Unlocking the Past to Predict Our Climate Future

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As we’ve all learned from this roller coaster of a Spring, extreme weather events are becoming more common not only here in NYC, but around the world. How do we know when weather swings are really “extreme,” or just part of normal variability? Join us for talks from two climate scientists to hear about what we can learn from looking a past climate variability, and how we can apply climate models to predict future climate variability and its impacts on our lives.

Doors open at 7:00PM. Event is 21+ with limited capacity.

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Sonali Shukla McDermid, PhD

Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University
https://sonalimcdermid.github.io/

Sonali Shukla McDermid is a climate scientist and Associate Professor in the NYU Dept. of Environmental Studies. Her research investigates both climate change impacts on agriculture and food security, and the impacts of land management on the environment. She is a climate co-lead for the Agricultural Intercomparison Project, evaluating regional climate change impacts on food security, and is a research affiliate at the NASA Goddard Institute forSpace Studies (GISS). McDermid is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Fulbright-Kalam Fellow awardee, which supports her work on climate mitigation and adaptation in agriculture. She holds a B.A. in Physics from NYU, and a Ph.D. from the Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.

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Jason Smerdon, PhD

Professor of Climate and Vice Dean of Academic Planning within the Columbia Climate School

https://smerdon.ldeo.columbia.edu/

Jason Smerdon is a Professor of Climate and Vice Dean of Academic Planning within the Columbia Climate School. His research focuses on climate variability and change during the past several millennia and how past climates can help us understand future climate change. Smerdon publishes widely in the scientific literature on paleoclimate reconstruction techniques, the dynamics of past climate change and variability, and on assessing climate model simulations of the past and future using paleoclimatic information. His work has been profiled broadly by US and international media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian,Newsweek, BBC, NPR, ABC news, NBC news, and Slate.

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