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Climate Impacts on the Pacific Northwest
Winter Quarter 2011
Amy Snover & Nathan Mantua
Course Schedule and Readings
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|Jan 4
|Jan 6
|Climate variability
|Jan 11
|Using climate forecasts
|Climate variability data assignment and climate variability Kaje due
|Jan 13
|Climate change
|WP: list of potential topics/issue areas due
|Jan 18
|Planning for climate change
|Climate change Kaje and data assignment due
|Jan 20
|Climate impacts on water
|Jan 25
|Management case study: Columbia River Treaty
|Hydrology Kaje and data assignment due
|Jan 27
|Climate impacts on forests
|Forests Kaje due
|Feb 1
|Management case study: forests
|Feb 3
|Climate impacts on salmon
|WP: prospectus due
|Salmon Kaje due
|Feb 8
|Management case study: salmon
|Feb 10
|Climate impacts on coasts
|Coasts Kaje due
|Feb 15
|Management case study: coasts
|Feb 17
|White paper workshop
|Essay #1 due
|Feb 22
|Research in support of conservation planning
|Feb 24
|Planning for climate change: The national context
|Essay #2 due
|Mar 1
|In-class role-playing exercise
|Mar 3
|Developing climate resilience in ecological systems
|Mar 8
|White paper presentations
|Mar 10
|White paper presentations
|Monday, Mar 14, 10:30 pm
White paper and group evaluation due
|Topic & Readings
Rhythms of Change (ROC), Chapter 1: The Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on the Pacific Northwest, by A.K. Snover and E.L. Miles.
Kaje, J. 1999. Kaje System: A conceptual modeling tool for interdisciplinary research.
Introductions – 15 mins
Preamble on course topic: "the role of climate in our lives" (NM) – 15 mins
Introduction to the course– 15 mins
Introduction to integrated assessment and conceptual models (AKS) – 15 mins
Kaje group assignment - 20 mins
Kaje report back
Wrap-up. Questions. Readings for next time. Wait list.
Rhythms of Change (ROC), Chapter 4: The Underlying Rhythms: Patterns of Pacific Northwest Climate Variability, by N.J. Mantua, P.W. Mote.
Lippsett, L. 2000. Beyond El Niño. Scientific American 11(1):77-83.
Background material (optional):
Mantua, N.J., and S.R. Hare. 2002. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Journal of Oceanography 58(1):35-44.
Mass, C. 2008. The Weather of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Zebiak, S. 1999. El Niño and the science of climate prediction. Consequences 5(2).
** Need a broad introduction to the PNW – what are the important resources, where are they, who lives where… could rework course intro along the lines of ch1/nate's op-ed. (note from 2007)
Handout Jacobs book
NM lecture on cv - start w/ intro to natural & human geography of the PNW
Guest lecturer: Professor Emeritus Edward Sarachick, UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences
DUE: Climate variability data assignment and climate variability Kaje
Sarachik, E.S. and M.A. Cane. 2010. Using ENSO information, Chapter 10 in The El Nino-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon. Cambridge University Press.
Sarachik, E. 1999. The Application of Climate Information. Consequences 5(2).
National Research Council. 1999. Summary, pages 1-6 in Making Climate Forecasts Matter. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C.
Hickson, D.J. 1987. Decision-making at the top of organizations. Annual Reviews of Sociology 13:165-192.
Background material (optional):
Case studies of past climate events...
Changnon, S. 1999. Impacts of the 1997-98 El Niño generated weather in the United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 80(9): 1819-1827.
Changnon, S.A. and D.R. Vonnahme. 2003. Impact of Spring 2003 drought forecasts on midwestern water management. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 129(1): 18-25.
Changnon, S.A. and D. Changnon. 2005. Lessons from the unusual impacts of an abnormal winter in the USA. Meteorological Applications 12:187-191.
Glantz, M.H. 1982. Consequences and responsibilities in drought forecasting: The case of Yakima, 1977. Water Resources Research 18(1):3-13.
Psychology and decision making...
Baron, J. 2000. Thinking and Deciding, 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press. 570pp. ... "The one psychology book to read if you're only going to read one," Ed Sarachik.
Rogers, E.M. 2004. Diffusion of Innovations. New York: The Free Press.
Lewis, H.W. 1998. Why Flip a Coin? The Art and Science of Good Decisions. John Wiley & Sons.
Kahneman, D. [recent Nobel prize winner] and A. Tversky. 1982. The psychology of preferences. Scientific American January:136-142.
Climate conditions and predictions...
Make sure he talks about timescale of prediction, how do you use forecasted information. Big picture ++ current forecasts.
Handout list of white paper topic ideas
Anthropogenic climate change
Friday: WP: list of potential topics/issue areas due
Mote, P.W. 2003. Trends in temperature and precipitation in the Pacific Northwest during the twentieth century. Northwest Science 77(4): 271-282.
Pages 1-7 of: Climate Impacts Group. 2009. Executive Summary, The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Summary of current PNW climate change scenarios.
National Academies. 2008. Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: Highlights of the National Academies Reports. A report by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council.
Gillis, J. 2010. As glaciers melt, science seeks data on rising seas. NY Times, Nov 14, 2010.
Background material (optional):
The Copenhagen Diagnosis. 2009. Download or read online at http://www.copenhagendiagnosis.org/ (full citation: The Copenhagen Diagnosis, 2009: Updating the world on the Latest Climate Science. I. Allison, N. L. Bindoff, R.A. Bindschadler, P.M. Cox, N. de Noblet, M.H. England, J.E. Francis, N. Gruber, A.M. Haywood, D.J. Karoly, G. Kaser, C. Le Qu�r�, T.M. Lenton, M.E. Mann, B.I. McNeil, A.J. Pitman, S. Rahmstorf, E. Rignot, H.J. Schellnhuber, S.H. Schneider, S.C. Sherwood, R.C.J. Somerville, K.Steffen, E.J. Steig, M. Visbeck, A.J. Weaver. The University of New South Wales Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), Sydney, Australia, 60pp.)
