download PDF file 5.0 MB
2:40 - 3:00	Dennis Baldocchi (University of California, Berkeley)	Potential Agricultural Impacts and Adaptation Options	Download PDF file 6.1 MB
3:00 - 3:20	BREAK
Impact and Adaptation Studies: Part II Session Chair: Michael Anderson (California Department of Water Resources)
3:20 - 3:40	Peter Adams (University of Florida)	Modeling Coastal Evolution in Southern California: Geomorphic Response to Seal Level Rise and Changes in Wave Climate	Download PDF file 2.5 MB
3:40 - 4:00	Noah Knowles (United States Geological Survey)	Projecting Inundation Due to Sea Level Rise in the San Francisco Bay and Delta	Download PDF file 1.5 MB
4:00 - 4:20	Susanne Moser (National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR] Institute for the Study of Society and Environment)	Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change in California: How Ready Is the Coastal Sector?	Download PDF file 668 KB
4:20 - 4:40	Jay Lund (UniversIty of California, Davis)	Water Supply Adaptation and Impacts for Extreme Droughts and Climate Change	Download PDF file 1.6 MB
4:40 - 5:00	Sebastian Vicuña (University of California, Berkeley)	Impacts of High-Elevation Hydropower Units: Upper American River	Download PDF file 732 KB
5:00 - 5:20	Michael Hanemann (University of California, Berkeley)	Estimation of Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Preliminary Results	Download PDF file 532 kb

5:20 - 7:30	Poster Session Poster Session Chairs: Edward Vine (California Institute for Energy and Environment) and Brian Ellis (California Energy Commission) PDF file of Project Descriptions PDF files of posters presented, listed alpabetically by name. (Note sizes.)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
Date/Time	Presenter	Presentation Title	Link
Ecology and Climate Change Session Chair: Douglas Wickizer (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection)
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.	Jessica Blois (Stanford University)	Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystems Structure: Lessons from Paleoecology	Download PDF file 2.6 MB
8:30 - 9:00	James Thorne (University of California, Davis)	Movement of the Conifer Belt on the Sierra Nevada in the Last 100 Years	Download PDF file 5.0 MB
9:00 - 9:30	Christopher Conroy (University of California, Berkeley)	Yosemite Then and Now: The Grinnell Legacy	Download PDF file 7.5 MB
9:30 - 10:00	Constance Millar (U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)	Complex Responses of High-Elevation Forests in the Sierra Nevada to Climate Change: Past and Future	Download PDF file 4.3 MB
10:00 - 10:30	Lee Hannah (Center for Applied Biodiversity Science at Conservation International)	Dynamic Modeling of Climate Change Impacts on California Endemic Tress	Download PDF file 1.3 MB
10:30 - 10:45	BREAK
Impact and Adaptation Studies: Part III Session Chair: Phillip Duffy (Lawrence LIvermore National Laboratory)
10:45 - 11:15	Nicholas Graham (Hydrologic Research Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography)	Climate-Hydrology Forecasts and Risk-Based Reservoir Management in Northern California: Design and Initial Tests of the Real-Time INFORM System	Download PDF file 1.6 MB
11:15 - 11:45	Rupa Basu (California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment)	An Epidemiologic Study of Temperature and Mortality in California: Implications for Climate Change	Download PDF file 781 kb
11:45 - 12:15	Anthony Westerling (University of California, Merced)	Climate and Forest Wildfire in Western United States: Recent Trends and Projections	Download PDF file 2.4 MB
12:15 - 1:45 p.m.	LUNCH Keynote Speaker: Rajendra Pachauri Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	From the IPCC Third Assessment Report to the Fourth: The Relevance of Science	Download PDF file 663 kb
1:45 - 2:00	Concluding Remarks Martha Krebs (Deputy Director, Energy Research and Development Division, California Energy Commission)

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