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CIRES Town Hall

CIRES Town Hall

Please join CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati for another CIRES Town Hall on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, for both CU Boulder and NOAA-based employees. 

If you have a question you’d like the Director to address, please send it in (signed or anonymously) by Monday at 3 pm through https://insidecires.colorado.edu/news/surveyfaqs.html

 

Join by Zoom:

https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/92313382668

Date

Tuesday, May 4, 2021
9:00 am to 10:00 am

Link

Host

  • CIRES

Audience

  • CIRES employees

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  • Meeting

Resources

2021-05-04
 
 
 
 
 
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Virtual ESOC Coffee Hour

Virtual ESOC Coffee Hour

ESOC virtual coffee hour occurs weekly from 9-10am on Wednesdays. We will be meeting remotely on Zoom. Please email Claire Waugh (waughc@colorado.edu) for information.

ESOC researchers, post-docs and graduate students gather for conversation and to discuss research. Occasional guest speakers are invited to give short presentations on topics of interest.

Date

Wednesday, May 12, 2021
9:00 am to 10:00 am

Host

  • ESOC

Audience

  • CIRES employees
  • NOAA employees
  • Science collaborators

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  • Other

contact

Claire Waugh; waughc@colorado.edu

Location

2021-05-12
 
Braiding your River: CIRES Career Development Series

Braiding your River: CIRES Career Development Series

Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers with Dana Stamo (STEM Routes) and Rebecca Batchelor (CIRES E&O, GEO-REU Network). Additional info & registration details can be found here on the E&O website. 

 

This is the first presentation in a three-part monthly series, focused on developing diverse professional skills. Brought to you by CIRES E&O, the CIRES Mentoring Program, and CIRES HR (other dates and topics below).

 

  • June 17: Collaborative, Interdisciplinary, Team Science
  • July 15: Building a Meaningful Support Network

Date

Thursday, May 13, 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

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Host

  • Education & Outreach

Audience

  • CIRES employees

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  • Training

Resources

2021-05-13
 
NC CASC Webinar Series: "Grass-Cast: A grassland productivity forecast"

NC CASC Webinar Series: "Grass-Cast: A grassland productivity forecast"

Please join us for the NC CASC webinar on Thursday, May 13, 2021, 11a -12p MDT:

"Grass-Cast: a grassland productivity forecast to inform rangeland management decisions in the Great Plains and Southwest"

Presented by: Dannele Peck, Director of the USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpdO-srD4tGNTKSg19pPufOYPPz...

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Abstract:
The Grassland Productivity Forecast or “Grass-Cast” uses over 30 years of historical data on weather and vegetation growth—combined with satellite NDVI data and seasonal precipitation scenarios—to predict if rangelands in individual ~6 mile x 6 mile areas are likely to produce above-normal, near-normal, or below-normal amounts of vegetation. Grass-Cast can help public and private rangeland managers throughout the Great Plains and Southwest adaptively manage lands by providing early warning of drought-induced vegetation shortages. It was first released to the public in 2018 for the Northern Great Plains, then expanded to the Southern Great Plains in 2019, and most recently to the Southwest states of New Mexico and Arizona in 2020. Originally developed to inform rangeland livestock management decisions, Grass-Cast can also be relevant for management and modeling of wildlife populations that depend on grassland habitat. As a member of the Grass-Cast science and outreach team, Dr. Peck looks forward to the unique opportunity this webinar provides to share Grass-Cast with a ecosystems and wildlife-oriented audience—to discover, together, its potential applications beyond livestock.    

About the speaker:
Dr. Dannele Peck is Director of the USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub, based out of Fort Collins, Colorado. The Hubs connect working-land managers with science-based resources and partners to empower climate-smart decision-making. Prior to joining USDA Agricultural Research Service in 2016, Dr. Peck was an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Wyoming. She specializes in decision-making under uncertainty, including agricultural drought preparedness and response, and disease management at the livestock-wildlife interface. Raised on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Dr. Peck is a first-generation college student and proud alumna of the McNair Scholars Program. She holds a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics, both from the University of Wyoming, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural & Resource Economics from Oregon State University.

