Recent Transitions at CIRC

Changes are afoot at CIRC. August brought several transitions for our team. Denise Lach, one of CIRC’s long-time leaders, became Professor Emerita at Oregon State University. After years of pioneering strategies for community-engaged science, her retirement is well deserved, and we hope that she is catching lots of big fish. In August, we also said…

Irrigated Agriculture, Snowmelt, and Climate Change

Wherein we review a study on projected climate impacts to irrigated agriculture and the CIRCulator’s Managing Editor says goodbye. It is now generally acknowledged that warming tied to human-induced climate change is going to hit our species where it will most assuredly count: in the fields that produce our foods, potentially impacting such tabletop essentials…