From uwpcc at uw.edu Fri Mar 1 13:56:02 2024 From: uwpcc at uw.edu (PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE) Date: Wed Mar 20 10:36:29 2024 Subject: [pccgrads] Fw: Open funding call: Natural Climate Solutions in the Pacific Northwest In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ________________________________ From: Yuta Masuda Sent: Friday, March 1, 2024 9:23 AM To: PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE Subject: Open funding call: Natural Climate Solutions in the Pacific Northwest Hello, I wanted to reach out to share that we recently launched an RFP for funding place-based NCS projects (broadly defined) in the PNW (OR, WA, ID, AK, and British Columbia), and particularly ones that are intentionally designed to adhere to NCS principles. We hope that you share this with your colleagues PCC, as well as whoever might be interested in this within your broader network. More on the RFP below. The Paul G Allen Family Foundation is seeking projects that implement Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, and Alaska). The foundation is allocating $5 million, and we anticipate funding up to five rigorous, place-based NCS projects. We encourage projects that are led by, or in partnership with, Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The first step in the RFP process is submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI) by April 12 which briefly describes the project (submission portal link on the RFP webpage). Applicants whose LOIs meet our criteria will be invited to submit full proposals by May 15. We encourage applicants to submit LOIs early, as the foundation will be reviewing LOIs on a rolling basis through April 12. The earlier LOIs are submitted, the earlier applicants will be notified about being invited for a full proposal. For more information about the RFP and the application process, please visit the RFP webpage. We will also be holding an informational webinar about the RFP on March 7. We encourage interested applicants to register and attend the webinar to learn more. We hope you share this announcement with your colleagues and/or others interested in advancing NCS in our region. Best wishes, -- Yuta Masuda, PhD Director of Science | Paul G. Allen Family Foundation www.pgafamilyfoundation.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Pcc_all mailing list Pcc_all@u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pcc_all From mstrait at uw.edu Wed Mar 6 15:08:07 2024 From: mstrait at uw.edu (Madeleine Strait) Date: Wed Mar 20 10:36:30 2024 Subject: [pccgrads] Apply to give a climate change-related talk at a brewery this May! Message-ID: Dear PCC grad students and postdocs, As you may be aware, the UW Program on Climate Change Graduate Steering Committee (P-GraSC) began a graduate student-led climate outreach effort called the ?Schooner Series? in 2019, as an offshoot of the popular Climate Science on Tap from Cascadia Climate Action , a nonprofit affiliated with CascadiaNow!, a 501(c)(3) organization. We host the Schooner Series to bring climate outreach panels to breweries around Seattle to foster communication and conversation between UW graduate students/postdocs and the public concerning climate change, its causes, impacts and solutions. We are now excited to announce that we will be hosting another Schooner Series event this spring, live and in-person, in collaboration with Cascadia Climate Action. We are looking for speakers for our next brewery event, which will take place on a Wednesday or Thursday evening this May at Bickersons Brewhouse in Ballard. We are looking for 3-4 graduate students or postdocs to give 10-15 minute talks on their research or general interests related to any aspect of climate change (e.g. climate solutions, biological impacts, mitigation/adaptation, climate hazards, environmental justice, local climate, etc.). Check out the attached pdf with flyers from past Schooner events for ideas of talk topics. To apply to be a speaker, please complete this short survey explaining a topic you would be interested in presenting and indicating the dates you are available. We will be in touch with potential speakers early in the spring quarter. If you have any questions about the Schooner Series or your application, please reach out to me (mstrait@uw.edu). Thank you for considering this opportunity! Madeleine Strait PCC Graduate Steering Committee member Public Engagement Subcommittee member -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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About ACORN In addition to supporting community goals, ACORN projects enable students to enrich their research experience, broaden their networks, and apply quantitative, analytical, and communication skills beyond the boundaries of their primary academic focus. ACORN projects typically involve a time commitment of about 3 hours per week over the course of a year for each graduate student or postdoc volunteer. Prior experience related to the topic of each ACORN project is a plus but is not required. Visit our website for more information on ACORN and current ongoing projects! Project: Passive vs Active CO2 Removal Box Analysis Homeostasis Systems Corp is an early-stage CO2 removal startup that is developing a mode of direct air capture (DAC) that does not require forced air flow. Conventional (active) DAC makes use of large arrays of fans to pump air across their contactors, expending an additional 15-35% of energy on an already energy intensive process. A growing school of thought sees passive DAC as a more effective solution. Homeostasis would like to study the macro effects of this passive DAC paradigm on atmospheric CO2 levels, relative to that of active DAC systems. Until multiple