Climate Change Forum

Marylhurst University (co-sponsored by the Oregon-AMS)

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Hawthorne Room in the Commons (Bookstore building)

General public welcome

Free Admission – Free Parking

12:00 Opening remarks; logistics and introduction of Opening Speaker – Jan Dabrowski, Marylhurst University Chair, Science and Math Department

12:05 Opening Speaker: Dr. Nancy Wilgenbusch, President, Marylhurst University

12:25 Speaker guidelines – George Miller, Retired Meteorologist, Adjunct faculty, Marylhurst University

12:30 Making Sense of What Scientists Are Saying About Climate Change – Dr. Ron Mitchell, Political Scientist, University of Oregon

1:00 Lessons From Past Climate Change – Dr. Alan Mix, Paleoclimatologist, Oregon State University, College of Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences.

1:30 Climate Variability and Why – Dr. Christina Hulbe, Portland State University, Department of Geology

2:00 Break

2:15 Climate Models and Predicting the Future – Dr. Karen Shell, Professor, Oregon State University, College of Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences

2:45 Earth’s Dwindling Glaciers, Dr. Andrew Fountain, Portland State University, Department of Geology and Department of Geography

3:15 Impacts of Climate Change on the Pacific Northwest – Heather Kokorowski, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences

3:45 Sustainability in the Face of Climate Change - Jill Sughrue, Sustain NW

4:15 Questions from audience

4:45 End of Conference

Marylhurst University is 10 miles south of Portland, 1 mile south of Lake Oswego on Highway 43