http://oceans.mit.edu America/New_York America/New_York America/New_York 20171105T020000 -0400 -0500 20181104T020000 EST 20180311T020000 -0500 -0400 EDT ai1ec-820918@oceans.mit.edu 20180503T075914Z Special Events,WHOI Events Ms. Annie Doucette; 508.289.2543; adoucette@whoi.edu; http://web.whoi.edu/famos/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/07/2016-Original-Meeting-Info-Package.pdf The Forum for Arctic Ocean Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS) is an international effort to focus on enhancing collaboration and coordination among arctic marine and sea ice modelers, theoreticians and observationalists based on a set of activities starting from generating hypotheses, to planning research included both observations and modeling, and to finalizing analyses synthesizing major results from the field studies and coordinated numerical experiments. FAMOS motivation and approach FAMOS project is motivated by and a logical continuation of more than 10-years of AOMIP (Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison Project, www.whoi.edu/projects/AOMIP) work demonstrating that that the arctic marine science community needs an informal forum to discuss, coordinate, plan and synthesize scientific activities. The AOMIP approach has been to leverage the existing financial support of each project participant for a comparative analysis of different models and scientific results. This approach has provided a unique opportunity to coordinate studies nationally and internationally via a set of carefully-planned numerical experiments covering the most important processes and interactions.  A clear advantage is that each participant is able to work with her/his specific research theme using simulation results from more than a single model and to analyze differences and test hypotheses using a multi-model suite of outputs.  The result is a synthesis that integrates observational and modeling efforts toward the overall goal of developing advanced Arctic models able to accurately reconstruct past, describe current, and predict future Arctic conditions. In this regard, FAMOS’s approach will be similar AOMIP’s one and we view FAMOS as a “collaboratory” i.e., a collaborative frame-work wherein modelers and observers discuss results, problems, and new ideas, all with the goals of model improvement and better understanding of the Arctic climate system. Participants include several speakers from MIT and WHOI. More information here and here.Tickets: http://web.whoi.edu/famos/meeting-5-november-1-4-2016/. 20161101 20161105 +41.526498;-70.673086 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @ Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA, USA 0

Forum for Arctic Modeling & Observational Synthesis

external arctic,FAMOS,modeling,ocean,sea ice,whoi http://web.whoi.edu/famos/meeting-5-november-1-4-2016/ ai1ec-819063@oceans.mit.edu 20180503T075914Z Special Events Allison Provaire; provaire@mit.edu The John Carlson Lecture communicates exciting new results in climate science to the general public. Free of charge and open to the general public, the lecture is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumnus John H. Carlson to the Lorenz Center in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT. Speaker: Richard Alley, Penn State Event website: http://bit.ly/2aWlCd2 ical Date: Thursday, October 13, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Location: Simons IMAX Theatre, New England Aquarium "Big Ice: Antarctica, Greenland, and Boston" An ice sheet is a two-mile-thick, continent-wide pile of old snow, spreading under its own weight and sculpting the land beneath.  The ice sheet that buried Boston 20,000 years ago melted when slowly acting features of Earth’s orbit raised summer sunshine and atmospheric CO2, warming the climate. The history of that Ice Age can still be read in Boston Harbor, and in the layers of the surviving ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland. But, more warming may melt those ice records, as break-off of huge icebergs and outburst floods speed sea-level rise. About the Speaker Dr. Richard Alley is an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. His research interests focus on glaciology, sea level change and abrupt climate change, and he frequently discusses earth sciences on major media outlets, including NPR, BBC and PBS. He is widely credited with showing that the earth has experienced abrupt climate change in the past—and likely will again, based on his meticulous study of ice cores from Greenland and West Antarctica. For more information contact: Allison Provaire, provaire@mit.edu More about previous Carlson Lectures here. Tickets: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/sixth-annual-john-h-carlson-lecture-new-england-aquarium. 20161013T190000 20161013T210000 Simons IMAX Theatre @ New England Aquarium 0

