"Regional-Scale Use-Inspired Climate Research: The RISA-CSC Experience"

November 9, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Mānoa Campus, East-West Center Research Program, Burns Hall, Room 3012 (3rd floor)

Philip W. Mote
Director, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI)
Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University

NOAA, beginning in 1995, slowly established a network of regional-scale entities that eventually became known as Regional Integrated Science and Assessments, or RISAs. US Department of Interior created a similar network of Climate Science Centers beginning in 2009, and the US Department of Agriculture joined the fray in 2014, creating Regional Climate Hubs. How do the structure and function of the RISAs and the CSCs operate, outside the unique setting of the Pacific Islands? What are the successes and challenges of these 'boundary organizations' and what lessons can they teach each other?

Philip W. Mote is the director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) and a professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. His current research interests include regional climate modeling with a superensemble generated by volunteers’ personal computers, and the links between climate and mountain snowpack. He is the co-leader of the NOAA-funded Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC) for the Northwest, and also of the Northwest Climate Science Center for the US Department of the Interior. A glutton for report-writing, he was a lead author on the 4th and 5th assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, helped write five reports for the National Research Council, and served as lead author for two regional climate assessment reports and the US National Climate Assessments of 2000 and 2014, and was recently elected president-elect of the Global Environmental Change Section of the American Geophysical Union. He earned a BA in Physics from Harvard University and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington.


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East-West Center, Research Program, Mānoa Campus

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Laura Moriyama, (808) 944-7444, Laura.Moriyama@eastwestcenter.org

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