Let's see if this place can do its #magic!

I am looking for fellow #firstgen #PhD students (independent of the field) to make a little #outreach series -- estimated release will be end of September/start of October.

Comment below what you do if you want to be involved. If you don't want to comment, shoot me a message 😊

#Like, #boost and #inspire ✨

#firstgeneration #scicomm

Gavin Schmidt is a climatologist based in New York City. He is a highly respected scientist, and when he speaks out like this, we need to listen...
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When I took over as Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, I inherited a project that tracks temperature changes since 1880. Using this trove of data, I’ve made climate predictions at the start of every year since 2016. It’s humbling, and a bit worrying, to admit that no year has confounded climate scientists’ predictive capabilities more than 2023 has.

For the past nine months, mean land and sea surface temperatures have overshot previous records each month by up to 0.2°C — a huge margin at the planetary scale. A general warming trend is expected because of rising greenhouse-gas emissions, but this sudden heat spike greatly exceeds predictions made by statistical climate models that rely on past observations. Many reasons for this discrepancy have been proposed but, as yet, no combination of them has been able to reconcile our theories with what has happened.

The 2023 temperature anomaly has come out of the blue, revealing an unprecedented knowledge gap perhaps for the first time since about 40 years ago, when satellite data began offering modellers an unparalleled, real-time view of Earth’s climate system. It could imply that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system operates, much sooner than scientists had anticipated. It could also mean that statistical inferences based on past events are less reliable than we thought, adding more uncertainty to seasonal predictions of droughts and rainfall patterns.

Much of the world’s climate is driven by intricate, long-distance links — known as teleconnections — fueled by sea and atmospheric currents. If their behavior is in flux or markedly diverging from previous observations, we need to know about such changes in real time. We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.
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That's just an excerpt. I encourage you to read the whole thing.

FULL ESSAY -- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

There is a free online Conservation Genetics Workshop running March 27-29 at the link below. The goal is to identify barriers to using these methods, and also to foster some collaborations among scientists. It involves some group work/discussions after each seminar. It runs for 2 hours each day.

https://molecular-ecology.org/materials.html

#academia #biology #conservation #science #workshops #seminars #MolecularEcology #ecology #PopulationGenetics

#Applications open for Iso Lomso #fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies:

"Iso Lomso means ‘the eye of tomorrow’ in isiXhosa: seeing towards the future, laying the foundations for tomorrow. The programme is aimed at African scholars who have obtained a doctoral degree within the preceding seven years and who hold an academic position at a university or research institution anywhere in Africa."

deadline 15 February 2024
https://stias.ac.za/fellowships/iso-lomso/

Are you an Early Career Scientist in Earth System and Data Science?

Check out the program of the NFDI4Earth Academy and join us!

Deadline is November 30, 2023.

Visit https://www.nfdi4earth.de/2participate/academy to learn more.

#DAM #Geo.X #Geoverbund_ABCJ #NFDI #NFDI4Earth #ECR #DataScience #Earth #EarthSystemScience

📢 The #GRASSGIS team is announcing the third call for student grants!! 🚀

https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_11_09_student_grants_announced/

We offer student grants for projects that include #development of GRASS #documentation, tests, new features or #geospatial tools and bug fixing 🙌

➡️ Check the wiki for details on how to apply and suggested topics:
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants