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IRP Proposals Accepted February 11 - March 25IRP Proposals Accepted February 11 - March 25The CIRES Innovative Research Program will begin accepting applications February 11; all materials are due March 25 through this InsideCIRES link. The IRP is designed to stimulate a creative research environment within CIRES and to encourage synergy between disciplines and research colleagues. The intent is to support small research efforts that can quickly provide concept viability or rule out further consideration. The program encourages novel, unconventional or fundamental research that might otherwise be difficult to fund. Funded projects are inventive, sometimes opportunistic, and do not necessarily have an immediate practical application or guarantee of success. This program supports pilot or exploratory studies, which may provide rapid results. Activities are not tightly restricted and can range from instrument development, lab testing, and field observations to model development, evaluation, and application. DateMonday, February 11, 2019 to Monday, March 25, 2019 2019 (All day) LinkResourcescontactChristine.Wiedinmyer@colorado.edu »
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IRP Proposals Accepted February 11 - March 25IRP Proposals Accepted February 11 - March 25The CIRES Innovative Research Program will begin accepting applications February 11; all materials are due March 25 through this InsideCIRES link. The IRP is designed to stimulate a creative research environment within CIRES and to encourage synergy between disciplines and research colleagues. The intent is to support small research efforts that can quickly provide concept viability or rule out further consideration. The program encourages novel, unconventional or fundamental research that might otherwise be difficult to fund. Funded projects are inventive, sometimes opportunistic, and do not necessarily have an immediate practical application or guarantee of success. This program supports pilot or exploratory studies, which may provide rapid results. Activities are not tightly restricted and can range from instrument development, lab testing, and field observations to model development, evaluation, and application. DateMonday, February 11, 2019 to Monday, March 25, 2019 2019 (All day) LinkResourcescontactChristine.Wiedinmyer@colorado.edu »
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Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar
Atmospheric Chemistry Program SeminarUnderstanding the Fate of Amines: Reactions with Oxygenates by Mitch Alton, CU ANYL 3rd year, Browne group "Atmospheric aliphatic amines and ammonia have been previously reported to participate in various chemical reactions including brown carbon formation, accretion reactions forming amides, imine and enamine formation, and acid-base cluster stabilization reactions that can enhance new particle formation. As anthropogenic reactive nitrogen emissions continue to increase to keep pace with world population and food demands, the interaction of these amines and ammonia with organic compounds in the atmosphere needs to be further investigated to better understand the impacts of these emissions on air quality and the environment. I will discuss a series of chamber experiments that investigated the effects of different aliphatic amines and ammonia on secondary aerosol formation from the ozonolysis of α-pinene without the use of seed aerosol. Using hierarchical clustering analysis, different fates of α-pinene ozonolysis products with amines/ammonia were identified. Various observed reactions between amines/ammonia and α-pinene ozonolysis products to form enamines, imines, amides, and acid-base clusters will be explored to show the complex chemistry that can occur during aerosol formation and growth. Finally, I will discuss how acid-base stabilization reactions are the most important contributions to particle nucleation in this system. " DateMonday, March 4, 2019 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00 Host
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Engaged Scientist Public Lecture
Engaged Scientist Public LectureAre you a scientist grappling with the question of how to make your research more usable? Join Lisa Dilling, Director of Western Water Assessment, for a public talk on usable science, followed by a panel discussion featuring CU Boulder researchers (CIRES' Jeff Deems, Arnaud Chulliat, and Lise St. Denis) whose science has been used beyond the university. Through the talk and panel discussion, we will explore different pathways to usable science, look at practical considerations and pitfalls, and learn from some of the researchers who have made usable science a major part of their careers. DateWednesday, March 6, 2019 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00 LinkHost
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CSTPR Noontime Seminar![]() Solutions for nature and people: bridging the ecological and social dimensions of conservation by Charlotte Chang, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee Abstract: Achieving conservation success requires a detailed understanding of the dynamics of species and ecosystems. It also requires integrating people and the social motivations that determine how individuals, communities, and institutions interact with ecological systems when seeking to develop conservation solutions. I will show how this integration can be achieved by focusing on the tropical bushmeat crisis as an example. I will illustrate the ubiquity of terrestrial harvesting threats to species, show how models of decision-making behavior link human agents with ecological outcomes, and provide tools and recommendations to improve conservation practice. Measuring compliance with conservation regulations is critical for evaluating conservation success, but it has been challenging to assess in many regions at the forefront of environmental issues. I will show how to quantify non-compliance and I will describe how incorporating human decision-making behavior can lead to more effective conservation management strategies. Charlotte Chang (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univ.) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at NIMBioS. She is exploring the impact of diverse socio-cultural hunting practices as well as the response of hunting pressure to the spatial and temporal distribution of different harvested goods. DateWednesday, March 6, 2019 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00 LinkHost
