CPAESS Discovery Seminars

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We are delighted to share some of the diverse science and research from CPAESS scientists. CPAESS Discovery Seminars take place on the second from the last Wednesday of each month at 11:00 am Mountain Time. Talks will be posted on CPAESS' YouTube channel after the seminar.

If you are a CPAESS scientist interested in sharing your research at a seminar, please check out our schedule's availability and email us to sign up for a speaking slot.

Please join us for any of these presentations on UCAR's Live Broadcast site. Beneath the broadcast screen is a Slido link so that you can ask questions of the speaker.

Upcoming Schedule

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 11:00am MT

PRESENTER: Dr. Ann-Christine Zinkann, CPAESS Program Specialist at NOAA's Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program (GOMO)
TITLE: TBD

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 11:00am MT

PRESENTER: Waqar Younas, NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow
TITLE: TBD

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 11:00am MT

PRESENTER: Prateek Mayank, NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow
TITLE: TBD

Discovery Seminar Recordings

May 20, 2026: Yaowei Li, "From Regional to Global: The Far-Reaching Impacts of Wildfires on the Atmosphere and Climate"

April 15, 2026: Andrew Penny "Improvements to the Wind Field used in the Operational Storm Surge Model at the National Hurricane Center" Watch Andrew Penny's Recording

March 18, 2026: William Booth "Enabling the advancement of storm surge risk communication at the National Hurricane Center over the last 15 years"
Watch William Booth's Recording

March 4, 2026: Baoqiang (Bao) Xiang, "How predictable are North American summer heat extremes on the subseasonal timescale?"
Watch Baoqiang (Bao) Xiang's Recording

February 18, 2026: Zorana Jelenak, "In the Eye of the Storm: From Storm-Force Errors to Gold Standard Science"
Watch Zorana Jelenak's Recording

November 19, 2025: Emily Rountree, PhD, "Federal to Local Partnership Collaborations as We Adapt to Future Climate Risk in the Central Midwest"
Watch Emily Rountree's Recording

October 15, 2025: Graham Taylor, "The Role of Observation-Based Data in Local Climate Projection Uncertainty"
Watch Graham Taylor's Recording

September 17, 2025: Raphael Dussin, "Freshwater Forcing of Ocean Models"
Watch Raphael Dussin's Recording

August 20, 2025: Mei-Yun Lin. "Metals from the Moon? A Comprehensive Study of Metallic Ions in the Magnetosphere"
Watch Mei-Yun Lin's recording

Wednesday, July 23, 2025: Dr. Benjamin Johnston, CPAESS Project Scientist, NOAA Quantitative Observing System Assessment Program (QOSAP)
Watch Ben's seminar recording

Wednesday, June 18, 2025: Dr. Peijin Zhang, NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow, "Decoding Solar Eruptions and Coronal Structure with Radio Imaging Spectroscopy and Modeling"
Watch Peijin's seminar recording

Wednesday, May 21, 2025: Dr. Robert Jarolim, NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow, "Guided by Physics, Powered by AI: Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Solar Physics"
Watch Robert's seminar recording

April 23, 2025: Dr. Makoto Kelp, "Smoke and Mirrors: Rethinking Observations, Models, and Mitigation of Wildfires"
Watch the recording

February 20, 2025: Dr. Arianna Varuolo-Clarke, NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, "Disentangling warming and circulation influences on precipitation under global warming"
Watch Arianna's seminar recording

December 18, 2024: Dr. Charlotte Waterfall, NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center NASA "Flares, Storms and Space Weather: Tracing solar eruptions and their journey to Earth"
Watch Charlotte's seminar recording

November 20, 2024: Alison Gregory, CPAESS Program Specialist III – Community Engagement, NOAA Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) and Weather Program Office (WPO) "Social Science Tools for the Earth Sciences"
Watch Alison's seminar recording

September 18, 2024: Shreyas Dhavale, WINGS Dissertation Fellow (NOAA WPO and UCAR CPAESS) and Ph.D. Candidate at North Carolina State University. "The Origin and Structure of the Arabian Sea Monsoon Onset Vortex"
Watch Shreyas' seminar recording

July 24, 2024: Ben Trabing, PH.D., CPAESS Associate Scientist III, National Hurricane Center (NHC)
"Are Forecasts of the Tropical Cyclone Radius of Maximum Wind Skillful?"
Watch Ben's seminar recording

