ClimaTea

2020 Oct 20

ClimaTea Journal Club on Zoom

3:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Anna Grau Galofre

Title: "Valley network formation under ancient Martian ice sheets"

Abstract: Thousands of ancient valleys incise the southern hemispheric highlands of Mars, standing as proof that liquid water once flowed on the surface of the planet. Due to their striking similarity to river networks, the Martian valleys have historically been interpreted as fluvial runoff systems that formed under a warmer and wetter climate. However, many aspects of...

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2020 Oct 13

Special ClimaTea on Zoom

3:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Jon Thompson Senior Ecologist at the Harvard Forest  

Title: "The role of forests in Massachusetts’ Decarbonization Roadmap Study"

Abstract: In Massachusetts, forests cover 64 percent of the land area and currently...

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2020 Sep 29

Special ClimaTea on Zoom

3:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Zeljka Fuchs-Stone of New Mexico Tech

Dr. Fuchs-Stone will be discussing her work as a Principal Investigator on the field project studying the Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection (OTREC).

Abstract: The OTREC (Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection) field project took place from August 5 to October 3, 2019. The operational center was in Liberia, Costa Rica. During OTREC, we performed 127 research flight hours in the area of the Eastern...

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2020 Sep 22

Special ClimaTea

3:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Richard Vachula of College of William & Mary 

Title: "Climate and human management as competing controls of fire in California's Sierra Nevada"

Abstract: Recent fires and fire seasons in California highlight the need to understand the controls of fire and our ability to manage it. Increasingly, public debate has centered on the relative influence of...

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2020 May 08

Special ClimaTea

12:00pm

Location: 

Virtual

Speaker: Nicolás Strikis of the University of Sāo Paulo

Title: "Persistent anthropogenic drought of tropical South America"

Abstract: Comprehending how the evaporative demand of the atmosphere affects the hydrologic balance is critical to improve our understanding...

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2020 May 01

Special ClimaTea

12:00pm

Location: 

TBD

Speaker: TBD

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

2020 Apr 07

Special ClimaTea

12:00pm

Location: 

Virtual

Speaker: Brad Lipovsky

Brad will lead this coming week's discussion of "Rapid ablation zone expansion amplifies north Greenland mass loss" by Noël et al. (2019)

Abstract: Since the early 1990s, the Greenland ice...

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2020 Mar 10

ClimaTea Journal Club

3:00pm

Location: 

Hoffman Faculty Lounge

Parker will be discussing "Local insolation changes enhance Antarctic interglacials: Insights from an 800,000-year ice sheet simulation with transient climate forcing" by Tigchelaar et al. (2018). See attached.

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