Institutional Seminar Series
(in person)
Thursday, May 30th, 2024
at Scripps Seaside Forum Auditorium
12 p.m. Talks begin w/ Q&A
Pizza to be served after, will have vegan and gluten free options
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Title: The Three-Dimensionality of Atmospheric Rivers
Abstract: Satellites are above our heads. Most remote sensing of the atmosphere, surface, and ocean is based on downward looking sensors to provide a…
Institutional Seminar Series
(in person)
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
at Scripps Seaside Forum Auditorium
12 p.m. Talks begin w/ Q&A
Pizza to be served after, will have vegan and gluten free options
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Title: Observing and understanding the ocean with inverse techniques
Abstract: Inverse techniques are quintessential in science and probably the single piece of methodology that…
Institutional Seminar Series
(in person)
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
at Scripps Seaside Forum Auditorium
11 a.m. Talks begin w/ Q&A
Pizza to be served after, will have vegan and gluten free options
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Title: What happens when you drop a bucket of dye at the bottom of La Jolla Canyon?
Abstract: In October 2023, we released rhodamine dye at a depth of 85 m at the bottom of La…
Institutional Seminar Series
(in person)
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
at Scripps Seaside Forum Auditorium
12 p.m. Talks begin w/ Q&A
Pizza to be served after, will have vegan and gluten free options
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TITLE: Harnessing Signal Processing in Underwater Acoustics: Source Localization, Tracking, and Performance Enhancement
ABSTRACT: Underwater acoustic…
Title: Reducing Uncertainty Surrounding Climate Change Using Emergent Constraints
Abstract: Many aspects of future climate change remain highly uncertain as different climate models can exhibit large and persistent spreads in their projections. This uncertainty stems from a variety of sources including natural variability, differing emissions pathways, and differences in how models represent key physical processes. Efforts to reduce uncertainty in climate change projections primarily focus on the latter. A popular approach for…
Institutional Seminar Series
(in person)
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
at Scripps Seaside Forum Auditorium
12 p.m. Talks begin w/ Q&A
Pizza to be served after, will have vegan and gluten free options
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Alba Solsona Berga
TITLE: Harmony in the Deep - Navigating Marine Mammal Adaptations with Sound, Software, and Scientific Innovation.
ABSTRACT: Autonomous passive acoustic instruments remotely sense and capture sounds from a variety of…
Title: An overview of SOCCOM (Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling): ten years of studying circulation, heat, and carbon in the Southern Ocean
Abstract: The SOCCOM (Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling) program, which started in 2014, seeks to improve global climate understanding and prediction through improved observation and modeling of Southern Ocean processes south of about 30°S. This region is known to be fundamental to climate but had been absurdly undersampled, especially in…
Title: Do plants respond to variations in atmospheric humidity?
Abstract: A growing literature argues that ecosystem-scale evapotranspiration is more sensitive to drying of the atmosphere because of stomatal regulation by plants than to reductions in surface soil moisture. Past studies analysed observations, for which it is difficult to conclusively control for potential relations among plant physiology, measurable state variables such as vapor pressure deficit (VPD) or soil moisture, and ecosystem-scale water flux. Here we analyse…
Institutional Seminar Series
(in person)
Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
at Scripps Seaside Forum Auditorium
12 p.m. Talks begin w/ Q&A
Pizza to be served after, will have vegan and gluten free options
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TITLE: Ecological investigations using autonomous passive acoustics - from individuals to populations
ABSTRACT: Autonomous passive acoustic recordings capture sounds from a variety of…
Title: The South Atlantic Ocean: Circulation from an Inverse Box Model and a Multi-data Set Analysis of the Freshwater Transport by the AMOC
Abstract: The South Atlantic plays a key role in heat transport, as it hosts the returning flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). To gain insights on this role, using data from three hydrographic cruises conducted in the South Atlantic at 34.5ºS, 24ºS, and 10ºW, we identify water masses and compute absolute geostrophic circulation using inverse modeling. Our results…