Barsugli, J. 2010: The Science of Climate Modeling. Chapter 3 in Options for improving climate modeling to assist water utility planning for climate change. Water Utility Climate Alliance.
IPCC, 2007. Summary for Policymakers. In Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller. Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. For more information, you can also check out the Technical Summary (included in above link) and full report.
Karl, T.R. and K.E. Trenberth. 2003. Modern Global Climate Change. Science 302(5651): 1719-1723.
Rahmstorf, S., A. Cazanave, J. Church, J. Hansen, R. Keeling, D. Parker, and R. Somerville. 2007. Recent climate observations compared to projections. Science Express, 1 Feb 2007. 10.1126/science 1136843.
Nakicenovic, N. et al. 2000. Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Or download the Summary for Policymakers.
M.R. Raupach, G. Marland, P. Ciais, C. Le Quéré, J.G. Canadell, G. Klepper, and C.B. Field. 2007. Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO2 emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(24):10288-10293. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700609104.
Salathé, E.P., Jr., L.R. Leung, Y. Qian, and Y. Zhang. 2009. Regional climate model projections for the State of Washington. Chapter 2 in The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. A report by the Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington.
Bonfils, C., D.W. Pierce, B.D. Santer, H. Hidalgo, G. Bala, T. Das, T. Barnett, C. Doutriaux, A.W. Wood, A, Mirin, and T. Nazawa. 2008. Detection and attribution of temperature changes in the mountainous western United States. Journal of Climate 21(23):6404�6424, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2397.1.
See also:
Real Climate: Climate science from climate scientists, a blog by climate scientists discussing climate science advancements and climate science in the news.
A compendium of climate change online resources.
Climate Leadership Initiative (University of Oregon). 2009. Setting the Record Straight: Responses to common challenges to climate science.
Nate: lecture on cc
Handout climate change exercise (two parts: climate change Kaje assign't AND web-based cc exercise )
Mote, P. W. and E. S. Salath�. 2009. Future climate in the Pacific Northwest. Chapter 1 in The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. A report by the Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington.
DUE: Climate change Kaje and data assignment due
Smithers, J. and B. Smit. 1997. Human adaptation to climatic variability and change. Global Environmental Change 7 (2):129-146.
Executive Summary, Chapters 4, 7, 8, 9 and Sections 10.2-10.4 in ... Snover, A.K., L.C. Whitely Binder, J. Lopez, E. Willmott, J.E. Kay, D. Howell, and J. Simmonds. 2007. Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments. In association with and published by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Oakland, CA. ... Handed out in class.
Jacobs, K. 2002. Connecting Science, Policy, and Decision-making: A handbook for researchers and science agencies. Silver Spring, Maryland, NOAA Office of Global Programs: 25.
Snover, A. K., E. L. Miles and A. F. Hamlet. 2003. Learning from and adapting to climate variability in the Pacific Northwest. In Background Papers for the "Insights and Tools for Adaptation: Learning from Climate Variability" Workshop, 18-20 November 18-20, Washington, D.C., pp. 167-179, Washington, D.C.: NOAA Office of Global Programs.
As preparation for the group project ... This American Life (Radio Show). 2008. Prologue: Ruining it for the Rest of Us. Episode #370. 19 December. ... Listen to the first 12 minutes -- go through the show description at about 7.5 minutes.
Background material (optional):
Willows, R.I., and R.K. Connell, (Eds.). 2003. Climate adaptation: Risk, uncertainty and decision-making. UKCIP Technical Report, Oxford: UKCIP.
Discussion on what makes a good discussion. Goal = to ID characteristics of good discussions and to ID metrics of evaluating discussion leaders. Handout chapter on discussion, metrics for eval discussion. Articulate our overarching goals for class discussions (explore sens, adapt, vuln of regional resource to cvc. based on specific knowledge of impact pathways. think about s/a/v for region as a whole and for sub parts)
Lecture on planning for cc
Descrip of wp assignment & how to use guidebook
Group start-up exercise (hand-out suggestions on group work from former students and suggestions for how to work well in a group)
Next time: keep S&S, could omit the other two.
Climate impacts on PNW water resources
Guest lecturer: Alan Hamlet, Research Assistant Professor, UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Miles, E.L., A.K. Snover, A. Hamlet, B. Callahan, and D. Fluharty. 2000. Pacific Northwest regional assessment: The impacts of climate variability and climate change on the water resources of the Columbia River Basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 36(2):399-420. ... this assessment was done with a previous generation of climate change scenarios but still is worthwhile for its demonstration of an integrated assessment of sensitivity, adaptability, vulnerability to climate impacts.
Pages 8-11 of: Climate Impacts Group. 2009. Executive Summary, The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Hamlet, A.F.. 2010. Assessing water resources adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 7:4437-4471.
Review: Hydrologic Climate Change Scenarios for the Pacific Northwest Columbia River Basin and Coastal Drainages.
Background material (optional):
Service, R.F. 2004. As the West goes dry. Science 303(5661):1124-1127.
Saunders, S. and M. Maxwell. 2005. Less snow, less water: Climate disruption in the west. Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.
Rhythms of Change (ROC), Chapter 6-220.127.116.11 (Introduction, Climate Variability, Climate Change) in: Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Water Resources, by A. F. Hamlet, P. Mote, A. K. Snover.
Elsner, M.M., L. Curo, N. Voisin, J.S. Deems, A.F. Hamlet, J.A. Vano, K.E.B. Mickelson, S.-Y. Lee and D.P. Lettenmaier. 2009. Implications of 21st century climate change for the hydrology of Washington state. Chapter 3a in The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Historical trends in PNW snowpack and hydrology:
Mote, P.W., A.F. Hamlet and E.P. Salathé. 2008. Has spring snowpack declined in the Washington Cascades? Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussion 12:193-206. SRef-ID: 1812-2116/hessd/2007-4-2073.
Casola, J.H., L. Cuo, B. Livneh, D.P. Lettenmaier, M. Stoelinga, P.W. Mote, and J.M. Wallace. 2009. Assessing the impacts of global warming on snowpack in the Washington Cascades. Journal of Climate 22:2758-2772, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2612.1.
