Ocean and Climate Physics Seminars

Zebra Grazing in Kenya's Nairobi National Park with Nairobi skyline in Distance. Credit: Daniel M. Westervelt

Division seminars are an opportunity for our research and Lamont-wide communities to participate in research discussions and engage in networking and collaboration. Speakers include Lamont and outside graduate students, postdocs, research techs, faculty, and others doing work of interest to the scientific community, with a commitment to including diverse speakers from underrepresented groups.

Spring 2024

Date: Jan 19, 2024
Title: Understanding Arctic sea ice variability from synoptic to multi-decadal timescales using machine learning methods
Presenter: Peter Siew, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Jan 26, 2024
Title: Predictability and projection of flash drought and extreme precipitation in North America
Presenter: Bor-Ting Jong, Princeton University and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Date: Feb 2, 2024
Title: A New Theory for Heat Extremes in a Changing Climate
Presenter: Yi Zhang, NYU’s Courant Institute

Date: Feb 9, 2024
Title: Icy, moist, and seasonal: Polar amplification in idealized and realistic climates
Presenter: Nicole Feldl, UC Santa Cruz

Date: Feb 23, 2024
Title: Decadal-scale concurrent hydroclimate extremes across pan-Pacific landmasses over the last millennium
Presenter: Anson Cheung, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Mar 1, 2024
Title: Historical lack of warming in the tropical Pacific and its dynamics
Presenter: Feng Jiang, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Mar 8, 2024
Title: How do sea surface temperature forcings drive the westward extensions of the Western North Pacific subtropical high?
Presenter: Jhordanne Jones, Purdue

Date: Mar 22, 2024
Title: The Dark Target project: Towards long-term, time-resolved global aerosol optical depth
Presenter: Rob Levy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Date: Mar 29, 2024
Title: Investigating Hadley cell extent across timescales via the cell-mean Rossby number
Presenter: Spencer Hill, City College of New York

Date: Apr 5, 2024
Title: Summertime stationary waves integrate tropical and extratropical impacts on tropical cyclone activity
Presenter: Zhou Wang, University of Illinois

Date: Apr 12, 2024
Title: Protection without poison: why ozone maximizes in the interior of the atmosphere
Presenter: Aaron Match, NYU

Date: Apr 26, 2024
Title: The Multiscale Nature of Tropical Systems & Changes with the Future Climate
Presenter: Kelly Núñez-Ocasio, NCAR

Date: May 1, 2024
Title: IRIS: The Imperial College Strom Model
Presenter: Ralf Toumi, Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment

Date: May 3, 2024
Title: Machine Learning for Understanding Hurricanes' Impacts On Tropical Forest
Presenter: Tian Zheng, Columbia University

Date: May 10, 2024
Title: Aerosols as Drivers of Climate Risk
Presenter: Geeta Persad, UT Austin

Date: June 5, 2024
Title: High-Fidelity Simulations of Air-Sea Interaction
Presenter: Lian Shen, University of Minnesota

Fall 2023

Date: Sep 8, 2023
Title: Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Drought over Tropical South America
Presenter: Yelin Jiang, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Sep 15, 2023
Title: Tracking the thermodynamic and biogeochemical processes underlying climate change
Presenter: Jan Zika, University of New South Wales

Date: Sep 22, 2023
Title: Accelerating the Research to Operations Transition for Climate Action
Presenter: Raha Hakimdavar, Georgetown University

Date: Oct 13, 2023
Title: Circulation Regimes, Local Air-Sea Interaction and the Signal-to-noise Paradox
Presenter: Tim Palmer, Royal Society

Date: Oct 20, 2023
Title: Discovering dominant atmospheric drivers of ocean variability
Presenter: Dan Amrhein, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Date: Oct 27, 2023
Title: The respective roles of ocean heat transport and surface heat fluxes in driving Arctic Ocean warming and sea-ice decline
Presenter: Dylan Oldenburg, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Date: Nov 2, 2023
Title: Probabilistic predictions of Lagrangian drift at the ocean surface using machine learning
Presenter: Julien Le Sommer, CNRS

Date: Nov 17, 2023
Title: Improving Vertical Mixing in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer using Machine Learning in a Climate Model
Presenter: Aakash Sane, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Date: Dec 1, 2023
Title: South American monsoon reconstruction for the last millennium using isotopic proxies, models, and data assimilation products
Presenter: Mathias Vuille SUNY Albany

Date: Dec 8, 2023
Title: Anthropogenic climate change and the growing hazard of explosive storms in Europe: lessons from Alex, Eunice, and Xynthia
Presenter: Mireia Ginesta-Fernandez, LSCE-IPSL

Spring 2023

Date: Jan 20, 2023
Title: Why Is Soil Moisture Not Decreasing?
Presenter: Lucas Vargas Zeppetello, Harvard University

Date: Jan 25, 2023
Title: Provision of Climate Information Services to Sustain Farmers’ Decision in Senegal West Africa: Results and Challenges
Presenter: Ousmane Ndiaye, Future Climate for Africa