at-scale DAC systems are operational, quantitative comparisons can only be achieved via modeling. Homeostasis is interested in working with one or more graduate student(s) as an ACORN project team to build such a model. They are open to the types of skill sets and knowledge bases that could assist with this effort, though imagine a background in atmospheric box modeling and/or fluid mechanics would be ideal. Individuals interested in this project should provide a CV and a 2-3 sentence description of their interest in the project to pccacorn@uw.edu by Friday, March 29th, 2024. Feel free to reach out with further questions. Best, PCC ACORN Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For further information about the workshop?s content as well as instructions on how to apply, please see the attached flyer. Thank you for your help in getting the word out. Regards, Chuck Greene Associate Director for Research and Strategic Planning Friday Harbor Laboratories University of Washington Friday Harbor, WA 98250 https://www.chuckgreene.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Apply here: http://www.rossbypalooza.org/ Below is a brief overview of our Summer School program: - Rossbypalooza 2024: A two-week project-oriented summer school catering to individuals from diverse fields of atmospheric, oceanic, and planetary sciences. - Dates and Location: July 22nd to August 2nd, 2024 / Chicago, IL - Theme: "Climate and Extreme Events" - Objective: To provide a platform for interactions among students and faculty to understand climate extremes, their impacts, and their connection to climate change from various perspectives including small-to-large-scale dynamics and data-driven methodologies. More details can be found on our website: http://www.rossbypalooza.org/. - Application timeline and requirements: March 3rd - April 28th. Curriculum Vitae (2 pages), Research statement (within 300 words), Statement of purpose (within 200 words). Feel free to reach out with any questions! 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ComSciCon empowers future leaders in science communication to share their research and passions with broad and diverse audiences. Graduate students: Applications for the annual ComSciCon24 Flagship Workshop, taking place from July 24-27 2024 in Boston, MA, are open! ComSciCon is scheduled to be held in person at Emerson College. Everyone studying in STEM fields is eligible to apply. Applications will close on March 22, 2024 @ 11:59 PM (EDT). * Application link: https://bit.ly/3uMJGv2 * 2024 event website: https://www.comscicon.org/comscicon-flagship-2024 * Twitter: https://twitter.com/ComSciCon * Email questions to: flagship2024@comscicon.org We encourage women, BIPOC, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA+ communities, and all other people with any intersection of minoritized and/or marginalized identities to apply. ComSciCon is committed to diversity and equity, and encourages all people to apply to the conference! Lodging and meals will be covered and travel support will be provided by ComSciCon. Accommodations will be provided upon request. We will provide opportunities to request specific accommodations after the selection process for attendees is complete. Start your application today, and good luck from all of us on the ComSciCon Leadership Team! To avoid receiving emails announcing our future workshops, please reply to this email to let us know. Thank you, ComSciCon Leadership Team Sent via Automations on [Airtable] ?2024 Airtable -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Refreshments (coffee and pastries) will be served prior to the seminar -- please come socialize before the seminar. *Title: Seasonality in ice-flow dynamics of Greenland outlet glaciers: Impact on ice sheet mass balance at present and in the future* *Time/location: Monday March 25, 10am. Henderson Commons * *Remote option: Live zoom link to follow* *Abstract:* State-of-the-art ice sheet model simulations used in the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP) are inconsistent with recent observations of ice sheet change. For Greenland, models tend to underestimate the observed cumulative mass balance over the last several decades, calling into question the accuracy of current projections of the ice sheet?s contribution to sea level rise. Most models only resolve ice dynamics at annual to coarser resolution, and therefore seasonal variability in outlet glacier flow may be an unresolved critical driver of present and future mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet and a remaining source of the model-observation discrepancy. Previous research that has examined seasonal glacier dynamics in Greenland shows that both ice front positions and subglacial hydrology determine sub-annual dynamic variability. Studies that relate these variables, however, rely on idealized models, observations only, or are limited to individual or small samples of glaciers. These caveats have made it challenging to quantify causal linkages between processes and seasonal glacier dynamics and have limited our understanding of how this seasonality will impact the net mass balance of glaciers and the ice sheet in the future. In this talk, I will discuss current and proposed work that uses a transient data assimilation approach to constrain a spatially and temporally complete accounting of the dominant drivers of Greenland outlet glacier seasonality. With these data-constrained model results, I will show how dynamic seasonality impacted historical ice sheet mass balance. Projecting future impacts of seasonal ice dynamics, however, will require creating parameterizations of these processes. I will work towards parameterizations by first using my numerical