The Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary consortium dedicated to understanding climates and ecosystems of western North American mountains. CIRMOUNT's goal is to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines and institutions to measure and understand climate-driven changes in the unique landscapes that define western North American mountains, and to respond to the needs and challenges of western society for mountain resources imposed by climate change. CIRMOUNT is sponsored by a diverse group of agencies, universities, and institutions, and is endorsed as a pilot project of the International Mountain Research Initiative.

CIRMOUNT will sponsor two sessions at AGU Fall 2011 Meeting in San Francisco. Sessions will be held on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
Poster session: GC 31A, Climate change and drought, 8am-12:20pm, Halls A-C, Moscone South
Oral session: GC 34A, Climatic water deficit and water balance in mountain systems: biophysics, ecohydrology, and impacts, 4-6pm, Rm 3005, Moscone West.
For information about an informal CIRMOUNT group dinner, contact Connie Millar (cmillar@fs.fed.us).

CIRMOUNT sponsors a biennial mountain-climate conference; MTNCLIM2012 will be held October 1 - 4, 2012, at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado. MTNCLIM website is www.fs.fed.us/psw/mtnclim/.

CIRMOUNT produces a newsletter, Mountain Views. The Autumn 2011 edition is the most recent.

Read more in CIRMOUNT's publication, Mapping New Terrain: Climate Change and the America's West.