

How Climate Change is Transforming Mountain Environments Across the World
LOCATION
Virtual - Hosted on Zoom
The consequences of climate change only grew clearer this year, as record-shattering heatwaves, floods, and wildfires affected thousands and strained the limits of our disaster responders. While such climate change consequences are now present globally, they are particularly acute in mountains as high-altitude mountain areas are projected to warm much faster than lowland regions. It is for example difficult to precisely predict and understand temperature increases and precipitation changes in mountains due to a varied range of microclimates and a very broad and wide range of land cover. This talk presented a broad range of examples of major consequences of climate change on mountainous environments as well as going through a few of the challenges the atmospheric research community is facing concerning the adequate understanding of current mountain environments and their transformations. How can our understanding, especially for adaptation and mitigation of climate change, can be enriched by the recent increases in the availability of measurements as well as computing power was also discussed.
Speaker
Dr Ioana Colfescu, Senior Research Scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Science
I am a Research Scientist in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Scientist for the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). My background is in Mathematics and Mechanics followed by a Ph.D. in Climate Dynamics at George Mason University, USA. The focus of my research is to jointly use Machine Learning techniques and climate models to improve the understanding of the key processes determining Earth’s climate at long-term scales of variability. Throughout my career, I have been involved in various projects in different parts of the world (e.g USA, Romania, Scotland, England, Italy) and field campaigns (the Arctic Ocean, Iceland, Italy, UK, Isle of Arran, Scotland). As part of my work in NCAS, I am also coordinating and developing course modules on climate change as well as teaching, mentoring, and supervising post-graduate students. My work ethos is rooted in the curiosity Mathematics instilled in me from a very young age as well as, more recently in enjoying sharing this with others, especially students and early-career scientists. Outside work I love photography ( https://gurushots.com/Colfi ), spending time with my dog, and camping (especially on the Western coast of Scotland despite the midges).
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The consequences of climate change only grew clearer this year, as record-shattering heatwaves, floods, and wildfires affected thousands and strained the limits of our disaster responders. While such climate change consequences are now present globally, they are particularly acute in mountains as high-altitude mountain areas are projected to warm much faster than lowland regions. It is for example difficult to precisely predict and understand temperature increases and precipitation changes in mountains due to a varied range of microclimates and a very broad and wide range of land cover. This talk presented a broad range of examples of major consequences of climate change on mountainous environments as well as going through a few of the challenges the atmospheric research community is facing concerning the adequate understanding of current mountain environments and their transformations. How can our understanding, especially for adaptation and mitigation of climate change, can be enriched by the recent increases in the availability of measurements as well as computing power was also discussed.
Speaker
Dr Ioana Colfescu, Senior Research Scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Science
I am a Research Scientist in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Scientist for the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). My background is in Mathematics and Mechanics followed by a Ph.D. in Climate Dynamics at George Mason University, USA. The focus of my research is to jointly use Machine Learning techniques and climate models to improve the understanding of the key processes determining Earth’s climate at long-term scales of variability. Throughout my career, I have been involved in various projects in different parts of the world (e.g USA, Romania, Scotland, England, Italy) and field campaigns (the Arctic Ocean, Iceland, Italy, UK, Isle of Arran, Scotland). As part of my work in NCAS, I am also coordinating and developing course modules on climate change as well as teaching, mentoring, and supervising post-graduate students. My work ethos is rooted in the curiosity Mathematics instilled in me from a very young age as well as, more recently in enjoying sharing this with others, especially students and early-career scientists. Outside work I love photography ( https://gurushots.com/Colfi ), spending time with my dog, and camping (especially on the Western coast of Scotland despite the midges).
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If you would like to be added to the East Midlands Local Centre mailing list, and kept up to date with future events, please email eastmidlands@rmets.org.