CONCLUDED: Thanks to Everyone Who Attended!
The Pacific Climate Workshop (PACLIM) is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together those interested in broadly addressing the climatic phenomena in the Pacific Ocean and the Americas to understand climate effects in this region. We bring together specialists from diverse fields including physical, social, and biological sciences, and explore time scales from weather to the Quaternary. The meeting is held every other year.
We welcome oral and poster presentations on the year's theme but all presentations related generally to climate and/or the Pacific Ocean are welcome.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Sunday Evening
Dan McEvoy: Kelly Redmond Memorial Lecture
Western Regional Climate Center
Monday Evening
Marc Chavez -- Native Like Water
Native Like Water (NLW) curates experiences through an Indigenous lens.
Tuesday Evening
Rosanna Xia
Author of "California Against the Sea" and Environmental Reporter for the Los Angeles Times
INVITED SPEAKERS
Ken Adams, Desert Research Institute (emeritus)
Jay Alder, USGS
Alida Cantor, Portland State University
John Chiang, UC Berkeley
Justin Huntington, Desert Research Institute
Sophia Macarewich, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Anne Wein, USGS
Asilomar State Beach and Conference Grounds sits in the ancestral territory of the Indigenous Esselen and Rumsen speaking First Peoples
AGENDA
1st Day - Sun, Feb. 23
3:00p Hotel Check-In Opens
Asilomar Front Desk
4:30 - 5:30p Afternoon Registration
Fred Farr Room
6:00 - 7:00p Dinner
Crocker Dining Hall
7:15 - 7:30p Welcome & Opening Remarks
Fred Farr Room
7:30 - 8:30p Kelly Redmond Memorial Keynote:
Current State of Climate in the Western U.S.,
Daniel Mcevoy, Western Regional Climate Center
Fred Farr Room
8:30 - 10:00p Poster Session & Socializing
Kiln Room
Feb. 24 & 25
7:30 - 8:30a Breakfast
Crocker Dining Hall
8:45 - 11:50a Morning Speakers & Presentation
Fred Farr Room
12:00 - 1:00p Lunch
Crocker Dining Hall
1:15 - 4:55p Afternoon Speakers & Presentation
Fred Farr Room
6:00 - 7:00p Dinner
Crocker Dining Hall
7:20 - 8:30p Evening Keynote Speaker
Fred Farr Room
8:30 - 10:00p Poster Session & Socializing
Kiln Room
Wed., Feb 26
7:30 - 8:30a Breakfast
Crocker Dining Hall
8:45 - 11:50a Morning Speakers & Presentation
Fred Farr Room
11:50 - 11:55a Closing Remarks
Fred Farr Room
12:00 - 1:00p Lunch
Crocker Dining Hall
Checkout by 11am
OUR SPONSORS
Funding for the workshop and travel grants for students and early career scientists was generously provided by:
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U.S. Geological Survey's Land Change Science Program
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U.S. Geological Survey's Office of the Southwest Regional Director
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Desert Research Institute: In Memory of Kelly Redmond
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Private donation: In Memory of Wolf Berger
Are are also grateful for additional private donations from Scott Mensing, Kathleen Springer, Jeff Pigati, Don Sullivan, Megan Walsh, Susan Zimmerman, and Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson.
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Help support the long-term sustainability of PACLIM in attracting a wider and more diverse group of researchers, especially students and indigenous groups focused on all aspects of climate research. PACLIM is organized by the non-profit 501(c)(3) Friends of PACLIM. Your donation is tax-deductible.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Friends of PACLIM Board Members:
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Co-Presidents: Jeff Pigati & Kathleen Springer
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Secretary: Jessica Oster
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Treasurer: Susan Zimmerman
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Communications Officer: Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson
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Fundraising Coordinator: (open seat)
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PACLIM Volume Editor: Scott Starratt
The 2025 PACLIM Workshop was organized by the FOPAC board, with the help of Organizing Committee Members: Scott Mensing, Marie Champagne, Chris Soulard, and Megan Walsh
In 2023, Friends of PACLIM (or FOPAC) was established as a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation for the purpose of advancing scientific understanding of past, present, and future Pacific climate and to support the Pacific Climate Workshop in perpetuity.
Organizing a conference is a tremendous amount of unrecognized work, and we thank the most recent conference organizers, Scott Mensing (emeritus professor, UNR) and Michelle Goman (emeritus professor, Sonoma State), along with Scott Starratt (USGS), for their commitment to keeping PACLIM and the Proceedings going over the years, and for continuing to share their depth of knowledge and experience in organizing the 2025 conference.
