We attended the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute Mini-Conference at Oregon State University on 10/18/17. This half-day event featured 4 minute lightning talks on a broad gamut of climate change related topics, including presentations on atmospheric modeling, meteorology, ocean and tidal science, vegetation impacts, public health, and legal efforts, and featuring an extended “conversation” on ethical and moral issues. Jeff Kline of BioBE presented a short talk titled “Consuming and Producing Climate change Research” which covered the building science and microbial ecology aspects of our work.