An annual event where faculty, scientists, graduate students, and invited speakers focus on how climate and our physical and human world interact. Each year a new topic, showcasing emerging knowledge and ways in which disciplines intersect, is examined. Always an opportunity for team building and for full discussion of the alternative ways that research can be brought to focus on the pressing questions of today.

2026 PCC Summer Institute

Extreme Events and their Attribution to Climate Change

Organized by Aaron Donohoe (UW APL/ATMOS) and Lauren Buckley (UW Biology) for the UW climate change community

Friday Harbor Laboratories Wednesday September 16th to Friday September 18th.

Themes

• Introduction to extremes and their attribution
• Heatwaves (marine and terrestrial): climate dynamics, impacts, and attribution
• Legal and economic implications of extremes and their attribution
• Precipitation extremes and drought: climate dynamics, impacts, and attribution

Confirmed speakers include: Deepti Singh (WSU), Sean Michaletz (UBC), Rachel White (UBC), Ed Blanchard (UW ATMOS), Lauren Buckley (UW Biology), Ann Bostrom (UW EVANS), Andrea Durant (UW Biology), Heili Lowman, (UW SAFS)

Additional details and confirmed speakers will be added as they become available.

Check back on June 15th to register.

Registration will be open Monday June 15th through Wednesday July 15th, 2026. You will not be able to register after July 15.

(last update May 28, 2026)

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