Past NC CASC Webinar Recordings: https://nccasc.colorado.edu/webinars

Dates for future NC CASC webinars:

June 10, 2021, 11a-12p MDT

July 8, 2021, 11a-12p MDT

August 12, 2021, 11a-12p MDT

September 9, 2021, 11a-12p MDT

October 14, 2021, 11a-12p MDT

November 11, 2021, 11a-12p MST

December 9, 2021, 11a-12p MST

Date

Thursday, May 13, 2021
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
MDT

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  • NCCASC

Audience

  • General Public

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  • Other
  • Open to Public
2021-05-13
 
 
 
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Virtual ESOC Coffee Hour

Virtual ESOC Coffee Hour

ESOC virtual coffee hour occurs weekly from 9-10am on Wednesdays. We will be meeting remotely on Zoom. Please email Claire Waugh (waughc@colorado.edu) for information.

ESOC researchers, post-docs and graduate students gather for conversation and to discuss research. Occasional guest speakers are invited to give short presentations on topics of interest.

Date

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
9:00 am to 10:00 am

Host

  • ESOC

Audience

  • CIRES employees
  • NOAA employees
  • Science collaborators

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  • Other

contact

Claire Waugh; waughc@colorado.edu

Location

2021-05-19
 
 
2021 CIRES Rendezvous

2021 CIRES Rendezvous

The CIRES Members' Council is pleased to announce the 16th annual CIRES Rendezvous! This year’s virtual event will take place on Friday, May 21, 2021, from 10 am to 4:30 pm.

 

Tentative Agenda

State of the Institute/Awards — 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Break/Grab some lunch — 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Getting to know Topia — 12:30 pm -1:00 pm

Poster Sessions/Chance to interact with all your colleagues — 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

 

If you have any questions, please contact the Rendezvous 2021 Planning Committee: 
Dawn UmplebyMeg Tilton, or Linda Pendergrass

 

For more information and important links/deadlines, refer to this page.

Date

Friday, May 21, 2021
10:00 am to 4:30 pm

Host

  • CIRES
  • CMC

Audience

  • CIRES employees

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  • Annual Event
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NSIDC Cryosphere Seminar

NSIDC Cryosphere Seminar

Remote Sensing Observations of Melt Ponds on Summer Sea Ice with Ellen Buckley, University of Maryland in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

The end of summer Arctic sea ice extent is declining at a rate of 13.1% per decade. Melt ponds that form on the sea ice in the summer absorb more incoming solar radiation than the surrounding sea ice, and enhance snow and ice melt through the ice-albedo feedback. New high-resolution measurements of sea ice provide the opportunity to enhance our understanding of Arctic-wide summer sea ice processes. In our work, we use a suite of remote sensing observations from Operation IceBridge, ICESat-2, and Sentinel-2 to derive parameters that describe characteristics of the ice as it undergoes melt and disintegration. We take advantage of coincident optical imagery and laser altimetry measurements to examine automated approaches for melt pond detection. We have also developed a bespoke algorithm to estimate the depth and volume of ponds on multiyear sea ice. Our goal is to generate novel data products that are publicly available to the sea ice community and may be used for model validation and initialization, or for understanding the ecological effects of light penetration and freshwater flux through the ponded sea ice. 

Ellen Buckley is a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Maryland in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences using remote sensing to study Arctic sea ice. She plans to defend her PhD thesis in Spring 2022. Ellen received her Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University in 2015. 

Date

Wednesday, May 26, 2021
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
MST

Link

Host

  • NSIDC

Audience

  • CIRES employees
  • CIRES families
  • CU Boulder employees
  • General Public
  • NOAA employees
  • Science collaborators

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  • Seminar
  • Open to Public

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contact

Mistia Zuckerman at NSIDC

2021-05-26
 
Virtual ESOC Coffee Hour

Virtual ESOC Coffee Hour

ESOC virtual coffee hour occurs weekly from 9-10am on Wednesdays. We will be meeting remotely on Zoom. Please email Claire Waugh (waughc@colorado.edu) for information.

ESOC researchers, post-docs and graduate students gather for conversation and to discuss research. Occasional guest speakers are invited to give short presentations on topics of interest.

Date

Wednesday, May 26, 2021
9:00 am to 10:00 am

Host

  • ESOC

Audience

  • CIRES employees
  • NOAA employees
  • Science collaborators

Type

  • Other

contact

Claire Waugh; waughc@colorado.edu

Location

2021-05-26
 
 
 
 
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