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PCC Undergraduate Cohort: Welcome to a New Year!
On the 27th of September, 2022, the PCC Undergraduate Cohort (UCo) hosted their first event of the new academic year. UCo leaders welcomed new undergrads, explained how UCo and the Climate Science Minor are situated in the Program on Climate Change, and promoted community through fun, games, and food! This was a great opening event, laying the groundwork for emerging climate scientists to connect with each other, with professionals, and with leadership opportunities.
Read moreThe Fifth Annual Spring Symposium was held on May 19, 2022
The PCC Graduate Steering Committee (P-GraSC) hosted the fifth annual PCC Spring Symposium on Thursday, May 19, 2022. The evening featured six student speakers who shared their climate-related research, capstone projects, and outreach, spanning broad topics from sea ice to energy policy to wildfires and more. Molly Wieringa (Atmospheric Sciences) described short-term variability in Arctic sea ice and what factors might help sea ice forecasting.
Read morePCC 2022 Winter Welcome: Together Again
After two years, the PCC Winter Welcome finally made its in-person return on March 1st, 2022! In fact, this was the first large-scale in-person event for many community members in years, hopefully signifying the beginning of a trend towards the revitalization of face-to-face interactions as we continue working to overcome the crisis posed by COVID-19. With around 70 climate-minded scientists, educators, students, and staff in attendance from across the UW and beyond joining us in the Fisheries Sciences Building, the PCC community truly came together to celebrate everything the PCC and its members have achieved during the past year.
Read morePCC Undergraduate Cohort: Inspiring Climate Hope
On Thursday, February 24th, the PCC Undergraduate Cohort held its Winter Quarter meeting, focusing on sharing and discussing stories of climate hope. We are constantly inundated with discouraging news surrounding the state of the environment and the future of climate change, and while it is important to remember that the climate crisis is certainly a crisis, it is not one without moments of hope, success, and inspiration.
Read morePCC Undergraduate Cohort: Finding Research Opportunities
The PCC Undergraduate Cohort hosted its first official event on November 18, 2021! The event aimed to inform climate-minded undergraduates about why they should get involved with research here at the UW, how to look for open positions, and how to apply for a research position once one is found. There was both a seminar-style presentation and a Q & A panel with current College of the Environment undergraduates who have gotten research positions in the past, providing lots of practical advice to the over two dozen interested undergrads who attended!
Read moreAhoy! Glacier Ahead: An Oceanographer's Journey to the Edge of the Ice Recording
Ahoy! Glacier Ahead: An Oceanographer’s Journey to the Edge of the Ice. We know not everyone was able to join us in person for our Walker Ammes Lecture this past week, so we wanted to be sure to share the recording with you. You can watch the lecture recording on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/uwpubliclecture. This recording will be available for the next two weeks.
Read morePCC Undergrad Cohort Kickoff Meeting
On 29 September 2021, the PCC hosted its first in-person undergraduate cohort meeting. We welcomed new undergrads, answered questions concerning the PCC, and discussed the future of the cohort. In a program like PCC that is grad student dominated, the undergrad cohort can be a place for undergrads to steer their own proverbial ship and create events and belong to a community of others interested in climate science.
Read moreUpcoming Event: Walker-Ames Public Lecture with Fiamma Straneo on 10/19
On Tuesday, October 19th, at 7:30 P.M., Professor Fiamma Straneo, co-Director of the Polar Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and UW Oceanography alumni will be giving a public lecture in 120 Kane Hall, here at the UW! Her talk, “Ahoy! Glacier ahead: an oceanographer’s journey to the edge of the ice,” is part of the Walker-Ames Lecture Series, and will detail her quest to overcome the obstacles preventing the full understanding of how ice sheets respond to warming climates by utilizing “a collaborative, team science effort which spans across the natural sciences and engineering and includes local, indigenous knowledge.” Straneo’s research, which involved everything from helicopters to snow mobiles, brought her to the edge of glaciers, and in the end, enabled the development of improved climate models, and will be a crucial tool in the collaborative effort to understand our changing seas.
Read moreA look at the PCC 20th Anniversary Celebration and Strategic Plan Release Party
On September 15th the PCC hosted our 20th Anniversary/Strategic plan release party at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Director Becky Alexander (ATM S) introduced the strategic plan which will be implemented over the next five years, and discussed the goals and priorities for the PCC during this time. This was followed by Former Director Jim Murray (OCN) as he looked back on the history of the PCC, the growth that has been made over the last 20 years, and his hopes for the future for the program.
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.
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