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CSTPR/Aerospace/ESOC Seminar
CSTPR/Aerospace/ESOC Seminar![]() Open data: The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data by Mariel Borowitz, Assistant Professor, Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech SPECIAL SEMINAR: Cohosted by Aerospace/CIRES/CSTPR/ESOC Understanding and addressing environmental challenges, including climate change, requires access to accurate data from many sources. In some cases, government agencies that operate Earth-observing satellites have been leaders in this regard, making their data freely available to all users. In fact, some of the earliest references to "open data" can be traced back to early government satellite projects. However, many governments continue to restrict access to their unclassified Earth-observing satellite data, and even those that now make their data freely available did not always do so. Open Data: The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data examines how government agencies developed data sharing policies for their Earth observation satellites and how these data sharing policies changed over time. Mariel Borowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. Her research deals with international space policy issues, primarily international cooperation in Earth-observing satellites and satellite data sharing policies. Her research interests extend to human space exploration strategy and developments in space security and space situational awareness. Dr. Borowitz earned a PhD in Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a Master’s degree in International Science and Technology Policy from the George Washington University. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also earned a minor in Applied International Studies. Dr. Borowitz was on detail at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC from 2016 to 2018. 2019-03-08 |
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IRP Proposals Accepted February 11 - March 25IRP Proposals Accepted February 11 - March 25The CIRES Innovative Research Program will begin accepting applications February 11; all materials are due March 25 through this InsideCIRES link. The IRP is designed to stimulate a creative research environment within CIRES and to encourage synergy between disciplines and research colleagues. The intent is to support small research efforts that can quickly provide concept viability or rule out further consideration. The program encourages novel, unconventional or fundamental research that might otherwise be difficult to fund. Funded projects are inventive, sometimes opportunistic, and do not necessarily have an immediate practical application or guarantee of success. This program supports pilot or exploratory studies, which may provide rapid results. Activities are not tightly restricted and can range from instrument development, lab testing, and field observations to model development, evaluation, and application. DateMonday, February 11, 2019 to Monday, March 25, 2019 2019 (All day) LinkResourcescontactChristine.Wiedinmyer@colorado.edu »
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CIRES Members Council Meeting
CIRES Members Council MeetingThe CIRES Members Council (CMC) is a link between you as a CIRES member and the CIRES administration. We will be meeting at the private room at the back of the restaurant. -- Report from CIRES Rendezvous Update -- Report from Outstanding Performance Awards (OPA) committee -- Discussion of on-campus family housing Please RSVP to mistia.zuckerman@colorado.edu if you plan to attend (so we can have an accurate head count).
2019-03-11 Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar
Atmospheric Chemistry Program SeminarChemical intuition on the oxidation mechanism of Hg(0) in the gaseous atmosphere by Prof. Theodore Dibble, SUNY-ESF "Mercury harms ecosystems and harms human health on account of consumption of fish near the top of the food chain. The atmosphere transports mercury around the globe from emission sources (e.g., power plants, re- emission from ecosystems). These emissions are mostly in the form of Hg(0) (atomic mercury), but deposition of Hg(II) compounds dominates transfer from the atmosphere to the Earth. Investigations of the kinetics and mechanism of Hg(0) oxidation in the atmosphere present many challenges to experiment. Field studies are still plagued by interferences and issues of quantification. In the past several years my group has made great strides in understanding gas- phase oxidation of Hg(0). These advances have come from chemical intuition and quantum chemistry calculations. The first critical advance came in recognizing that BrHg radical was much more likely to react with atmospherically abundant radicals, •Y, such as NO2 and HOO, (see Figure 1) than with OH or Br, which had been the only two reactants included in models of BrHg• chemistry. Theory suggests very large rate constants for reactions of BrHg with Y. Experiments on BrHg• chemistry and kinetics are starting, but have yet to produce results. The second major point was to realize that BrHgONO, like HONO, would photolyze at tropospherically relevant wavelengths to yield BrHgO•. Subsequent studies revealed that BrHgO• behaved a lot like OH (left half of Figure 1), although BrHgO• is better at hydrogen abstraction than OH. ![]() Finally, we have used theory to quantify the equilibrium constant for OH + Hg <-> HOHg and show that bond energies for HOHg-Y are essentially the same as those for BrHg-Y. With a few assumptions, this lets us build a mechanism and set of rate constants for atmospheric modeling of OH-initiated oxidation of Hg(0) to Hg(II)." DateMonday, March 11, 2019 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00 Host
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CSTPR Noontime Seminar
