Post by Sara Ganetis on Aug 28, 2013 18:41:00 GMT
At the current and past universities that I've attended there was always a weekly or bi-weekly seminar during which speakers from around the region would present their new and exciting research to the faculty and students of our department. It was a great opportunity to hear what people were up to especially if you didn't have the means of traveling to a conference. And there was usually cookies!
Do your departments have seminars like the one I described above? If so, share who visited and what they presented on. Try to keep it as objective as possible, of course! As young scientists, we are really impressionable from the experienced scientists we see. I'd like to encourage everyone to share some tidbits on what you found interesting about your speaker. Thanks!
Today at SBU we had the first session of our Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar. The speaker was Dr. Michael Rawlins from UMass Amherst and he presented a talk titled, "Expected Future Changes in Air Temperature and Precipitation Across the Northeast United States as Projected by Regional Climate Models." His 2012 JGR paper is found here. Essentially what he spoke about were the spatial trends from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) focused over the sub-domain of the Northeast United States. This dataset used regional climate models (RCMs) that were forced from global climate models (GCMs) so they created a dataset of the RCM ouput that Dr. Rawlins analyzed over the Northeast. He found some interesting and statistically significant results from this dataset related to temperature and precipitation trends.* For example, winter precipitation (not necessarily snow because of the likely rising of temperatures) increased during the 2041-2070 period as compared to the 1971-2000 period by 10-15%. He used some interesting plots to combine information called Taylor diagrams (more info here) which graphically showed how closely a pattern matches observations. Check out his JGR paper here and his research interests here for more information if you are interested in his study.
*He's not saying this is what the future holds with absolute certainty, he's just analyzing the output from this particular dataset.
My department actually has a YouTube Channel where they post some recorded presentations if you wanted to check it out (link). For a direct link to the presentation described in detail above, click here. Post about your own department's speakers by replying below!
Do your departments have seminars like the one I described above? If so, share who visited and what they presented on. Try to keep it as objective as possible, of course! As young scientists, we are really impressionable from the experienced scientists we see. I'd like to encourage everyone to share some tidbits on what you found interesting about your speaker. Thanks!
Today at SBU we had the first session of our Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar. The speaker was Dr. Michael Rawlins from UMass Amherst and he presented a talk titled, "Expected Future Changes in Air Temperature and Precipitation Across the Northeast United States as Projected by Regional Climate Models." His 2012 JGR paper is found here. Essentially what he spoke about were the spatial trends from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) focused over the sub-domain of the Northeast United States. This dataset used regional climate models (RCMs) that were forced from global climate models (GCMs) so they created a dataset of the RCM ouput that Dr. Rawlins analyzed over the Northeast. He found some interesting and statistically significant results from this dataset related to temperature and precipitation trends.* For example, winter precipitation (not necessarily snow because of the likely rising of temperatures) increased during the 2041-2070 period as compared to the 1971-2000 period by 10-15%. He used some interesting plots to combine information called Taylor diagrams (more info here) which graphically showed how closely a pattern matches observations. Check out his JGR paper here and his research interests here for more information if you are interested in his study.
*He's not saying this is what the future holds with absolute certainty, he's just analyzing the output from this particular dataset.
My department actually has a YouTube Channel where they post some recorded presentations if you wanted to check it out (link). For a direct link to the presentation described in detail above, click here. Post about your own department's speakers by replying below!
