Program 

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PACLIM2023 Schedule and Program

Sunday Evening 

Kelly Redmond Memorial Lecture: Daniel McEvoy, Desert Research Institute: "Current State of the Climate Across the West: Drought and Hydrometeorological Extremes" 

Monday Daytime Keynotes and associated contributed talks

Focus on Drought

Keynote: Stephanie McAfee, University of Nevada, Reno: "Perspectives on drought -- from paleo to present"

Focus on Water

Keynote: Erica Woodburn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: "The role of atmospheric rivers on western U.S. hydrology in a shifting climate". 

Focus on Policy and Communications

Keynote: Faith Kearns, California Institute for Water Resources: "Getting to the Heart of Drought and Climate Communication".

Monday Evening Speakers

Kathleen B. Springer and Jeffrey S. Pigati, USGS: "Ancient human footprints in White Sands National Park and their link to abrupt climate change".

Tuesday Evening Speaker

Allen Fish, Director, Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy: "Shifting Phenologies, Shrinking Birds, and Migratory Shortstopping – Forty Years at the Intersection of Climate Change and Raptor Migration" 

Note:

Contributed talks related to the conference theme will be placed in focused sessions on Monday with the keynotes.

We encourage all PACLIM related talks which will be placed in the Tuesday and Wednesday morning sessions.

Poster presentations will remain up through the entire conference and evening social sessions will be held in the poster venue. (Sunday evening through Wednesday morning).