STEM Ed Announcement: Climate talks

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is a UMass program.
 Contact information is below.
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 Check out next week's events!
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 Wednesday April 11 - 3:30 pm EDT
 Northeast Climate Science Center Colloquium presents, 
 "Trouble on the edge: Coastal ecosystems in a changing world"
 Linda Deegan, Marine Biological Laboratory
 
 
 For a direct link to the webinar, click on the title above.
 For detailed webinar instructions, visit:
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/webinar
 
 
 Human-induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse
 gases are expected to cause much more rapid changes in the earths
 climate than have been experienced for millennia. Such climate
 change will create novel challenges for coastal and marine
 ecosystems that are already stressed from human development,
 land-use change, environmental pollution, and over-fishing.
 Significant environmental factors that affect the structure (e.g.,
 plant and animal composition) and function (e.g., plant and animal
 production, nutrient cycling) of estuarine and marine systems and
 that are expected to be part of global climate change include
 temperature, sea-level rise, the availability of water and
 associated nutrients from precipitation and runoff from land, wind
 patterns, and storminess. We will examine how these global issues
 are being examined in the northeastern US.
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 Thursday April 12 - 12:30 pm
 The UMass IGERT Offshore Wind Energy Program Seminar Series
 presents, 
 Wind, Radars, and Interdisciplinarity in an NSF Engineering
 Research Center"
 David McLaughlin, UMass Amherst
 Kellogg Room (Room 118), Engineering Lab II, UMass Amherst
 
 
 This presentation by the Director of CASA will cover several
 themes, including the IGERT, low-level wind estimation using
 radars, the proposed new Engineering Research Center in offshore
 wind energy and the potential to expand that into the realms of the
 IGERT, and possibly some new research that is emerging related to
 infrasound and wind energy. Professor McLaughlin will articulate
 the social, policy, behavioral, and technical interface issues
 around the use of CASA in weather-determined decision making and
 response.
 
 CASA, the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the
 Atmosphere, is a prestigious National Science Foundation
 Engineering Center with over $40 million in federal, university,
 industry, and state funding. The Center brings together a
 multidisciplinary group of engineers, computer scientists,
 meteorologists, sociologists, graduate and undergraduate students,
 as well as industry and government partners to conduct fundamental
 research, develop enabling technology, and deploy prototype
 engineering systems based on a new paradigm: Distributed
 Collaborative Adaptive Sensing (DCAS) networks. CASA is a
 collaboration among four academic partners: the University of
 Massachusetts (lead institution), the University of Oklahoma,
 Colorado State University, and the University of Puerto Rico.
 
 Read more:  IGERT Offshore Wind Energy Program Seminar Series
 
 
 
 
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 All Colloquium events are video archived at:
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/videos
 For more details and other upcoming events, visit:
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/
 To join our mailing list, visit:
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/contact
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 Addie Rose Holland
 Climate System Research Center
 Department of Geosciences
 University of Massachusetts Amherst
 aholland@geo.umass.edu
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/
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