NWS Information Webinar: Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES)
2022-11-08 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
NSF Informational Webinar
Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES) program will be hosting an informational webinar. Below are the important details:
Day and Date: Tuesday | November 8, 2022
Time: 2:30-3:30 PM ET
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Mini Conference
2022-12-09 11:00 - 13:00
Sandia and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Mini-Conference
Day and Date: Friday, December 9, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82418547734
AI FOR HEALTHCARE AND BIOMEDICINE
Healthcare and biomedical research require AI technologies to analyze large volumes of multimodal data in order to create predictive models of health and disease as well as technologies that enhance the interaction between healthcare providers and patients. Through a partnership between the Departments of Energy and Veterans Affairs, the Berkeley Lab and other DOE labs are developing technologies to predict high risk for suicide and overdose, cardiovascular disease, and response to treatments, among others. We use electronic health records and genomic data to analyze the predictive and protective factors involved. Also, we are working on the integration of other factors that affect outcomes such as social and environmental determinants of health. We believe the latter will not only inform physicians and healthcare providers but also policymakers who need to quickly make decisions and allocate resources. In this seminar, I will focus on 2 main areas that my group has been working on: developing Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to extract dramatic life events from medical notes. These events, like housing and job instability, social isolation, and troubles with the law, are poorly diagnosed in the medical records but healthcare providers’ notes are rich in information. We are also developing geospatial models to develop indexes of environmental and socio-economic vulnerability based on temperature, air quality, poverty, unemployment, crime, and many more datasets. I will highlight the potential and limitations of AI in these growing fields as well as the areas where more work is needed.
DR. SILVIA CRIVELLI AMCR
I have been conducting research at the intersection of structural biology, high-performance computing, and applied math for more than twenty-five years. My research has two main goals: to bring scientists together, both seasoned and young and from all walks of science, to tackle long-standing, extremely hard, and multidisciplinary problems and to develop methods and software tools that empower physicians and researchers to predict the behavior of biological systems and, more recently, healthcare outcomes. I have been working together with biologists, chemists, computer scientists, physicians, and applied mathematicians. I am a co-PI of the DOE-VA Million Veterans Program which aims to integrate structured and unstructured data from electronic health records from more than 20 million veterans to develop patient-specific diagnostic strategies to improve healthcare for veterans.
ETHICS IN MACHINE LEARNING
Machine learning affects our daily lives through our online activities, our ability to get a job or loan, or even our medical diagnoses. The potential for this statistical modeling is enormous, but we must consider the ethical impacts of how ML is used for things that affect our lives. While these common ML uses seem to not affect scientific and engineering ML use, science and engineering are just affected in different ways. For example, data quality and selection for model training are always important for making a model that works as intended. Understanding the linkage between existing data and what the model should do is critical for both societal ML use as well as scientific. Underlying this data selection are ethical considerations important across all ML use cases. This talk focuses on many of the places ML is used in science and engineering as well as in society and how decisions made when developing ML models can have profound effects on the outcomes. Audience participation and discussion is strongly encouraged. Topical Areas: Applied & Computational Math; Computational Science & Engineering; Computer Science; Data Science; High-Performance Computing Topic/Methods/Domain: Machine Learning, Data Science, Ethics Target Audience: Undergraduate students; Masters students; Ph.D. students
DR. JAY LOFSTEAD
Dr. Jay Lofstead is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Scalable System Software department of the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. His work focuses on infrastructure to support all varieties of simulation, scientific, and engineering workflows with a strong emphasis on IO, middleware, storage, transactions, operating system features to support workflows, containers, software engineering and reproducibility. He is a co-founder of the IO500 storage list. He also works extensively to support various student mentoring and diversity programs at several venues each year including outreach to both high school and college students. Jay graduated with a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and was a recipient of a 2013 R&D 100 award for his work on the ADIOS IO library.
Friday, December 9
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
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NOAA EPP CSC Education Seminar Series: All about NOAA
2023-02-23 12:30 - 13:30
NOAA EPP/MSI CSC Education Seminar Series; a collaboration between NOAA EPP/MSI Cooperative Science Centers-CCME II, NCASS II, LMRCSC II, and CESSRST II was launched today.
Title: All about NOAA
Date: February 23, 2023
Time: 12:30pm
Speakers: Jason Tuell, Chris Kelble, Joseph Pica, and Jon Hare
Virtual: please use this zoom link to register
During the seminar, speakers- Jason Tuell (NWS), Chris Kelble (OAR), Joseph Pica (NESDIS), and Jon Hare (NMFS) provide insights on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its mission through their own experiences. They talk about NOAA workforce and opportunities for CSC students.
The purpose of the NOAA EPP/MSI CSC Education Seminar Series is to provide a platform for cross center education and training collaborations and engagement for all CSC student in NOAA mission training and opportunities
This seminar series provides the NOAA EPP/MSI Fellows an opportunity to meet with the entire CSC community and fellows/peers from other three NOAA Centers, interact and network with NOAA professionals to gain knowledge about NOAA and its missions, and build connections/pathways to potential NOAA mission enterprise workforce opportunities; gain the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session.

