How Unexpected Was the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave?

How Is Pacific Northwest Climate Changing?

 Increasing temperatures. The Pacific Northwest warmed about +1.3°F between 1895 and 2011, with statistically-significant warming occurring in all seasons except for spring. [A][1][2] This trend is robust: similar 20 th century trends are obtained using different analytical approaches. [3] All but five of the years from 1980 to 2011 were warmer than the 1901-1960 average (Figure 2-1, Table 2-1...

How is Pacific Northwest Climate Projected to Change?

 Continued rise in annual average temperature. Warming is projected to continue throughout the 21 century (Figure 5-1). For the 2050s relative to 1950-1999, temperature is projected to rise +5.8°F (range: +3.1 to +8.5°F) for a high greenhouse gas scenario (RCP8.5). Much higher warming is possible after mid-century (Figure 5-1, Table 5-1). Lower emissions of greenhouse gases will result in less...

Starlings in the Pacific Northwest

Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Cryptococcus gattii from the Pacific Northwest Reveals Unexpected Diversity

A recent emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in the Pacific Northwest involves strains that fall into three primarily clonal molecular subtypes: VGIIa, VGIIb and VGIIc. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and variable number tandem repeat analysis appear to identify little diversity within these molecular subtypes. Given the apparent expansion of these subtypes into new geographic areas and their ab...

Pacific Northwest Fungi

Epiphytic macrolichen communities were compared among forest stand types in the Blue River watershed of western Oregon. Stand types were defined by stand structure, according to age classes of the younger tree cohort and remnant tree retention. Remnant trees were those in an older cohort that remained following a stand disturbance that initiated tree regeneration, such as a timber harvest or na...