Sixth Annual John H. Carlson Lecture at the New England Aquarium

Car https://eapsweb.mit.edu/sixth-annual-john-h-carlson-lecture-new-england-aquarium ai1ec-818240@oceans.mit.edu 20180503T075914Z Special Events,Symposia Kerry A. Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to speak at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. More about the event here. This event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 4:45 p.m.; lecture begins at 5 p.m. Part of the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series. A larger, one-day public symposium on the topic takes place on Friday, October 28, 2016. 20161024T164500 20161024T180000 +42.376218;-71.122349 Sheerr Room, Fay House @ Fay House, 10 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 0

Kerry Emanuel–Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute Oceans Lecture Series

ai1ec-824612@oceans.mit.edu 20180503T075914Z Special Events http://www.neaq.org/learn/lectures/upcoming-lectures/ Speakers:  Robert Vincent, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sea Grant College Program Rose M. Martin, Ph.D., Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Postdoctoral Researcher at EPA Atlantic Ecology Division The MIT Sea Grant College Program and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been working with the National Park Service to study carbon cycling in coastal dune habitats, as well as the effects of historic peat deposits on the establishment and persistence of invasive plants (Phragmites australis). With the increased risk of erosion from coastal storms exposing the once-buried peat deposits, and the challenge of controlling an aggressive invasive species, this dynamic system faces an uncertain future. The research findings from this study will inform future conservation efforts in the region as well as provide a deeper understanding of carbon cycling in coastal dunes. Information here. Registration is required. Tickets: http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=107028&view=Detail. 20170330T190000 20170330T210000 +42.359131;-71.049581 Simons IMAX Theatre @ 1 Central Wharf, Boston, MA 02110, USA 0

New England Aquarium Lecture: Invasive Species and Carbon Cycling in Coastal Dunes of Cape Cod

external thumbnail;http://oceans.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-15-at-2.35.23-PM-150x150.png;150;150;1,medium;http://oceans.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-15-at-2.35.23-PM-300x300.png;300;300;1,large;http://oceans.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-15-at-2.35.23-PM.png;604;606;,full;http://oceans.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-15-at-2.35.23-PM.png;794;796; lecture,new england aquarium http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=107028&view=Detail ai1ec-827531@oceans.mit.edu 20180503T075914Z Special Events MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; https://eapsweb.mit.edu/what-do-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma-portend [caption id="attachment_827533" align="aligncenter" width="576"] Kerry Emanuel: What Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend?[/caption] Speaker: Kerry A. Emanuel, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, Co-Director of the Lorenz Center Date: Wednesday, September 20, 4:00pm to 5:00pm Location: MIT Campus, 54-100 Special Lecture: "What Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend?" Natural disasters are the result of the interaction of a natural phenomenon with human beings and their built environments. Globally and in the U.S., large increases in coastal populations are causing corresponding increases in hurricane damage and these are now being compounded by rising sea levels and changing storm characteristics owing to anthropogenic climate change. In this talk, I will describe projections of changing hurricane activity over the rest of this century and what such projections tell us about how the probabilities of hurricanes like Harvey and Irma have already changed and are likely to continue to do so. About the Speaker Kerry Emanuel is a prominent meteorologist and climate scientist who specializes in moist convection in the atmosphere, and tropical cyclones. His research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. His interests also include cumulus convection, the role of clouds, water vapor, and upper-ocean mixing in regulation of climate, and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. Emanuel received an S.B. degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Ph.D. in Meteorology (1978) both from MIT. After completing his doctorate, he joined the faculty of the Atmospheric Sciences department of the University of California at Los Angeles where he remained for three years, with a brief hiatus filming tornadoes in Oklahoma and Texas. In 1981 he joined the faculty of the Department of Meteorology at MIT and was promoted to Full Professor in 1987 in what had since becomes the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). In 1989 he assumed directorship of EAPS Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, a post he held until 1997. Subsequently he chaired the EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate from 2009 to 2012. He is co-founder of the MIT Lorenz Center, a climate think tank which fosters creative approaches to learning how climate works. Professor Emanuel is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and three books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, published by Oxford University Press, and What We Know about Climate Change, published by the MIT Press. 20170920T160000 20170920T170000 +42.360297;-71.089375 MIT, Cambridge, MA, Building 54-100 @ 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 0

Special Lecture: What Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend?

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