Monday 23 October & Tuesday 24 October - Evening
This event will include a series of short talks by the Schmidt Futures Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI) teams. VESRI provides sustained, multi-year funding and embedded technical expertise towards transformational climate modeling research by jointly exploiting advances in models of the Earth systems, Earth observations, computational tools, and bringing tools and approaches from outside the climate sciences to bear within it. By coordinating hundreds of climate and data scientists across eleven countries, four scientific research consortiums and fifty research institutions, VESRI aims to improve climate modeling, change the direction of multiple models globally, and ultimately accelerate the pace of earth systems and climate research.
We invite you to join 4 speakers from the current VESRI teams at the following talks:
Monday 23 October (20:00 - 21:30)
Time
Speaker
Title
20:00 - 20:15
V. Balaji (Schmidt Futures)
Welcome
20:15 - 20:40
Colin Prentice (LEMONTREE)
The New Physics Of Land Ecosystems
20:40 - 21:05
Laure Zanna (M2LInES)
The New Generation of Global Climate Models Enhanced by Machine Learning
21:05 - 21:30
Rym Msadek (SASIP)
Intrinsic Variability Arising From Ocean Mesoscale Activity In The Arctic
Tuesday 24 October (20:00 - 21:45)
Time
Speaker
Title
20:00 - 20:15
V. Balaji (Schmidt Futures)
Welcome
20:15 - 20:40
Aditi Sheshadri (DataWave)
Virtually
Collaborative Gravity Wave Research
20:40 - 21:05
Sandy Harrison (LEMONTREE)
Green Vegetation Cover: A First-Principles Model For A First-Order Control Of Land-Atmosphere Exchanges
21:05 - 21:30
Chris Horvat (SASIP)
Virtually
The Polar Tempest: Coupled Modes Of Sea Ice Fracture And Ocean Eddy Motions In Earth’s Polar Oceans
21:30 - 21:45
Dominic Orchard (ICCS)
Research Software Engineering for the New Generation of Climate Models
About Schmidt Futures: The Schmidt philanthropic entities work to restore a balanced relationship between people and planet through two methods: grantmaking and impact investing. As a part of this work across all Schmidt philanthropies, the climate portfolio at Schmidt Futures targets work that aims to improve baseline data needed to inform better mitigation and adaptation efforts, studying the relationship between carbon and the ocean, and supporting a future sustainable economy via engineering biology. Through VESRI (Virtual Earth System Research Institute), Schmidt Futures provides sustained, multi-year funding and embedded technical expertise towards improving climate modeling, changing the direction of multiple models globally, and ultimately accelerating the pace of earth systems and climate research.
Name of organizing project/institution: University of Cambridge
Organizer: Marla Fuchs - University of Cambridge, UK
Targeted audience: All participants
Attendance: Open to all delegates registered for the WCRP Open Science Conference