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North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative

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Description of Organization: The NPLCC connects a broad range of groups and organizations, both publically and privately funded, to discuss and come to consensus on the issues of climate change, and possible steps to take in response.

Mission: “The North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative promotes development, coordination, and dissemination of science to inform landscape level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of a changing climate and related stressors.”

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(360) 534-9330

Northwest Climate Science Center (NW CSC)

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Description of Organization: The NW CSC is a federally funded collaboration between (primarily) researched from Oregon State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Idaho.

Mission: “The center’s mission is to provide resource managers with the scientific information, tools, and techniques they need to anticipate, monitor, and adapt to climate change.”

Vision: “To become nationally recognized as a best-practice model for the provisions of climate science and decision support tools to address conservation and management issues in the Pacific Northwest Region.”

History: Founded in 2010 by the US Department of Interior to aide management decisions related to Climate change issues in the PNW region.

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(541) 737-2525

Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC)

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Description of Organization: CIRC is a research organization that combines knowledge and resources from several state universities in Oregon Washington and Idaho to study the impacts of Climate Change on the PNW region, and connects climate change researches with key policymakers.

Mission: We have brought together natural, physical, and social scientists, education and outreach specialists, modelers, resource managers, planners, and practitioners across the region through existing networks and by knitting together new capabilities and partners.

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(541) 737-5705

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326 Strand Ag Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331

Climate Impacts Group

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According to their website “The CIG focuses on the intersection of climate science and public policy/resource management. Key areas of the group’s collective expertise include but are not limited to: downscaling global climate model data; regional climate modeling; hydrologic modeling; water resources and terrestrial/aquatic ecosystem modeling and impacts assessment; coastal impacts assessment; climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning; and outreach and education.”

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(206) 616-5350

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University of Washington P.O. Box 355674

Washington State Department of Ecology


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The Department of Ecology works in all areas of the environment to protect and manage Washington’s natural resources. Their work includes education in environmental issues, working with different groups on all kind of different issues, including climate change.

Analysis of Department of Ecology Activities:
WA Department of Ecology

Organization Type: Government Agency

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(360) 407-6300 ‎

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300 Desmond Dr SE, Lacey, WA

Northwest National Marine Energy Center

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The University of Washington is responsible for tidal energy research and Oregon State University is concerned with wave energy research. These two institutions are doing research that looks at the potential of installing wave energy on the West coast and some of the possible consequences of doing so.  Some key issues are: how the devices that gather wave/tidal energy will affect the distribution of sediment, how they will affect h actual pattern of currents, how they will affect the fauna, especially mammals and sea animals that depend on magnetic fields for navigation, how they will affect the food chain, and how to deal with he reduced efficiency that comes with accumulated bio fouling.

Organization Type: Government organization (partnership between the University of Washington and Oregon State University funded by the DOE)

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(206) 543-7544

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University of Washington, Box 352600, Seattle, WA 98195-2600

Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

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The ACCAP serves as an informed intermediary between the scientific community and Alaskan governmental, industrial, and social interests. The Center, working with the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, aggregates and analyses data on natural systems and uses that data to model future climate concerns. This information is then reviewed and policy suggestions based thereon are published online and in white-papers.

Organization Type: Government Agency

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(907) 474-7812

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3352 College Road, Fairbanks, AK