2-A. Science Session

Opportunities and Consequences of Climate Change Policy in Managed Systems

The session will begin with a general presentation of the impacts of climate change on California weather variability. This will be followed by presentations on how climate change will alter management decisions related to agriculture, forest, rangeland and water resources.  The session will end with a moderated discussion on how policy and regulatory changes may influence these management outcomes.

Moderator: Mark Battany, CE Advisor in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, Viticulture and Soils

• Climate Change Impacts on California Agricultural Weather Variability—Michael Anderson, State Climatologist, California Department of Water Resources
• Climate Change and Agriculture in California:  How Do We Plan for Migration + Adaptation?—Louise Jackson, CE Specialist and Professor in LAWR at UC Davis, Agroecology
  
• Who Owns Terrestrial Carbon? The Brave New World of Valuing and Trading Carbon—Bill Stewart, CE Specialist in ESPM at UC Berkeley, Forest Management

Subcommittee: Toby O’Geen, Chair, Edie Allen, Doug Parker and Bill Stewart