Friday Night banquet keynote:
Scott Stine Professor of Geography, California State University East Bay

Thursday Night public lecture: TBA

Plenary Speakers as of 4-4-08

• (Climate) Dan Cayan, UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
• (Water & Snow) Jessica Lundquist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• (Glaciers) Doug Clark, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA & Nicole Bowerman, USDI, National Park Service, Bellingham, WA
• (Mammals) Jim Patton or Craig Moritz, University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
• (Forests) Malcolm Hughes, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Univ AZ, Tucson, AZ
• (Ecosystems) Michael Loik, University of California, Santa Cruz
• TBA
• (USFS) Peter Stine, Sierra Nevada Research Center, Davis, CA
• (NPS) Leigh Welling, Fort Collins, CO

Climate and Physical Themes

• Kelly Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV, "Climate and climate monitoring in the White Mountains and Eastern Sierra"
• Noah Molotch, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, "Hydroclimatology of eastern Sierra Nevada"
• Doug Clark, Western Washington University and Niki Bowerman, USDI National Park Service, "Glaciers and periglacial conditions under changing climates"

Ecological Responses

• Dave Herbst, SNARL, UCSB, Mammoth Lakes, CA. "Aquatic invertebrates and climate monitoring networks"
• Connie Millar, USFS PSW Research Stn, Albany, CA and Daniel Pritchett, WMRS, Bishop, CA: "Alpine vegetation and climate change: GLORIA and beyond."
• Frank Powell, WMRS, Bishop, CA. "Climate change and high-elevation physiology: Adaptation, acclimation, and health"
• Angie Evandon and Linda Mutch (NPS). "Biophysical monitoring for climate change"
• Connie Millar (USFS), Albany CA and Malcolm Hughes, Univ. Ariz., Tucson "Whither treelines in the next century? Climate and the subalpine forests of the White Mountains and Sierra Nevada."
• Kathleen Matthews Sierra Nevada Research Center, Pacific Southwest Research Station, "Climate change impacts on high elevation amphibians and fish"
• Jeff Holmquist (UCSD, WMRS), "Organismal response to climate change (general plants and animals)"

Management, Conservation, and Restoration

• Deanna Dulen, USDI NPS, Devils Postpile NM, Mammoth Lks, CA. "Managing for climate in a small national park: Challenges and opportunities."
• Marion Gee, Sierra Nevada Alliance, "Adapting Resource Management in a Changing Climate"
• Greg Reis and Lisa Cutting, Mono Lake Committee, "Mono Lake, restoration and changing climate"
• MaryBeth Hennessy, Inyo National Forest, "Wilderness, resource management and climate on the Inyo National Forest"