Announcing a regional research
symposium:
Climate, Ecosystems and Resources in Eastern California
White Mountain Research
Station Symposium #5
The town of Bishop is in the center-right and the White Mountain Research Station Owens Valley Laboratory may be seen at lower left.
Increases in greenhouse emissions and other factors are bringing about climate change on a scale unknown in recorded human history. Wildland ecosystems are being directly and indirectly affected, and changes seem to be accelerating. Because ecosystem services are necessary for activities such as tourism, outdoor recreation, water export and agriculture, the human economy of Eastern California will probably be be profoundly affected.
What will be the nature of ecosystem responses to climate change? How will particular plant and animal species respond? How will ecosystem changes affect services on which the human economy depends? How can resource managers and local governments deal with these changes? At the fifth White Mountain Research Station Symposium these topics and related ones will be discussed in a series of invited and contributed talks. We hope to share current research and thinking, so that scientists, resource managers, and the public will gain a better understanding of what is happening, and why.
to be held at the Tri-County Fairgrounds in Bishop, CA November 5-8, 2008
- plenary sessions on Thursday and Saturday morning
- invited talks
- contributed talks
- poster session
- concurrent sessions on Friday
- field trips
sponsored by:
- University of California White Mountain Research Station
- Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT)
- USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station
- University of California Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve and Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratories
- National Park Service, Pacific West Region
Related links: Sierra Nevada Conservancy Symposium on Climate Change in the Sierra, December 5, Nevada City, CA