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UTIG/BEG Seminar Series: Clara Deser, NCAR
Start:December 1, 2023 at 3:00 pm
End:
December 1, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Location:
PRC 196/ROC 1.603
Contact:
Constantino Panagopulos, costa@ig.utexas.edu, 512-574-7376
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NOTE: This seminar is hosted jointly with the Bureau of Economic Geology and will be held at 3pm. The seminar will be followed by a reception in the first floor UTIG lobby at 4pm.
Speaker: Clara Deser, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics
Host: Yuko Okumura
Title: A Range of Outcomes: The combined effects of internal variability and anthropogenic influences on regional climate trends over North America
Abstract: Disentangling the effects of internal climate variability and anthropogenic influences on regional climate trends over North America remains a key challenge with far-reaching implications. Due to its largely unpredictable nature on timescales longer than a decade, internal climate variability limits the accuracy of climate model projections, introduces challenges in attributing past climate trends, and complicates climate model evaluation. In this talk, I shall highlight recent advances in Earth System modeling and physical understanding that have led to novel insights on these topics. In particular, I shall synthesize new findings from “Large Ensemble” simulations with Earth system models, analogous large-ensembles based on observational records, and a method known as “dynamical adjustment” for uncovering anthropogenic climate change.
Biography: Dr. Clara Deser is a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research where she leads the Climate Analysis Section. She has spent her career studying global climate variability and change in observations and models, with an emphasis on interactions among the atmosphere, oceans and sea ice. Recent projects include the role of internal variability in regional climate trends, the effects of projected Arctic sea ice loss on global climate, asymmetries between El Niño and La Niña events, and modes of decadal-multidecadal climate variability in the Atlantic and Pacific. She pioneered the use of Earth System Model Large Ensemble Simulations to elucidate the combined influences of natural and human-induced contributions to climate variability. Deser has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. She received her Ph.D in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington in 1989, and her B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. She joined NCAR in 1997.
UTIG Seminar Series: AGU Special! Pascual, Conrad, Miller
Start:December 8, 2023 at 10:30 am
End:
December 8, 2023 at 11:30 am
Location:
PRC 196/ROC 1.603
Contact:
Constantino Panagopulos, costa@ig.utexas.edu, 512-574-7376
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Each year, the week before AGU’s Fall Meeting, we invite UTIG graduate researchers to practice their AGU talks. Each presenter will be given 11 minutes, as per AGU’s oral presentation for 2023, followed by a few minutes for Q&A and feedback.
TALK ONE
Speaker: Mikayla Pascual
Title: Ice-sediment coupling increases modeled ice volume
TALK TWO
Speaker: Ethan Conrad
Title: Investigating the morphotectonics of transpressional systems through erosion-tectonic analog modeling
TALK THREE
Speaker: Carson Miller
Title: Internal sand bank seismic stratigraphy provides insight into paleo-barrier island preservation
Alumni Reception at AGU 2023 in San Francisco
Start:December 13, 2023 at 12:00 pm
End:
December 13, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Contact:
Nina Staeben, nstaeben@jsg.utexas.edu
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AGU Friends and Alumni Reception 2023
WHEN: Wednesday, December 13 | 12:00pm – 2:00pm
WHERE: The Howard at 661 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
DeFord Lecture | Courtney SchumacherNovember, 19 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 How Stratiform Rain Shapes Weather, Climate, and the Geological Record by Courtney Schumacher, professor at Texas A&M University |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesNovember, 20 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Katie Smye, Principal Investigator of the Center for Injection and Seismicity Research, BEG in person and on Zoom. Title: Shallow Injection Capacity in the Permian Basin: Pressure Limits, Legacy Wells, and Leakage Susceptibility Effective water-resource planning requires connecting available water with climate dynamics and sector-specific water demand. This presentation presents application of satellite remote sensing, hydrological modeling, data analytics and machine learning in estimating water availability across scales. Texas applications examine groundwater depletion, drought, TX municipal water-demand projections, and energy generation water use. Continental and global studies benchmark water-availability estimates, develop satellite-based indicators, and integrate GRACE satellite-based observations into hydrological models using machine learning. Daily evapotranspiration mapping further supports assessment of water use and drivers of droughts. Together, these studies demonstrate how complementary observations and modeling approaches can strengthen water-resource assessment and planning. Join Zoom Meeting: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/93201377630?pwd=KzF3TW53SFYzSUg4SUZVNGtxd3JvZz09 This session will not be recorded. Meeting ID: 932 0137 7630 Passcode: 013011 |
Reddit AMA ft. Team REASONDecember, 03 2026Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 Join REASON team members Krista Soderlund and Cyril Grima and UTIG planetary scientist Elizabeth Spiers on reddit.com/r/askspace for an \"Ask me anything!\" about their work on the REASON radar. The REASON team invites members of the Jackson School community to join us in the UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 during the AMA to ask questions about our work! REASON is an ice-penetrating radar aboard NASA’s flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft on its mission to explore icy ocean habitats on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Developed by UTIG at the Jackson School of Geosciences, REASON is one of nine instruments aboard Europa Clipper and the only one that can look directly into Europa’s miles-thick icy shell. It’s here that researchers hope to map its structure, search for subsurface water pockets, and help determine if the ocean below could support life. During the week of November 30th, Europa Clipper is set to slingshot around Earth for a crucial gravity assist that will help send the spacecraft toward Jupiter. This is the perfect opportunity for us to discuss REASON’s journey from conception and development, to Earth-bound calibration, validation, its trial run on imaging Mars, and its journey to the final frontier. While the full team is comprised of numerous scientists, we have three members available to answer questions about REASON and Clipper:
Questions? Email social@ig.utexas.edu. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesDecember, 04 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar Series presented by Mark Shuster, Deputy Director BEG, in person and Zoom. Topic: TBD |
UTIG Fall Seminar Series 2026: AGU Student Extravaganza!December, 04 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details about this talk will be available soon. |