Attendee Introductions

1. Attendee Introductions 4th NARCCAP Users Workshop NCAR Boulder, CO April 10-11, 2012

3. Introductions • After your introduction, please tell us your: • Institutional affiliation • Position title • A sentence on what you would like to gain from the workshop

4. Miguel Arango - Application of biogeochemical models for predicting greenhouse gases emissions from agricultural soils Marc Baldo - Application of climate data to rainfall/runoff models for water supply planning Carlos Carrillo - Climate variability of the North American Monsoon rainfall regimen

5. Soyee Chiu - Analyzing climate model data to make long-term climate projections that are specifically designed to be utilized within climate change adaptation strategies in the urban and agricultural sectors Jorge Gonzalez -Climate and energy nexus, analysis and modeling of urban climate and weather, environmental sustainability Tamara Greasby – statistical downscaling

7. Jennifer Jacobs - Infrastructure and riverine systems performance under a nonstationarity climate Jinwon Kim - Regional climate modeling, model evaluation, link of regional climate model data to impact assessment models, with particular emphasis on streamflow, water resources, and agriculture and ecosystems

8. Leslie Lyons Duncan - The interactions between subsurface, surface, and meteoric water at multiple spatial and temporal scales Debra Perrone - Spatio-temporal dimensions of U.S. water, energy, and food resources

9. Patrick Lynch - Mechanistic models of fish population dynamics that incorporate environmental conditions and can make projections using downscaled climate models Kelly Mahoney - Dynamical downscaling of warm season extreme precipitation events in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains and applications- oriented approaches to better understanding the potential for changing extremes in future climates.

11. Guilong Li – Using statistical methods to estimate high resolution extreme temperature and precipitation changes and uncertainties over North America Yongqiang Liu - Projecting future changes in U.S. forest fuel and fire conditions using NARCCAP regional climate change scenarios and their adverse environmental impacts

13. Ruben Picon - Climate modeling, numerical methods and environmental sustainability Ping Yang - Using NARCCAP data on Meso-scale Regional Earth System Model project to forecast U.S. Northeast region carbon emission, energy use and water management in 21 century John Mejia - Regional climate modeling and applications to create the framework, explore, and explain future climate change signals in Nevada and Southwestern U.S. intermountain region

15. Mohammad Reza Najafi - Climate change impact on hydrologic extremes such as floods in the Pacific Northwest Shimelis G. Setegn - Distributed watershed hydrologic modeling and uncertainty analysis, impact of climate and land use changes on water resources variability, and modeling for better prediction of lake hydrodynamic and water quality

17. Darrin Sharp - The development of information systems used for ecological and environmental research Stephen Sobie - Evaluating statistical downscaling techniques and providing an analysis of projected climate impacts on communities in the Pacific and Yukon region using a variety of future climate scenarios.

19. Venkat Sridhar - Climate change impacts on hydrology and water resources Grant Weller - Extreme value theory with a particular interest in modeling climate extremes Hua Zhang - Impacts of climate change on hydrology, water quality, and water resources management

21. …Thank you all for being here!