Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium
The OSU-led Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC). The CIRC will focus on providing information and tools for making decisions about landscape and watershed management in a changing climate. We use the definition of decision support systems provided in a recent NRC report (2009:37): "decision support systems … include the people and organizations that develop … products and services, as well as the knowledge, information, products, and services [themselves]." The CIRC is a consortium of three multi-university organizations: The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI), including Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Oregon (UO); Idaho's project on Water Resources in a Changing Climate (WRCC), funded by NSF's Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), including University of Idaho (UI) and Boise State University (BSU); and the University Extension Services from Idaho, Oregon, and Washington including Oregon and Washington Sea Grant programs.