NOAA Seminar Series: Modeling Complex 3-D Coastal-Urban Impacts on Air Quality Distribution
2023-02-23 13:00 - 14:00
Title: Modeling Complex 3-D Coastal-Urban Impacts on Air Quality Distribution: Evaluation Based on High-Spatial-Resolution NO2 Retrievals
Speaker: Harold Gamarro, NOAA EPP/MSI CESSRST-II Fellow at CCNY
Date: February 23, 20223
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Venue: Exhibit Room, Steinman Hall at the Grove School of Engineering (1st floor)
Registration Link
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Harold is a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical Engineering department at CCNY. He was awarded a NOAA EPP/MSI Graduate Fellowship for the
inaugural class of 2021 and completed his fellowship year with the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory. His research focuses on expanding our understanding of how cities interact with the atmosphere in the context of a changing climate, as well as the consequences these interactions have on the exposure of people and infrastructure to weather extremes (Heat and Air Quality).

Seminar: Estimating attributable deaths from short-term pollution effects
2023-03-23 13:00 - 14:00
DATE: March 23, 2023
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm (in-person in NYSDEC CO Conf-919 & webinar via remote connection).
TITLE: Estimating attributable deaths from short-term pollution effects: differential air pollution impact on cause-specific mortality from multiple pollutants
PRESENTER: Ariel Spira-Cohen, PhD; Senior Environmental Epidemiologist, Bureau of Environmental Surveillance and Policy, NYC DOHMH
ABSTRACT: Health impact assessment (HIA) is a common policy tool that quantifies health burden from air pollution under different policy scenarios. Most HIAs consider health impacts using risk estimates from single-pollutant models, leaving uncertainty about varying impacts from multiple air pollutants. Pollution attributable fractions (AFs) and attributable counts (ACs) of mortality were estimated from single- and co-pollutant daily time-series models and a multipollutant Total Risk Index (TRI) considering citywide average concentrations of PM2.5, NO2 and warm season ozone in NYC (2005-2019). We examined effects on total non-external mortality as well as major mortality sub-causes. We found that PM2.5 was more important for cardiovascular deaths, ozone for respiratory deaths, and NO2 for total non-external and cancer deaths, with ~670 total non-external deaths on average attributed to NO2 annually. Annual average ACs from the full year TRI model (PM2.5 + NO2) was similar (~680 deaths). Co-pollutant models showed that NO2 ACs were more robust than PM2.5 ACs, which diminished greatly. When summing ACs from co-pollutant models, the summed ACs approximated the largest AC from either pollutant modeled alone. We also examined annual pollution ACs over time and found a reduction in PM-attributable deaths (~57% for total non-external deaths and ~62% for CVD mortality) consistent with a~55% decline in annual PM2.5 concentrations in NYC during the study period. While NO2 ACs also declined consistent with a ~40% decline in NO2 concentrations, they still contribute to more deaths per year than PM2.5. Ozone concentrations have not declined and ozone ACs remained stable over time. Continuing to reduce local NO2 emissions (i.e., from traffic and buildings), may be most impactful in reducing pollution-associated mortality in NYC. Persistent ozone levels from regional source emissions remains a challenge.
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Meeting Urban Stormwater and Coastal Resiliency Challenges
2023-03-24 08:00 - 13:30 | Brooklyn College’s Graduate Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway #700, Brooklyn, 10004, United States
UN 2023 Water Conference Side Event Symposium (Event ID OS500)
Please join us for this highly interactive symposium as we explore cross-sectoral integrated water management (IWM or ‘One Water’) approaches for addressing past, current and future urban stormwater and coastal resiliency. The symposium will feature a host of local, national and international experts from academic, public and private sectors who will share their experiences, lessons learned in these endeavors and will also discuss plans for meeting future challenges. The symposium is aligned with Theme 4 (Water for Cooperation) of the UN Water Conference and will be comprised of both expert panels and breakout sessions for audience engagement.
More details about this event can be found on Eventbrite Registration form.
Location: Brooklyn College’s Graduate Center for Worker EducationAddress: 25 Broadway #700 New York, NY 10004Date: FRIDAY, MARCH 24TH, 2023Time: 8:30am-1:30pm
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*Attendance to this symposium is free but requires registration as space is limited. Attendees must show a government-issued photo ID to enter the building

Rising Scientist Seminar: Changes to Sea Surface Temperature and their influence on Cyclones
2023-04-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Princeton, New Jersey, 300 Forrestal Rd, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Title: Changes to Sea Surface Temperature and their influence on Tropical Cyclone activities in the Caribbean
Speaker: Keneshia Hibbert, CUNY Graduate Center
Date: April 14, 20223
Time: 2:00 PM ET
Venue: Sayre Hall Classroom, Princeton NJ
Meeting Link
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Abstract:
Tropical Cyclone formation requires warm ocean waters and low wind shear. Changes to sea surface anomalies and wind shear influences are essential to understanding storm development and intensification. The ability to forecast storm changes is vital to human lives and livelihoods. This work looks at SST and VWS trends in the Caribbean, surrounding, and Atlantic main developing region. We find increasing SSTs, decreasing wind shears , an expanding Atlantic Warm Pool, and increased storm intensity during the Atlantic hurricane season
Keneshia is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. As a master’s student, she was a NOAA EPP/MSI Scholar at the City College of New York. Her current research is on how climate change affects key tropical cyclone variables, and how these changes affect the frequency and intensity of cyclones

