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C-SEF Seminar: Alexandra Coțofană, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

C-SEF Seminar: Alexandra Coțofană, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Atmospheric Epistemologies - ways of creating knowledge about cloud seeding
Alexandra Coțofană, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates and 2023 CIRES Sabbatical Visiting Fellow

As seen most recently during the Covid-19 pandemic, science literacy has experienced a drastic decline amongst the general public. While this concern has been brought to the forefront of public debate now more than in the past, science literacy of the general public has been experiencing a dramatic decline for decades, across the board of scientific fields. Specifically, cloud seeding has been targeted in a larger conspiracy theory narrative that claims meteorologists and politicians are working hand in hand, falsifying and controlling science against the greater good. This has, in turn, led to global mass protests against what protesters are calling ‘geoengineering’. These misplaced civil society efforts end up slowing down scientific progress and deepen the divide between the general public and their capacity for greater science literacy.

The project revolves around the concept of atmospheric epistemologies, or ways of making knowledge about clouds and the atmosphere. The project is a mirrored ethnography that analyzes, on the one hand, the ways in which scientists produce knowledge about cloud-seeding and the atmosphere, and, on the other hand, ways in which the general population produces knowledge about the same topics. The project offers a new approach to STS, as well as the study of knowledge production in two communities that are epistemologically opposed.

Dr. Cotofana is visiting CU as a 2023 CIRES Sabbatical Visiting Fellow to work with Matt Burgess on exploring how political polarization affects the views of scientists and citizens of cloud seeding as a method of combating drought. Colorado, as a state that invests in cloud-seeding technology, has substantial political diversity and also houses some of the world's leading climate science hubs, making it an ideal place to study this. 

This seminar will be in-person and live-streamed.

C-SEF's Here and Now seminars focus on questions pertaining to how we can move forward in addressing environmental problems immediately, such as adaptation, environmental policy, links between public and private sectors, resource management, and resilience, among others. 

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

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  • C-SEF

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  • Seminar

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CIRES Visiting Fellows and Post-docs Get-Together

CIRES Visiting Fellows and Post-docs Get-Together

All CIRES Visiting Fellows and all CIRES post-docs are invited to the CIRES Visiting Fellows and Post-docs Get-Together on Monday, August 14 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm at Scott Carpenter Park. Note: This event was originally scheduled to take place on July 20, but has been rescheduled due to weather. 

This fun social event is a great opportunity to meet up with others across CIRES and also to welcome those who are new. We encourage everyone to stop by and say hello!! 

A variety of drinks and snacks will be provided, and we will also bring some games. Family members are welcome. 

Please look for some CIRES signs next to chairs and coolers set up on the hill near the playground. 

For any questions, contact Jennifer Katzung at jennifer.katzung@colorado.edu or 303-735-7104.

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Monday, August 14, 2023
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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  • CIRES

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August 2023 CIRES Members' Council Meeting

August 2023 CIRES Members' Council Meeting

Please join the CMC for their monthly meeting. Join by Google Meet or phone: https://meet.google.com/vee-dwjy-cji?hs=224 or (US) +1 502-443-0399 PIN: 491275827

Date

Monday, August 21, 2023
11:00 am to 12:30 pm

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  • CMC

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  • CIRES employees

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  • Meeting

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Agnieszka Gautier
 Agnieszka Gautier

2023-08-21
 
Meet & greet with CIRES Director and staff, @DSRC

Meet & greet with CIRES Director and staff, @DSRC

Please join CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati and several administration team staff for an informal discussion from 10-11 am, in the DSRC cafeteria. This will be an opportunity to meet new administrative staff and to chat with CIRES colleagues and leadership. Bring-your-own coffee, tea, or water. 

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
10:00 am

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  • CIRES
  • NOAA

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  • CIRES employees

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  • Other
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CIRES Town Hall August 2023

CIRES Town Hall August 2023

CIRES Town Hall August 29, 2023

Please join CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati and Senior Administration Team members for a CIRES Town Hall Tuesday, August 29, 2023, at 9 am.

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
9:00 am to 10:00 am
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  • CIRES

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  • CIRES employees

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  • Meeting

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kathleen.human@colorado.edu

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ZOOM
2023-08-29
 
Earth Lab EDS Seminar: Nachiketa Acharya, NOAA

Earth Lab EDS Seminar: Nachiketa Acharya, NOAA

Earth Lab's Envrionmental Data Science weekly seminar series
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 Statistical Learning for Climate Predictions and Projections: A Research to Operations to Research (R2O2R) approach 
Speaker:  Nachiketa Acharya, NOAA

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In this talk, I will share my R2O2R experience in developing statistical learning modeling for climate predictions and projections. First, I will discuss my research work on developing several post-processing approaches for climate predictions starting from traditional statistical models to machine learning models, and how these models are operationalized to generate real-time S2S forecasts on a global to regional scale.I will then discuss my research to generate a wider range of plausible climate change scenarios for New York City’s drinking water supply system using a “bottom-up” approach. I will present how I developed various “Stochastic Weather Generators'', a tool for the “bottom-up” approach, based on statistical and deep learning modelings focused on future extreme precipitation scenarios. 

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Nachiketa Acharya is an expert in statistical and machine learning modeling in climate sciences, especially sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting. He is a CIRES/University of Colorado Research Scientist III working with the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories's Physical Sciences Laboratory. Previously, he has held influential positions at the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, the Institute for Sustainable Cities at the City University of New York, the National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting in India, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and Bhubaneswar. He is actively engaged in several Regional Climate Outlook Forums by WMO as an expert and trainer of S2S forecast and verification. For more information, https://psl.noaa.gov/people/nachiketa.acharya/

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
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  • Earth Lab

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  • 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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Casey Jenson

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SEEC 372 A&B
2023-08-29