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Announcing the PNW Climate Ambassadors: Building Capacity for Public Climate Conversations
How do scientists develop confidence and experience having conversations with the general public around climate science, global and local impact, and solutions when their areas of expertise are in a disciplinary science such as oceanography or urban planning? In Fall 2024, the Program on Climate Change (PCC), and the Washington State Climate Office (WASCO), set out to create a training program that would help develop the capacity for graduate students to do just that, and to serve as a community resource on climate science and solutions.
Read moreUpcoming Events: Grad School Panel and City Nature Challenge
Join the Program on Climate Change Undergraduate Cohort for a dual event on April 29th— the City Nature Challenge & Graduate School Panel. This Earth Month, the Program on Climate Change (PCC) and UW Biology experts are excited to bring the global City Nature Challenge to the UW on Monday, April 29th, 11:00am-1:00pm! Contribute to a worldwide citizen science initiative by documenting wild flora and fauna on iNaturalist and explore the rich biodiversity of our campus.
Read moreBecky Alexander, PCC Director, giving the Future Horizons in Climate Science lecture at AGU next week
Becky Alexander, professor of atmospheric sciences, and director of the UW Program on Climate Change, was awarded the AGU Future Horizons in Climate Science-Turco Lectureship for 2023. Her lecture, “The role of short-lived climate forcing agents in past and future climate change” is scheduled for next Wed (Dec. 13, 2023) at the AGU’s fall meeting. Get there early to get a seat!
Read moreThe Program on Climate Change presents: Climate Justice in Your Classroom - a new, justice-centered educational resource
As the impacts of climate change become increasingly devastating, they will also become increasingly inequitable. Already, much of the burden of climate change is felt by people and nations that were low historical emitters while extreme historical emitters avoid the direst consequences. Thus, it is vital that we implement justice and equity into our strategies to understand, mitigate, and adapt to climate change.
Read moreThe First Annual Spring Welcome: The Best of Both Worlds
The Program on Climate Change (PCC) community came together on the evening of Wednesday, April 5th for a Spring Welcome event, a combination of our Winter Welcome and Spring Symposium. Over 90 students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff turned out for the event to socialize, talk about research, and listen to a set of short talks by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars over refreshments.
Read morePCC Stewardship of Climate Research Gift at UW
From the Interim Director, LuAnne Thompson The Program on Climate Change is the steward of three gifts that are making a difference for University of Washington graduate students and Assistant Professors studying climate and climate change from a variety of perspectives. Six graduate students will receive support from these awards; these students are enrolled in programs across campus including the School of Oceanography, the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and the Biology Department.
Read moreApply now! PCC announces 3 NEW funding opportunities for advancing climate science.
The PCC announces 3 new funding opportunities for climate science advancement, available to a wide range of the PCC community: The Climate Science Research Acceleration Fund, PCC Climate Solutions Projects, and The Graubard Fellowship in the Program on Climate Change. These funding opportunities are meant to advance and accelerate progress toward addressing climate change by funding students, researchers, and faculty in their research and work with external communities.
Read moreSpeakers announced for the PCC 20th Anniversary/Strategic Plan Release Party
PCC hosts its 20th Anniversary/Strategic plan release party on September 15 starting at 6 pm at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Featured will be speakers from across the PCC sharing their research, and refreshments. Registration will be available through the list serves in August. Confirmed Speakers: Andrea Fassbender, Research Scientist, NOAA/PMEL & UW Department of Oceanography/PCC Alumna Soo-Hyung Kim, UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Abigail L.
Read moreNow Accepting Applications for the 2021 Virtual Graduate Climate Conference
We are pleased to announce the 15th Annual Graduate Climate Conference (GCC), which will be held virtually October 29 – 31, 2021. The GCC is an interdisciplinary conference run by graduate students, for graduate students. The organizers of GCC strive to feature a diverse representation of students and research topics to create a broader, more inclusive community for emerging leaders in climate-related fields.
Read moreAlexander and Hess in "3 Ways Climate Change Affects Your Health"
This past Earth Day (April 22nd) PCC Director Becky Alexander and Dr. Jeremy Hess of UW Medicine were interviewed for “3 Ways Climate Change Affects Your Health” produced by the UW Medicine digital publication, Right As Rain. The article touches on the three things climate is changing; more frequent and extreme weather events, snow and ice melt, ocean acidification and higher sea level, but primarily focuses on how climate change affects our health.
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