\n\nThe Forum for Arctic Ocean M
odeling 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 a
ctivities starting from generating hypotheses\, to planning research inclu
ded both observations and modeling\, and to finalizing analyses synthesizi
ng major results from the field studies and coordinated numerical experime
nts.\n\nFAMOS motivation and approach\n\nFAMOS project is
motivated by and a logical continuation of more than 10-years of AOMIP (A
rctic Ocean Model Intercomparison Project\, www.whoi.edu/projects/AOMIP) work demonstrating that th
at the arctic marine science community needs an informal forum to discuss\
, coordinate\, plan and synthesize scientific activities. The AOMIP approa
ch has been to leverage the existing financial support of each project par
ticipant for a comparative analysis of different models and scientific res
ults. This approach has provided a unique opportunity to coordinate studie
s nationally and internationally via a set of carefully-planned numerical
experiments covering the most important processes and interactions. A cle
ar advantage is that each participant is able to work with her/his specifi
c research theme using simulation results from more than a single model an
d to analyze differences and test hypotheses using a multi-model suite of
outputs. The result is a synthesis that integrates observational and mode
ling efforts toward the overall goal of developing advanced Arctic models
able to accurately reconstruct past\, describe current\, and predict futur
e Arctic conditions. In this regard\, FAMOS’s approach will be similar AOM
IP’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 unde
rstanding of the Arctic climate system.\n\nParticipants include several sp
eakers from MIT and WHOI.\n\nMore information here and here.Tickets: http://web. whoi.edu/famos/meeting-5-november-1-4-2016/.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:arctic\,FAMOS\,modeling\,ocean\,sea ice\,whoi X-TICKETS-URL:http://web.whoi.edu/famos/meeting-5-november-1-4-2016/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-819063@oceans.mit.edu DTSTAMP:20180503T075913Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Special Events CONTACT:Allison Provaire\; provaire@mit.edu DESCRIPTION:The John Carlson Lecture communicates exciting new results in c limate science to the general public. Free of charge and open to the gener al public\, the lecture is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumn us John H. Carlson to the Lorenz Center in the Department of Earth\, Atmos pheric and Planetary Sciences\, MIT.\n\nSpeaker:\n\nRichard Alley\, Penn S tate\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent website:\n\nhttp://bit.ly/2aWlCd2\n\n\n\n\n\n\ni cal\n\n\n\n\n\nDate:\n\nThursday\, October 13\,\n7:00pm to 9:00pm\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\nSimons IMAX Theatre\, New England Aquarium\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n'Big Ice: Antarctica\, Greenland\, and Boston'\n\nAn ice s heet is a two-mile-thick\, continent-wide pile of old snow\, spreading und er its own weight and sculpting the land beneath. The ice sheet that buri ed Boston 20\,000 years ago melted when slowly acting features of Earth’s orbit raised summer sunshine and atmospheric CO2\, warming the climate. Th e 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 ou tburst floods speed sea-level rise.\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nDr. Richar d Alley is an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences in Penn State's College o f 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 climat e change in the past—and likely will again\, based on his meticulous study of ice cores from Greenland and West Antarctica.\n\nFor more information contact: Allison Provaire\, provaire@mit.edu\n\nMore about previous Carlso n Lectures here.\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/sixth-annual- john-h-carlson-lecture-new-england-aquarium. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T210000 LOCATION:Simons IMAX Theatre @ New England Aquarium SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Sixth Annual John H. Carlson Lecture at the New England Aquarium URL:http://oceans.mit.edu/event/sixth-annual-john-h-carlson-lecture-at-the- new-england-aquarium X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
\n\nAbout the Speak
er\n\nDr. Richard Alley is an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences
in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. His research intere
sts 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\, base
d on his meticulous study of ice cores from Greenland and West Antarctica.
\n\nFor more information contact: Allison Provaire\, provaire@mit.edu\n\nMore about previous Carlson L
ectures here.\n\nTickets: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/si xth-annual-john-h-carlson-lecture-new-england-aquarium.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Car X-TICKETS-URL:https://eapsweb.mit.edu/sixth-annual-john-h-carlson-lecture-n ew-england-aquarium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-818240@oceans.mit.edu DTSTAMP:20180503T075913Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Special Events\,Symposia CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Kerry A. Emanuel\, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Mass achusetts Institute of Technology\, to speak at the Radcliffe Institute fo r Advanced Study at Harvard. More about the event here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 4:4 5 p.m.\; lecture begins at 5 p.m. Part of the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Ser ies. A larger\, one-day public symposium on the topic takes place on Frida y\, October 28\, 2016. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T180000 GEO:+42.376218;-71.122349 LOCATION:Sheerr Room\, Fay House @ Fay House\, 10 Garden St\, Cambridge\, M A 02138\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Kerry Emanuel–Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute Oceans Lecture Series URL:http://oceans.mit.edu/event/kerry-emanuel-harvards-radcliffe-institute- oceans-lecture-series X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
Tickets: http://s upport.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=107028&view=Detail.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:lecture\,new england aquarium X-TICKETS-URL:http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=107028&view=Detail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-827531@oceans.mit.edu DTSTAMP:20180503T075914Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Special Events CONTACT:MIT's Department of Earth\, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences\; ht tps://eapsweb.mit.edu/what-do-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma-portend DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kerry A. Emanuel\, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmo spheric Science\, Co-Director of the Lorenz Center\nDate: Wednesday\, Sept ember 20\, 4:00pm to 5:00pm\nLocation: MIT Campus\, 54-100\n\nSpecial Lect ure: 'What Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend?'\n\nNatural disasters ar e the result of the interaction of a natural phenomenon with human beings and their built environments. Globally and in the U.S.\, large increases i n coastal populations are causing corresponding increases in hurricane dam age and these are now being compounded by rising sea levels and changing s torm 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 probabilit ies of hurricanes like Harvey and Irma have already changed and are likely to continue to do so.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nKerry Emanuel is a prominen t 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\, wate r vapor\, and upper-ocean mixing in regulation of climate\, and advanced m ethods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. \n\nEmanuel 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 Univ ersity of California at Los Angeles where he remained for three years\, wi th a brief hiatus filming tornadoes in Oklahoma and Texas.\n\nIn 1981 he j oined 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 Ear th\, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). In 1989 he assumed directo rship 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 Lore nz Center\, a climate think tank which fosters creative approaches to lear ning how climate works.\n\nProfessor Emanuel is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers\, and three books\, including Di vine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes\, published by Oxford Uni versity Press\, and What We Know about Climate Change\, published by the M IT Press. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170920T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170920T170000 GEO:+42.360297;-71.089375 LOCATION:MIT\, Cambridge\, MA\, Building 54-100 @ 77 Massachusetts Ave\, Ca mbridge\, MA 02139\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Special Lecture: What Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend? URL:http://oceans.mit.edu/event/special-lecture-what-do-hurricanes-harvey-a nd-irma-portend X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
Kerry Emanuel: What
Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend?[/caption]\n\nSpeaker: Kerry A. Emanuel\, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science\
, Co-Director of the Lorenz Center\nDate: Wednesday\, Sep
tember 20\, 4:00pm to 5:00pm\nLocation: MIT Campus\, 54-1
00\n\nSpecial Lecture: 'What Do Hurricanes Harv
ey and Irma Portend?'\n\nNatural 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 popula
tions are causing corresponding increases in hurricane damage and these ar
e now being compounded by rising sea levels and changing storm characteris
tics 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 hurricane
s like Harvey and Irma have already changed and are likely to continue to
do so.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nKerry Emanuel is a prominent meteorologist and cl
imate scientist who specializes in moist convection in the atmosphere\, an
d tropical cyclones. His research interests focus on tropical meteorology
and climate\, with a specialty in hurricane physics. His interests also in
clude cumulus convection\, the role of clouds\, water vapor\, and upper-oc
ean mixing in regulation of climate\, and advanced methods of sampling the
atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction.\n\nEmanuel received an
S.B. degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Ph.D. in Meteorology (1
978) 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 filmi
ng tornadoes in Oklahoma and Texas.\n\nIn 1981 he joined the faculty of th
e Department of Meteorology at MIT and was promoted to Full Professor in 1
987 in what had since becomes the Department of Earth\, Atmospheric and Pl
anetary Sciences (EAPS). In 1989 he assumed directorship of EAPS Center fo
r Meteorology and Physical Oceanography\, a post he held until 1997. Subse
quently 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 t
hink tank which fosters creative approaches to learning how climate works.
\n\nProfessor 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 Wha
t We Know about Climate Change\, published by the MIT Press.
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harvey\,hurricane\,irma\,kerry emanuel\,lorenz center\,meteorolgy\,modelin
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