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PCC 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.
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 moreIntersection of climate change and human health: PCC Winter Seminar Series videos now posted
A collection of recordings from the Winter 2021 PCC 586 Seminar Series is now available on our website, and Youtube (attached below). The UW Program on Climate Change (PCC) and Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) organized a seminar series in Winter 2021 that focused on the intersection of climate change and human health. The goal for this series was to bring together researchers in the two communities to discuss how climate change has and will impact human health.
Read moreA look at the 2021 PCC Annual (virtual) Winter Welcome
During the week of March 15, PCC welcomed 16 new faculty, research scientists, postdocs, and graduate students to the UW climate community and awarded Graduate Certificates in Climate Sciences to four graduate students who completed their capstone projects in the last year. Given the impact that the pandemic-related restrictions have had on us all, it is heartening and inspiring to see all of the progress and milestones that have been achieved over the last year within the PCC community.
Read morePCC Members at AGU 2020
AGU has begun, and for those of us attending the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting remotely this year, we have compiled a list of presentations by PCC community members at the University of Washington. Visit this spreadsheet for names, dates, titles, and links to presentations (we’ll be keeping this updated throughout the week). Hope to see you all virtually!
Read more2020 Grad Climate Conference Applications open
The 14th annual Graduate Climate conference will be a virtual event from October 30 – November 1, 2020. Applications are open July 20 – September 1, 2020. For more details, visit: https://2020gcc.weebly.com/. About the conference: The Graduate Climate Conference (GCC) is an interdisciplinary climate conference run by graduate students, for graduate students. Over the last fourteen years, graduate students representing hundreds of academic institutions have come together to present research and share ideas on climate and climate change in an array of disciplines.
Read moreThe Program on Climate Change Winter Welcome 2020. In the Time Before.
On 25 February 2020, 80 climate scientists, educators and staff from across campus gathered in person to celebrate much that was new in the community for 2019/2020. What we did not realize at the time was that this was going to be one of the last face-to-face interactions we could have as a community for months. Two weeks later, on March 9 the University of Washington went to remote operations, finishing the winter quarter online.
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