Northwest Scientific Association 89th Annual Meeting

The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington - March 27-30, 2018

PROGRAM

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Plenary Session  Buying Time - Adapting to Climate Change in the Northwest

We will focus on the progress made to reduce potential negative effects of climate change on our natural resources in northwestern North America.  Significant progress has been made in assessing the effects of climate change, and implementation of climate-informed management and planning is now moving forward.  Recent examples of successful on-the-ground adaptation demonstrate that the organizational capacity to respond to climate change is increasing.  This provides optimism that we can retain functionality in our aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

keynote     Function Over Form:  Sustainability and Natural Resources in a Warmer World 

                    David L. Peterson, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

                Preparing Our Infrastructure for a New Hydrologic Cycle

                 Ronda Strauch, University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

                Restoration and Refugia for Salmonids in a Warmer World

                     Dan Isaak, USFS, Rocky Mountain Research Station

                Keeping Water in the Mountains: Beavers to the Rescue

                      Michael Pollock, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center

                Panel Discussion with the Audience

banquet guest speaker     Blue Legacy: 100 Years of Change in Washington's Glaciers

                                            Jon Riedel, North Cascades National Park

special sessions*

Fisheries Conservation & Management in the Pacific Northwest

Changes in the Top Predators of the Salish Sea

Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change in Aquatic Habitat & Infrastructure Management

Ecoregional Land Management in Response to Changing Climate

Native Food Plants of the Northwest: Ecology, Culture, & Management in a Changing World

 Bryology & Lichenology in the Pacific Northwest

hosted by Northwest Lichenologists 

workshops

New Tools for Science in the 21st Century

Applications in  R Programming for Ecology & Natural Resources

note:  this workshop is limited to 26 registrants

Crustose Lichens on Coniferous Trees of the PNW 

general sessions**

Anthropology & Archaeology; Aquatic Biology; Biogeography; Botany; Climatology & Meteorology; Computer Applications; Conservation Biology; Ecology; Entomology; Fire Ecology;

Fisheries & Wildlife Mgmt; Forestry; Range Management; Geomorphology; Geology; Hydrology; Limnology; Marine Biology; Mathematical Modeling; Natural Resource Management; Paleontology; Plant Ecology; Soils & Pedology; Vertebrate Biology; Wetland Ecology; Zoology;

Social Science and others.

                        * Special sessions are by invited speakers and contributed abstracts. 

                       ** General sessions will depend upon contributed abstracts.

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