NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies

CESSRST II Annual Meeting
2023-04-25 04:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | 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)

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.
https://forms.gle/yrSCSb2GUYbZLscs6

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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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

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

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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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).

NOAA EPP/MSI 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.

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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NWS Information Webinar: Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES)
2022-11-08 14:30 - 15:30
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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Seminar Series: Multi-Platform and Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing
2022-10-13 08:30 - 09:30 | Grove School of Engineering, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY, 10031, United States
Title: Multi-Platform and Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing to Support Earth System Science Research
Speaker: Dr. Zhien Wang
Date: October 13, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM ET
Venue: Exhibit Room, Steinman Hall at the Grove School of Engineering (1st floor)
Zoom Link
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Seminar Series: NOAA’s New Strategic and Implementation Plans for Climate Ready Nation
2022-10-06 07:00 - 09:00 | Grove School of Engineering, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY, 10031, United States
Title: NOAA’s New Strategic and Implementation Plans for Climate Ready Nation, Equity and the New Blue Economy and Partnership Opportunities
Speaker: Dr. Mitchell D. Goldberg, Chief Scientist for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
Date: October 6, 2022
Time: 11 AM ET
Venue: T105, 5th floor at the Grove School of Engineering, CCNY.
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Seminar Series: Air Pollution impacts on the Carbon Cycle, Food Security, Human Health and Climate
2022-09-14 08:00 - 10:00 | City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, 10031
Seminar Title: Title: Air pollution Impacts on the Carbon Cycle, Food Security, Human Health and Climate
Speaker: Dr. Nadine Unger, Professor and Chair of Atmospheric, Chemistry University of Exeter, Exeter UK
Day and Date: Wednesday | September 14, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM EDT
Location: Steinman Hall Exhibit Room at Grove School of Engineering, CCNY
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