Stoelinga, M.T., M.D. Albright, and C.F. Mass. 2009. A new look at snowpack trends in the Cascade Mountains. Journal of Climate, submitted.
Barnett, T., D.W. Pierce, H. Hidalgo, C. Bonfils, B.D. Santer, T. Das, G. Bala, A.W. Wood, T. Nazawa, A, Mirin, D. Cayan, and M. Dettinger. 2008. Human-induced changes in the hydrology of the western United States. Science Science Express Reports 10.1126/science.1152538.
Pierce, D.W., T. Barnett, H. Hidalgo, T. Das, C. Bonfils, B.D. Santer, G. Bala, M. Dettinger, D. Cayan, A, Mirin, A.W. Wood, and T. Nazawa. 2008. Attribution of declining western U.S. snowpack to human effects. Journal of Climate 21(23): 6425�6444, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2405.1.
Adaptation and use of forecasts:
Section 10.4.1 (CASE STUDY: The Value of Long-Lead Streamflow Forecasts for Non-Firm Hydropower Production in the Columbia River Basin) in Rhythms of Change, Chapter 10: Using Climate Forecasts in Natural Resource Management, by D. Huppert, J. Kaje, A.F. Hamlet, B. Callahan, D. Fluharty, Z. Johnson, N. Mantua, E.L. Miles, and A.K. Snover.
Hamlet, A. F. and D. P. Lettenmaier. 1999. Columbia River streamflow forecasting based on ENSO and PDO climate signals. ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 125(6):333-341. This paper describes the streamflow forecasting technique applied in RoC Chapter 10.
Notes for AH:
-- we'll need only a brief overview of physical impacts (we'll have already covered on cv day) and then right into cv and cc implications for water resources
-- summarize hydro impacts and cover wr impacts: energy supply (&demand), PS urban water, Yakima irrigated agriculture)
Q: do we have the right readings? Too much on hydrology and not enough on water resources? Use Miles et al, or??; Does Lee et al 2009 supersede Payne et al 2004??
other b/g reading suggestions from ah
Climate Change and Water, IPCC Technical Paper VI, IPCC, June 2008
Hamlet, A.F., Huppert, D., Lettenmaier, D.P., 2002: Economic Value of Long-Lead Streamflow Forecasts for Columbia River Hydropower, ASCE J. of Water Resources Planning and Management 128(2):91-101.
Management case study: Columbia River Treaty
Guest lecturer: Seshu Vaddey, Hydraulic Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers
DUE: Hydrology Kaje and data assignment due
Hamlet, A.F. 2003. The Role of Transboundary Agreements in the Columbia River Basin: An Integrated Assessment in the Context of Historic Development, Climate, and Evolving Water Policy. In Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas, Eds. H. Diaz and B. Morehouse, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Press.
Frederick, K.D., D.C. Major, and E.Z. Stakhiv. 1997. Water Resources Planning Principles and Evaluation Criteria for Climate Change: Summary and Conclusions. Climatic Change 37: 291-313.
Columbia River Treaty Fact Sheet - Report Kickoff (US Entity: Bonneville Power Administration and US Army Corps of Engineers, July 2010). ... Includes information on the Phase studies and the treaty as a whole.
Treaty Fact Sheet (US Army Corps of Engineers and Bonneville Power Administration).
Brochure: Columbia River Treaty 2014/2024 Review: Phase 1 Technical Studies (US Army Corps of Engineers and Bonneville Power Administration, April 2009). ... A nice overview of the role of the Phase 1 studies.
Executive Summary, Phase 1 Report, Columbia River Treaty 2014/2024 Review, Canadian and United States Entities.
Background material (optional):
Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies. 1983.
Proposed Revisions to Principles and Guidelines
Hyde, J.M. 2010. Columbia River Treaty Past and Future. ... A good historical overview of the Treaty, how it was developed, what it does, and issues that have come up with it. Somewhat technical.
Hamlet, A.F., S.-Y. Lee , K.E.B. Mickelson, M.M. Elsner. 2009. Effects of projected climate change on energy supply and demand in the Pacific Northwest and Washington State. Chapter 4 in The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Lee, S.Y., A.F. Hamlet, C.J. Fitzgerald, S.J. Burges and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2009. Optimized flood control in the Columbia River Basin for a global warming scenario, ASCE J. Water Resources Planning and Management, in press.
National Research Council. 2004. Managing the Columbia River: Instream Flows, Water Withdrawals, and Salmon Survival. National Academies Press.
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE), Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). 2001. The Columbia River System: The Inside Story, Second Edition. Updated version of report DOE/BP-1689 published for the Columbia River System Review by the USACOE and the USBR, September. This report has good background material on the treaties underlying operation of the Columbia River and the initial operating objectives of the system.
Dessai, S. and M. Hulme. 2004. Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities? Climate Policy 4: 1-22.
Climate impacts on PNW forests
Guest lecturer: Professor Thomas Hinckley, UW School of Forest Resources
Friday: forest Kaje due
Running, S.W. 2008. Ecosystem disturbance, carbon, and climate. Science 321:652 � 653.
Breshears et al. 2009. Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements. Front Ecol Environ 7(4): 185�189, doi:10.1890/080016
Niinemets, U. 2010. Responses of forest trees to single and multiple environmental stresses from seedlings to mature plants: Past stress history, stress interactions, tolerance and acclimation. Forest Ecology and Management 260:1623-1639.
Reich, P.B. 2010. The carbon dioxide exchange (Understanding how carbon dioxide cycles between land and atmosphere is key to developing better climate models). Science 329: 774-775.
Background material (optional):
Pages 1-22 in Rhythms of Change (ROC), Chapter 8: Climate Impacts on PNW forest ecosystems, by W. S. Keeton, J. F. Franklin, and P. W. Mote.
Littell, J.S., E.E. O'Neil, D. McKenzie, J.A. Hicke, J.A. Lutz, R.A. Norheim, M.M. Elsner. 2009. Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA. Chapter 7 in The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Pages 14-15 of: Climate Impacts Group. 2009. Executive Summary, The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Nijhuis, M. 2004. "Global warming's unlikely harbingers". High Country News 36(13): July 19.
