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A new Seminar Series on sea-level changes, GIA and ice sheets will run from 9 March to 13 July 2021.
Logistics
All events will have a start time somewhere between 16:00-18:00 UTC.
Description
As a group under the combined auspices of the WCRP, PAGES' PALSEA working group, SERCE and the IAG sub-commission 3.4, group leaders are starting a once-a-month virtual seminar series dealing with sea-level changes, GIA, and ice sheets.
This monthly seminar series is intended to engage a broad community in advance of future workshops organized by PALSEA-SERCE and the WCRP, and to stimulate discussion and ideas for collaboration and synthesis in this multidisciplinary community.
Program
Seminars are scheduled for the second Tuesday of each month and nominally will fall within the time window of 16:00-18:00 UTC, depending on the schedule and time zones of the speakers.
9 March at 16:30 UTC
For the inaugural meeting on 9 March at 16:30 UTC, Bob Kopp of Rutgers University will talk about the IPCC AR6 process, including the topic "What is needed from the paleo and GIA community to help refine projections of future sea-level change?" The talk will be followed by a discussion period, and this first session will also introduce the broader goals of the series.
> Access the recording of Bob Kopp's seminar here
13 April at 15:00 UTC
"Future directions in GIA model intercomparison and benchmarking"
Speaker: Wouter van der Wal (Delft University)
The seminar will be followed by discussions.
> Register here (Zoom link)
11 May at 15:00 UTC
"Perspectives from the modern sea level and ice sheet modeling communities"
Aimée Slangen, a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and a lead author of the IPCC AR6 report, will discuss advances in modern sea level research and coastal risk and Fiamma Straneo from SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography (UCSD) will discuss the ISMIP6 effort and offer her perspective on how to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration.
8 June
"Paleo ice sheet records and modeling"
Speaker 1: April Dalton, "The marine δ18O record overestimates continental ice volume during Marine Isotope Stage 3"
Speaker 2: Andrew Christ, "Paleo ice sheets"
13 July
"Holocene paleo sea level records"
Speaker 1: Nicole Khan
Speaker 2: Stephen Chua
How to join
Seminar attendance is open to all. Join via Zoom link, provided upon subscription, or listed above.
Organizers are maintaining a mailing list, so to make sure you receive notifications and Zoom links about the future seminars and related events, subscribe by sending an e-mail (with a blank subject line) to listserv@lists.mcgill.ca containing the following text command: subscribe earth-ice-sea firstname lastname (Note that within ~1hr you should receive an email requesting you to confirm your subscription, which you can do by replying to the email with "OK").
Organizing committee
Jacky Austermann, Natasha Barlow, Jeff Freymueller, Natalya Gomez, Thomas James, Alessio Rovere, Jeremy Shakun, Alex Simms and Mark Tamisiea.
Further information
If you have trouble subscribing, please contact Natalya Gomez: natalya.gomez@mcgill.ca
Previous seminars can be accessed on the GISS YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpMmnV3HS7r2maJ8AdzOHGaAmh-OkyOz9