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    Weather and Climate Educational Modules

    Posted on March 29, 2012 | No Comments
    Note from the editor: The following is an email sent by COMET, a program within the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) that specializes in outreach and education on a broad range of meteorological topics. Listed are their newest “training modules”, which are free and...

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    Climate Change Research in US Dying from Lack of Financial Support

    Posted on February 24, 2012 | No Comments
    Due to recent budget cuts, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has abandoned its effort to reconstruct a detailed picture of hour-by-hour changes in the atmosphere stretching back to the 19th century. The 20th Century Reanalysis is a project that has already helped scientists better...

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    Breakthrough in Scrubbing Carbon Dioxide from the Air

    Posted on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments
    By Pennell Paugh CO2 scrubbers have been developed but so far, all have been prohibitively expensive. The Journal of the American Chemical Society reports that researchers at the University of Southern California’s Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute have developed an extraction method that has achieved some...

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    ACRE Mentioned in AMS Bulletin

    Posted on December 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
    The international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative both undertakes and facilitates the recovery of historical instrumental surface terrestrial and marine global weather observations to underpin 3D weather reconstructions (reanalyses) spanning the last 200-250 years for climate applications and impacts needs worldwide.  All...

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    Sponsor IEDRO: Help Us Attend the 178th AAAS Meeting

    Posted on December 1, 2011 | No Comments
    Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) organizes one of the most widely recognized global science conferences, with hundreds of networking opportunities and broad international media coverage. IEDRO’s participation would be a significant benefit to attending scientists, researchers, educators and families. ...

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    Attendee Sought for American Meteorological Society Career Fair 92nd Annual Meeting – January 22-26, 2012 New Orleans

    Posted on November 25, 2011 | No Comments
    We are not able, at this time, to commit funds for travel to the January 2012 American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting. Might anyone who is already going also represent us? The theme of the 2012 AMS Annual Meeting will be Technology in Research and Operations—How...

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    Climate Change Research: The Study of Ice Cores

    Posted on November 20, 2011 | No Comments
    Ice cores, drilled from the polar ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland most commonly, but also from places as diverse as Africa, Bolivia, China, Peru, Russia and even the United States are the most accurate means to proving a window into the paleoclimate record in...

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    3rd International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response

    Posted on November 17, 2011 | No Comments
    30 May – 1st June, 2012 Dubrovnik, Croatia The conference provides a forum for researchers, academics and practitioners actively involved in improving our understanding of flood events including risk management and mitigation, as well as emergency response and many other related issues. The meeting will...

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    International Conference on Reanalyses

    Posted on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Silver Spring, MD| May 7-11, 2012 | http://icr4.org Conference Themes Status and Plans: Major international reanalysis development, including broad disciplinary overviews (e.g., atmosphere, oceans, hydrology, cryosphere). Validation and Metrics: Inter-comparison and validation studies; assessing the impact of the assimilation and analysis increments; innovative diagnostics that...

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  • Bangladesh Named Country Most Vulnerable to Natural Disasters Future Data Rescue Operation May Save Lives

    Bangladesh Named Country Most Vulnerable to Natural Disasters Future Data Rescue Operation May Save Lives

    Posted on November 12, 2011 | No Comments
    Environmental risk advisory firm Maplecroft has named Bangladesh the country most vulnerable to natural disasters on their Natural Disasters Risk Index.  Surveying incidents of natural disasters, and the material and human costs of those disasters over a period of 30 years, Maplecroft placed Bangladesh at...

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