Dear Undergrad Students,
Our own alumna, Dr. Oriana Chegwidden from CarbonPlan (https://carbonplan.org [carbonplan.org]), will kick off the CEE 500 Environment and Water Program seminar.
Why you should come: Oriana will share her career story and talk about their exciting work on data and science for climate action. She will also tell you where to eat the world’s finest pizza. We will have coffee and cookies waiting to greet you at the door.
Please feel free to share this announcement to spread the message on this wonderful seminar.
Where: BAG 154 (Bagley Hall, SW of Drumheller Fountain)
When: Thursday (9/29), 3:30.
Autumn schedule with Zoom link (you may need to clear your computer’s cache):
http://depts.washington.edu/watersem/
Dr. Chegwidden’s Bio:
Oriana Chegwidden (she/her) is a research scientist at CarbonPlan, a non profit that supports the transparency and integrity of climate solutions. She is an alumna of the Computational Hydrology group in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Washington where she worked with Bart Nijssen. She studied chemistry at Haverford College and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, the home of the world’s finest pizza.
Abstract: Open data and tools for climate action: tales from a boundary organization
Despite the estimated 100 new petabytes of climate information (model simulations, remote sensing, in situ observations) generated every year, many of us (scientists and non-scientists alike) struggle to use science to make a difference in the fight against climate change. In this talk, I’ll share stories of translating climate change information into tools that facilitate climate action. Through examples of wildfire risk estimation, forest fire emissions monitoring, and climate data downscaling, I’ll show how open science combined with thoughtful communication can extend the reach of science. Throughout the presentation I’ll weave a common thread of the critical role that transparency plays in supporting the integrity of climate planning efforts.