Webinars
Upcoming webinars are listed below and login details can be found in the calendar.
Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis Webinar Series
This series will feature experts, with a focus on early career researchers, who are working on research topics of interest to the US CLIVAR Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis (POS) Panel. The Panel's mission is to improve understanding of climate variations in the past, present, and future, and to develop syntheses of critical climate parameters while sustaining and improving the global climate observing system. The webinars are held on the first Monday of the month @ 12pm ET.
Kristen Davis, Stanford University
There is growing interest in seaweed cultivation as an environmentally regenerative form of aquaculture, a source of biofuels, low-carbon food and animal feed, and a potential strategy for carbon sequestration. To help address questions about the expansion of seaweed cultivation we have developed a dynamical model, the MacroAlgae Cultivation MODeling System (MACMODS), to investigate farm-scale design and siting, environmental feedbacks, as well as global-scale seaweed production potential. At the regional scale, MACMODS integrates a regional ocean model (ROMS) with a fine-scale large eddy simulation (LES) model that resolves within-farm canopy transport and turbulent mixing and a macroalgal growth model that accounts for hydrodynamically-mediated biological processes like the enhancement of nutrient uptake due to flow and waves. We demonstrate the utility of this framework for cultivation of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, along the California coast. At the global level, we use MACMODS alongside a technoeconomic model to address the potential productivity, costs, and potential climate benefits of seaweed farming.
Process Study Webinar Series
The Process Studies and Model Improvement Panel hosted webinar series aims to provide feedback to process studies. The goals of this webinar series are 1) to provide feedback on the plans and challenges for individual process studies and 2) to distill programmatic lessons from process studies and field campaigns to help current and future observational programs to effectively meet the broader goals of improving the understanding of physical processes in the ocean and the atmosphere and to translate this understanding into improved observational and modeling capabilities. The webinars are typically held on the fourth Tuesday of the month @ 3pm ET.
Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface Webinar Series
This series features experts who are working on research topics of interest to the Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface (PPAI) Panel. The Panel's mission is to foster improved practices in the provision, validation and uses of climate information and forecasts through coordinated participation within the US and international climate science and applications communities. The Panel members act as facilitators, assisting in moving climate science forward. The webinars are held on the third Wednesday of the month @ 2pm ET.
Variations Webinar Series
This series features presentations from the most recent edition of the quarterly publication, Variations. Hear from a variety of speakers on topics related to climate variability and predictability on interseasonal-to-centennial time scales. The webinars will be held quarterly upon release of next Variations edition.
Usable Climate Risk Science Webinar Series
Hosted by the US CLIVAR Working Group on Accelerating Research on the Scientific Foundations of Regional Climate Risk Information, this webinar series explores the growing demand for actionable information on climate hazards and risks.