Events
February 2024
Climate Town Hall – Feb 8 2024 in Asheville
Join us for a Town Hall exploring the challenges posed by climate change on February 8, 2024, at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. The event starts at 6:30pm and features a keynote address by Allison Crimmins, Director of the Fifth National Climate Assessment, plus a panel of experts responding to questions from the audience. Live stream available. Click the link for more details.
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January 2024
NCICS at AMS 2024
Check out the NCICS posters, presentations, and other sessions at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society via the link below.
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December 2023
NCICS at AGU 2023
NCICS staff are involved in more than 40 presentations, posters, and sessions at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, December 11–15 in San Francisco. Click the link for details.
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January 2023
NCICS at AMS 2023
The American Meteorological Society 2023 Annual Meeting is taking place in Denver in January. Click the link to learn more about NCICS activities at AMS2023.
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December 2022
NCICS at AGU 2022
NCICS staff are once again contributing to a range of presentations and poster sessions at this year’s Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Click the link for more details.
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May 2022
Climate Informatics 2022
NCICS invites you to join us at the 11th International Conference on Climate Informatics, which will be hosted by NCICS at The Collider in Asheville, North Carolina, in May 2022. The conference is supported by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information and The Collider. The Climate Informatics conference series aims to bring together researchers and users to forge international collaboration between climate science, data science, and computer science, share state-of-art developments in climate data and informatics, and accelerate the rate of discovery.
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March 2022
Open Climate Data Workshop 2022
Interested in using data to help address climate challenges in North Carolina? If so, join us at the free, virtual Open Climate Data Science Workshop in March.
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January 2022
NCICS at AMS 2022
We invite you to join us (virtually) at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society!
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December 2021
NCICS at AGU 2021
Click the link below for details on NCICS contributions at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. This will be a hybrid event, with in-person activities taking place in New Orleans and online participation from around the world.
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January 2021
NCICS at AMS 2021
NCICS staff are participating in more than two dozen sessions at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, which will be online only. Click the link for details.
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December 2020
NCICS at AGU 2020
The AGU Fall Meeting is all online this year. Click the link for details on sessions, presentations, and posters feature contributions from NCICS staff.
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January 2020
NCICS at AMS 2020
Join us in Boston at the 100th meeting of the American Meteorological Society! Click the link for details on NCICS activities at this centennial event.
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December 2019
NCICS at AGU 2019
The AGU Fall Meeting returns to San Francisco this December, and we will be there. Click the link below for details on more than two dozen presentations, posters, and other activities involving NCICS scientists.
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September 2019
Let’s Talk about Hurricanes
Join Dr. Carl Schreck for a exploration of recent hurricanes and whether climate change is making these storms stronger and more dangerous.
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January 2019
NCICS at AMS 2019
Headed to the 2019 American Meteorological Society meeting in Phoenix? If so, we invite you to check out more than two dozen sessions and posters our staff and scientists are involved in. Click the link below for a full list of our activities at #AMS2019.
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December 2018
NCICS at AGU 2018
NCICS staff are contributing to more than 30 sessions, presentations, and posters at the Fall 2018 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) taking place on December 10–14 in Washington, DC. See the list below for details on activities involving our staff. Those attending personally are marked as “attending.” All times are EST.
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January 2018
NCICS at AMS 2018
We are kicking off 2018 with a significant presence at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), January 7–11, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Our scientists and staff, many of whom will be attending in person, are contributing to more than two dozen presentations, posters, and other sessions. Click the link below for details, and we hope to see you at AMS!
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December 2017
NCICS at AGU 2017
NCICS staff are involved in more than 30 sessions, presentations, and posters at the 2017 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union taking place in New Orleans on December 11-15, 2017. Research topics range from the human health impacts of climate to the microphysics of precipitation. Other topics include changing snow cover over Russia, customer use cases for NOAA NCEI datasets, and a new automated algorithm for detecting weather fronts in historical data. Click the link below for a full list of NCICS activities.
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June 2017
Energy Sector Forum in Asheville
Energy sector and climate data experts will meet in Asheville for “The Climate Resilient Grid: A Forum on Energy, Climate, and the Grid.”
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March 2017
US-India Partnership for Climate Resilience: Workshop on Development and Applications of Downscaling Climate Projections
CICS-NC partnered with the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and the Centre for Climate Change Research, both under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, and with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) to convene a workshop on applications of downscaled climate projections. The event took place March 7–9 at IITM in Pune, India. Click the link for more, including access to videos, presentations, and exercises from the workshop.
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January 2017
NCICS at AMS 2017
Scientists and other staff from NCICS will be contributing to a variety of presentations, posters, and panel discussions at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society. We are also co-hosting a booth at the exhibit hall again this year. We invite everyone attending the meeting to check out our presentations and posters and to stop by to visit us at the booth.
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December 2016
CICS-NC at AGU Fall 2016
CICS-NC scientists contributed to more than dozen presentations and posters for the Fall 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Society (AGU) December 12-16, 2016, in San Francisco, California. Click the link for a list of the presentations, posters, and attendees.
