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Pathways to Climate Careers: The Undergraduate Cohort Career Panel
Climate Sciences is a growing field seeing expansion in both educational and career pathways. This growth is seen within UW as more and more students partake in climate change courses, programs, and research. As education in environmental and climate sciences expands, knowing where to take a climate education beyond college is important. To address this, UCo, The PCC’s Undergraduate Cohort, hosted the “Careers in Climate Panel.” The panel, hosted on the evening of Tuesday, February 13th, featured professionals currently working in climate-focused careers, including UW and PCC alumni.
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 Undergraduate Cohort: Back and Bigger Than Ever
As we enter the Program on Climate Change Undergraduate Cohort‘s (UCo) third official year, it is amazing to reflect on how far we have come. What began simply as an interest survey has now blossomed into a Cohort of students dedicated to sharing, learning, and developing together into a new, informed generation of climate scientists at the University of Washington. That newfound connection was underscored at the UCo’s kickoff meeting, on 9/26, which drew over 40 attendees from across the college and university.
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 Undergraduate Cohort Hosts Professional Development Workshop!
Although tourists were flocking to the Quad to see the Sakura trees in bloom on a gorgeously sunny day, members of the PCC Undergraduate Cohort were there for a different reason. During a sunny afternoon on 4/2, the UCo gathered on the third floor of Smith Hall, a room with a lovely aerial view of the cherry blossoms that certainly enhanced the atmosphere of the professional development workshop they were hosting.
Read moreSolutions to Climate Change: “UW Grad Students in Hot Pursuit" Schooner Series draws a full house at Bickersons Brewhouse
The PCC Graduate Student Steering Committee (P-GraSC) hosted a winter Schooner Series event in collaboration with Cascadia Climate Action focused on climate solutions at Bickersons Brewhouse in Ballard on March 8, 2023. The Schooner Series started as an offshoot of the popular Climate Science on Tap from Cascadia Climate Action, a member of the regional CascadiaNow! nonprofit family. This month’s Schooner featured three presentations and a subsequent panel discussion under the theme “Solutions to Climate Change: UW Grad Students in Hot Pursuit”.
Read moreBaba Brinkman impresses as PCC-nominated Walker Ames visitor
Step aside blogs, tweets, and posters (oh my!), may we introduce performer, activist, and rap artist, Baba Brinkman. The PCC nominated Baba Brinkman as one of this year’s UW Graduate School Office of Public Walker-Ames Lecturers. This charismatic climate rapper joined us at UW, flying directly to Seattle from the COP27 meeting in Egypt. A review of his Nov 17 “lecture” to a crowd in Kane Hall can be found here.
Read moreThe 16th Graduate Climate Conference-a return to Pack Forest
The Graduate Climate Conference (GCC), now in its sixteenth year, represents a rich tradition tied to the history of the PCC. First held in 2006, the GCC has grown and evolved while remaining true to its core mission of highlighting student-led work at a conference run by graduate students for graduate students. Hosting responsibilities have alternated each year between students in the PCC at UW and students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate.
Read moreConsidering Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions at the 2022 PCC Summer Institute
The release of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report in 2021 re-emphasized the need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in order to stabilize the climate and stop global warming, putting pathways towards net-zero on center stage. Thus, it was not surprising that members of the climate science community attending the annual PCC Winter Welcome voted for “Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions” as the topic for the PCC’s first in-person Summer Institute (SI) since 2019.
Read moreBaba Brinkman's "Rap Guide to Climate Chaos" Climate Communication from COP27 to the PCC
When someone says the words “climate change,” you might think of the devastating global effects, the politics behind action or inaction, or even personal impacts on your life from a changing environment. It is extremely unlikely that your first thought was about rap. Yet, the hyper-specific niche of climate rapping is what Baba Brinkman, performer and activist, has chosen to inhabit, and for a very specific reason: the need to connect to the masses.
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