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Supervisor and Science Advisor ASA DEI Prompt Information Session
Supervisor and Science Advisor ASA DEI Prompt Information SessionLearn what’s different in the ASA DEI prompt this year, how it is intended to be used, and answers to questions supervisors may have. Federal science advisors are invited to attend. https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97215347184, Meeting ID: 972 1534 7184, +17193594580,,97215347184# US 2023-02-06 AAAS "Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" Workshop Student Competition Applications Due
AAAS "Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" Workshop Student Competition Applications DueThe CASE Workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn from science policy and advocacy experts about the role of science in policymaking and the federal policy-making process. This entry-level program is organized to educate STEM students who are interested in learning about the role of science in policy-making, to introduce them to the federal policy-making process, and to empower them with ways to become a voice for basic research throughout their careers. During the workshop, students will learn about the structure and organization of Congress, the federal budget and appropriations processes, and tools for effective science communication and civic engagement. In addition, students will participate in interactive seminars about policymaking and communication. The 2023 CASE Workshop will be held in-person in Washington, DC, on March 26-29, 2023. COMPETITION DETAILS The CIRES Center for Social and Environmental Futures (C-SEF) and the CU Department of Environmental Studies (ENVS) are hosting a competition to send two CU Boulder students to Washington, DC to attend the workshop. The competition is open to any full-time CU Boulder graduate student or upper-class undergraduate in one of the following fields: Biological, physical, or earth sciences; Computational sciences and mathematics; Engineering disciplines; Medical and health sciences; and Social and behavioral sciences. The competition is supported by the CU Graduate School. Competition winners will have their expenses covered, including transportation, hotel, and registration for the workshop. They will be asked to submit a brief report about their workshop experience and participate in a panel discussion in the following academic year. To apply: Please submit a one-page statement explaining the importance of the workshop to your career development and a one-page resume to csef@colorado.edu by 11:59 pm MT on February 6, 2023. The review committee will select two students from those who apply. Contact: jennifer.katzung@colorado.edu DateMonday, February 6, 2023 11:45 pm LinkHost
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Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Prof. Greg Rieker & Prof. Scott DiddamsFrequency comb spectroscopy: from Nobel prize to practical application Prof. Greg Rieker & Prof. Scott Diddams, "The first frequency comb laser was demonstrated on the CU Boulder campus in 1999 in Jan Hall’s lab at JILA. In the two decades since, the technology has proliferated across a vast array of scientific fields from timekeeping and astronomy, to low-noise frequency synthesis and precision spectroscopy for fundamental physics. In recent years, it made the jump to practical applications at the forefront of climate and energy, for example as the foundation of a sensor network detecting methane leaks across 750 sq. miles of oil and gas infrastructure. Prof Diddams will discuss the evolution of frequency comb lasers, metrology and sensing techniques developed in his laboratory at NIST and now CU, which are pushing the boundaries of sensing from the UV to the THz, and from macro to micro-scale comb systems. Prof. Rieker will discuss the push toward robust, fieldable frequency comb systems and practical applications, ending with recent collaborative work between the laboratories on sensing in high-speed chemically reacting systems." DateMonday, February 6, 2023 12:15 pm Host
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C-SEF Zoom Social: Corey S. Lesk, Dartmouth College
C-SEF Zoom Social: Corey S. Lesk, Dartmouth CollegeC-SEF Zoom Social Series Mitigation and adaptation emissions embedded in the broader climate transition The broader climate transition will involve massive deployment of renewable energy and adaptations like enhanced space cooling and coastal protection and retreat. These interventions require energy and materials, resulting in CO2 emissions. But the magnitude of these emissions remains unconstrained, opening the potential for under-accounting of future emissions and conflicts or synergies between mitigation and adaptation goals. I’ll show that these embedded transition emissions are likely considerable, reaching 185GtCO2 under a pathway consistent with current policies (2.7 °C warming by 2100). But there is good news: embedded transition emissions can be minimized by a faster transition to clean energy. This is part of a regular C-SEF Zoom Social series, to build community and brainstorm research ideas. All are welcome. 2023-02-09 NC CASC Webinar: Wynne Moss, USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
NC CASC Webinar: Wynne Moss, USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science CenterDrought, despite being an episodic phenomenon, is capable of triggering persistent changes to ecosystems, with important consequences for both biodiversity and human communities. These transformational ecological droughts (TEDs) are increasing globally as a function of changing drought conditions, compounding stressors (including competing water use with humans), land management legacies, and novel climate contexts. Making decisions about how to adapt to these transformations is impaired by a limited recognition of the widespread potential for TEDs, a lack of understanding about the mechanisms by which transformation may occur, and uncertainty about the potential ecological trajectories such transformations will take. In this presentation, I will share the results of an interdisciplinary science synthesis that focused on how the risk of transformational drought is changing in the 21st century. I will provide a broad overview of the phenomenon of TED, including the diverse pathways by which it leads to transformation, highlighting mechanisms and case studies relevant to the North Central region.