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January 2016
CICS-NC at AMS 2016
The American Meteorological Society’s 2016 annual meeting takes place January 9–14 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and scientists and staff from the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC) will be contributing to a variety of presentations, posters, and panel discussions. The Institute is also co-hosting a booth at the exhibit hall and collaborating with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on an energy sector resilience workshop.
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January 2016
Forum on Moving from Environmental Data to Resilience
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is pleased to invite you to a forum featuring executives from the government, industry and academia to discuss the challenges and opportunities of employing NCEI environmental data products and analytics to enhance energy resilience. The goal is to demonstrate use of environmental data for improving resiliency activities in the nation’s energy infrastructure.
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December 2015
CICS at Fall AGU 2015
The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC) will have a strong presence at the AGU fall meeting, which takes place December 14–18, 2015, in San Francisco, California.
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March 2015
Executive Forum On Business and Climate – Insurance
The UNC School of Law Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation, and Resources (CLEAR), the Georgetown Climate Center, the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites – North Carolina (CICS-NC), which is largely supported through a grant from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), invites you and welcomes you to CLEAR’s third Workshop on Private Sector Climate Change Adaptation and CICS-NC’s third Executive Forum on Business and Climate. The workshop and forum provides a platform for discussion across academia, government, and the private sector built around the topic of climate risk information disclosure, specifically concerning the insurance industry.
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January 2015
Workshop on Water Resources and Drought Information in the Southwest US
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) located in Asheville, NC is pleased to invite you to participate in a workshop discussion focused on application of data, science, and forecasts for resources managers and decision makers to improve resiliency to drought in the southwestern United States.
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January 2015
CICS at AMS 2015
The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC) will have a strong presence at the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting, which takes place January 3–8, 2015, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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December 2014
CICS at Fall AGU 2014
Many CICS scientists are presenting at the Fall AGU 2014 meeting in San Francisco. Click the link below to view when they are presenting.
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July 2014
Climate Change Impacts in the United States: an Overview of the National Climate Assessment
On Thursday, July 31, the Arboretum will host Laura Stevens, a research scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, North Carolina, based at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville. She will address the National Climate Assessment, including how the it came about, its goals and outcomes, and the process involved in creating the report. Her presentation will include a look at past trends in U.S. temperature and precipitation, as well as future climate projections, with a focus on the Southeastern United States.
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December 2013
Climate Data and Applications Workshop – Precipitation
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites — North Carolina (CICS-NC) are hosting a collaborative workshop on precipitation data and decision-making. This workshop is the third of a series of NCEI Climate Data and Applications workshops. This workshop focuses on the different precipitation datasets from in-situ, radar and satellite observations, as well as examples of how the data are useful in various applications.
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November 2013
Executive Forum on Business and Climate – Business Resilience
In partnership with the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), CICS-NC is hosting the second Executive Forum on Business and Climate from November 4 – 5, in Washington DC. Building off of the recommendations in C2ES’s Weathering the Storm report on business resilience, this Forum is a 2-day knowledge exchange seminar between businesses, government and academia focused on climate information, risks, opportunities and business resilience. For more information, contact Jenny Dissen.
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October 2013
Research Applications at the National Centers for Environmental Information
The world’s largest active archive of weather and climate data, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), is located in Asheville, NC. North Carolina State University has a cooperative institute, CICS-NC (www.cicsnc.org), with approximately 30 researchers co-located at NCEI. We will give a brief overview of the data center’s holdings, explain how the cooperative institute forms a bridge between academia and government, and detail several research applications currently being pursued by CICS scientists. In particular we will highlight: an international collaboration to produce a geostationary satellite based record of land surface albedo; a project using vegetation data to analyze annual start-of-springtime dates; and implementing neural networks to derive atmospheric temperature and water vapor profiles.
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June 2013
Executive Forum on Business and Climate
To help U.S. businesses better adapt to the numerous challenges and opportunities resulting from a changing weather and climate, the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites – North Carolina (CICS-NC), which is largely supported through a grant from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, is hosting the Executive Forum on Business and Climate to be held in Asheville, North Carolina, June 3–6, 2013.
The Forum is an intensive 4-day knowledge exchange seminar and networking activity built primarily around a series of case study discussions on climate science and current observed trends in the climate data, observed impacts to the industry, risks and opportunities, decision-support tools, climate markets and current state of policies and regulations. This elite event explores the challenges and opportunities in the applications of climate data and information for enterprise risk management as well as innovation.
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May 2013
Climate Communications Workshop – Asheville
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and CICS-NC invite you to participate in the Climate Communications Support Workshop to be held at NCEI, in Asheville, NC.
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May 2013
Climate Communications Workshop – Metro DC Area
CICS-NC and NOAA are engaging in workshop to provide communications and climate resources to staff to prepare and respond to questions about climate.