Running, S. W. 2006. Is global warming causing more, larger wildfires? Science 313(5789):927.
Westerling, A. L., H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, T. W. Swetnam. 2006. Warming and earlier spring increase western U.S. forest wildfire activity. Science 313(5789):940-943.
Rosenzweig, C., G. Casassa, D.J. Karoly, A. Imeson, C. Liu, A. Menzel, S. Rawlins, T.L. Root, B. Seguin, P. Tryjanowski, 2007: Assessment of observed changes and responses in natural and managed systems. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 79-131.
Shugart, H., R. Sedjo and B. Sohngen. 2003. Forests and Global Climate Change: Potential impacts on U.S. forest resources. A report prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. February.
Recent trends:
Peterson, D.L. 1994. Recent changes in the growth and establishment of subalpine conifers in western North America, pp. 234-243. In M. Beniston (ed.), Mountain Environments in Changing Climates.
van Mantgem, P.J. et al. 2009. Widespread increase of tree mortality rates in the western United States. Science 323:521-524. DOI: 10.1126/science.1165000.
Boisvenue, C. and S. W. Running. 2006. Impacts of climate change on natural forest producitivity - evidence since the middle of the 20th century. Global Change Biology 12:862-882.
Whitlock, C. 1992. Vegetational and climatic history of the Pacific Northwest during the last 20,000 years: Implications for understanding present-day biodiversity. The Northwest Environmental Journal 8:5-28. ... This paper examines ecological, climatological and geological processes of the past to derive an understanding of present patterns of biodiversity and the implications of future climate change for the PNW.
Management Case Study: Adapting to Climate Change in US National Forests
Guest lecturer: Professor David Peterson, UW School of Forest Resources and USFS Fire Sciences Lab
Pages 363-385 of Appendix A: Case Studies. In Climate Change Science Program (CCSP). 2008. Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. [Julius, S.H., J.M. West (eds.), J.S. Baron, L.A. Joyce, P. Kareiva, B.D. Keller, M.A. Palmer, C.H. Peterson, and J.M. Scott (Authors)]. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA.
Joyce, L.A., G.M. Blate, S.G. McNulty, C.I. Millar, S. Moser, R.P. Neilson and D.L. Peterson. 2009. Managing for multiple resources under climate change: National Forests. Environmental Management 44:1022�1032. DOI 10.1007/s00267-009-9324-6.
Friday: salmon Kaje due
Rhythms of Change (ROC), Chapter 7: PNW salmon and climate, by N. J. Mantua, R. C. Francis, and P. W. Mote.
Schindler, D.E., X. Augerot, E. Fleishman, N. Mantua, B. Riddell, M. Ruckelshaus, J. Seeb, and M. Webster. 2008. Climate change, ecosystem impacts, and management for Pacific salmon. Fisheries 33(10):502-506.
Pages 13-14 of: Climate Impacts Group. 2009. Executive Summary, The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Mantua, N. J. and P. W. Mote. 2002. Uncertainty in scenarios of human-caused climate change. American Fisheries Society Symposium 32: 263-272.
Background material (optional):
Mantua, N., I. Tohver, and A. Hamlet. 2009. Impacts of climate change on key aspects of freshwater salmon habitat in Washington State. Chapter 6 in The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Farrell, A.P., S.G. Hinch, S.J. Cooke, D.A. Patterson, G.T. Crossin, M. Lapointe and M.T. Mathes. 2008. Pacific salmon in hot water: Applying aerobic scope models and biotelemetry to predict the success of spawning migrations. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81(6):697-709.
Crozier, L., R.W. Zabel and A.H. Hamlet. 2008. Predicting differential effects of climate change at the population level with life-cycle models of spring Chinook salmon. Global Change Biology 14(2):236-249.
Lindley et al. 2009. What caused the Sacramento River fall Chinook stock collapse? Pre-publication report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council.
Nate lecture.
Management Case Study: Salmon recovery
Guest lecturer: TBA
Battin, J., M.W. Wiley, M. H. Ruckelshaus, R. N. Palmer, K.K. Bartz, H. Imaki, E. Korb. 2007. Projected impacts of climate change on salmon habitat restoration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:6720-6725.
Mantua, N.J. and R.C. Francis. 2004. Natural climate insurance for Pacific Northwest salmon and salmon fisheries: Finding our way through the entangled bank. pp. 127-140, in E.E. Knudsen and D. MacDonald (eds), Fish in our Future? Perspectives on Fisheries Sustainability. A special publication of the American Fisheries Society.
Background material (optional):
Zabel, R.W., M.D. Scheuerell, M.M. McClure, and J.G. Williams. 2006. The interplay between climate variability and density dependence in the population viability of Chinook salmon. Conservation Biology 20(1): 190-200. doi: 10.1111/ j.1523-1739.2005.00300.x
Ruckelshaus, M. H., P. Levin, J. B. Johnson, and P. M. Kareiva. 2002. The Pacific salmon wars: What science brings to the challenge of recovering species. Annual Review of Ecological Systems 33: 665-706.
Levin, S. A. 1993. Forum: Science and sustainability. Ecological Applications 3(4).
Ludwig, D., R. Hilborn, and C. Walters. 1993. Uncertainty, resource exploitation, and conservation: Lessons from history. Ecological Applications 3(4): 547-549.
Holling, C. S. 1993. Investing in research for sustainability. Ecological Applications 3(4): 552-555.
Nate will cover the ocean temperature and acidification impacts on marine ecosystems; we should have them read something about acidification and the recent oyster recruitment failures in WA/OR, I'll see if I can find an article for that.
Guest lecturer: Hugh Shipman, Coastal Geologist, WA Department of Ecology
Friday: coasts Kaje due
Rhythms of Change (ROC), Chapter 9: Climate Impacts on PNW coasts, by D. J. Canning, P. W. Mote, Z. Johnson, J. C. Field, J. Newton, and M. J. Hershman. ... and then skim the recent version to see how the climate change projections have been updated: Huppert, D.D., A. Moore, K. Dyson. 2009. Impacts of climate change on the coasts of Washington state. Chapter 8 in The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Pages 16-17 of: Climate Impacts Group. 2009. Executive Summary, The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate, edited by J. Littell, M.M. Elsner, L. Whitely Binder and A. Snover. University of Washington.
