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Blog Post, General, People

Outcomes of our PCC Community Survey

The Program on Climate Change represents a combination of University of Washington members. We all come together with an interest in climate change from faculty, staff, and researchers to grad students, undergrads, and alumni. We form a group focused on accelerating climate involvement, education, and research but we also form a community. To get to know and connect with our community members further, we sent out a survey in February and March 2024, ahead of our Winter Welcome. 

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Events, People, PGraSC, Undergraduate Cohort

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. 

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Blog Post, Fellowships, Gifts, People

Forecasting the spatial extent of marine heatwaves

by Jacob Cohen, UW Oceanography, Recipient of a PCC Graubard Graduate Fellowship The ocean has absorbed 90% of recent warming associated with anthropogenic climate change; as a result, extreme ocean heat events, known as marine heatwaves (MHWs), are becoming more frequent and more intense. These extreme events can have detrimental impacts on marine ecosystems as well as coastal industries. Accurate MHW forecasts will allow local decision makers and industries to respond to and plan for these events. 

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Blog Post, Fellowships, Gifts, People

Can ecological forestry improve public health outcomes? The Graubard Fellowship supports a case study in the Central Sierra

by Claire Schollaert As wildfires become more frequent and severe due to climate change and postcolonial fire management practices, there is growing consensus among the forest management community that prescribed burning should be used on the landscape to reduce excess fuels and mitigate extreme wildfire risk. Despite the benefits of prescribed burning to forest restoration goals, these managed fires still produce smoke, which may impact the health of surrounding communities. 

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Blog Post, GCeCS Capstone, People

Connecting Chemistry and Climate Science: Empowering High School Students to Take Action

By: Kat Husiak As the urgency of climate change becomes increasingly apparent, it is essential to equip young minds with the knowledge and tools to understand and address this global crisis. In May of 2022, I responded to a request from Newport High School looking to supplement their sophomore chemistry curriculum with a guest speaker. As a result, I developed a 50 minute guest lecture to Newport High School sophomores in Bellevue, WA as part of my capstone project for the Graduate Certificate in Climate Science. 

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Announcements, Blog Post, Events, People, Spring Symposium

The 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. 

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People

PCC Postdoc Channing Prend is honored as a Fulbright Scholar!

Channing Prend, a post-doctoral student in the School of Oceanography and fellow of the NOAA Climate & Global Change program, is one of three UW researchers to be honored as a Fulbright Scholar! As part of the highly prestigious award, Prend will be hosted by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, researching the “Regional Variability of Air-Sea-Ice Interactions in the Southern Ocean.” This will build off his work using a combination of observations, numerical models, and remote sensing to investigate the role of the ocean in the climate system, especially in the Southern Ocean, as well as his experience in communicating climate science. Congrats, Channing!

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In the News, People

UW contributors to IPCC report underscore climate change's threat to humanity

Recently, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Working Group II report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, and two distinguished experts on the intersection of human health and climate change from the UW, Dr. Kristie Ebi and Dr. Jeremy Hess, served as lead authors. Dr. Ebi and Dr. Hess specifically authored Chapter 7 of the report, focusing on the “Health, wellbeing and the changing structure of communities,” and Dr. 

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Events, People

PCC 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. 

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