AGENDA FOR GREAT PLAINS CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS WORKSHOP

May 27, 1997 Tuesday Afternoon

Lory Student Theater, Colorado State University Campus

1:00 Opening Remarks

Dennis Ojima, Co-Chairman of Great Plains Workshop

Diana Freckman, Director of NREL

Jud Harper, Vice President for Research, CSU

1:20 Presentation on Economic Factors affecting agronomic systems in the Grea t Plains

Mark Drabenstott, Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, Missouri

1:40 Great Plains Region: Climate System Characteristics

Ken Hubbard, High Plains Climate Center, Lincoln, Nebraska

2:00 Panel Discussion of Limitations to Sustainable Land Use Among Critical C onservation, Ranching, and Farming Sectors in the Great Plains & Mountain Regions

Panelists:

George Bluhm, USDA, Farmer; Jim Geist, Colorado Corn Administrative Comm ittee

Paul Tebbel, Rowe Sanctuary, Gibbon, NE; Jody Farhat, US Army Corps of E ngineers

Moderated By: Bill Easterling, National Director of NIGEC

2:40 Break for 20 minutes

3:00 Framework of Regional Climate Change Impacts on National and Internation al Policy: What does this all mean to you, the citizen

Timothy E. Wirth, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

3:40 Climate Change in the Industrial Era: Past and Future Considerations

David Schimel, NCAR, Boulder, CO

4:00 Links between climate change, vulnerability, and coping strategies to en vironmental and socio-economic changes

Bill Riebsame, University of Colorado

4:20 Panelist Response to Climate Change Implications

4:50 Closing Remarks

May 28, 1997 Wednesday Morning - Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch, Loveland, CO

8:30 Working Group Instructions

Identification of critical questions

Review of Working Group Objectives and Outcomes of meeting

Jerry Melillo, Office of Science and Technology Policy

9:00 Working Group Discussions

Biological Resources

Social Resources

Soil Issues

Water Issues

11:00 Plenary Presentations:

Limits to Water

Luis Garcia, Center for Water Resources Engineering Science, Colorado St ate University

Economic Constraints to Great Plains Land Use

John Antle, Trade Resource Center, Montana State University

12:00 Lunch

3:00 Working Group Discussions

6:00 Dinner

May 29, 1997 Thursday Morning - Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch

8:30 Plenary Presentations:

Regional Climate Variability and Climate Change Scenario s - Linda Mearns & Dave Schimel, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Methods of Integrated Assessment - William J. Parton, NREL, CSU

9:30 Working Group meetings

Research Agenda / Definition

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Summary Presentation

4:00 Close of Workshop