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April 2013
Climate Communications Workshop – Boulder
NOAA, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites — North Carolina (CICS-NC) invite you to participate in the Climate Communications Training Workshop to be held at ESRL in Boulder, Colorado.
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March 2013
CICS-NC Supports NASA DEVELOP Student Visit to NCEI
March 2013
Frost and Freeze Data Users Workshop
This workshop is a two-day interaction focused on informing users of frost and freeze data and uses and applications. Participants will engage in specific sectors, including but not limited to agriculture, construction and transportation that use climate and environmental information such as frost and freeze data and explore potential areas of research needs. The workshop will bring together business leaders, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and scientists to discuss NCEI’s climate information on frost and freeze data, applications of this data, and other future uses of climate information.
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January 2013
Dr. Russ Lea Seminar
Dr. Russ Lea, Chief Executive Officer of NEON, Inc. will deliver a special Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) seminar on 16 January
2013 at 3:30 PM at NC State University’s Jordan Hall in Raleigh, North Carolina. CICS-NC will broadcast this compelling presentation in
collaboration with MEAS via videoconference in the CICS Conference Room.
A copy of Dr. Lea’s presentation is available by clicking here.
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November 2012
Storm and Severe Weather Data Users Workshop
Spend a day at NCEI and learn about various NCEI climate datasets and its use in various industries.
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October 2012
Beta Release of the Global Land Surface Databank
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information and NC State University’s Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites – North Carolina announce the beta release of the Global Land Surface Databank. As part of a continuing focus on enhancing the observed climate record, NCEI, CICS-NC and international partners launched the International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI) in 2010 to improve understanding of the Earth’s climate from the global to local scale, bringing together many international scientists from many scientific specialties.
The ISTI, through its Databank Working Group has released a beta version of an innovative data holding that brings together new and existing sources of surface air temperature. This data holding provides users a way to better track the origin of the data from its collection through its integration into a merged data holding. By providing the data in various stages that lead to the integrated product, by including data origin tracking flags with information on each observation, and by providing the software used to process all observations, the processes involved in creating the observed fundamental climate record are more open and transparent. This beta release contains more than 39,000 stations, greatly enhancing spatial coverage from the 1800s to the present.
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September 2012
CICS-NC leads the launch of CycloneCenter.org
A joint activity with NCEI, UNC Asheville and Zooniverse, CycloneCenter.org is a web-based interface that enables the public to help analyze the intensities of past tropical cyclones around the globe. Interested volunteers will be shown one of nearly 300,000 satellite images. They will answer questions about that image as part of a simplified technique for estimating the maximum surface wind speed of tropical cyclones. This public collaboration will perform more than a million classifications in just a few months—something it would take a team of scientists more than a decade to accomplish. The end product will be a new global tropical cyclone dataset that provides 3-hourly tropical cyclone intensity estimates, confidence intervals, and a wealth of other metadata that could not be realistically obtained in any other fashion.
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August 2012
NC State and CICS-NC Lead National Effort to Evaluate Fresh Water Sustainability in the Southern U.S
North Carolina State University is leading a four-year federal research effort to evaluate freshwater sustainability across the southern United States and develop policy recommendations on what can be done to make the best use of water supplies in the face of population growth and the effects of climate change over the next 10 to 30 years. Arizona State University and the University of Georgia are also part of the project.
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April 2012
Alternative Climate Normals Workshop
The Climate Normals workshop is a forum to bring together scientists, regulators and energy industry executives to share information and offer the opportunity to develop new alternatives for the energy industry. In doing so, this workshop is intended to foster an open dialogue between the needs of the industry, the regulatory community, and the roles and needs of the research and scientific community.
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April 2012
CICS-NC Hosts Dr. Michael Mann
Noted Climate Scientist Michael Mann to Speak April 4 at CICS-NC; Nobel-Prize-Winning Researcher to Discuss New Book “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars”
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January 2012
CICS-NC Hosts Joint CICS-NC SAMSI Uncertain Quantification Workshop
CICS-NC and SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute) in cooperation with the Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics (SSES) at the Ohio State University organized a workshop by CICS-NC in January 17-19, 2012, at NCEI in Asheville, NC. The scientific themes of the workshop include:
Experimental design aspects of collecting ground-based and remotely-sensed observations; Data fusion and homogenization: how to combine heterogeneous observational data sources to get a clearer picture of the true physical process; Link to Uncertainty Quantification for projection of future climate based on past and present observations.
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November 2011
CICS Science Meeting 2011
CICS-NC hosted the 2011 CICS Science Meeting to describe ongoing and potential CICS research projects, to learn about potential collaborative research activities from NOAA scientists, and to facilitate interaction among the participants and their respective institutions.
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August 2011
CICS-NC Hosts 8th Annual Cooperative Research Program (CoRP) Science Symposium
The 8th Annual Science Symposium, sponsored by the NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Research Program and hosted by the Cooperative Institute of Climate and Satellites — North Carolina, was held August 17 – 18, 2011 in Asheville, NC.
Theme: Using satellite observations and models to understand and communicate information on climate variability and change.
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