Great Basin Climate Forum 2012: Fall Outlook
A discussion of current climate conditions in the Great Basin
Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada
October 17, 2012
9am-4:30pm
9:00am
Introduction
current as of 10/8/12
Agenda
9:10am
Kelly Redmond, Deputy Director, Western Regional Climate Center, Great Basin weather and climate: summer
recap, current status, and winter prospects
9:30am Justin Huntington, Desert Research Insititute, Role of surface and groundwater interactions on summertime streamflow
in the Great Basin
9:50am Matt Germino, USGS and the Great Basin LCC, Hydro-climate effects on rangeland ecosystem soils in the Great
Basin: thresholds and transformations
10:10am questions & question development
10:40am Break
11:00am Gina McGuire, meterologist, WGBCC Predictive Services, Great Basin fire season 2012 and preliminary
2012-2013 predictions
11:20am Clint Koble, State Executive Director of the NV Farm Service Agency of the USDA
11:40am questions
12:00-1:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
2:20pm
2:40pm
3:00pm
3:20pm
3:40pm
4:00pm
4:20pm
Lunch
Table group discussions
Chad Mellison, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Current status and the potential role of climate change to Lahontan
Cutthroat Trout
Erica Fleishman, U.C. Davis, Discriminating among ecological responses to weather and climate
questions
Break
Olin Anderson, Water Quality Standards Specialist, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, The Current Climate for a
Great Basin Tribe
Miles Hemstrom, Institute for Natural Resources, Integrated Landscape Assessment Project
questions
wrap-up and reviw
Register to attend in-person or the webinar at
gbcf.doattend.com
For more information please contact: Tamara Wall
twall@dri.edu, 775-674-7059