May 13, 2024: Murali Nageswara Rao Malasala, CPAESS Associate Scientist-II, NOAA NCEP EMC
"Hybrid Post-Processing of NOAA NCEP GEFSv12 Reforecasts for Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasting of Extremes in Summer Maximum Temperature and Rainfall on a Sub-seasonal Scale"
Watch Murali's seminar recording

April 17, 2024: Ryan Harp, NOAA-CDC Climate and Health Postdoctoral Researcher, CPAESS
"Building Toward a Climate-Informed West Nile Virus Forecast"
Watch Ryan's seminar recording

November 15, 2023: Dr. Baoqiang (Bao) Xiang, CPAESS Project Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
"An emerging Asian aerosol dipole pattern reshapes the Asian summer monsoon and exacerbates northern hemisphere warming"
Watch Bao's seminar recording

October 18, 2023: Dr. Julie Malmberg, CPAESS Sr. Learning and Development Officer (On Detail to USGS Water Mission Area)
"Building a Comprehensive Workforce Development and Training Program"
Watch Julie's seminar recording

August 23, 2023: Dr. Ann-Christine Zinkann, CPAESS Program Specialist, NOAA's Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program (GOMO) "International Collaboration: Why? Who? What?"
Watch Ann-Christine's seminar recording

July 19, 2023: Wenhao Dong, CPAESS Project Scientist at NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) "Simulation Mesoscale Convective Systems Using GFDL’s New High-Resolution General Circulation Model"
Watch Wenhao's seminar recording

May 24, 2023: Marcela Ulate, CPAESS Project Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) "Impact of Stochastic Kinetic Energy Backscatter Scheme on the Navy Earth System Prediction Capability (Navy ESPC) in predicting the Madden Julian Oscillation during 2017"
Watch Marcela's seminar recording

April 19, 2023: Dr. Murali Nageswara Rao Malasala, CPAESS Associate Scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction - Environmental Modeling Center. "Prediction skill of GEFSv12 in depicting Monthly Rainfall and Associated Extreme Events over Taiwan during Summer Monsoon"
Watch Murali's seminar recording

February 22, 2023: Lynne Hodge, CPAESS Associate Scientist, Marine Mammal & Turtle Division, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center. "Shipping Noise in the northern Gulf of Mexico between 2010-2021"
Watch Lynne's seminar recording

January 25, 2023: Mike Mueller and Ben Johnston, CPAESS Project Scientists at NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). "An introduction to NOAA’s Quantitative Observing System Assessment Program (QOSAP)"
Watch Mike and Ben's seminar recording

November 16, 2022: Dr. Kathy Tedesco & Cheyenne Stienbarger, CPAESS Scientists at NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring & Observing (GOMO) Program. "NOAA's Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program: Frontiers in Ocean Observing"
Watch Kathy's seminar recording

October 19, 2022: Weiguo Han, CPAESS Project Scientist at NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS). "SCDR: A centralized earth observation data repository to facilitate research and development"
Watch Weiguo's seminar recording

September 21, 2022: Liwei Jia, CPAESS Project Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. "Seasonal prediction of North American temperature extremes in the GFDL SPEAR forecast system."
Watch Liwei's seminar recording

July 20, 2022: Murali Nageswara Rao Malasala, CPAESS Project Scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction - Environmental Modeling Center. "Predictability of Extreme Rainfall Events over India during Summer Monsoon Season by using NCEP GEFSv12 Model in the Present Global Warming Era"
Watch Murali's seminar recording

June 22, 2022: Jan-Huey Chen, UCAR Project Scientist working at GFDL. "Tropical cyclones in the DIMOSIC project"
Watch Jan-Huey's seminar recording

May 18, 2022: Neil Jacobs, CPAESS scientist serving as the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Chief Science Advisor in NOAA. "The Future of Community Modeling Using the Unified Forecast System (UFS)."
Watch Neil's seminar recording

April 20, 2022: Philip Hartmeyer, CPAESS Marine Archaeologist at the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration. "The Marine Archaeology Portfolio of NOAA Ocean Exploration."
Watch Philip's seminar recording

March 23, 2022: Mukund Palat Rao, CPAESS Ecoclimatologist and NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow at the University of California, Davis. "Will the North Asian taiga become too hot for trees to capture carbon"
Watch Mukund's seminar recording