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The conference is free and open to the public. However, registration is closed. There may be space available on the day of the program, but we cannot guarantee a seat. About the conference The audience will include University of Oregon and Oregon State University faculty and students in disciplines related to climate change, public and private sector decision-makers, and community members. CLE credit available. Conference Agenda
11:30 a.m. Lunch and Keynote Address
1 p.m. Panel on Peoples and Communities
2:45 p.m. Policy Panel
4:15 p.m. Concluding Remarks People Jack Barth is Professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science at Oregon State University. His research interests include coastal ocean dynamics, coastal marine ecosystems, hypoxia and inner continental shelf dynamics. Meg Caldwell is the director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program at the Stanford Law School and the executive director of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Woods Institute for the Environment. She served as the chair of the California Coastal Commission and was appointed by the California secretary for natural resources to the Marine Life Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task Force. David Freestone is a professor at George Washington University School of Law. A former senior adviser and deputy general counsel for the World Bank, Freestone is also senior adviser to the USA Multilateral Office of the International Union of Nature and Natural Resources. He was an editor of The Law of the Sea: Progress and Prospects (Oxford University Press, 2006). Richard Hildreth is a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. He is the author of three casebooks and many other publications on ocean and coastal law. He consults frequently with coastal management agencies in the U.S. and internationally on environmental legal matters. He has served on the National Research Council's Nonnative Oysters and Coastal Ocean Committees, the Pacific Northwest Regional Marine Research Board, and the editorial advisory boards of the journals Coastal Management and Ocean Development and International Law. Nathan Mantua is an atmospheric scientist with the NOAA/UW Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans and the co-director of the Climate Impacts Group, an interdisciplinary research group studying the impacts of natural climate variability and global climate change. He is an associate research professor in the University of Washington's School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, and adjunct faculty in Marine Affairs and Atmospheric Sciences. His research focuses on climate variations and their impacts on natural resources, including marine ecosystems and fisheries. Ted McDorman is a law professor at the University of Victoria and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ocean Development & International Law. He has more than 100 publications in the areas of ocean law and policy, international trade law and comparative constitutional law. Ronald Mitchell is a professor in the UO Department of Political Science and a core faculty member in Environmental Studies. He is a member of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute Science Advisory Board and co-director of Dissertation Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research. Hari Osofsky is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law and associate director of law, geography, and environment with the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences. Professor Osofsky's scholarship brings an interdisciplinary law and geography perspective to climate change governance questions. She is a member of the Climate Legacy Initiative’s Consultants Working Group and the International Law Association’s Committee on the Legal Principles of Climate Change. Julia Parrish is Wakefield Professor of Ocean and Fishery Sciences and Director of the Program on the Environment at the University of Washington. Her research and academic interests follow three major routes: behavior of organisms living in groups (such as schools of fish and colonially nesting seabirds), seabird ecology (mainly Common Murres), and marine conservation. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST)—a citizen science program in Washington and Oregon. Mary Ruckelshaus is a research biologist with NOAA Fisheries in Seattle and leads the Ecosystem Science Program at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Her research interests focus on marine and estuarine systems, particularly the dynamics of salmon and their ecosystems, understanding climate impacts on marine communities, and developing quantitative approaches to estimating marine ecosystem services. Jon Van Dyke is Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has written six books and numerous articles on international ocean law, He international human rights, international environmental law, and the rights of Native Hawaiians. Mary Christina Wood is Philip H. Knight Professor of Law and Faculty Director for the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at the University of Oregon. Professor Wood is a co-author of a leading textbook on natural resources law (West, 2006) and has published extensively on the climate crisis, natural resources, and native law issues. She is currently working on a book entitled Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age.
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