NOAA Site Visit 2023
2023-04-20 04:30 - 2023-04-21 12:00 | City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, 10031
NOAA Site Visit
Date: April 20-21, 2023
Time: 8:30AM ET
Venue: The City College of New York
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CCNY Graduate Research Symposium - 2023
2023-04-20 16:00 - 22:00 | City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, 10031
Graduate Student Council Presents:
Graduate Research Symposium
Call for Submissions
Deadline: April 7, 2023
Open to all CCNY graduate students
The graduate research symposium provides an opportunity for graduate student researchers of all disciplines to showcase their current research projects.
Awards will be presented to winning participants.
Date: April 20, 2023
Time: 4:00pm-10:00pm
Location: The Great Hall of Shepard Hall
Please use the link below to submit your information.
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CESSRST II Annual Meeting
2023-04-25 04:30 - 13:30 | NOAA NESDIS/NCEI Asheville, NC, 151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
1st Annual CESSRST-II Meeting
Date: April 25, 2023
Time: 8:30AM ET
Venue: NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville NC
Meeting Objects and Expected Outcomes

To share the Center’s 5 year plan and year 1 updates
To create better collaborations and connection between CESSRST Scientist and NOAA Collaborators and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

NSBP Innovate Seminar Series: A Physicist's Guide to Weather and Climate Science
2023-05-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, 1102 Kohn Hall, SANTA BARBARA, CA, 93106, United States
NSBP Innovate Seminar Series: A Physicist’s Guide to Weather and Climate Science
Date: May 3, 2023
Time: 4:00PM ET
Venue: Virtual
Meeting: Click here to Register
Abstract: Thermodynamic and dynamical aspects of geophysical fluids are key to generating the everyday weather that we experience, as well as what the climate will be like in years to come. In this talk we will first review fundamental aspects of earth’s atmospheric circulation, and how computer simulations are used as experimental playgrounds to understand climate. Then, background and original research will be presented on atmospheric blocking: persistent extratropical anticyclones known to steer storms and generate devastating heatwaves and cold spells. This work includes climate modeling experiments performed at NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory studying blocking in current, “future”, and various hypothetical climates. Commentary will also be provided on routes into climate science from the point of view of someone fully trained in traditional physics.
About the Speaker
Veeshan “Vee” Narinesingh is a CESSRST-I Alumni. Vee completed his B.S. and Ph.D. in Physics at The City University of New York (CUNY). He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University / NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

NOAA Seminar Series: Enhancing NWS Heat Services through Urban Heat Island (UHI) Mapping Information
2023-06-14 13:00 - 14:00
Title: Enhancing NWS Heat Services through Urban Heat Island (UHI) Mapping Information
Speaker: Ileana Morales, NOAA EPP/MSI CESSRST-II Fellow at UTEP
Mentors: Danielle Nagele, NOAA NWS
Date: June 14, 20223
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Venue: Virtual
Meeting Link : Google Meet
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Abstract: The global climate crisis is a prevalent issue that will disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. With rising temperatures, susceptibility to heat effects has caused concern about thermal comfort and urban heat during the summer. Prior work has indicated that urban heat islands (UHI) can have adverse health outcomes and can be exacerbated depending on geographic location, race-ethnicity, housing characteristics, and socioeconomic disparities. When a comparison was made to demographic data the NIHHIS/NOAA UHI Mapping Campaigns conducted throughout the U.S indicated specific disproportionate heat effect throughout the different cities mapped. This current study analyzes the UHI effect throughout the city of San Diego by performing a spatial analysis combining physical and social vulnerability. In addition, it examines how this information can be used by National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) and their partners to create more effective heat products and messaging. We conducted informational interviews with WFO meteorologist and their partners on how to provide useful information based on the combination of UHI and social vulnerability data. Ultimately, we formulated some recommendations and best practices by which WFOs and their partners can use to identify and address high-risk social-physical geographies in San Diego City, using methods that can be transferred to other sites.

Organizing and Archiving Qualitative Data with the Qualitative Data Repository
2023-06-16 15:00 - 16:00 | University of Colorado, Boulder, 483 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309, United States
Title: Organizing and Archiving Qualitative Data with the Qualitative Data Repository
Speaker: Dessislava Kirilova
Date: June 16, 20223
Time: 1:00 PM MDT
Venue: Virtual
Meeting Link
This session of the Social Sciences Fridays series will provide an overview of options for sharing qualitative data, with a focus on resources provided by the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)
Abstract:
Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) – QDR’s Senior Curation Specialist, Dessi Kirilova, will demonstrate how QDR’s deposit process works. She will also offer real-world examples of nuanced data sharing possibilities, including of sensitive data that is secured under varying levels of access control. Researchers who attend this session will gain a better understanding of qualitative data sharing norms and practices in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. You will also learn of simple steps to best manage qualitative research materials, which will help with project planning and enable future archiving and re-use of carefully collected materials.
Dessi Kirilova is the senior curation specialist at the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). Originally trained as a social scientist, in her current role she works to educate and assist other social, behavioral, and health science researchers interested in making their data shareable and their research transparent. More broadly, she publishes and presents on topics around data management and sharing, qualitative data curation, the ethics of data sharing, and research transparency in the social-behavioral domain.

