Spring Symposium
The PCC Spring Symposium was an annual event that brought forth current graduate student research with time for discussion and conversation with the speakers.
2024 Spring Symposium
The 2024 in-person Spring Symposium took place on May 2nd from 5:30 to 7:00pm in OCN 425. This was an opportunity for the UW Climate Community to come together, meet new members of the community and learn about the research interests and activities of postdocs and graduate students. There was also be pizza and drinks.
10-15 graduate students presented 1-slide (2-3 minute) elevator pitches of their research, followed by informal conversations and food around tables with each speaker. Talks targeted our scientifically trained but non-expert audience, with some being already presented at another conference and others new and exciting.
- Max Perkins (SEFS) on “Coastal Habitats Improve Disaster Resilience in Puerto Rico”
- Zilu Meng (ATM S) on “Reconstructing the Tropical Pacific Upper Ocean using Data Assimilation with a Deep Learning Model”
- Zac Espinosa (ATM S) on “Antarctic Sea Ice in Winter 2023 was at a Record Low”
- Medha Kumar (SEFS) on “King County Strategic Climate Action Plan”
- Elizabeth Echavarria (UW CEI) on “The role of trade and investment in the diffusion of socio-environmental certification systems among climate-exposed mining companies”
- Liliana Rangel-Parra (SEFS) on “How do floral communities vary and change immediately after fire in northwestern Cascadia?”
5th Annual Spring Symposium (2022)
The Spring Symposium is back, and for the first time since 2019, this amazing opportunity for members of the PCC community to share their recent research and work in an informal conference was in person! We gathered on Thursday, May 19th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in Fishery Sciences Building 102 for five ten-minute talks in FSH 102 followed by appetizers and drinks in the FSH lobby.
This year’s spring symposium featured six phenomenal speakers:
- Nicolas Wittstock (Political Science), “East-West Technology Transfer and the US Clean Energy Policy Trilemma”
- Molly Wieringa (Atmospheric Sciences), “High Frequency Sea Ice Variability: Do We Know What We Think We Know?”
- Daaniya Iyaz (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences), “All Fired Up: Looking at the Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Seattle Children’s Hospital Patients”
- Greta Shum (ACORN Project), “Frackalachia: How Natural Gas Failed Communities in the Ohio River Valley”
- Cassidy Berlin (Evans School Capstone Project), “Evan School capstone project on Lakewood City Climate Action”
- Amy Wyeth (Oceanography), “Effects of hypoxia and acidification on the swimming behavior of Calanus pacificus: Lethal and sublethal responses to stressful conditions”
4th Annual Spring Symposium: A Virtual Experience in 2020
For the past 3 years, the Program on Climate Change has held a Spring Symposium, a one day, informal conference where the PCC community has an opportunity to present their work to other UW PCC members. This event has been an important way PCC has fostered interdisciplinary connections across the UW climate community.
In crazy times like these, we think it is more important than ever to build and connect the PCC community. While the Spring Symposium will not be possible this year, we want to offer an alternative way to stay connected and hear about the exciting climate research occurring across campus. The Program on Climate Change is hosting a virtual speaker series on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm, and the first will be on May 5th, 2020.
See list of speakers here.
The goal of this series is to bring together students and early career researchers across UW who are interested in climate from a variety of different angles.
We welcome short talks (10-15 minutes), and we aim to host 3 talks each Tuesday, followed by Q&A. We will additionally reserve a few Tuesdays for capstone project presentations, which will span the full hour. If you are interested in giving a talk, please fill out the attached survey as soon as possible. We encourage talks of any theme on research at any stage of completion, as well as presentations on capstone projects and non-capstone outreach. If you are interested in speaking, please fill out this survey.
All are encouraged to virtually join us to hear from the speakers on their research. Please use the following recurring Zoom link to join the meeting:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/97795331960
Meeting ID: 977 9533 1960
Many thanks to the P-GraSC Spring Symposium Committee for pivoting so readily to this new format.
P-GraSC Spring Symposium Committee is: Andrew Pauling, Christine Baker, Lily Hahn, Amanda Arnold, Amy Olsen, Aji John, and Jade Sauve
Past PCC Spring Symposiums: