Students awarded at 2012 Alaska Weather Symposium
On March 13-14, 2012, the Geophysical Institute co-hosted the Alaska Weather Symposium. As in 2011, there was a student poster and oral presentation competition similar to those held at other academic conferences. This year, three students from Japan participated in this competition along with University of Alaska Fairbanks students from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences (GI, IARC, CNSM), Computer Sciences, and the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
2012 Alaska Weather Symposium
Scientists, students and community stakeholders will convene at the Geophysical Institute this Tuesday and Wednesday, March 13 -14, to discuss air pollution among other topics related to the region's weather and environment.
The 2012 Alaska Weather Symposium will provide a forum for sharing operational and research information specifically related to the themes of air quality, data assimilation, high resolution modeling in complex terrain, observations/monitoring challenges and weather-scale sea ice.
Alaska Weather Summary: February 2012
Temperatures were above normal this February for all nine of the stations operated by the Alaska Climate Research Center. February’s temperatures are in stark contrast to a colder than normal January. Most of February was above normal with the exception of the last week of the month, which was colder than seasonably typical.
Kramm invited to join editorial board of new journal
Dataset Papers in Atmospheric Sciences is a new academic journal published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. The journal will publish papers from all areas of atmospheric sciences research. Gerhard Kramm, an associate professor with the UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics and the GI Atmospheric Sciences Group, was invited to join the editorial board of the publication in February 2012.
Mölders to deliver overview talk at climate research conference
From June 18 to 20, 2012, more than 100 experts will convene in Boulder, Colo. to attend a Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities Workshop, sponsored
Eroding islands, disappearing glaciers, lots of greenhouse gases
Kasatochi Island, pictured here one year after its 2008 eruption, is experiencing some of the fastest erosion on the planet, with about 3 feet of its muddy shoreline eaten away each day.
Photo by Ned Rozell.
The latest meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2011 featured hundreds of talks about Earth science, some of those relating to Alaska (and some of those comprehensible to a non-scientist). Here are a few items from the notebook I carried around the Moscone Center:
Kramm and Dlugi article in Natural Science
A paper in the journal Natural Science titled "Scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact" by the Geophysical Institute's Gerhard Kramm and Ralph Dlugi has been downloaded almost 1,000 times since its recent appearance on the Scientific Research website.
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Submit abstracts now for symposium to be held March 13 - 14, 2012
The 2012 Alaska Weather Symposium will be held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on March 13 and 14. The deadline for presentation and/or poster abstracts is Tuesday, January 24.
All abstracts relating to weather and climate in Alaska are welcome. Some anticipated areas of focus are:
- Air quality
- Data assimilation
- High resolution modeling in complex terrain
- Observations/monitoring challenges
- Weather-scale sea ice
The symposium is being sponsored by:
