American Geophysical Union 2022: Key Occasions From the Columbia Local weather Faculty

American Geophysical Union 2022: Key Occasions From the Columbia Local weather Faculty

Here’s a information to notable occasions involving researchers on the Columbia Local weather Faculty on the Dec. 12-16 assembly of the American Geophysical Union, the world’s largest gathering of earth and house scientists. The assembly takes place in Chicago and on-line throughout the globe. For details about press registration and how one can entry occasions, go to the assembly’s Press Heart.

Shows listed here are in chronological order. Presenters’ names hyperlink to their contacts; presentation numbers hyperlink to the formal abstracts. Times listed are U.S. Central. (Observe: Should you name up an summary, the time displayed could default to your personal native time in the event you attend remotely.) All areas are on the McCormick Place Conference Heart. Until in any other case famous, scientists are at our Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO).

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Predicting Droughts and Floods within the Panama Canal
Braddock Linsley
The Panama Canal makes use of water saved in reservoirs to function its locks; droughts can convey restrictions on ship drafts, whereas floods can harm  infrastructure. Is there a strategy to predict these occasions to assist handle the canal? Linsley and colleagues studied the chemistry of corals in Pacific Ocean water off the isthmus to provide you with month-by-month measurements of river circulate into the ocean from 1719 to 2018. They present that distant volcanic eruptions seem to behave in live performance with El Niño occasions in a approach that ought to assist scientists predict swings in rainfall for the area.
Monday Dec. 12, 14:45-18:15 | Poster Corridor A | A15H-1331

Excessive Climate, Darkish Tweets
Kelton Minor, Knowledge Science Institute
Minor analyzed day by day climate throughout the planet alongside 7.7 billion tweets from 190 international locations between 2015 and 2021. He discovered that customers’ publicity to excessive rainfall or warmth persistently correlated with extra destructive sentiments, in comparison with days of regular climate. The pattern might be accelerating; the lethal western North America warmth wave and western Europe floods of 2021 each produced much more destructive sentiments than did earlier excessive occasions. As extremes multiply, the world’s general temper could darken additional, suggests Minor.
Tuesday Dec. 13, 8:00-9:00 | On-line solely | GH21D-02

Consuming, Drugging and Warmth
Robbie Parks, Mailman Faculty of Public Well being
Parks and colleagues regarded into whether or not intervals of hotter than common temperatures have an effect on hospitalizations for substance abuse. From 1995-2014, they discovered that excessive warmth throughout New York state certainly drove day by day will increase in alcohol-related admissions, with the very best correlations outdoors of New York Metropolis. Surprisingly, for hashish, cocaine, opioids and sedatives, the consequence was the alternative: Decrease than common temperatures correlated with extra excessive use.
Tuesday Dec. 13, 9:00-12:30 | Poster Corridor A | GH22B-0605
Background: Rising Temperatures Might Enhance Deadly Accidents

The Coevolution of People and Water
Upmanu Lall, Columbia Water Heart
On this wide-ranging invited speak, Lall will discover how Homo sapiens developed in relation to Earth’s water, and the way we and water could co-evolve over the subsequent 100 to 1,000 years or longer. Water from glaciers, rivers, lakes, the environment and ocean currents distributes vitality, microbes and artifical chemical compounds to all components of the planet—but our understanding of it’s typically coupled solely to our personal quick wants. Will people proceed to form the planet to their will, or will nature reassert herself? In both case, what function will water play?
Tuesday Dec. 13, 11:10-11:20 |McCormick Place E354b | H23A-01

Can Precariously Perched Boulders Gauge Earthquake Danger?
Charles McBride, William Menke, LDEO
Earthquakes are a risk to the New York Metropolis space, however no actually main ones have occurred in historic time, and nobody is aware of the utmost magnitudes of historic occasions. Close to the town, researchers are finding out big boulders dropped by glaciers 15,000 years in the past, in positions unstable sufficient that earthquakes may tip them over. 3D fashions of the boulders are permitting them to calculate the forces it might take to dislodge them, ruling out quakes of these dimension or greater. McBride presents preliminary outcomes.
Tuesday Dec. 13, 14:45-18:15 | Poster Corridor A | T25 D-0153
Story on the mission

Tropical Dendrochronology: Past Tree Rings
Arturo Pacheco-Solana, LDEO
Dendrochronologists have assembled year-by-year information of local weather going again a whole lot or thousand of years in lots of areas, however the tropics stay largely a black gap, as a result of bushes there don’t kind annual rings. Lamont-Doherty scientists have been working to beat these limitations. Pacheco-Solana discusses efforts within the Bolivian Andes, the place samples from quite a lot of distant areas are being analyzed with new strategies, together with the anatomy of cell constructions and radiocarbon isotopes.
Tuesday Dec. 13, 8:00-9:00 | On-line solely  | GC21A-02
Associated speak: New tree-growth chronologies from the Bolivian Amazon
Tuesday Dec. 13, 15:42-15:53  |  McCormick Place S502ab  | GC25B-06
Background: Finding out old-growth bushes in Bolivia

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Reunion Occasion
A yearly reunion brings collectively a whole lot of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory employees and alumni going again many years who’ve gone on to analysis positions internationally. Plenteous foods and drinks. All members of the press corps are welcome—a fantastic probability to make contacts, hear about new work, and have enjoyable.
Tuesday Dec. 13, 6:30-8:30pm, Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Ave., Continental Room

The 2022 Pakistan Floods and 2021 North American Warmth Wave: Frequent Drivers?
Mingfang Ting, LDEO
Ting’s group has been finding out the connections of maximum climate to large-scale atmospheric currents and the long-term impacts of warming temperatures. On this invited speak, she’s going to talk about the forces behind the astonishing 2021 warmth wave that broke information by tens of levels within the western United States and Canada, and the unprecedented 2022 floods that devastated Pakistan. Such excessive climate could also be attributable to interconnected elements that function over farflung areas, she suggests.
Wednesday Dec. 14, 11:45-11:50  | McCormick Place E450a  |  Summary

Whither Ukrainian Refugees?
Michael Puma, Heart for Local weather Programs Research
Humanitarian businesses and governments face the daunting activity of anticipating the place assets must be positioned for distribution to refugees, and nothing speaks louder to this than Russia’s struggle in opposition to Ukraine. Puma and colleagues have modeled the latest actions of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to surrounding international locations, and their routes. The mannequin exhibits promise for anticipating actions on regional and native scales that might be utilized to different crises.
Wednesday Dec. 14, 14:45-18:15  |  Poster Corridor A  | GC351-0801

Greenland Is Rising From the Ocean
Margie Turrin, LDEO
Sea ranges are rising throughout a lot of the world, due partly to melting of the Greenland ice sheet. However in Greenland itself, sea ranges are falling, as land beforehand depressed by ice is slowly rebounding upward This will quickly turn into a significant issue for coastal communities whose solely technique of journey is thru more and more shallow adjoining waters. Turrin and colleagues are working instantly with residents to map the submarine panorama in wonderful element, predict the way it will change, and design variations. Tinto describes the method, and progress to date.
Thursday Dec. 15, 9:00-12:30  | McCormick Place Poster Corridor A  |OS42C-1206

Boreal Forests Nearing a Thermal Tipping Level
Mukund Palat Rao, LDEO
The far north is warming so quickly that Siberia has lately seen summer time temperatures of as much as 100 levels F. Experiments by Rao and colleagues present that just a few levels extra, and the Siberian larch, a keystone of northern Russia’s ecosystem, could not have the ability to photosynthesize. It may occur within the subsequent 20 to 30 years, Rao warns, with cascading results on the atmosphere and carbon cycle on this huge area.
Thursday Dec. 15, 14:45-18:15 | McCormick Place Poster Corridor A | B45G-1793

In a Hotter World, Simultaneous Crop Failures Look Extra Doubtless
Kai Kornhuber, LDEO
Kornhuber and colleagues lately recognized a sample of systematic meanders within the Northern Hemisphere’s jet stream which have prompted simultaneous crop-destroying warmth waves in a number of areas of the world. Local weather change could amplify these waves and make them extra frequent in main breadbaskets. Now, in new work, they recommend that whereas local weather fashions precisely reproduce such atmospheric patterns, they underestimate related floor anomalies, and thus the ensuing potential future harm to crops.
Thursday Dec. 15, 15:12-15:21 | McCormick Place S503ab | GC45C-04
Background: Newly IDed Jet-Stream Sample May Imperil World Meals Provides

Resetting the Clock on the World’s First Nuclear Explosion
Paul Richards, LDEO
Richards, a pioneer in seismological detection of nuclear checks, appears again at Trinity, the world’s first atomic explosion, on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico. It was initially estimated that the detonation befell at 5:29 am, however because of the failure of radio timing units, that was plus or minus 15 seconds. By reanalyzing old style seismograms of the occasion (actually, wiggles on paper) utilizing fashionable digital strategies, Richards and colleagues have pinpointed the time to inside just a few tenths of a second.
Friday Dec. 16, 9:00-12:030 | Poster Corridor A  | S52E-0089

The U.S. Water Desk 100 Years From Now
Kerry Lee Callaghan, LDEO
U.S. water tables of the longer term shall be affected by a number of unsure elements, together with human utilization; how precipitation patterns change; rises in sea stage; and topographic modifications because the land itself slowly rises or sinks because of isostatic rebound from the tip of the final ice age. Water tables may correspondingly rise or fall relying on locale, inflicting water shortages or surfeits. Callaghan presents a variety of situations for various areas by 2100.
Friday Dec. 16, 9:00-12:30 | Poster Corridor A | GC52H-0244

Way forward for the U.S. Southwest Drought
Richard Seager, LDEO
Seager and colleagues way back predicted the U.S. western drought, and stay on the forefront of finding out it. Of their newest analysis, they are saying that no matter occurs, the area is unlikely to return within the foreseeable future to the comparatively moist many years of the twentieth century, due each to long-term warming local weather and the operation of cyclic sea-surface temperature patterns within the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The most effective-case state of affairs, they are saying: Ocean cycles will push precipitation up a bit, however by no means once more to the place it was; within the worst case, shifting ocean patterns will make the area even drier than it’s now for many years to come back.
Friday Dec. 16, 9:35-9:46 | McCormick Place S502ab | GC52C-04
Background: Imminent Transition to a Drier Southwest

Larger CO2 Might Have an effect on Plant-Primarily based Allergy symptoms
Lewis Ziska, Mailman Faculty of Public Well being
It has been recommended that warming temperatures could improve human vulnerability to plant allergy symptoms, as rising seasons lengthen and ranges of allergenic vegetation unfold. However rising atmospheric CO2 in and of itself additionally influences what number of vegetation develop, as a result of it modifications their physiology for higher or worse. On this invited speak, Ziska appears at how extra CO2 could affect vegetation and a variety of illnesses they produce, together with contact dermatitis (suppose poison ivy), reactions to airborne pollen, and meals allergy symptoms.
Friday Dec. 16, 16:47-16:58 | McCormick Place S503ab | GC56C-01
Associated speak: Larger CO2 Might Scale back Nutrient Worth of Crops
Tuesday Dec. 13, 9:05-9:17 |McCormick Place N426ab | U22A-01

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