NOAA Seminar Series: Evaluation of operational flood forecasting models in Puerto Rico
2023-06-21 13:00 - 13:30
Title: Evaluation of operational flood forecasting models in Puerto Rico
Speaker: Gerado Trossi Torres, NOAA EPP/MSI CESSRST-II Fellow at UPRM
Date: June 21, 20223
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Venue: Virtual
Meeting Link : https://meet.google.com/eeu-gete-ueb
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Abstract: The aim of this project NOAA Experiential Research and Training Opportunities (NERTO) project carried out at the Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in San Juan, Puerto Rico (PR) is to analyze hydrological data from the National Water Model (NWM) and compare it with observed data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The established case study was a flash rainfall event in February of 2022. This rainfall event lasted three days, which precipitation accumulations from 1 to 16 inches were measured, affecting around 29 municipalities. The study examines 13 USGS stations where the most significant river flow occurred, surpassing the established river flood stages, covering 10 of the 29 affected municipalities. The NWM output data from two of four configurations added in the model’s latest version were analyzed, specifically for Puerto Rico. Within these configurations, two variables are considered to conduct the analysis. The first variable, RAINRATE, offers the rainfall forecast for the event over PR. The second variable, streamflow, was used to develop the flow behavior throughout the 48 hours of the event.
The streamflow forecast was evaluated with observed data during the event measured by USGS stations. From our results, three stations were chosen that represent different forecast scenarios. In the first scenario, a station in Caguas had a precipitation accumulation of 2-inch with low projected streamflow of 500 cubic feet per second (cfs). The second scenario is a station in Naguabo with a 2-inch accumulation measured, and the projected streamflow was predominantly high at 7000cfs. The last scenario station at Patillas with a buildup of 0.5 inches with projected streamflow of 1800cfs. The main observation in these three scenarios was that the most significant influence on the behavior is the topography around the station and the direction of its downstream flowline. In a station located in a valley, the model will not predict an immediate response compared to a station with steep topography.

NOAA Seminar Series: Understanding the socioeconomic impacts of climate change
2023-06-21 13:30 - 14:00
Title: Understanding the socioeconomic impacts of climate change
Speaker: Selenea Gibson, NOAA EPP/MSI CESSRST-II Fellow at UMBC
Date: June 21, 20223
Time: 1:30 PM ET
Venue: Virtual
Meeting Link : meet.google.com/eeu-gete-ueb
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Abstract:
Air quality monitors maintained by the EPA are placed in large metropolitan statistical areas around the United States. The citizen science project, PurpleAir works to place their monitors in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) that the EPA is not covering. When looking at the geographic locations where PurpleAir monitors are placed, we noticed that they seem to be in Whiter and richer tracts/block groups. Using Baltimore City as our primary focus, we noticed that the EPA has one monitor and it is located in a highly affluent tracts/block groups outside the city. PurpleAir has multiple monitors placed throughout the city but are co-located to the prominent White L that stretches from Roland Park to Fells Point (Brown 2016). PurpleAir placed their monitors in well-known historical areas within Baltimore City and with the city being majority 62.8% African American, residents who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) are less accounted for in the air quality data. The city structure of Baltimore displays racial capitalism and suburban segregation and is a gateway for creating other large metropolitan cites across the United States (Glotzer 2020). Our research question asks whether there is a racial disparity between the PurpleAir monitors and their geographic locations to those who are affluent and those who are BIPOC in Baltimore City. We want to investigate the gap of geographic locations containing the PurpleAir monitors starting with Baltimore City then moving on to the MSAs. To test our hypothesis, we pulled all of the EPA/PurpleAir air quality monitors using API keys from open sourced websites. Then concentrated on the 2016-2020 5-year ACS survey data from the US Census Bureau and gathered unique fields needed to complete the analysis. Using spatial statistics and GIS software, we created tables, maps, and plots to confirm our hypothesis. Our findings determined that there is a significant median household income and percent BIPOC difference when comparing PurpleAir tracts in MSAs, especially in the Baltimore City area. We need more EPA and PurpleAir air quality monitors as there is not enough in Baltimore City. PurpleAir monitors are in predominantly Whiter tracts and block groups. For Portland and Seattle MSAs, there are so many PurpleAir monitors that are measuring the majority of White tracts/block groups that it is skewing the data. Lastly, we have a scale issue because Seattle and Portland have more PurpleAir monitors compared to Baltimore City and Philadelphia MSAs. We see a high amount of racial capitalism and highly uneven geographies in MSAs such as Portland and Seattle because of this.

2023 NOAA CoRP Science Symposium
2023-07-24 - 2023-07-27 | Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin—Madison,, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
The 2023 CoRP Symposium will be held 25-27 July 2023 at the Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, hosted by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. The symposium brings together students, researchers, and NOAA leaders to share information and engage in scientific discussion in an equitable, informal, and collegial environment.
The symposium will showcase student research through presentations and posters and provide opportunities for professional development. The theme for this year’s symposium will be “An Evolving NOAA Science Community to Benefit Society” and events will include diverse open mentor panels discussing different career paths and the opportunity to build future career relationships across NOAA/NESDIS, NESDIS Cooperative Institutes (CI), the Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST), Cooperative Science Centers (CSC), and affiliated students, postdocs, and junior scientists.
The Cooperative Research Programs (CoRP) Division of NESDIS’ Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) manages a research coalition of the federal government and universities. CoRP’s branches and Institutes work together on remote sensing of the environment.
Date: July 25-27, 2023
Location: The Pyle Center is UW-Madison’s conference facility is located at 702 Langdon Street, along the southern shore of Lake Mendota near the famed Memorial Union Terrace. The meeting will be held room 335
Registration: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/corp-2023/

NOAA Seminar Series: The Drivers and Consequences of Social Vulnerability to Disasters
2023-07-26 13:00 - 14:00
Event: NOAA Seminar Series
Title: The Drivers and Consequences of Social Vulnerability to Disasters
Presenter: Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Wendy Prudencio, Gwendolyn Alexandre
Date: Jul 26, 2023
Time: 12:00pm-1:00 PM
Sponsors: NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory.
Seminar Contact: jan.kazil@noaa.gov
Remote Access: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7124906149160869466
Abstract: The Social Vulnerability and Resilience Lab (SOLVER) Research Lab is dedicated to advancing our understanding of social vulnerability, resilience, and preparedness in the face of disasters. SOLVER lab research adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from fields such as anthropology, atmospheric science, sociology, political science, and critical geography. By doing so, the SOLVER Lab aims to contribute to and enrich these diverse fields while also developing innovative disaster recovery policies. The primary goal of these policies is to address the inequalities in disaster response and mitigate the potentially fatal consequences that arise from such disparities. The research highlights several key drivers and consequences of social vulnerability to disasters. Lab members will provide insight into the factors influencing the provision and restoration of electricity in the wake of disasters, with a particular emphasis on the case of Puerto Rico after hurricane María. Wendy Prudencio will focus on the factors that influence post-disaster population displacement, including unequal access to flood insurance. This research sheds light on how the availability and accessibility of insurance coverage impact the movement of people during and after disasters. Gwendolyn Alexandre explores the concept of compounding hazards, where multiple threats or hazards overlap or occur in succession, exacerbating the vulnerabilities of affected communities. By examining these compounding hazards, the research deepens our understanding of the complex dynamics that contribute to social vulnerability during and after disasters. Overall, the work conducted by the SOLVER Research Lab seeks to provide critical insights into the complexities of social vulnerability and resilience. By pushing the boundaries of existing knowledge and proposing alternative approaches to disaster resource allocation, the lab aims to reduce inequalities in disaster response and minimize the devastating consequences that marginalized communities often face.

First Annual CESSRST-II Symposium
2023-07-31 - 2023-08-03 | Grove School of Engineering, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY, 10031, United States
**This event is by invitation Only**

The First Annual CESSRST-II Symposium will take place from Monday, July 31, 2023 to August 3, 2023 at the City College of New York. The event is a is a chance for students to present what they have learned through their research experiences to a larger audience. The Symposium provides a forum for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting edge remote sensing research topics and to examine the connection between research and education. The Symposium includes poster and presentation sessions, oral presentations and networking. Join us!
Dates: Monday, July 31 – Thursday, August 3, 2023
Location: The City College of New York
Agenda: Download here
Lodging/Hotel Recommendation: Aloft Harlem (Marriot)
Aloft Hotel is a vibrant, tech-savvy hotel, it is less than a 10-minute walk from can’t-miss attractions, including the famous Apollo Theater, iconic Central Park, and the fast-paced community of Harlem itself. City Bike, NYC’s bike share program is only one block away for a fun and affordable way to explore the city. It is a short 20-minute walk (Google Map) from the Grove School of Engineering, City College (Symposium Location),
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From the West Side Highway: Exit at 125th Street. Cross Broadway and turn left onto Amsterdam Avenue. The College is at 138th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
From the East Side: Take the FDR or the RFK (formerly Triborough) Bridge to Harlem River Drive. Exit at 135th Street. Continue to St. Nicholas Avenue and turn right, then left onto 141st Street. Turn left onto Convent Avenue. The campus begins at 140th Street and Convent Avenue.