Date: Jan 27, 2023
Title: Climate Change Mitigation through Renewable Energy Development: A Case Study of Offshore Wind in New Jersey
Presenter: Kira Lawrence, Lafayette College and NJ Board of Public Utilities Clean Energy Division

Date: Feb 3, 2023
Title: Justice in Communities Disproportionately Affected by the Climate Crisis
Presenter: Genee Smith, Johns Hopkins University

Date: Feb 10, 2023
Title: A Theory-based Tropical Cyclone Wind Field Model: From Idealized Landfall Experiments to Real-World Applications
Presenter: Jie Chen, Princeton University and NOAA GFDL

Date: Feb 17, 2023
Title: Predictability of U.S. Great Plains Summer Hydroclimate via Extratropical Teleconnections
Presenter: Kelsey Malloy, Columbia University

Date: Feb 24, 2023
Title: Simulating Idealized Monsoons to Build Mechanistic Understanding: Climatology and Extremes
Presenter: Jane Smyth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: Mar 2, 2023
Title: Does the stratosphere influence the tropical troposphere and surface?
Presenter: Jorge Garcia Franco, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Mar 8, 2023
Title: What Sets the Climatology of CAPE?
Presenter: Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: Mar 19, 2023
Title: Multiscale Interactions of Tropical Convection in the Indian Ocean
Presenter: Deanna Hence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Date: Mar 24, 2023
Title: Examining Connections between Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric Circulation in Response to CO2
Presenter: Molly Menzel, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Date: Mar 31, 2023
Title: Whiteface Mountain as a Natural Laboratory to Study Chemical Processing of Aerosols by Clouds
Presenter: Sara Lance, SUNY Albany

Date: Apr 5, 2023
Title: Shallow clouds, their interplay with atmospheric radiation and their critical role in the climate system
Presenter: Nina Crnivec, Columbia Climate School Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Date: Apr 7, 2023
Title: Isolating climate noise from climate means and its application to seasonal prediction and test of multi-decadal peaks from decadal running mean SST
Presenter: Xiaogu Zheng, International Global Change Institute

Date: Apr 14, 2023
Title: Hydroclimatic impacts of persistent volcanism: A lesson from Ancient Ptolemaic Egypt
Presenter: Ram Singh, Columbia Climate School Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Date: Apr 21, 2023
Title: Thermodynamic control of tropical convection and the large-scale impacts
Presenter: Fiaz Ahmed, UCLA

Date: Apr 28, 2023
Title: It’s about climate and the Pacific and/or Atlantic Ocean
Presenter: Amy Clement, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Date: May 3, 2023
Title: Estimating Mixing Strengths Using Hydrographic Data
Presenter: Niek Kusters, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Date: May 17, 2023
Title: AI Applications in Oceanography
Presenter: Changming Dong, School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

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Fall 2022

Date: Sep 9, 2022
Title: Tropical Deep Convection and Global Warming: What Do We Do?
Presenter: Nadir Jeevanjee, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Date: Sep 16, 2022
Title: Anthropogenically-driven increases in extreme fire weather conditions and subsequent extreme precipitation events
Presenter: Danielle Touma, University of California Santa Barbara

Date: Sep 30, 2022
Title: Using Observations and Models to Understand the Role of the Wind Driven Ocean Circulation on Climate Change
Presenter: Kay McMonigal, North Carolina State University

Date: Oct 3, 2022
Title: Correcting biases in tropical cyclone intensities in low-resolution datasets using dynamical systems metrics
Presenter: Davide Faranda, University of Paris-Saclay

Date: Oct 14, 2022
Title: Partitioning how natural variability and climate change influence hydrologic response in five major California Central Valley watersheds
Presenter: Rohini Gupta, Cornell University

Date: Oct 21, 2022
Title: Monsoonal Precipitation in a Model Hierarchy: Impact of Continental Geometry and Global Warming
Presenter: Katrina Hui, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Oct 28, 2022
Title: A Potential Explanation for the Global Increase in Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification
Presenter: Kieran Bhatia, Guy Carpenter

Date: Nov 11, 2022
Title: Troposphere-Stratosphere Interactions in Tropical Intra-seasonal Variability
Presenter: Jonathan Lin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Nov 18, 2022
Title: The equatorial Pacific cold SST bias and its influence on simulated ENSO dynamics and teleconnections
Presenter: Tobias Bayr, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Date: Dec 2, 2022
Title: Global Hybrid Tropical Cyclone Modeling based upon Statistical and Coupled Climate Models
Presenter: Mathieu Boudreault, Université du Québec à Montréal

Date: Dec 7, 2022
Title: Tropical Rain Belt Migration Driven by Continental Drift
Presenter: Ji Nie, Peking University

Date: Dec 9, 2022
Title: Quantifying air-water turbulence with moment field equations
Presenter: Colton Conroy, Southern Methodist University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Spring 2022

Date: Jan 21, 2022
Title: Sea ice from the large-scale to the small-scale
Presenter: Lettie Roach, NASA GISS/Columbia

Date: Jan 28, 2022
Title: Plume-generated internal gravity waves as drivers of melt at LeConte Glacier, Alaska
Presenter: Jesse Cusack, Rutgers University