About the speaker: Wynne Moss is an ecologist and conservation biologist interested in how wild populations respond to environmental stressors, including land use transformation, climate change, and infectious disease. She is currently a biologist with the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center. Previously, Wynne worked as a postdoctoral scientist with Conservation Science Partners, an NC CASC consortium partner. Her postdoctoral research, funded by the National CASC, used collaborative science synthesis to better understand the potential for drought to trigger ecological transformation. She has a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado. Wynne's dissertation work examined the interactions between amphibians and the concurrent threats of drought, infectious disease, and invasive species. She holds a M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her master’s research focused on the behavioral responses of mountain lions to increasing urbanization. You can read more about Wynne’s research at https://wynnemoss.weebly.com/. DateThursday, February 9, 2023 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Host
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CIRES Supervisor Best Practices Training
CIRES Supervisor Best Practices TrainingPlease join the CIRES HR Team for the 2023 Supervisor Best Practices Training Session. Session is open to all CIRES employees and science advisors and is recommended for all CIRES supervisors as part of the supervisor training series offered each year. Session will be recorded and posted to insideCIRES. Join Via Zoom here. Meeting ID: 924 0092 6534 One tap mobile +17193594580,,92400926534# US +12532158782,,92400926534# US (Tacoma)
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contactcireshr@colorado.edu LocationVirtual 2023-02-13 Applications Open: CIRES Innovative Research Program
Applications Open: CIRES Innovative Research ProgramThe Innovative Research Program 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. The 2023 IRP competition opens February 13, 2023. Applications will be due March 27, 2023. Submit your proposal online. You must have a CIRES login and password to access the online application. 2023-02-13 Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Marina Friedel, IAC, ETH Zuerich
Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Marina Friedel, IAC, ETH ZuerichSpringtime Arctic ozone depletion forces northern hemisphere climate anomalies Marina Friedel, "Large-scale chemical depletion of ozone due to anthropogenic emissions of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) can occur, albeit infrequently, over the Arctic. Such ozone depletion events are consistently followed by surface temperature and precipitation anomalies over vast parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Using chemistry-climate models, it can be shown that the loss of stratospheric ozone is an important cause of these surface anomalies, as it leads to persistently cold temperatures in the lower stratosphere and alters stratospheric dynamics. Including chemical processes involving ozone in forecast models could therefore increase predictability on a sub-seasonal to seasonal scale. Similarly, the long-term trend in Arctic ozone caused by the decline of CFCs also has important implications for stratospheric temperature and dynamics. The imminent recovery of the ozone layer will heat the polar stratosphere, and its fingerprint is expected to be seen all the way down to the surface, as model simulations show. Therefore, a realistic representation of ozone in climate models is required to reduce uncertainty in climate projections.” DateMonday, February 13, 2023 12:15 pm Host
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Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Tunga Salthammer, Fraunhofer WKI
Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Tunga Salthammer, Fraunhofer WKIAssessment of indoor air quality using substance-specific guide values and TVOC Prof. Tunga Salthammer "The primary goal of indoor hygiene studies is to create a pleasant and healthy environment for people. This requires a sufficient supply of fresh air and the setting of climatic parameters that lead to thermal comfort. However, the concentration of air pollutants must also be kept as low as possible. A complete measurement program to study indoor air quality can be both time-consuming and expensive. For this reason, parameters that can be measured easily and quickly are often used for an initial assessment of the situation. One of these parameters is TVOC (Total Volatile Organic Compounds). The current situation makes it necessary to subject VVOC, VOC, SVOC and TVOC measurements to a critical analysis due to their widespread use in questions of indoor air quality and to the evaluation of emissions of organic compounds from building and consumer products. A detailed description of the measurement methods is followed by a critical evaluation of the various TVOC values, their possible applications and guide values for individual compounds. The aim is to provide a deeper understanding of TVOC in order to use this parameter correctly and to be able to better assess published results. The analytical definition of VOCs also suggests total values TVVOC and TSVOC for very volatile and semi volatile organic compounds. However, due to the physical properties of the potential target chemicals, this is associated with a number of drawbacks. Early work on TVOC was trend-setting and still influences current indoor guide values, even if many VOCs are no longer representative from today's perspective. The spectrum of indoor VOCs has shifted significantly: away from classic solvents and more towards reactive compounds and indoor chemistry. However, within the framework of surveys TVOC can make contributions to identifying statistical trends and reference values can be extracted from the data collected in this way. The online measured TVOC values are at best