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The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI), based at Oregon State University (OSU), is a network of over 100 researchers at OSU, the University of Oregon, Portland State University, Southern Oregon University, and affiliated federal and state labs. In 2007, the Oregon state legislature created OCCRI and tasked it with: fostering climate change research among faculty of the Oregon University System (OUS); serving as a clearinghouse for climate information; and providing climate change information to the public in an easily understandable form. In September of 2010, OCCRI was named as the anchor institution for two federally funded regional climate science centers. The Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Pacific Northwest Climate Science Center (CSC) is one of eight planned CSC’s. The CSC will serve as a resource for DOI agencies in providing necessary science in advising policy decisions.
OCCRI - 2011 - Oregon Climate Assessment Report (OCAR)
Full Report (pdf, 28.8MB – v 1.2, 1/4/2011) -NOTE: figures are low resolution to reduce file size due to server restrictions. For higher resolution figures, please download by chapter below. Earth’s climate has changed in the past, though the recent magnitude and pace of changes are unprecedented in human existence.
US CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE PROGRAM
Published May 2008, the Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States is the most extensive examination of the impacts of climate change on important U.S. ecosystems undertaken to date. SAP 4.3 is one of a series of 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products being produced under the auspices of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which coordinates the climate change research activities of U.S. government agencies. [ all documents ] This assessment is based on extensive review of the relevant scientific literature and measurements and data collected and published by U.S. government agencies. Written by a team of 38 – scientists and researchers from universities, national laboratories, non-government organizations, and government agencies – the authors are experts in the fields of agriculture, biodiversity, and land and water resources.USDA 22/03/10 USDA, DOE & NSF Agree to Joint Climate Change Prediction Research Program
Media Contact: Jennifer Martin, (202) 720-8188 WASHINGTON – March 22, 2010 – The U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today created a joint research program that designates nearly $50 million to develop climate system models that provide insights on climate variability and impacts on ecosystems. “Climate change and its impacts on the land, crops and animals raise some of the most serious issues faced by producers and by society at large,” said Roger Beachy, director of USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
UNIVERSITE DE CORNELL - 2009 - Technical Memorandum Agricultural Methane
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California Agriculture 63(2):79-83. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v063n02p79. April-June 2009. Direct measurements improve estimates of dairy
F.M. Mitloehner is Associate Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist, UC Davis; H. Sun is Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Animal Science, UC Davis; J.F. Karlik is Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension, Kern County. abstract California is the leading dairy state in the United States, producing 21% of the nation's milk supply.ARS USDA 15/12/09 Soybean & Wheat Response to Climate Change
Plant physiologists Kent Burkey (left) and Fitzgerald Booker collect soybean leaf samples in open-top field chambers for analysis of the effects of elevated carbon dioxide and ozone on plant chemistry. Global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to rise dramatically in the next 40 years, with increased outputs of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) being the main culprit. In light of our changing environment, Agricultural Research Service scientists in Urbana, Illinois, and Raleigh, North Carolina, are examining how the increase in greenhouse gases, particularly CO 2 and ozone, will affect two of the world’s most widely planted crops: soybeans and wheat. Open-Top Chambers Offer Insight
Memorandum of Understanding COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 15, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced an agreement with U.S. dairy producers to accelerate adoption of innovative manure to energy projects on American dairy farms. The agreement represents a dynamic public/private partnership and is another demonstration of the Obama Administration's commitment to curb the emissions of greenhouse gases. "This historic agreement, the first of its kind, will help us achieve the ambitious goal of drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions while benefitting dairy farmers," said Vilsack.
USDA 15/12/09 AGRICULTURE SECRETARY VILSACK, DAIRY PRODUCERS SIGN HISTORIC AGREEMENT TO CUT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 25% BY 2
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Services
On May 1, two students from Oak Park High School in Oak Park, Calif. deployed a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ocean drifter into the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, contributing to a global array that yields vital environmental data. Calvin Earp and Nirupam Nigam deployed the buoy from the Sanctuary's research vessel Shearwater. - read more »
WASHINGTON -- Understanding how past climate may have influenced human evolution could be dramatically enhanced by an international cross-disciplinary research program to improve the sparse human fossil and incomplete climate records and examine the link between the two, says a new report from the National Research Council. Climate and fossil records suggest that some events in human evolution -- such as the evolution of new species or movements out of -- coincided with substantial changes in African and Eurasian climate. This raises the intriguing possibility that environmental factors affected or controlled our species' evolution.