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NOAA Seminar Series: Mapping and monitoring turbidity in estuaries using remote sensing
2023-08-09 13:00 - 13:30
Title: Mapping and monitoring turbidity in estuaries using remote sensing and in-situ measurements
Speaker: Stephany Garcia, NOAA EPP/MSI CESSRST-II Fellow at SDSU
Date: August 9, 20223
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Venue: Virtual
Meeting Link : meet.google.com/xjr-zfee-aet
Phone Number
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PIN: ‪651 945 406#‬
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Abstract:
Satellite imagery of Southern California’s Tijuana River Outlet shows frequent turbid water plumes extending out into coastal water after storms and cross border flow events (Ayad et al., 2020). Turbid water has high concentrations of organic and inorganic materials that can carry harmful bacteria and pathogens (Warrick et al., 2012). In fresh and saline water systems, such as estuaries, water reflectance can reveal information about the biological productivity at different trophic states, benthic environment suppression, nutrient cycling, and the overall habitat quality for water-dependent organisms (Barbier et al., 2011; Topp et al., 2020). However, reflectance-based turbidity mapping is complicated by atmospheric conditions, clouds, and the reflectance of bottom materials in shallow water. Understanding the timing, frequency, and duration of turbid water events is often site-specific, because of regional climate, varying anthropogenic pressures, sediment loading rates, and geology (Elliott & McLusky, 2002). For my NERTO, a shallow water turbidity algorithm was used to identify turbidity hotspots in the tidal inland channels of TRNERR using the Sentinel-2 satellites. The goal was to quantify the accuracy of turbidity maps created from remote sensing by conducting Kayak Surveys and testing the water for suspended sediment concentrations (SSC) and Loss on Ignition (LOI). Initial findings revealed that ordering and receiving materials post-COVID was not possible in the course during a three-month NERTO period. Additionally, because of high contamination levels in the TJR Estuary, fieldwork was often prohibited. Moreover, because the data sondes we are using have 6+ sensors, equipment knowledge, and troubleshooting became an essential part of my NERTO experience

NOAA Seminar Series: Uncertainties in the retrieval of remote sensing reflectance from OC satellite observations
2023-08-09 13:30 - 14:00
Title: Uncertainties in the retrieval of remote sensing reflectance from OC satellite observations
Speaker: Eder Herrera Estrella, NOAA EPP/MSI CESSRST-II Fellow at CUNY
Date: August 9, 20223
Time: 1:30 PM ET
Venue: Virtual
Meeting Link : meet.google.com/xjr-zfee-aet
Phone Number
(‪US‬)‪+1 219-321-0478‬
PIN: ‪651 945 406#‬
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Abstract:
Uncertainties in retrieving remote sensing reflectance, Rrs, from Ocean Color (OC) satellite sensors have a substantial impact on the performance of algorithms, such as for the estimation of chlorophyll-a concentrations, and inherent optical properties (IOPs). The impact is highest in the blue bands, especially in coastal waters with low blue-band Rrs values. Sunlight propagates to the water and back to the top of the atmosphere (TOA) with the total radiance measured by the sensor capturing the radiances related to the instantaneous state of in-water conditions, sky, and sunlight reflected from the wind-roughened wave facets and light scattered on molecules and aerosols in the atmosphere. All these components are associated with uncertainties, which together with the effects of the instrument noise and uncertainties in aerosol models in the atmospheric correction process, contribute to uncertainties in the retrieved water-leaving radiance and remote sensing reflectance. Assuming that these uncertainties are mostly proportional to the corresponding radiances and taking advantage of the differences in the spectra of these radiances, we analyzed the contribution of the components above to the total Rrs uncertainties in the SNPP-VIIRS level 2products for multiple scenes in the open ocean and coastal waters at different spatial resolutions. Results are complemented by data from several AERONET-OC sites and the VIIRS validation/calibration cruises and showed that the Rayleigh component (molecular scattering and surface effects) is the main source of 𝑅𝑟𝑠 uncertainties for any water type followed by water variability, which has a bigger role in coastal areas, while the contributions of other components including aerosol scattering are usually smaller

NOAA Seminar Series: Remote sensing of anthropogenic debris in stream channels
2023-08-22 13:00 - 13:30
Title: Remote sensing of anthropogenic debris in stream channels
Speaker: Elena Aguilar, NOAA EPP/MSI CESSRST-II Fellow at SDSU
Date: August 22, 20223
Time: 1:30 PM ET
Venue: Virtual
Meeting Link : meet.google.com/ead-ypxo-gvb
Phone Number
(‪US‬)‪+1 219-321-0478‬
PIN: ‪651 945 406#‬
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Abstract:
Inadequate management of anthropogenic waste is a challenge for coastal waters in the US-Mexico border region. Managing waste requires detecting and monitoring locations where uncontrolled disposal and debris accumulation occurs at high rates. Watershed-scale remote sensing can aid the understanding of the distribution, pools, and fluxes of plastic materials in pluvial systems. The Los Laureles Canyon watershed (LLCW), located in Tijuana, Mexico, is a large source of plastic pollution for the Tijuana River Estuary in Imperial Beach, California. Through a combination of field, laboratory, and remote sensing methods, we identified surficial plastic materials and waste hotspots in LLCW and 6 visually assessed the utility of spectral mixture models and WorldView-3 (WV3) shortwave infrared (SWIR) broadband imagery for plastic mapping. Field trash surveys conducted in LLCW reveal channel reaches have large scale waste patches (4-10m²) as a result of dumping. Laboratory reflectance spectroscopy was used to characterize the diversity of plastic reflectance and assess spectral signatures to inform multispectral image analysis. Samples processed to date show plastics have consistent absorptions at about 1210 nm, 1410 nm, 1660-1730nm, and 2100-2300nm wavelengths, depending on the polymer type. When convolved to the spectral response function of the WV3 sensor, mean plastic reflectance retains prominent features between 1660-1730 nm and above 2200 nm wavelengths, similar to an image endmember observed through principal components analysis of LLCW imagery. A spectral mixture model uses the matched filtering algorithm and selected image endmember to map built-environment plastic infrastructure and waste hotspots in areas explored during field visits.

