News & Events

OSU researchers find forest biomass not a solution for climate change. April 19, 2012.

The February issue of OSU’s online research magazine, Terra, highlights climate change research under way at OSU and OCCRI. March 8, 2012.

The work of OCCRI doctoral student Sihan (Meredith) Li is highlighted in the February issue of OSU’s online research magazine, Terra. March 8, 2012.

OCCRI-affiliated researchers Dr. Anne Nolin and Dr. Andrew Fountain discuss the potential effects of climate change on water resources in the Willamette Valley, as well as the effects of climate change on glaciers world-wide. Listen to the Oregon Public Broadcasting “Think Out Loud” segment here. February 14, 2012.

OSU researcher Dr. Anne Nolin explains why Global Warming May Trigger Winter Cooling, January 13, 2012.

OCCRI Director Dr. Philip Mote interviewed on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud regarding recent progress on climate change, December 9, 2011.

OCCRI sponsors a fall lecture series examining the potential of “geoengineering” to mitigate the impacts of future climate change, October 6, 2011.

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, co-authors an article entitled “Guidelines for Constructing Climate Scenarios” for the August 2, 2011 (92:31) issue of the American Geophysical Union’s periodical EOS, August 29, 2011.

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, discusses climate change on “Comcast Newsmakers” (youtube video clip)., July 7, 2011.

National Public Radio interviews Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, regarding the relationship between thinning snowpack in the Rockies and climate change., June 10, 2011.

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, comments on recent snowpack changes in the western U.S., June 10, 2011. (Science Magazine) (The New York Times)

OCCRI participating in $20 million study on how climate change will impact agricultural practices, May 10, 2011.

OCCRI Affiliated Researcher Dr. Karen Shell finds melting arctic ice contributing more to global warming than previously thought, January 18, 2011.

Oregon Climate Assessment Report (OCAR) also covered by KATU, KATV, Sustainable Business Oregon, The Register-Guard, OPB, and Oregonlive.com, December 1, 2010

Oregon Climate Assessment Report (OCAR) released, November 30, 2010

Your idle computer can help OSU/OCCRI with modeling climate change, November 22, 2010

Recent Climate Change Seminars
1. Ask the Climate Question: Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Regions, Josh Foster
2. Building Regional Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation, John Stevenson

OCCRI Director Dr. Philip Mote speaks to EarthSky.org about declining snowmelt in the western U.S., November 17, 2010

OSU/OCCRI Researcher Dr. Kate Lajtha says climate change may dim fall colors in the PNW, October 26, 2010

Dr’s. Philip Mote of OCCRI and Peter Clark of OSU Geosciences selected as Lead Author and Coordinating Lead Author (respectively) for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 5 (AR5), June 23, 2010

Mountain Topography May Complicate Rated of Global Warming, notes OSU’s Dr. Chris Daly, May 25, 2010

Dr. Philip Mote, OCCRI Director, co-authors National Research Council “Adapting to Climate Change” report, May 20, 2010

OSU’s Dr. Chris Daly interviewed for Scientific American podcast “Mountain vs. Valley Temps Stretch Apart With Climate Change”, April 29, 2010

OCCRI Researcher Kathie Dello says late March snow in Oregon not unusual (Gazette-Times), March 31, 2010

OSU Researchers find PNW forest fires may play a minor role in climate change when compared to fossil fuel use, February 1, 2010

OSU Researchers Implicate Climate Change in Oceanic “Dead Zones” off the coast of the PNW, January 31, 2010

By various measures, the largest waves recorded at buoys off the Northwest coast have grown substantially larger since the mid-1970s, January 26, 2010

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, addresses the question of “How do scientists envision the future of climate change?” at the weekly OSU Faculty Club meeting, January 21, 2010

OCCRI Affiliated Researcher Dr. Heejun Chang speaks on climate change policy at the US-S. Korea Relations Conference at the Brookings Institute, January 5, 2010

Carl Schreck of the Oregon Cooperative Wildlife and Fish Research Unit at Oregon State University explains research that is exploring the effects of climate change on fish, December 15, 2009

“Federal forests could be tasked with fighting global warming”, The Oregonian article on forests in OR acting as carbon sinks, December 10, 2009

“Protecting the Forests, and Hoping for Payback”, NY Times article on forests in the American West as carbon sinks, December 4, 2009

“An analysis of a Survey of Oregon Coast Decision Makers Regarding Climate Change”, Oregon Sea Grant, December 4, 2009

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, quoted on NPR’s “All Things Considered: Stolen E-mails Raise Questions on Climate Research”, December 4, 2009

“How Science is Done Right”, Hasso Hering editorial in the Albany Democrat Herald, “Because of the e-mails purloined from a university in England, climate science got a black eye in the last couple of weeks. But at about the same time, Oregon State University publicized a new study that sounds like a model of how scientific conclusions are supposed to be reached.”, December 4, 2009

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, responds to the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) emails, December 3, 2009

An open letter to the climate science community re: the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) emails, from Dr. Benjamin Santer, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercompariosn, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, December 2, 2009

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, expects “El Nino will be the dominant climate factor this winter in the Pacific Northwest”, November 6, 2009

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, quoted in Time Magazine’s “Why Are Kilamanjaro’s Glaciers Fading?”, November 3, 2009

“Bird communities following high-severity fire: Response to single and repeat fires in a mixed-evergreen forest, Oregon, USA”, Journal of Forest Ecology and Management, October 23, 2009

Dr. Philip Mote, Director of OCCRI, appears on NPR’s “Philosophy Talk”, October 22, 2009 (airs November 29)

Kathie Dello of OCCRI presents an overview of Oregon climatology at KOHD TV’s (Bend) storm spotter training, October 3, 2009.

“Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply”
Beverly E. Law, an affiliated OCCRI researcher, helped author this Nature paper regarding the recent decline of evapotranspiration in the Southern Hemisphere.