Date: Feb 4, 2022
Title: Tropical Pacific mean state, ENSO variance and diversity: Paleo-perspectives, impacts, and implications for future projections
Presenter: Christina Karamperidou, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Date: Feb 11, 2022
Title: Colonial meteorology and aridity in North and East Africa: For an environmental history of Italian imperialism (1860-1960)
Presenter: Angelo Caglioti, Barnard College

Date: Feb 18, 2022
Title: The pattern effect and its implications for climate sensitivity
Presenter: Yue Dong, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Feb 21, 2022
Title: Weathering the Storm: tropical cyclone risk under climate change
Presenter: Nadia Bloemendaal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Date: Feb 25, 2022
Title: Hydraulically controlled flow in abyssal ocean passages
Presenter: Shuwen Tan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Mar 4, 2022
Title: Climate change impacts on hurricane storm surge risk
Presenter: Talea Mayo, Emory University

Date: Mar 11, 2022
Title: Direct observational evidence of an oceanic dual kinetic energy cascade and its seasonality
Presenter: Dhruv Balwada, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Mar 25, 2022
Title: Observing Sea Ice Thickness from Satellite and Airborne Altimetry: Historical Perspectives and New Developments
Presenter: Nathan Kurtz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Date: Apr 1, 2022
Title: Small-scale physical-biological interactions: Implications for Lagrangian plankton transport and ecosystem processes
Presenter: Jessica Garwood, Princeton University

Date: Apr 8, 2022
Title: Urbanization Role in Resilience of Communities Under Flood Risk
Presenter: Mona Hemmati, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Apr 11, 2022
Title: More crops, less drops? Agriculture and climate interactions via soils
Presenter: Sonali McDermid, NYU

Date: Apr 18, 2022
Title: Demystifying Hothouse Climates like the Eocene
Presenter: Geoffrey Vallis, University of Exeter

Date: Apr 22, 2022
Title: The coupling of lightning with air pollution and climate
Presenter: Lee Murray, University of Rochester

Date: Apr 25, 2022
Title: Thermodynamic controls on the distribution of precipitation change
Presenter: Timothy Merlis, Princeton University

Date: May 6, 2022
Title: How heavy rainfall events of different spatial extents are triggered over India?
Presenter: Akshaya Nikumbh, GFDL

Date: Jun 17, 2022
Title: Autumn Monsoons: A Newly Discovered Climate Type
Presenter: Nandini Ramesh, University of Sydney

Date: Aug 29, 2022
Title: Observing and Modeling Ocean Macro-Turbulence
Presenter: Dhruv Balwada, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Fall 2021

Date: Sep 10, 2021
Title: Kinematics and dynamics of oceanic overflows: Denmark Strait as a case study
Speaker: Atousa Saberi, Johns Hopkins University

Date: Sep 17, 2021
Title: History of meteorology
Speaker: Angelo Caglioti, Barnard College

Date: Sep 24, 2021
Title: Atmospheric transport
Speaker: Clara Orbe, NASA GISS

Date: Oct 8, 2021
Title: Atmospheric rivers
Speaker: Tashiana Osborne, UCSD/Scripps

Date: Oct 15, 2021
Title: Tropical cyclones & modeling
Speaker: Alyssa Stanfield, Stony Brook University

Date: Oct 22, 2021
Title: Tropical cyclones & modeling
Speaker: Tsung-Lin Hsieh, Princeton University

Date: Oct 29, 2021
Title: Ecohydrology
Speaker: Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Date: Nov 19, 2021
Title: Atmosphere dynamical drivers of persistent and concurrent weather extremes and their projected changes in CMIP5/6 high emission scenarios
Speaker: Kai Kornhuber, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Spring 2021

Date: Apr 30, 2021
Title: EGU 2021

Date: Apr 23, 2021
Title: Boniface Fosu, LDEO, Columbia U

Date: Apr 16, 2021
Title: Jie He, Georgia Tech

Date: Apr 9, 2021
Title: Stephanie Henderson, U Wisconsin

Date: Mar 26, 2021
Title: Assaf Hochman, KIT

Date: Mar 19, 2021
Title: Liji David, Col. State U

Date: Mar 12, 2021
Title: Falko Judt, UCAR

Date: Mar 5, 2021
Title: Vernon Morris, Arizona State

Date: Feb 26, 2021
Title: Isla Simpson, UCAR

Date: Feb 19, 2021
Title: Angeline Pendergrass, Cornell

Date: Feb 12, 2021
Title: Lee Murray, U Rochester

Date: Feb 5, 2021
Title: Andrea Lopez Lang, SUNY

Date: Jan 29, 2021
Title: Marilyn Raphael, UCLA

Date: Jan 22, 2021
Title: Veeshan Narinesingh, CUNY

Date: Jan 15, 2021
Title: Renellys Perez, NOAA

Seminar Organizers

Jaewon Lee: Jaewon Lee
Lindsay Hogan: Lindsay Hogan
Sai Kompella: Sai Kompella