Mote, P.W., A. (Sascha) Petersen, S. Reeder, H. Shipman, and L.C. Whitely Binder. 2008. Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Waters of Washington State. Report prepared by the Climate Impacts Group, Center for Science in the Earth System, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington and the Washington Department of Ecology, Lacey, Washington.
Shipman. 2009. The Response of the Salish Sea to Rising Sea Levels: A Geomorphic Perspective. This provides the basis for much of what I will talk about.
Fletcher. 2009. Sea Level by the end of the 21st Century: A Review. Also written by a geologist, but pretty accessible to a broader audience.
Background material (optional):
Glick, P., J. Clough and B. Nunley. 2007. Sea-level Rise and Coastal Habitats in the Pacific Northwest: An analysis for Puget Sound, southwestern Washington, and Northwestern Oregon. The National Wildlife Federation.
Cooper. 2003. The use of "managed retreat" in coastal engineering.
French. 2006. Managed realignment � the developing story of a comparatively new approach to soft engineering.
Titus et al. 2009. State and local governments plan for development of most land vulnerable to rising sea level along the U.S. Atlantic Coast.
Titus. 1998. Rising seas, coastal erosion, and the takings clause: How to save wetlands and beaches without hurting property owners.
Management Case Study: Planning for climate change on Washington's coasts
Guest lecturer: Joe Burcar, Shoreline Planner, WA Department of Ecology
Shoreline master programs FAQ (2010). WA Dept of Ecology. Appendix A - Sea-Level Guidance. WA Dept of Ecology.
Maryland Commission on climate change: see Chapter 5 within the Commission's "Climate Action Plan":
Background reading (optional)
Beatley, T, 2009. Planning for Coastal Resilience � Best Practices for Calamitous Times. Island Press, Washington D.C.
Adapting to Coastal Climate Change: Summary for Policy Makers.
Note: this may look like a lot, but they are all very short. Please read!
National Research Council. 2006. Mitigating Shore Erosion on Sheltered Coasts. A report in brief from the US National Academies, Washington DC.
The Heinz Center and Ceres. 2009. Resilient Coasts: A blueprint for action. Washington, D.C.
Oregon Sea Grant. 2009. Surveys about adapting to changing climate reveal coastal concerns. Press Release. 19 January.
West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health. 2008 background news clips.
West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health, Climate Change Action Coordination Team. Workplan.
Washington State Senate Bill 5560 (Sections 10 thru 13 are the relevant ones). 61st Legislature. 2009.
Background on the state's Shoreline Master Program.
The Heinz Center. 2000. Evaluation of Erosion Hazards: Summary. Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency by The H. John Heinz III Center, Washington, D.C.
Dean, C. 2006. "Next Victim of Warming: The Beaches", The New York Times June 20.
Garreau, J. 2006. "A Dream Blown Away: Climate change already has a chilling effect on where Americans can build their homes", The Washington Post December 2:C01.
Pages 1308-1333 and 1387-1395 in: Titus, J. G. 1998. Rising seas, coastal erosion, and the takings clause: How to save wetlands and beaches without hurting property owners. Maryland Law Review 57(4): 1279-1399. ... This paper has a national scope. Students especially interested in the public
trust doctrine as it is defined by Washington State case law can find
Background material (optional):
Ralph W. Johnson, et al. 1992. The Public Trust Doctrine and Coastal Zone Management in Washington State. Washington Law Review 67(3):521-597.
Washington State Department of Ecology, 1992. Symposium on Washington State Public Trust Doctrine.
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White Paper Workshop
Handout self/peer evaluation form.
Each team member bring separately-prepared answers to the first 3 bullets to class. Spend class-time in group, meshing answers. Then 30 minutes for all groups to present to class: is climate very important to your client? What are your client's biggest areas of climate-related, and non-climate-related concern? What keeps you up at night (what are your biggest worries about completing the project)?
Research in support of conservation planning efforts
Guest lecturer: Meade Krosby, Post Doc, UW Department of Biology
Parmesan, C. 2006. Ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 37:637-669. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110100.
Heller, N.E. and E.S. Zavaleta. 2009. Biodiversity management in the fact of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations. Biological Conservation 124:14-32.
Glick, P., A. Staudt, B. Stein. 2009. A New Era for Conservation: Review of climate change adaptation literature. A report by the National Wildlife Federation. Prepared for "Adaptation 2009: Safeguarding Fish, Wildlife and Natural Systems in the Face of Climate Change. Washington, DC 18-19 February 2009. Discussion Draft, 9 February.
Theoharides, K., G. Barnhart, and P. Glick. 2009. Climate Change Adaptation across the Landscape: A survey of federal and state agencies, conservation organizations and academic institutions in the United States. A report by The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Defenders of Wildlife, The Nature Conservancy and The National Wildlife Federation. Prepared for "Adaptation 2009: Safeguarding Fish, Wildlife and Natural Systems in the Face of Climate Change. Washington, DC 18-19 February 2009.
Background material (optional):
Lawler, J.J., S.L. Shafer, D. White, P. Kareiva, E.P. Maurer, A.R. Blaustein and P.J. Bartlein. 2009. Projected climate-induced faunal change in the Western Hemisphere. Ecology 90(3):588-597.
Planning for climate change: The national context
Guest lecturer: Professor Emeritus Edward Miles, School of Marine Affairs and Evans School of Public Affairs
Miles, E. L., A. K. Snover, L. C. Whitely Binder, E. Sarachik, P. W. Mote, and N. J. Mantua. 2006. An approach to designing a National Climate Service. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences 103(52):19616–19623.
Natural Research Council. 2010. Summary of America's Climate Choices: Advancing the Science of Climate Change. National Academies of Science.
Natural Research Council. 2010. Summary of America's Climate Choices: Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change. National Academies of Science.
