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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Celebrate Climate Science Collaboration!</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">at the 2024
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Program on Climate Change</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Winter Welcome</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://forms.gle/hzdqTAA3HpSpzcSYA" id="OWA092fd2d1-355b-2344-8971-3ba91d5cae96" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Please
RSVP</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> on or before Monday February 26th, 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">You are invited to join friends and colleagues at the annual PCC Winter Welcome on Wednesday March 6 from 5-8 pm in the lobby and auditorium of the
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Sciences Building</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">.
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PCC Director Becky Alexander will welcome everyone and introduce new community members, share</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> program
updates, and host quicktalks by new postdocs including:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Gemma O’Connor, “Modeling wind/ocean interactions around West Antarctica to understand the drivers of ice loss” (Oceanography)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Qiuxian Li, “A Novel Approach to Meridional Ocean Heat Transport Anomaly Decomposition” (Oceanography)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Sonja Wahl, “Investigating snow processes through the lens of stable water isotopes” (Earth and Space Sciences)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Tailong He (Atmospheric Sciences)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Brooke Weigel, “Effects of climate change on snow algae in the Cascades” (Oceanography)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Laramie Jensen (Polar Science Center)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These activities will be followed by a catered appetizer buffet with drinks and an opportunity to share your ideas for the
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://pcc.uw.edu/events/pcc-summer-institute/past-pcc-summer-institutes/" id="OWA771670f7-bd4c-dd7b-d771-ded02fec870f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">theme</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of
the PCC Summer Institute in September 2025. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Extra Credit: Whether or not you can attend the Winter Welcome, we invite you to participate in the
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNlacRfq39XTgF8TkWld3YM9vHQmnpwv0WsZUqUV9bvuP3vQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" id="OWAdd2eee63-c0b1-ab31-b706-4deb2ff0f26b" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">“Get
to Know the PCC” fun fact survey.</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> We’ll share the results at the Winter Welcome. </span></p>
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RSVP</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> on or before Monday February 26th, 2024. This helps us provide an accurate headcount to the caterer.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Questions? Contact Miriam at
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:uwpcc@uw.edu" id="OWA5e452af0-2d64-7c11-6b31-67077712d8c1" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">uwpcc@uw.edu</a></span></p>
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