suitable for screening IAQ. TVOC does not take into account the toxicological properties of the individual substances for inhalation exposure. This would not even be possible, since different substances usually have different toxicological endpoints that cannot simply be summed up for a reliable risk assessment. Therefore, measurements of individual substances are usually evaluated using substance-specific guide values. Consequently, TVOC cannot be used in connection with health-related and odor-related issues. Nevertheless, such references are repeatedly made, either intentionally or unintentionally. This happens in an analytical but also in an interpretative sense. Authorities, practitioners and architects use TVOC as an acceptance criterion for buildings, but without specifying the methodology. Overall, there is a great deal of uncertainty about TVOC. This applies in particular to the question of whether and why a TVOC value can be helpful and which statements cannot be made on the basis of the TVOC." Reference: Salthammer, T. (2022). TVOC revisited. Environment International, 167, 107440, DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107440 (published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). DateWednesday, February 15, 2023 to Monday, February 20, 2023 12:15 pm Host
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CIRES OPA Nominations Due
CIRES OPA Nominations DueCIRES OPA Nominations Due The CIRES Outstanding Performance Awards are targeted at projects that are novel, high impact and show remarkable creativity or resourcefulness. As of 2006, these awards have been separated into two distinct categories: *Science and Engineering Awards* and *Service Awards*, recognizing CIRES members for their outstanding contributions to scientific research or engineering work, and for outstanding service in administration, information technology, project management, outreach, or other work not directly related to scientific research or engineering. Nominations are due here by February 15, 2023. (Support letters will be due February 24.) DateWednesday, February 15, 2023 5:00 pm Host
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Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Tunga Salthammer, Fraunhofer WKI Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Tunga Salthammer, Fraunhofer WKIAssessment of indoor air quality using substance-specific guide values and TVOC Prof. Tunga Salthammer "The primary goal of indoor hygiene studies is to create a pleasant and healthy environment for people. This requires a sufficient supply of fresh air and the setting of climatic parameters that lead to thermal comfort. However, the concentration of air pollutants must also be kept as low as possible. A complete measurement program to study indoor air quality can be both time-consuming and expensive. For this reason, parameters that can be measured easily and quickly are often used for an initial assessment of the situation. One of these parameters is TVOC (Total Volatile Organic Compounds). The current situation makes it necessary to subject VVOC, VOC, SVOC and TVOC measurements to a critical analysis due to their widespread use in questions of indoor air quality and to the evaluation of emissions of organic compounds from building and consumer products. A detailed description of the measurement methods is followed by a critical evaluation of the various TVOC values, their possible applications and guide values for individual compounds. The aim is to provide a deeper understanding of TVOC in order to use this parameter correctly and to be able to better assess published results. The analytical definition of VOCs also suggests total values TVVOC and TSVOC for very volatile and semi volatile organic compounds. However, due to the physical properties of the potential target chemicals, this is associated with a number of drawbacks. Early work on TVOC was trend-setting and still influences current indoor guide values, even if many VOCs are no longer representative from today's perspective. The spectrum of indoor VOCs has shifted significantly: away from classic solvents and more towards reactive compounds and indoor chemistry. However, within the framework of surveys TVOC can make contributions to identifying statistical trends and reference values can be extracted from the data collected in this way. The online measured TVOC values are at best suitable for screening IAQ. TVOC does not take into account the toxicological properties of the individual substances for inhalation exposure. This would not even be possible, since different substances usually have different toxicological endpoints that cannot simply be summed up for a reliable risk assessment. Therefore, measurements of individual substances are usually evaluated using substance-specific guide values. Consequently, TVOC cannot be used in connection with health-related and odor-related issues. Nevertheless, such references are repeatedly made, either intentionally or unintentionally. This happens in an analytical but also in an interpretative sense. Authorities, practitioners and architects use TVOC as an acceptance criterion for buildings, but without specifying the methodology. Overall, there is a great deal of uncertainty about TVOC. This applies in particular to the question of whether and why a TVOC value can be helpful and which statements cannot be made on the basis of the TVOC." Reference: Salthammer, T. (2022). TVOC revisited. Environment International, 167, 107440, DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107440 (published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). DateWednesday, February 15, 2023 to Monday, February 20, 2023 12:15 pm Host
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February 2023 CIRES Members' Council Meeting
February 2023 CIRES Members' Council MeetingPlease join the CMC for their monthly meeting. Join by Google Meet or phone: meet.google.com/vee-dwjy-cji or (US) +1 502-443-0399 PIN: 491275827 DateTuesday, February 21, 2023 11:00 am to 12:30 pm LinkHost