Natural Research Council. 2010. Summary of America's Climate Choices: Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change. National Academies of Science.
In-class role-playing exercise
Developing climate resilience in ecological systems
Guest lecturer: Lara Hansen, Chief Scientist and Executive Director, EcoAdapt
Hansen, L., J. Hoffman, C. Drews, and E. Mielbrecht. 2009. Designing climate-smart conservation: Guidance and case studies. Conservation Biology 24(1): 63-69.Check out CAKE (www.cakex.org), explore it, think about how adaptation is being applied in the real world.
White Paper Presentations
course wrap-up
climate outlook
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Sub-Committees Descriptions & Responsibilities.
1. Activities
The Activities Sub-committee coordinates and plans activities which promote unity and fellowship in Narcotics
Anonymous. Any functions planned by this Sub Committee are to be presented to the ASC for approval
(examples: parties, picnics, sporting events, etc.).
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People, in other Areas it may involved as many as a half dozen members who process group orders,
monitor stock levels, and reorder materials from the local NA office or the World Service office. To
maintain accountability for all Area funds, most Areas ask their Treasurer to serve as cashier for the
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Aug. 22, 2014 – Existing-home sales
by 2.4 percent in July, but are still down year-over-year and are expected to remain lower than in 2013 due to a sluggish first quarter.
NAFCU Staff Economist Doug Christman analyzed data from the National Association of Realtors for a
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, and found that year-over-year existing-home sales were down 4.3 percent.
"While sales have improved significantly since the beginning of the year, overall sales are still down on a year-over-year basis," Christman wrote. "Inventories continued to increase in July, but the months of supply remained unchanged. Improvements in the labor market and inventory conditions continue to help existing home sales strengthen. The new FICO credit score calculation should help buyers keep borrowing costs low and improve access to homeownership."
Existing-home sales reached an annualized 5.15 million units in July, with the South increasing the most at 3.4 percent. The South was also the only region to see a year-over-year increase with 0.5 percent sales growth, while the Northeast had the largest decrease of 9.9 percent over the year.
The median existing-home price increased from a revised $222,000 in June to $222,900, not seasonally adjusted, in July – which is up from $212,400 a year ago.
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Lewis' girlfriend is not a big known star aka celebrity in the states, sorry. If there is no race in France do we call it a failure too? Indy was great for the fans, reasonable prices, easy to get to, and by all counts the first few years had largest attendance in all of F1. Failure to negotiate a new deal was the problem and the tire issue disnt help Im sure.


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The list of US realms slated for the Realm Connection service has now been updated with new information regarding upcoming dates for the service. Players on Borean Tundra, Shadowsong, Dreden, and Arathor may want to note that the scheduled dates for connection of these realms have changed.
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Texas Congressman Ron Paul may soon have even more ammunition against American foreign aid. The White House has announced that it will use foreign aid to promote global rights for gays and lesbians. President Obama made his intentions clear in a memo circulated yesterday, directing American agencies working abroad to use foreign aid to help homosexuals abroad who face human rights violations.
"I am deeply concerned by the violence and discrimination targeting L.G.B.T. [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] persons around the world," Obama averred in the memorandum, "whether it is passing laws that criminalize L.G.B.T. status, beating citizens simply for joining peaceful L.G.B.T. pride celebrations, or killing men, women and children for their perceived sexual orientation."
He also directed U.S. agencies to protect gay and lesbian refugees and those who are seeking asylum.
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Recently announced Azure Data Lake addresses the big data 3V challenges; volume, velocity and variety. It is one more storage feature in addition to blobs and SQL Azure database. Azure Data Lake (should have been Azure Data Ocean IMHO) is really omnipotent. Just look at the key capabilities of Azure Data Lake:
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Luxoft Holding, Inc., a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Luxoft's software development services consist of core and mission-critical custom software development and support, product engineering and testing, and technology consulting.
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Data loss happens, even in the cloud. In fact, if your company has adopted a cloud application in the past three years, data loss has probably happened, whether you know it or not. In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Bryan Forrester, Senior Vice President of Sales at eFolder, will present how common and costly cloud application data loss is and what measures you can take to protect your organization from data loss.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM Cloud Data Services has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 17th Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. IBM Cloud Data Services offers a portfolio of integrated, best-of-breed cloud data services for developers focused on mobile computing and analytics use cases.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Tony Shan, Chief Architect at CTS, will explore the synergy of Big Data and IoT. First he will take a closer look at the Internet of Things and Big Data individually, in terms of what, which, why, where, when, who, how and how much. Then he will explore the relationship between IoT and Big Data. Specifically, he will drill down to how the 4Vs aspects intersect with IoT: Volume, Variety, Velocity and Value. In turn, Tony will analyze how the key components of IoT ...
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When it comes to IoT in the enterprise, namely the commercial building and hospitality markets, a benefit not getting the attention it deserves is energy efficiency, and IoT's direct impact on a cleaner, greener environment when installed in smart buildings. Until now clean technology was offered piecemeal and led with point solutions that require significant systems integration to orchestrate and deploy. There didn't exist a 'top down' approach that can manage and monitor the way a Smart Buildi...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Raxak has been named "Media & Session Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 17th Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Raxak Protect automates security compliance across private and public clouds. Using the SaaS tool or managed service, developers can deploy cloud apps quickly, cost-effectively, and without error.
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"The Internet of Things transforms the way organizations leverage machine data and gain insights from it," noted Splunk's CTO Snehal Antani, as Splunk announced accelerated momentum in Industrial Data and the IoT. The trend is driven by Splunk's continued investment in its products and partner ecosystem as well as the creativity of customers and the flexibility to deploy Splunk IoT solutions as software, cloud services or in a hybrid environment. Customers are using Splunk® solutions to collect ...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that ProfitBricks, the provider of painless cloud infrastructure, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. ProfitBricks is the IaaS provider that offers a painless cloud experience for all IT users, with no learning curve. ProfitBricks boasts flexible cloud servers and networking, an integrated Data Center Designer tool for visual control over the...
