Denman Forestry Issues Series presents:
Winter 2005
Effect of Global Climate Change on Northwest Forests
March 17, 2005, 2-5 p.m.
Lockwood Forest Club Room, Anderson
207
College of Forest Resources
University of Washington
Attendance at the recording session is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Contact Ellen Matheny at ematheny@u.washington.edu for information.
Program Agenda
Session 1: Problems and Solutions I
Introduction – Bruce Bare
“Global Climate Change
Comes to the Pacific Northwest” Philip
Mote
“A Warmer Pacific Northwest: Lessons from the Past” Linda Brubaker
“Promoting Market Mechanisms in a Greenhouse World” John Perez-Garcia
Session 2: Problems and Solutions II
Introduction – Bruce Bare
“Individual Plants in a Greenhouse World: Is the Steroid Analogy Appropriate?” Thomas Hinckley
“Northwest Forests in a Greenhouse World” David Peterson
“Carbon Storage to Solve the Problem: From Forests to Products and Homes” Bruce Lippke
Panel Discussion
Speakers
Bruce Bare, Dean and Professor of Forest Management and Quantitative Science, UW College of Forest Resources
Linda Brubaker, Professor, Dendrochronology, UW College of Forest Resources
Tom Hinckley, Professor, Tree Physiology, UW College of Forest Resources
Bruce Lippke, Professor, Forest Economics, UW College of Forest Resources; Director, Rural Technology Initiative
Philip Mote, State Climatologist, UW Climate Impacts Group
John Perez-Garcia, Associate Professor, UW College of Forest Resources, Center for International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR)
David Peterson, Professor of Ecology, UW College of Forest Resources;
and Research Forester, USFS PNW Station, Seattle
CFR Planning Committee
Bruce Bare, Dean
John Calhoun, Director, Olympic Natural Resources Center
Robert Edmonds, Professor and Associate Dean
Bruce Lippke, Professor and Director of Rural Technology Initiative
Ellen Matheny, Education/Outreach Director, Olympic Natural Resources Center
Tom Mentele, Development Director
Cecilia Paul, Communications Director
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Co-organized by
College of Forest Resources Educational Outreach
Center for International Trade in Forest Products
Olympic Natural Resources Center
Rural Technology Initiative