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Around The Vineyard
Irrigation Research & Management
Strategies in the Vineyard
By: Becky Garrison
D Symposium held virtually from February frequent in Oregon under continued global emis-
uring a panel at the Oregon Wine
“Hot summer days are projected to become more
16 to 19, 2021, Simone Castellarin, Ph.D.,
will continue to become warmer. The frequency,
of the Wine Research Centre, University of British sions of greenhouse gases, and overnight lows
Columbia, presented research that spoke to the duration and intensity of extreme heat events
biological mechanisms that determine grape and are expected to increase. Not only are summers
wine quality. Also, Nazareth Torres, Ph.D., of the expected to warm more than annual average tem-
University of California, Davis, unpacked her find- peratures, but the hottest days in summer are
ings in sustainable irrigation. projected to warm more than the mean summer
temperature over the Pacific Northwest. The hot
Alexander Levin, Ph.D., a viticulturist at the summers of 2015 and 2018 are salient examples
Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center of summer temperatures that are expected to
and assistant professor in the Department of become relatively common by the middle of the
Horticulture at Oregon State University, opened 21st century.”
this conversation by summarizing the Fifth Oregon
Climate Assessment findings. Given the ongoing rise in temperatures, Levin
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