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You have your devices and your data, but what about the rest of your Internet of Things story? Two popular classes of technologies that nicely handle the Big Data analytics for Internet of Things are Apache Hadoop and NoSQL. Hadoop is designed for parallelizing analytical work across many servers and is ideal for the massive data volumes you create with IoT devices. NoSQL databases such as Apache HBase are ideal for storing and retrieving IoT data as "time series data."
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Clearly the way forward is to move to cloud be it bare metal, VMs or containers. One aspect of the current public clouds that is slowing this cloud migration is cloud lock-in. Every cloud vendor is trying to make it very difficult to move out once a customer has chosen their cloud. In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Naveen Nimmu, CEO of Clouber, Inc., will advocate that making the inter-cloud migration as simple as changing airlines would help the entire industry to quickly adopt the cloud wit...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that VividCortex, the monitoring solution for the modern data system, will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The database is the heart of most applications, but it's also the part that's hardest to scale, monitor, and optimize even as it's growing 50% year over year. VividCortex is the first unified suite of database monitoring tools specifically desi...
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Organizations already struggle with the simple collection of data resulting from the proliferation of IoT, lacking the right infrastructure to manage it. They can't only rely on the cloud to collect and utilize this data because many applications still require dedicated infrastructure for security, redundancy, performance, etc. In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Emil Sayegh, CEO of Codero Hosting, will discuss how in order to resolve the inherent issues, companies need to combine dedicated a...
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Cloud computing delivers on-demand resources that provide businesses with flexibility and cost-savings. The challenge in moving workloads to the cloud has been the cost and complexity of ensuring the initial and ongoing security and regulatory (PCI, HIPAA, FFIEC) compliance across private and public clouds. Manual security compliance is slow, prone to human error, and represents over 50% of the cost of managing cloud applications. Determining how to automate cloud security compliance is critical...
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Mobile, social, Big Data, and cloud have fundamentally changed the way we live. "Anytime, anywhere" access to data and information is no longer a luxury; it's a requirement, in both our personal and professional lives. For IT organizations, this means pressure has never been greater to deliver meaningful services to the business and customers.
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Learn how Backup as a Service can help your customer base protect their data. In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Stefaan Vervaet, Director of Strategic Alliances at HGST, will discuss the challenges of data protection in an era of exploding storage requirements, show you the benefits of a backup service for your cloud customers, and explain how the HGST Active Archive and CommVault are already enabling this service today with customer examples.
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Apps and devices shouldn't stop working when there's limited or no network connectivity. Learn how to bring data stored in a cloud database to the edge of the network (and back again) whenever an Internet connection is available. In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Bradley Holt, Developer Advocate at IBM Cloud Data Services, will demonstrate techniques for replicating cloud databases with devices in order to build offline-first mobile or Internet of Things (IoT) apps that can provide a better, ...
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Redis is not only the fastest database, but it has become the most popular among the new wave of applications running in containers. Redis speeds up just about every data interaction between your users or operational systems. In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Dave Nielsen, Developer Relations at Redis Labs, will share the functions and data structures used to solve everyday use cases that are driving Redis' popularity
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As more and more data is generated from a variety of connected devices, the need to get insights from this data and predict future behavior and trends is increasingly essential for businesses. Real-time stream processing is needed in a variety of different industries such as Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Automobile, Finance, Online Retail, Smart Grids, and Healthcare. Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed distributed stream computation service that provides low latency, scalable processing of ...
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After selling some 3,000 pieces out of the 4,000 or so that he has produced in the past decade, Chicago artist Derek Erdman is getting out of dodge. Moving westward has not stopped him from putting together one final show at High Concept Laboratories. Without Wax will feature over 1,000 paintings and drawings of this poignant Ohio-born, Chicago-bred genius.


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Uhm, the OS doesn't crash when the rendering engine sees that. The app, if it's using the system libraries to render it, may. App-level crash, no obvious vector to leverage the issue to do anything further. It's really more in the realm of annoyance, since apps crash for plenty of other reasons too.
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Romain Grosjean admitted full race distance at Barcelona just what Lotus needed
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The Enstone team had set the clear target of completing more mileage - and principally a race distance - ahead of Day Three of the test after Kimi Raikkonen's two days in the car were compromised by telemetry, and then gearbox, glitches.
That aim was realised with time to spare on Thursday as Grosjean not only completed more laps than any one driver - 119 - but across five stints and three of Pirelli's four dry tyre compounds racked up the 66-lap equivalent of a Spanish GP.
And after the delays of the first two days, Grosjean admitted: "It's good for the team that we could do a lot of laps today. That's what we really wanted and needed, so that's a good point.
"We completed a race distance in the afternoon and no issue on the car so a relief for us a little bit."
An additional encouragement for Lotus, however, was the E21's performance in Barcelona's faster corners, with Grosjean pleased that their latest version of the Coanda exhaust had improved the car's handling in such turns.
"High-speed feels better than last year to be honest," the 26-year-old revealed.
"When we swapped to the Coanda exhaust last year the car was not as easy to drive as the first one [exhaust] we had. But we brought it quite late and I think this year's car has been more designed around that and makes it quite enjoyable in those corners."
In becoming the first driver at Barcelona this year to complete a full grand prix distance with pit stops, Grosjean also got to fully experience the affected Pirelli's softer 2013 compounds were having on performance over long stints.
Although one of his stints lasted 24 laps, the Frenchman on the whole certainly found the experience an eye-opener and concurred with numerous fellow drivers in saying that there was only a small window of peak performance from each tyre.
"Tyres degrade a lot," he explained. "I think the first stint I came on the radio [on] lap two saying 'tyres are dead'. But there were 66 laps to do so I tried to do the best, try to adapt your driving style - which is not easy to be honest - but then I think the conditions are not representative to what we will get [in Melbourne].
"But it's very difficult to what we had last year and we need to change quite a lot of things to make it working perfectly."
Although Grosjean was coy when asked how he thought the E21 staked up to the rest of the field - "to be honest I haven't seen much" - his team boss was more forthcoming.
Asked by Sky Sports F1's Ted Kravitz where Lotus would finish if the Spanish GP was held at Barcelona on Friday, he replied: "On the podium."