NOAA Seminar Series: Arctic Feedbacks on Trace Gas Compositions.
2023-08-22 13:30 - 14:00
Title: Arctic Feedbacks on Trace Gas Compositions.
Speaker: Francia Tenorio, NOAA EPP/MSI CESSRST-II Fellow at SDSU
Date: August 22, 20223
Time: 1:30 PM ET
Venue: Virtual
Meeting Link : meet.google.com/ead-ypxo-gvb
Phone Number
(‪US‬)‪+1 219-321-0478‬
PIN: ‪651 945 406#‬
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Abstract:
Polar ecosystems are warming faster than any other region on Earth (IPCC 2022), posing many implications for tundra landscapes. The accelerated warming in the Arctic influences the rate and movement of nutrients in the soil and water, plant growth, microbial decomposition, and thawing of the permafrost processes that occur across the landscape. This can release greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. Since permafrost regions hold over half of all the estimated organic carbon stored in Earth’s soils and 40-60 Pg of nitrogen, it is essential to understand changes across the Arctic landscape and how this influences climate dynamics locally and globally. Thermokarst formations, which typically occur during the thawing of the permafrost, may be sources of emissions in tundra landscapes and a reflection of rapid climate change. Microtopographic features, particularly bare soils, may be a hotspot for GHGs. The webinar will present a mapping effort of such features via remote sensing techniques in a tundra ecosystem near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, emphasizing the monitoring GHGs from such features.

Climate Seminar Series: Managing Fisheries in a Changing Climate
2023-09-14 12:00 - 13:00
Event: NOAA EPP/MSI CSC Climate Change Seminar Series
Title: Managing Fisheries in a Changing Climate
Presenter: Wendy Morrison (Hosted by University of Maryland, Eastern Shore)
Date: September 14, 2023
Time: 12:00pm-1:00 PM
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details to join the event
About the Seminar Series.
Join NOAA’s EPP/MSI Cooperative Science Centers for this lecture series featuring scientists from NOAA Fisheries and NOAA Research. These monthly seminars will be hosted by the lead institution, virtually or hybrid throughout the 2023-2024 academic year. For more information, please visit, https://research.noaa.gov/noaa-csc/

Radar Workshop
2023-09-14 13:00 - 2023-09-15 16:30 | City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, 10031
The Radar Workshop is a three hours workshop on the theory and use of weather radar data including hands-on section where participants download and display data.
Dates
Thursday, September 14, 2023 |1-4 pm EST
Repeat: Friday, September 15, 2023 | 1-4 pm EST
Zoom Link
This workshop is a 2 hours content, 1 hour guided hands-on instruction, 1 hour optional practice. Workshop will employ NOAA’s Weather and Climate Toolkit installed on lab computers, but can be easily installed on personal computers.
Topics Includes:

Brief history of weather radars
How radars work
Estimation of precipitation rate from radar & multi-sensor observations
Detection of precipitation type from polarimetric radarmeasurements
Limitations in precipitation estimation due to beam geometry,bright bands & topography
Doppler & estimation of wind velocity, shear & wind profiles
Severe Storm detection: mesocyclones, tornadoes, downbursts,straight line winds, hail
Where to access radar data and derived products
Intro to working with radar data & making imagery

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Professional Development Series: Survey Design and Social Science Integration in Research
2023-09-18 14:00 - 15:30
CCME-II Professional Development Series (Fall 2023)
Title: Survey Design and Social Science Integration in Research
Speaker: Dr. Brittany King, Environmental Scientist, NOAA/NCCOS
Date: September 18, 2023
Time: 2pm
Zoom Link: https://famu.zoom.us/j/91331844557

5th NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences
2023-09-19 11:30 - 2023-09-21 15:30
Event: 5th NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences
Location: Virtual
Date: September 19 – 21, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM-1:30pm MDT (each day) i.e. 11:30am – 3:30pm EST
Note: Because of limited capacity, each campus will have a viewing location.
For CUNY fellows and faculty mentors, who wish to attend to join us for this event (in-person) at the Grove School of Engineering, Room ST-513
For Non-CUNY Fellows and faculty, please reach out to your respective campus PI for more information.
For more information about this event, please visit https://www.noaa.gov/ai/events/5th-noaa-ai-workshop-2023
This virtual workshop will focus on collaboration building and active development of AI-powered applications and community standards. We invite developers, data scientists, domain experts, social scientists, and downstream users to form small teams around different use cases that are relevant to NOAA mission areas. In this interactive workshop, we aim to foster collaboration around two themes:
Benchmarking Framework: AI research and development in environmental sciences require a benchmarking framework to ensure objective evaluation and accelerate adoption. The discussion around benchmarking framework will include high-priority application areas that are relevant to NOAA mission areas, AI-ready data sets, baseline models, desired performance metrics, cataloging mechanisms, and governance needs.
Research-to-Operation-to-Research (R2O2R): R2O2R is a critical process to enable research and development activities to be transitioned into operational environments while evolving operational needs can further inspire new research. The workshop will focus on identifying the challenges caused by the differences, if any, between the R2O2R processes for AI and traditional applications that have been implemented by NOAA and the community.

