Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains

MTNCLIM 2008 Mountain Climate Research Conference

Held 9-12 June 2008 in Silverton, Colorado

Conference Archives:

Talks and Posters (PDFs)
Town Meeting
Managers' Workshop
Webcasts of MTNCLIM 2008 Conference

MTNCLIM2008 in the news:
Tracking Change Vail Trail, 9/3/2008
Canaries in the coal mine The Durango Telegraph, 6/26/2008
Mountain Studies Institute Hosts Climate Change Conference the Watch News, 6/24/2008
Watching the Weather the Telluride Watch, 6/19/2008.
Climate change in the West is topic of conference in Silverton Silverton Standard, 6/12/2008
120 climate scientists converge on Silverton for conference Silverton Standard, 6/5/2008

The MTNCLIM research conferences are sponsored by the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research on Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT), and are dedicated to mountain climate sciences and effects of climate variability on ecosystems, natural resources, and conservation in western North American mountains. MTNCLIM conferences feature invited and contributed talks, poster sessions, and working-group sessions. A post-conference workshop for natural-resource managers is held to address implications of climate variability and climate change in conservation and resource management. MTNCLIM convenes every two years. MTNCLIM 2008 was held 9-12 June 2008 in Silverton, Colorado, and was hosted by the Mountain Studies Institute.

Conference Participation

The MTNCLIM conferences are intended for all scientists, students, managers, policy makers and other professionals interested in mountain climate sciences, their effects on ecosystems, and interactions with resource management, conservation, policy, and society in western North America. Meetings are scheduled annually/biennially and rotate around western mountain regions. They are designed to communicate serious science in informal settings. We encourage presentation of work-in-progress, innovative directions, controversial topics, and especially encourage young scientists to offer abstracts.

Goals

MTNCLIM Conferences aim to advance the sciences related to climate and its interaction with physical, ecological, and social systems of western North American mountains. Specifically, MTNCLIM goals are to:

• Provide a regular forum for current, interdisciplinary research through invited and contributed oral and poster sessions;
• Promote active integration of science into resource-management application through focused sessions, panels, and ongoing problem-oriented working groups;
• Advance action goals of CIRMOUNT through ad hoc committees, networking opportunities, co-hosting meetings, and targeted fund-raising efforts.

Sponsors

MTNCLIM 2008 is sponsored by CIRMOUNT, with funding and support from the following agencies and institutions:

• University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources
• NOAA, Earth Systems Research Lab
• USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
• USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
• USGS Water Resources, Geology, and Biological Resources Divisions
• Mountain Studies Institute, Silverton, CO
• The Nature Conservancy
• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado
• Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
• University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Mountain Research Initiative, Berne, Switzerland
• Desert Research Institute, Western Regional Climate Center
• University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
• University of California, White Mountain Research Station
• Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies, Silverton, CO
• Town of Silverton, Colorado

Archives

Records of previous MTNCLIM meetings, including pdf copies of talks and posters,
are available on the CIRMOUNT website: Meeting Archives.

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