The Frenchman then added: "I can just answer your question based on today, the Spanish GP is in May and the track will be different then and everything can change by then. Just based on the information we saw today it is not bad."


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Revenue in the global linear low density polyethylene industry experienced significant growth during the last five years, and the industry revenue is forecast to reach an estimated $41.1 billion in 2017 with a CAGR of 3.4% over the next five years (2012-2017).
Lucintel, a leading global management consulting and market research firm, has analyzed the global linear low density polyethylene industry and presents its findings in "Global Linear Low Density Polyethylene Industry 2012-2017: Trend, Profit, and Forecast Analysis." It is extensively used in applications such as food packaging and non-food packaging, heavy-duty sacks, injection molding, agriculture, cast films, and rotomolding.
The industry is consolidated, with Asia Pacific (APAC) and North America dominating this market. A combination of factors such as operating cost, feedstock price (crude oil, naphtha, ethane), feedstock availability, scale and technology, energy costs, oil price, utilization rate, GDP growth, distribution costs, operating rates, environmental issues, and government regulations influences industry dynamics significantly.
Lucintel's research indicates that high growth in associated manufacturing industries such as packaging, construction, automotive will boost the industry. Replacement of the low density polyethylene market by linear low density polyethylene due to its low cost and high mechanical quality will be the industry's main driver. Fluctuation of crude oil and ethylene price
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ATTLEBORO - Walter T. Stadnicki 98, of Canterbury Woods and formerly of Hastings Avenue Pawtucket passed away Thursday December 13, 2012 at his residence. He was the beloved husband of the late Genevieve A. (Poholek) Stadnicki. They were married for 70 years and wintered in Florida for 30 years.
Born in Pawtucket he was a son of the late Charles and Apolonia (Blecharczyk) Stadnicki.
Before retiring Walter owned and operated Stad Distributing of Pawtucket for 50 years.
Walter was a WWII Army Air Force Veteran serving as a Sergeant with the Personnel Distributing Command Headquarters. He was a member of the Fierlit-Korzen A.L. Post 79 of Central Falls and a former 50 year member of the Pawtucket Country Club. He and his wife traveled around the world and witnessed the Coronation Ceremony of Pope John Paul II.
He leaves his loving family one daughter Carolee Welden and her husband James of Port Orange, Fl, one son Thomas W. Stadnicki of Rehoboth, one brother Henry Stad of Rumford, and one grandson, nieces and nephews. He was the brother of the late Stella Gnys, Josephine Turrow and Lt. Frank Stadnicki.
His funeral with Military Honors will be held Tuesday December 18, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. from the Karol A. Romenski & Sons Funeral Home 342 High Street Central Falls with a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Josephs Church 391 High Street Central Falls at 10:00 a.m. Relatives and friends are welcome to attend and may call at the Funeral Home Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers Memorial Donations to St. Josephs Church Renovation Fund would be greatly appreciated. Burial will be in Notre Dame Cemetery, Pawtucket.
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MASSENA - Retired St. Lawrence County Court Judge Eugene L. Nicandri has been reappointed to another term on the New York Power Authority Board of Trustees.
Mr. Nicandri was reappointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and that appointment was confirmed by the New York State Senate.
A statement issued by NYPA Chairman John R. Koelmel and NYPA President and CEO Gil C. Quiniones had high praise for Judge Nicandris work on the board.
The confirmation last week by the New York State Senate of Governor Cuomos reappointment of Judge Nicandri to another term on the New York Power Authority [NYPA] Board of Trustees is good news for New York state and a testament to his knowledge, experience and good judgment on wide-ranging energy matters that NYPA contributes to every day, according to the statement.
During his nearly five years as a trustee, Judge Nicandri has been at the center of key NYPA decision making. This has included major endeavors under Governor Cuomo to modernize and upgrade the states electricity infrastructure, protect and create jobs through allocations of lower cost electricity to businesses and other enterprises, and bring about investments in energy efficiency and clean energy technologies, according to the release.
Judge Nicandri has a strong connection with the New York Power Authority, as a long-time resident of Massena, the home of our St. Lawrence-FDR Hydroelectric Power Plant, whose low-cost power is indispensable to Alcoa aluminum production in Northern New York and economic development in the region, according to the statement.
The pride that Judge Nicandri takes in the contributions of NYPAs statewide work force has been one of the hallmarks of his tenure on the board. His continued service as a NYPA trustee is a gratifying development for the Power Authoritys continued benefits to New York state.
Massena Town Supervisor Joseph D. Gray is also pleased with the recent reappointment, given Mr. Nicandris local edge and community work.
The biggest asset is hes from Massena. He knows the community, both the good and the bad. Whenever you have a local resident who can sit on the board of organizations like the power authority, thats a positive, Mr. Gray said. Hes very involved with the community, he and his wife. They are obvious assets.
Mr. Nicandris reputation, experience, and work ethic are also important to his reappointment of the position, as noted by St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency Chairman Robert O. McNeil.
I think very highly of him. Not only is he informed, he helped craft the Massena municipal power system. Hes well regarded by his colleagues. Im very happy hes been reappointed, Mr. McNeil said. He has some expertise in power. He was one of the founders in the founding of the municipal power system. Hes knowledgeable, and hes well regarded. Any meetings Ive been to with the board of trustees, they have a high opinion of him. Gene is a quality person, reasonable. He checks things out and is a good member of the board. Mr. Nicandri is the first St. Lawrence County resident living in the vicinity of the St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project boundary to serve on the NYPA board.
(Northern New York) has a voice. Theres now someone in the community that is in the room when decisions are being made. That hasnt been the case for my adult life. Until Gene got appointed, it had been 20 years, Mr. McNeil said.
St. Lawrence County Legislature Jonathan S. Putney also praised Mr. Nicandris reappointment. Gene has experience having been on the board. He holds the north country close to his heart. His experience and care and concern make him a good person for reappointment. Gene remembers where he grew up. His time on the board has not only served the board well, but also the St. Lawrence County, he said.
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