WSWC/CDWR Climate Change Research Needs Workshop

May 16-18, 2007

Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport

18800 Mac Arthur Blvd

Irvine, CA

Wednesday May 16

9:30                Registration

10:30              Welcome, opening remarks

Shaun McGrath, Western Governors’ Association (WGA)

Jeanine Jones, California Department of Water Resources (CDWR)

10:50              Overview of recent climate change activities

                       IPCC – Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research

                       California’s Climate Action Team – John Andrew, CDWR

11:30              Overview of impacts in Western U.S.

                       Dan Cayan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Brad Udall, Western Water Assessment

12:15              Lunch

1:15                Information needs – end user perspective #1

                       California State Water Project supplies – John Andrew, CDWR

                       Flood management – Mike Anderson, CDWR

                       Local agency water supply -- Lorna Stickel, Portland Water Bureau

2:15                Information needs – end user perspective #2

                       Demography – Mary Heim, California Department of Finance

Decision Center for a Desert City experience – Patricia Gober, Arizona State University

                       Economic impacts – Ernie Niemi, ECONorthwest 

3:15                Small group break-out discussion #1

                       1. Data collection/monitoring needs

2. Needs for analytical tools, models, data analysis

                       3. Institutional/public policy issues

4:30                Discussion of breakout #1

5:30                Adjourn

Thursday May 17 

7:30                Continental breakfast

8:30                Applied research examples

Hydrologic forecasting – Mike Dettinger, Scripps/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 

Drought – Richard Seager, Columbia University

Decision support – Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan

Application of paleohydrology – Terry Fulp, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Drought economic impacts – Mike Hayes, National Drought Mitigation Center

10:30              Break

10:45              Information needs – academic perspective

Climate services/social sciences interface -- Gregg Garfin, University of Arizona

                       Hydroclimatic data -- Kelly Redmond, Desert Research Institute                             

                       Risk & uncertainty – Charles Kolstad, University of California, Santa Barbara

Knowledge transfer from academia – Genevieve Maricle, Colorado State University

12:15              Lunch

1:15                Getting in the loop

Facilitating scientist-end user interaction -- Kathy Jacobs, University of Arizona

                       Engaging the federal CCSP agencies:

Robert Webb, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

Bob O’Connor, National Science Foundation

NIDIS, paradigm for a national climate service? – Shaun McGrath, WGA

2:45                Small group break-out discussion #2

1. Strategies for improving practitioner/academic communication

2. Strategies for partnerships with federal agencies

4:00                Discussion of break-out #2

5:00                Adjourn 

Friday May 18

7:30                Continental breakfast

8:30                Overview, federal funding for climate research, involved agencies – Jeanine Jones, CDWR

9:00                Proposed USGCRP reauthorization

9:30                Small group drafting of proposed action plan

                       Group #1 – relationships w/ academics

                       Group #2 – relationships w/ federal program agencies

10:45              Discuss action plan

11:30              Adjourn