model results along with dense observations to understand which environmental and geometric factors determine the spatiotemporal variability of seasonal dynamic drivers. In addition, the model-data integration framework developed during this project will naturally extend to other transient ice dynamic questions for both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Title: Particle-turbulence interaction from a basement lab to the open ocean Time/location: Monday April 1st, 10am. Henderson Commons Remote option: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98270702375?pwd=Q3JTbDMwZ09HOXZTZjlXVnZmY0Fpdz09 Passcode: 284048 Abstract The transport of dispersed particles by fluid flows is ubiquitous in many environmental processes; featuring rich physics that gives rise to large-scale coherent structures from seemingly random particle motions. In turbulent boundary layers, particles interact with turbulence to form areas of higher concentration, and with near-wall structures to form streaks. In my talk, I will present findings, challenges, and insights from an experimental study of inertial particles in a vertical, turbulent air channel. Using imaging techniques like particle tracking velocimetry and statistical tools like radial distribution functions, I will show our approach to quantify and characterize the particle streaks and clusters that were observed. An important observation is how the collective effects of particle clustering affect the fluid phase, which I will connect to similar processes in other multiphase flows, such as methane bubbles seeping from the ocean floor. I will conclude by discussing how particle shapes also impact particle-turbulence interactions, and implications on marine processes such as the transport of dissolving particles in the presence of wave turbulence and Stokes drift. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pccgrads at u.washington.edu Thu Mar 28 16:19:05 2024 From: pccgrads at u.washington.edu (Madeleine Strait via pccgrads) Date: Fri Mar 29 08:20:25 2024 Subject: [pccgrads] Apply to give a climate change-related talk at a brewery this May! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, Quick reminder about signing up to give a climate-related talk at a brewery in May! Please *complete the survey by Monday, April 1st* if you are interested. Thank you, PGraSC Public Engagement On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 3:08?PM Madeleine Strait wrote: > Dear PCC grad students and postdocs, > > As you may be aware, the UW Program on Climate Change Graduate Steering > Committee (P-GraSC) began a graduate student-led climate outreach effort > called the ?Schooner Series? in 2019, as an offshoot of the popular Climate > Science on Tap from Cascadia > Climate Action , a nonprofit > affiliated with CascadiaNow!, a 501(c)(3) organization. We host the > Schooner Series to bring climate outreach panels to breweries around > Seattle to foster communication and conversation between UW graduate > students/postdocs and the public concerning climate change, its causes, > impacts and solutions. We are now excited to announce that we will be > hosting another Schooner Series event this spring, live and in-person, in > collaboration with Cascadia Climate Action. > > We are looking for speakers for our next brewery event, which will take > place on a Wednesday or Thursday evening this May at Bickersons Brewhouse > in Ballard. We are looking for 3-4 graduate students or postdocs to give > 10-15 minute talks on their research or general interests related to any > aspect of climate change (e.g. climate solutions, biological impacts, > mitigation/adaptation, climate hazards, environmental justice, local > climate, etc.). Check out the attached pdf with flyers from past Schooner > events for ideas of talk topics. > > To apply to be a speaker, please complete this short survey > > explaining a topic you would be interested in presenting and indicating the > dates you are available. We will be in touch with potential speakers early > in the spring quarter. > > If you have any questions about the Schooner Series or your application, > please reach out to me (mstrait@uw.edu). > > > Thank you for considering this opportunity! > > > Madeleine Strait > > PCC Graduate Steering Committee member > > Public Engagement Subcommittee member > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pccgrads at u.washington.edu Fri Mar 29 08:23:02 2024 From: pccgrads at u.washington.edu (Reese Barrett via pccgrads) Date: Fri Mar 29 08:24:58 2024 Subject: [pccgrads] PCC Outreach Opportunity - Innovation Lab High Earth Day Presentation Message-ID: Hi all, We have an exciting community outreach opportunity for you! We have received a request from Innovation Lab High for speakers for their annual Earth Day event. The ILHS Earth Day event is a full day of speakers and workshops, dedicated to learning about the environment, climate change, natural Earth systems, food production and food waste. This year, the emphasis is on biology and ecosystems, and are looking to dive deep into the science of environmental topics. This is a great opportunity for you to engage with our broader community and practice your science communication skills. The event specifics are outlined below: ~5 people with expertise in biology, ecosystems, or a related topic (they probably would be happy to have you even if you don?t fit in these categories) are needed to give 2-3 ~25 minute talks (or 50-minute activities) on April 17 throughout the school day (8:40 am - 1:15 pm). If you are interested in volunteering for this opportunity, please let me know by April 2, and I will choose volunteers in order of responses to this email. 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