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ResourcescontactAgnieszka Gautier 2023-02-21 |
NSIDC Cryosphere Seminar
NSIDC Cryosphere SeminarTitle: The Russian Maritime Arctic: Region of Great Change in the 21st Century with Dr. Lawson Brigham Abstract: The Russian North and the maritime Arctic are critically important to the future of the Russian state. This vast, cold region should be viewed from three key perspectives: national security, environmental change, and economic development. Russia's long, open border to the Arctic Ocean is a strategic vulnerability as well as a coastline that provides essential maritime access to a remote but developing region (and access to one largest storehouses of global natural resources). Great environmental change and extraordinary industrial development are happening in this region creating a suite of complex impacts and contradictions. This talk will highlight the complexities and uncertainties of the Russian maritime Arctic. Short Bio: Lawson Brigham is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. A career U.S. Coast Guard officer he commanded the icebreraker Polar Sea on Arctic and Antarctic expeditions and also chaired the Arctic Council's Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment. He received his PhD in polar oceanography from Cambridge University and has focused his research on the Russian Arctic, polar marine safety and environmental protection. DateWednesday, February 22, 2023 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Mountain LinkHost
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ResourcescontactMistia Zuckerman 2023-02-22 |
C-SEF Seminar: Claudine Schneider, Former U.S. Congresswoman, Entrepreneur, and Climate Advocate
C-SEF Seminar: Claudine Schneider, Former U.S. Congresswoman, Entrepreneur, and Climate AdvocateClimate action in government, business, and civil society February 23 at 3 pm (Note: date change from January 26) In a conversation with C-SEF Director Matt Burgess, Rep. Claudine Schneider will share her experiences as a climate leader in government, business, and civil society. In Congress, Rep. Schneider sponsored the Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989, and she earned a reputation as one of the House’s strongest environmental advocates. Since leaving Congress, she has been an Emmy award recipient, a faculty member at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, as well as an entrepreneur, consultant, and advocate for zero-carbon technology, climate action, and democracy. The conversation will focus on Rep. Schneider's insights into how to get things done and bring people together for the climate. This Center for Social and Environmental Futures (C-SEF) Get Serious* Seminar will take place at 3:00 pm. A reception will follow at 4:00 pm. All are welcome. Location details will be announced shortly. This event will be in person and live streamed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWzcwt-jxOQ *Conversations about environmental problems too often focus on sweeping and vague solutions. In contrast, C-SEF's Get Serious seminars will highlight people working on important but often-overlooked details of solving environmental problems. They will give students a sense of the many different possible ways to make a difference in sustainability. DateThursday, February 23, 2023 3:00 pm Host
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Application Due for CIRES Graduate Student Research Award Program
Application Due for CIRES Graduate Student Research Award ProgramCIRES supports a Graduate Student Research Award program to promote student scholarship and research excellence. The goal of the program is to recognize the scholarship and merit of CIRES' outstanding graduate students. Any current Ph.D. student that is formally supervised by a CIRES Fellow or CIRES Researcher is eligible for this one-time award opportunity. Prospective graduate students are not eligible to apply. The 2023 competition opens January 27, 2023. Applications are due February 20, 2023. Eligibility and Application Information: https://cires.colorado.edu/about/institutional-programs/cires-graduate-s... DateMonday, February 20, 2023 11:45 pm LinkHost
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Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Colleen Reid, CU Geography
Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar: Colleen Reid, CU GeographyInvestigations into the health effects of wildfire smoke Prof. Colleen Reid, "Wildfires have been increasing in frequency and duration in the western U.S. and the wildfire season has been increasing in length such that many regions now claim that there is no wildfire season anymore but that wildfires have become a year-round threat. While there are many causes of the increase in wildfires in the western U.S., it is becoming clear that wildfires not only affect forests and grasslands, but also have impacts on the health of populations downwind. Indeed studies have shown that fine particulate air pollution () is decreasing in most areas of the United States, except for areas most affected by wildfires, where an increasing trend in can be attributed to wildfire smoke. Studies of the health impacts of wildfire smoke are challenging due to lack of sufficient air pollution monitoring across space, the complexity of the components of the smoke that could affect human health, the numerous health outcomes that have been found to be linked to wildfire smoke, and more. In her talk, Dr. Reid will dive into her research that investigates how to better assess population exposure to wildfire smoke, how it impacts human health, and which communities are more affected by wildfire smoke. She will also provide a glimpse into her ongoing work to understand the health tradeoffs of interventions to protect health from wildfire smoke." DateMonday, February 27, 2023 12:15 pm Host
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