February 27, 2007. Invited 45-minute presentation on Global Warming: What Does It Mean for the Pinaleños? given at the monthly meeting of the Pinaleños Partnership, a newly formed group of tribal and federal natural resource managers focused on the forest and desert ecosystems near San Carlos, Arizona.

February 22, 2007. Invited 45-minute presentation on Global Warming: Causes, Consequences and Actions given at the monthly meeting of Heritage Highlands Democrats, Marana, Arizona. The group sought information on how climate change is affecting the Southwest and what they could do to reduce its impact.

February 15, 2007. Invited 15-minute presentation on Global Warming and Its Impacts on Water: Highlights from the IPCC Summary given at a meeting of Sustainable Tucson, a newly formed coalition of more than 200 local groups. Featured the findings released February 2 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

February 10, 2007. Invited to moderate three discussion sessions at an all-day Global Warming Community Event at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson. The Sea Studios/Yale University event featured a 30-minute showing of National Geographic’s Strange Days on Planet Earth: The One Degree Factor, followed by moderated discussion among the 25 participants.

February 1, 2007. Invited panelist for a scientific discussion that followed a showing of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s documentary on climate change. The Tucson event was organized by the University of Arizona’s Institute for the Study of Planet Earth for students, faculty and interested community members.

February 1, 2007. Invited 45-minute presentation on Science Communication 101: Writing About Climate Change for the Public with co-presenter Shoshana Mayden, former editor of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. Talk was given to geography students taking a climate course that involves writing blogs for a website.

January 24, 2007. Invited 30-minute presentation Climate Projections: Short-term and long-term given to the Malpai Borderlands Group, a coalition of local ranchers spanning the Arizona-New Mexico border near Mexico.

January 17, 2007. Invited one-hour presentation on Global Warming vs. Climate Variability: Two Realities, One No-Regrets Strategy given at the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions annual meeting in Tucson. About 250 members of the Arizona chapter attended the talk and subsequent questions to launch their local discussions on global climate change.

November 15, 2006. Invited 45-minute presentation on Global Warming in the Southwest: Potential Impacts on Forests and Roads given at the annual ADOT/USFS partnership meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona. The Arizona Department of Transportation, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and other related groups partner together on issues relating to roads, especially those on public lands.

November 3, 2006. Invited 30-minute presentation on Global Warming in the Southwest: The Next 25 Years, given at a one-day symposium of the Coronado Planning Partnership, Coronado National Forest, Tucson. The partnership, working in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service, requested input that could help guide the upcoming a Forest Plan.

September 21, 2006. 20-minute presentation on Climate Variability and Change in the Southwest, for the Natural Areas Conferences: Stewards of the Old and New West, Flagstaff, Arizona. Provided an update of the state’s drought status and regional climate change projections and observations.

September 17, 2006. Invited panelist as part of a three-hour event on Beyond the Headlines: Prospects for Humanity as the Earth Heats Up for the Center for Inquiry Community of Southern Arizona, Tucson. The discussion was videotaped for future broadcast on Tucson Access cable television.

August 8, 2006. Invited 20-minute presentation on Climate and Natural Disasters for outreach professionals at the annual meeting of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Tucson.

May 14, 2006. Invited one-hour talk on Global Climate Change in the Southwest for a discussion group with the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Tucson.

October 8, 2005. Invited one-hour presentation on The Latest Science on Global Warming to a group of community and environmental activists and religious workers in Flagstaff, Arizona. The talk was part of a weekend workshop organized by The Grand Canyon Trust and The Greenhouse Network to train people to give community talks about climate change.

July 13, 2005. Two one-hour teaching sessions featuring an interactive Climate Exercise Using Examples from the Southwest at the San Carlos Apache student practicum for prospective natural resource students, San Carlos, Arizona.

June 12, 2005. Invited one-hour talk on Global Warming: Science, Impacts and Policy to the Unitarian Church congregation in Green Valley, Arizona.

March 3, 2005. 20-minute presentation on Climate Research and Products Relevant to Mountainous Regions: Input from Stakeholders, to a group of climatologists, ecologists and other scientists attending the 2005 Mountain Climate (MTNCLIM) meeting in Pray, Montana.

February 16, 2005. Invited 90-minute presentation on Writing about Your Research for the General Public as a guest lecturer in Jennifer Hoit’s course, Survival Skills for Scientists. Returned in the spring of 2006 to make the presentation and interact with a new group of students.

Aug. 3, 2004. 20-minute presentation on Conveying Complex Climate Information to Resource Managers and Other Stakeholders at an organized oral symposium of the Ecological Society of America’s conference in Portland, Oregon.

May 11, 2004. Invited one-hour presentation on Fire and Climate for a White Mountain Apache Tribal Council forestry symposium at Hon-dah Resort, Arizona. Addressed whether Arizona’s 468,000-acre Rodeo-Chediski fire could be perceived as “normal” and whether more wildfires of this scale could be expected as climate warms.

April 26, 2004. 30-minute presentation Un Centro de Análisis Climático al Otro Lado de la Frontera: CLIMAS (“A Climate Service on the Other Side of the Border: CLIMAS”) to a select group of scientists, mainly climatologists, working in and around Hermosillo, Mexico. The talk was part of a workshop to discuss starting a regional climate center in the Sonoran region of Mexico.

April 13, 2004. Invited one-hour presentation An Overview of the Climate Assessment for the Southwest for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) natural resources workers, San Carlos, Arizona. Descibed activities and products related to drought, monsoon prediction, the fire outlook, precipitation forecasts and climate patterns including the monsoon, El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.