Here’s some events related to climate modeling and software/informatics that look interesting for the rest of this year. I won’t be able to make it to all of them (I’m trying to cut down on travel, for various reasons), but they all look tempting:
- The First International Workshop on Climate Informatics, at the New York Academy of Sciences, August 26, 2011. This is organised jointly by Columbia University and NASA GISS, and aims to bring together folks working in computational intelligence and climate science. Unfortunately, I can’t go, it’s family vacation time. Hope there’s another next year…
- Computing in Atmospheric Sciences Workshop, in Annecy, France, Sept 11-14, 2011. I’ve been invited to speak at this one. Gotta register this week to get the cheaper registration…
- the World Climate Research Program’s Open Science Conference, “Climate Research in Service to Society”, in Denver, USA, Oct 24-28, 2011. I’ll be going to this one, to present a poster on the work of the Benchmarking and Assessment Working Group of the WMO’s Surface Temperature Initiative.
And then of course, in December, it’s the AGU Fall Meeting. Abstracts are due tomorrow, so we’ll be busy for the next 24 hours. Here’s a selection of conference tracks that look fascinating to me. In the Union sessions there some tracks that look at the big picture:
- U10 Climate Confluence Issues (Energy, Environment, Economics, Security)
- U15 Data and Information Quality Really Matters in the Era of Predictive and Often Contentious Science
- U18 Effectively Communicating Climate Science (How to Address Related Issues)
- U20 Geoengineering Research Policy
In the Education sessions, they’ve introduced a whole set of tracks on climate literacy:
- ED08 Climate Change Education: What Educational Research Reveals About Teaching and Learning About Climate Change
- ED09 Climate Literacy: Addressing Barriers to Climate Literacy – What Does the Research Tell Us?
- ED10 Climate Literacy: Evidence of Progress in Improving Climate Literacy
- ED11 Climate Literacy: Higher Education Responding to Climate Change
- ED12 Climate Literacy: Integrating Research and Education, Science & Solutions
- ED13 Climate Literacy: New Approaches for Tackling Complex and Contentious Issues in Museums, Zoos and Aquariums
- ED14 Climate Literacy: Pre-college Activities That Support Climate Science Careers and Climate Conscious Citizens
- ED15 Climate Literacy: The Role of Belief, Trust and Values in Climate Change Science Education Efforts
And of course, many sessions on climate modeling and climate data in the Global Environmental Change sessions. I’ll go to many of these, but the following are ones I’ve especially enjoyed in previous years:
- GC05 Climate Modeling 3. Uncertainty Quantification and its Application to Climate Change
- GC06 Climate Modeling 4. Methodologies of Climate Model Evaluation, Confirmation and Interpretation
Of course, the Informatics sessions are where all the action is. I’m glad to there’s a track on Software Engineering Challenges again this year, and there are some interesting sessions on visualization, decision support, open source and data quality (among my pet themes!):
- IN07 Climate Knowledge Discovery, Integration and Visualization
- IN08 Computational and Software Engineering Challenges in Earth Science
- IN09 Creating Decision Support Products in a Rapidly Changing Environment
- IN30 Software Reuse and Open Source Software in Earth Science
- IN31 The Challenge of Data Quality in Earth Observations and Modeling
Finally, a couple of session in the Public Affairs division look interesting:
Phew. Look’s like it’ll be a busy week.