The Aspen Times

In an article discussing drought in the Roaring Fork Valley, CO, the Aspen Times features AGCI's workshop When the Rain Stops: Drought on Subseasonal and Longer Timescales. The article quotes workshop co-chair Angeline Greene Pendergrass in its discussion over the future climate projections for Colorado, amidst the topics of wildfires, recreation, and water restrictions.

Roger Pulwarty, AGCI's 2018 Walter Orr Roberts public lecturer in association with the AGCI workshop When the Rain Stops: Drought on Subseasonal and Longer Timescales, is interviewed by Aspen Public Radio in advance of his public lecture titled, From Droughts to Floods and Back Again? Learning and Adapting in an Uncertain Climate, hosted at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies.

An article was published in the journal Science today based on the key takeaway's from the 2016 AGCI Workshop Getting Near Zero: Decarbonizing the Last 20%. The workshop was co-chaired by Ken Caldeira, Steve Davis, and Nate Lewis, and identified technology solutions to the most difficult to decarbonize parts of the economy, including heavy industry, cement, long distance heavy transport, and aviation.

Elizabeth Stewart-Severy - June 12, 2018

Listen to the story on Aspen Public Radio that succinctly describes how data can be used to help inform management and support ecosystem health.

Elise Osenga from Aspen Global Change Institute shares information about the iRON project that monitors climate conditions, including soil moisture, at Northstar Nature Preserve. AGCI is working with Pitkin County Open Space and Trails to monitor habitat conditions on public lands. People, plants and animals all enjoy the nearly 5,000 acres of land owned by Pitkin County Open Space and Trails. To make sure the shared space remains a thriving ecosystem, Open Space and Trails is turning to data collected on site.

In 2017, AGCI workshop participants met to discuss sea-ice loss at the Earth's poles and its potential effects on the globe's weather and climate in the AGCI workshop Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Polar Amplification. The workshop was co-chaired by Clara Deser, James Screen, Doug Smith and Xiangdong Zhang. Their synthesis of the workshop was recently published in Nature Geoscience.

Crescendo, a European organization committed to improving Earth systems models, helped support last summer's AGCI workshop on Earth System Model Evaluation. Participant, Peter Cox shares photos and a short description of the week.