The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States. This report was written by 38 authors from the universities, national laboratories, non-governmental organizations, and federal service. The report underwent expert peer review by 14 scientists through a Federal Advisory Committee formed by the USDA. The National Center for Atmospheric Research also coordinated in the production of the report.

Science.gov "Climate Change" -Climate change on science.gov science portal. [http://www.science.gov/browse/w_123E.htm]

Climate Information and Services—Interagency—coordinated by Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology to lead the systematic coordination of operational weather requirements and services and supporting research among the federal agencies. [http://www.climateservices.gov]

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center—The primary climate-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). [http://cdiac.ornl.gov/]

U.S. climate technology program—The CCTP is a multiagency research and development (R&D) coordination activity, organized under the auspices of the cabinet-level Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration (CCCSTI), established by the President on February 14, 2002. [http://www.climatetechnology.gov/]

Center for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting—[http://climate.dot.gov/]

Climate Change Links Database—EPA currently has 250 climate-change-related links. [http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR%5Cglobalwarming.nsf/WebSearchResultsALL]

Environmental Protection Agency—Climate Change—Coordinates climate change information from EPA and other sources. [http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/]

Climate and Radiation Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center—Research focused on atmospheric measurement, numerical modeling, and climate analysis. The branch investigates atmospheric radiation, both as a driver for climate change and as a tool for the remote sensing of Earth's atmosphere and surface. [http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/]

Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Datasets and Images—Climate change simulators and observation data [http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/]

Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Change Master Directory—A directory of Earth science data and services [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/]

Climate Program Office—The Climate Program Office (CPO), created in October 2005, integrates the Office of Global Programs, the Arctic Research Office, and the Climate Observations and Services Program and coordinates climate activities across all NOAA. [http://www.climate.noaa.gov/]

Climate Research—NOAA's research laboratories, Climate Program Office, and research partners conduct a wide range of research into complex climate systems and how they work. [http://www.research.noaa.gov/climate/]

National Climatic Data Center, paleoclimatology program—Operates the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology and the Applied Research Center for Paleoclimatology, with the goal to provide data and information scientists needed to understand natural climate variability as well as future climate change. [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html]

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)—NESDIS provides timely access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources [http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/]

National Oceanic and Atmoshperic Administration—Climate—Collects and organizes the various NOAA work relating to climate change and prediction. [http://www.noaa.gov/climate.html]

National Oceanographic Data Center—Contains the subsurface data that reveal the ways that heat is distributed and redistributed over the planet [http://www.nodc.noaa.gov]

USDA, NRCS, National Water and Climate Center—Develops and transfers water and climate information and technology that support natural resource conservation. Source for spatial snow, water, climate, and hydrologic network of information and technology. [http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/]

U.S. Global Change Research Program—Supports research on the interactions of natural and human-induced changes in the global environment and their implications for society. [http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/default.php]

U.S. Climate Change Research Program—Integrates federal research on climate and global change [http://www.climatescience.gov/]

Climate Change Research—A Focus on Mountain Ecosystems—Seeks to understand the effects of past climatic variability on northern Rocky Mountain resources, to document and understand climate-driven changes in the regional landscape, and to project future changes. [http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/global.htm]

Climate Change Science, USGS Earth Surface Dynamics Program—Activities of the program focus on documenting, analyzing, and modeling the character of past and present environments and the geological, biological, hydrological, and geochemical processes involved in environmental change so that future environmental changes and impacts can be anticipated. [http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/]

Council on Environmental Quality—Coordinates federal environmental efforts and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives. (Whitehouse) [http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/]

Office of the Federal Environmental Executive—Task force under the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Promotes sustainable environmental stewardship throughout the federal government. (Whitehouse) [http://www.ofee.gov/]

Other Collaborative, International, and Nongovernmental Organizations

CIRMOUNT—The Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary consortium dedicated to understanding climates and ecosystems of western North American mountains. [http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/cirmount/]

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—IPCC—The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) [http://www.ipcc.ch]

Pew Center on Climate Change—The center attempts to bring together business leaders, policymakers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex and often controversial issue. [http://pewclimate.org/]

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Methods & Science —The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) regularly undertakes work on methodological and scientific matters as they relate to the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol process. Some of the issues the SBSTA is currently dealing with are land use, land-use change and forestry, adaptation, mitigation, research, systematic observation, and bunker fuels. [http://unfccc.int/methods_and_science/items/2722.php]

Western Forests Climate Change Task Force—An ad-hoc group of scientists and land managers that are particulary interested in understanding the potential effects of climate change on natural and planted forests in the Western U.S. Key questions include (1) How will climate change affect the physiology and development of western tree species?, (2) How will climate change affect the health and productivity of natural and planted forests?, and (3) To what extent should forest management activities be altered in response to climate change? An overarching goal of this group is to consider these questions in relation to forest tree genetics and tree breeding. [http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fs/wfcctf/]

Global Warming: Signs and Sources—An interactive website showing the evidence and interactions related to global warming, from the Discovery Channel. [http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/globalwarming/interactive/interactive.html]

World Bank—Climate Change—[http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/ENVIRONMENT/EXTCC/
0,,menuPK:407870~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:407864,00.html]

World Data Center for Greenhouse Gases - [http://gaw.kishou.go.jp/wdcgg.html]

State Government

Climate Change in Oregon—Oregon Department of Energy—[http://egov.oregon.gov/ENERGY/GBLWRM/index.shtml]

State of California—Climate Change Research Center—[http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/research/index.html]

The Western Climate Initiative—A collaboration launched in February 2007 by the Governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington to develop regional strategies to address climate change. [http://www.westernclimateinitiative.org/]

Academic

Alaska Climate Research Center—Research and service organization at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Conducts research focusing on Alaska and polar regions climatology and archives climatological data for Alaska. [http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/]

International Arctic Research Center [IARC]—Integrating/synthesizing Arctic research efforts in terms of climate change and communicates the results to the global climate research community. [http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/]

Colorado State University - Colorado Climate Center—Assists the state of Colorado in monitoring climate over time scales of weeks to years. This service should contribute to a reduction in the state's vulnerability to climate variability and change. [http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/]

The Exploratorium—Global Climate Change Research Explorer—Explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. [http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/index.html]

Johns Hopkins University—Climate Change and Human Health —The Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web provides information on research conducted 1998-2000 about the potential impacts of climate change through integrated assessment. This Web site aims to appropriately characterize and communicate the scientific research to support policy development and analysis. [http://www.jhu.edu/~climate/]

Oregon State University—College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences—Ocean Air Magazine, Research notes on climate change [http://www.oceanandair.coas.oregonstate.edu/index.cfm?content.display&pageID=122]

Stanford University—The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP)—Conducts fundamental research on technologies that will permit the development of global energy systems with significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions. [http://gcep.stanford.edu/]

Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC)—The Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) was chartered in 2004 to create a world-class multidisciplinary research center focused on interrelated aspects of climate change, its impacts, and mitigation. [http://www.purdue.edu/climate/]

University of California—Collection of links to climate change, air quality, and space research at UC. [http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/environment/air.html]

UC Berkeley—California Climate Change Center—Advance the state-of-the-science regarding the potential regional impacts of climate change on California and its economy, ecology, and society, and investigate policies that California might adopt to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and also to reduce California’s contribution by way of greenhouse gas emissions. [http://calclimate.berkeley.edu/]

UC San Diego—Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Climate Research Division—Interdisciplinary study of the Earth as a unified system. In the Climate Research Division (CRD), scientists study a broad range of phenomena. These span time scales from a few weeks to several decades. Research themes include predicting the natural variability of climate and understanding the consequences of man-made increases in the greenhouse effect. [http://meteora.ucsd.edu/]

University of Washington—Climate Impacts Group—An interdisciplinary research group studying the impacts of natural climate variability and global climate change (“global warming”) on the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW). Through research and interaction with regional stakeholders, the CIG works to increase the resilience of the Pacific Northwest to fluctuations in climate. [http://cses.washington.edu/cig/]

Yale Forestry & Enviromental Studies (F & ES) Project on Climate Change—Facilitate implementation of recommendations from the Yale F&ES Conference on Climate Change, 2005. [http://environment.yale.edu/climate/]

Resources and Documents

In short... Briefs, Fact Sheets, Brochures, Summaries

Forest Service R&D

Reports

Science Findings—Pacific Northwest Research Station

Science Perspectives—Pacific Southwest Research Station

Science Updates - Pacific Northwest Research Station

Links to Climate Research and Decision-Support Institutions and Projects

Forest Service—at the national level and in the West.

Other Federal Government

Other Collaborative, International, and Nongovernmental Organizations

State Government

Academic