Doctoral Dissertation: "Assessing drivers of biogeochemical variability in vulnerable coastal areas" - Alana Menendez
2023-09-20 10:00 - 12:00 | City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, 10031
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Alana Menendez, PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, will be presenting her PhD thesis research at 10:00 (ET) on Wednesday, September 20th.
The title of Alana’s dissertation is “Eyes on the Sound: Assessing drivers of biogeochemical variability in vulnerable coastal areas”.
Where:
CCNY Center for Discovery and Innovation
Building Room 4-352 (4th floor conference room),
85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY 10031.
Time: 10am
Or, you can also connect via zoom:
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Meeting ID: 988 9028 5478
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Social Science Community of Practice Meeting (CoP)
2023-09-26 12:00 - 13:00
CESSRT-II Social Science Meeting: Student Cohort Community of Practice Meeting
Social science community of practice meeting.
Date: September 26, 2023 at 12p,

Extracting Features from Satellite Imagery for Climate Justice and the Commercial Market
2023-09-26 12:30 - 13:30 | City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, 10031
Title: Extracting Features from Satellite Imagery for Climate Justice and the Commercial Market
Date: September 26, 2023
Time: 12:30 – 1:30pm
Presenters: Dr. Jose Pillich & Ryan Kmetz
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and earth observation technologies are revolutionizing how we understand and interact with our environment. By gathering and analyzing geographic, remotely sensed, and other environmental data, researchers and activists now have more tools than ever before to reveal environmental injustices and advocate for change. This talk will provide an overview of key GIS concepts and earth observation technologies, focusing on their application for climate justice. We’ll explore how satellite imagery, drones, sensor networks, and spatial analysis can uncover pollution sources, track deforestation, map social vulnerability, model climate impacts, and more. These technologies make environmental data more accessible, allowing communities to better understand threats to their health and environment. However, technology alone is not enough – true climate justice requires giving communities agency over these tools and data, not just extracting value from them.
About Authors
Dr. Jose L. Pillich is a NOAA CESSRST Alumni. he earned all of his degrees from the City University of New York City (CUNY). Dr. Pillich received a Bachelor of Arts, Major in Urban Studies from Hunter College, New York in 2007. He received his Master’s in Urban Planning, Hunter College, in 2010. He later earned his doctoral degree at the CUNY Graduate Center in Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2018. He completed his Postdoctoral Research at Brooklyn College, in 2019. Throughout his education, his primary research interests have been at the intersection of urban planning and using geospatial techniques that lead to enhancing social, environmental, and economic systems. Furthermore, he has also lived abroad and traveled extensively, with a strong interest in exploring diverse cultures and ways of life. With over 15 years of working in the private and public sectors, Dr. Pillich has become an interdisciplinary researcher with extensive experience in geospatial/data analysis, urban planning, sustainability, environmental, financial service, and transportation. With these broad experiences, Dr. Pillich has applied this knowledge to work as an adjunct professor, consultant, and researcher presenting at major academic conferences that have led to published journal articles.
With over ten years of experience, Ryan Kmetz has worked on projects that address the intersection of sustainability, climate, environment, and resilience in both private and public sectors. He has worked with various types of environmental and climate data through different kinds of projects. Ryan holds a Master’s of Science in Environmental Studies – Sustainable Development and Climate Change from Antioch University New England and a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from Le Moyne College. He also has an Environmental Sustainability Professional Credential from the Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure. Ryan is an expert in listening to stakeholder’s needs to help them analyze and aggregate geospatial datasets, commonly known as mapping data. He believes in data-driven storytelling as a crucial tool to engage communities and advocate for a healthier and more resilient environment. Ryan aims to provide stakeholders with access to technology and materials they may not have had in the past through his work with GIS and other cutting-edge data tools.
This talk will discuss strategies for democratizing environmental data access and enabling participatory mapping, crowdsourcing, and citizen science initiatives. Join us as we explore how emerging technologies can empower action for climate justice, if guided by principles of equity, inclusion, and community ownership.
The talk will explain the process of ETL (Extract, Transform & Loading) from satellite imagery to dashboard. Specific features are extracted from different satellite imagery and then contextualized with other datasets. Once a new dataset is created, then the data will be loaded into ESRI dashboards for different stakeholders can easily access the data. It will be a non-technical presentation explaining the process and opportunities of these techniques.

CSCs Education Seminar Series: NOAA Corps
2023-09-27 12:30 - 14:00
CSCs Education Seminar Series: NOAA Corps
Speaker: LT Dustin Picard
Date: September 27, 2023 at 12:30pm