CSTPR Noontime Seminar![]() Social (in)justice in coastal relocation PLEASE NOTE: This talk has been cancelled. The CU Campus is closed today due to winter weather conditions. As sea levels rise, beaches erode, and coastal storms grow in frequency and intensity, global coastal communities are increasingly at risk. Some areas are so at risk that homeowners and local leaders have decided to retreat: to relocate buildings and people out of vulnerable floodplains. Retreat is politically controversial and has been shown to cause economic, social, and psychological harms to the people who relocate, and yet, as the effects of climate change become more extreme, more and more communities are expected to need to retreat from the coasts. This talk will describe what over 40,000 federally funded property acquisitions in U.S. floodplains have taught us about managing retreat and what lessons are still to be learned. Case studies of retreat, spatial analysis, and on-going research projects are used to highlight the challenges inherent in achieving risk reduction, environmental conservation, and social justice goals in coastal adaptation. A.R. Siders is an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation governance, exploring how institutional and social structures affect decisions around adaptation policies and how those policies affect social justice and risk reduction outcomes. She also collaborates with consulting companies and non-profit organizations to integrate climate change adaptation into disaster risk reduction and resilience efforts. She previously served as a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Navy and Associate Director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, where she worked on post-Hurricane Sandy recovery. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. DateWednesday, March 13, 2019 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00 LinkHost
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IRP Proposals Accepted February 11 - March 25IRP Proposals Accepted February 11 - March 25The CIRES Innovative Research Program will begin accepting applications February 11; all materials are due March 25 through this InsideCIRES link. The IRP is designed to stimulate a creative research environment within CIRES and to encourage synergy between disciplines and research colleagues. The intent is to support small research efforts that can quickly provide concept viability or rule out further consideration. The program encourages novel, unconventional or fundamental research that might otherwise be difficult to fund. Funded projects are inventive, sometimes opportunistic, and do not necessarily have an immediate practical application or guarantee of success. This program supports pilot or exploratory studies, which may provide rapid results. Activities are not tightly restricted and can range from instrument development, lab testing, and field observations to model development, evaluation, and application. DateMonday, February 11, 2019 to Monday, March 25, 2019 2019 (All day) LinkResourcescontactChristine.Wiedinmyer@colorado.edu »
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Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar
Atmospheric Chemistry Program SeminarMultiphase chemistry of volatile-organic-compound oxidation products under pre-industrial conditions by Prof Frank Keutsch, Harvard "Oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is an important atmospheric process tied to the formation of secondary pollutants such as ozone and secondary aerosol. Research in the Keutsch Group has been focusing on VOC oxidation chemistry under preindustrial conditions, which primarily produces organic hydroperoxides. I will discuss recent results on the multi- phase chemistry of some of the most abundant multifunctional organic hydroperoxides, which result from isoprene oxidation. The results have implications for our understanding of gas- and aerosol aspects of the reactive carbon cycle as well as sulfate formation via cloud processing." DateMonday, March 18, 2019 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00 Host
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Addressing Bias in Professional relationships: From the office to the field
Addressing Bias in Professional relationships: From the office to the fieldHave you ever heard a comment from a colleague that is based in some underlying assumption about your or another colleague's ability? Need advice on how to handle a situation like this in your office/lab or in field? Join CGA for a discussion with a panel of distinguished guests who will share valuable insights on bias and discrimination. Learn about the different approaches you can take based on what kind of position you hold in your career and help us open up this discussion further with your insightful questions! Dr. Susan Sullivan, CIRES Dr. Kristy Tiampo, CIRES Dr. Hazel Bain, CIRES Dr. Chelsea Thompson, Scientific Aviation Recording of panel: DateWednesday, March 20, 2019 2019 - 14:00 Host
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2019-03-20 Cryospheric and Polar Processes Seminar
Cryospheric and Polar Processes SeminarAdvancing Water Supply Forecasts in the Colorado River Basin for Improved Decision Making by Paul Micheletty, Research Hydrologist at RTI International Abstract: Water supply forecasting in the western United States is inextricably linked to snowmelt processes, as approximately 70-85% of total annual runoff comes from water stored in seasonal mountain snowpacks. Snowmelt-generated streamflow is vital to a variety of downstream uses; the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) alone provides water supply for 25 million people, irrigation water for 3.5 million acres, and drives hydropower generation at Lake Powell. April-July water supply forecasts produced by the National Weather Service (NWS) Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) are critical to basin water management. The primary objective of this project as part of the NASA Water Resources Applied Science Program, is to improve water supply forecasting for the UCRB by assimilating satellite and ground snowpack observations into distributed hydrologic models. In addition, we are working with stakeholders Denver Water and the Dolores Water Conservancy District to demonstrate how the probabilistic ensemble forecast information can be used to improve water management decision making. TO JOIN BY ZOOM: DateWednesday, March 20, 2019 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00 MST Host
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