NOAA Science Seminar Series

NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Soil Moisture Virtual Seminar Series: Estimating Economic Value of Soil Moisture Information

Presenter(s):

Wade Brorsen, Oklahoma State University

Elise Osenga, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences/NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System

Sponsor(s): NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)

Seminar Contact(s): Elise Osenga, elise.osenga@noaa.gov

Remote Access:

Please register at https://noaaresearch.webex.com/weblink/register/r18382f7426806f4637c44e76719d70dd

Accessibility: Live closed captioning

Abstract: Access to reliable soil moisture information can improve decision-making in many applications, such as water management, flood control, wildfire management, agricultural irrigation, and crop insurance. However, soil moisture information does not have a direct market price, and it is difficult to quantify its economic value. A NIDIS-funded study conducted by a team of economics and soil moisture researchers at Oklahoma State University sought to address this gap by estimating the current and potential economic value of soil moisture information across sectors in the United States. This study found the nationwide value of soil moisture information to be on a scale of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars annually. In this presentation, economist Wade Brorsen will provide an overview of methods and findings from this study. This event is part of a virtual soil moisture seminar series co-hosted by the National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network (NCSMMN) in partnership with NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and USDA's Forest Service.

Slides, Recordings, Other materials: Will be available here: https://www.youtube.com/@NOAADrought

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: The Citizen Archivist Program and Community Engagement at the National Archives and Records Administration

Presenter(s): Jill Reilly Corbett, Director for Catalog and Online Access, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Sponsor(s): NOAA Library and NOAA Education

Seminar Contact(s): library.seminars@noaa.gov

Remote Access: https://vimeo.com/event/6250198

Accessibility: Captions are available during the live presentation and once uploaded to the NOAA Library YouTube Channel automatic captions are added. Sign language interpreting services and closed captioning are available, but need to be requested at least 5 days before the event.

Abstract: Jill Reilly Corbett will share an overview of volunteer crowdsourcing and community engagement through the Citizen Archivist Program at the National Archives and Records Administration. For more than a decade, Citizen Archivists have enhanced discovery and access to our nation's archival records by deciphering and transcribing handwritten documents and tagging digitized records in the National Archives Catalog. Their combined efforts recently reached 20 million contributions, helping to unlock history and uncover new stories.

Recordings: Recordings will be shared 24 hours after the event on the NOAA Library YouTube channel.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Marine Mammal Monitoring

Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Monster Seminar Jam

Presenter(s): Shima Abadi, PhD, University of Washington

Sponsor(s): NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Seminar Contact(s): nwfsc.monsterjam@noaa.gov

Remote Access: Online: meet.google.com/wtc-ivfo-jzg
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Abstract: Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) turns a fiber optic cable into thousands of closely spaced acoustic sensors. A shore-based instrument sends laser pulses down the fiber and analyzes the backscattered light to detect tiny strains caused by passing sounds. Because telecommunications cables already run along many coastlines, DAS can listen continuously over tens of kilometers of ocean without adding sound to the water. This talk introduces how DAS works and presents examples of fin whale calls recorded on existing telecom cables. We then show how custom-built cables can capture higher-frequency vocalizations, such as those of humpback and killer whales, that standard telecom cables struggle to record. We discuss the limitations of DAS compared with traditional passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), including calibration, sensitivity, and range, and explore its potential future directions as a complement to existing monitoring networks.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Presenter(s): James Randerson, Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Professor of Earth System Science | Member, National Academy of Sciences, UC Irvine

Sponsor(s): Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) Seminar Series

Seminar Contact(s): John Xun Yang, jxyang@umd.edu

Remote Access:

Webinar: https://go.umd.edu/essicseminarwebinars

Zoom Meeting ID: 918 7733 3086
Zoom password: essic
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Global call-in numbers: https://umd.zoom.us/u/aMElEpvNu

Abstract: We describe three advances in understanding the mechanisms governing wildfire responses to weather and climate variability across biomes, highlighting new opportunities to improve wildfire predictability, ecosystem management, and economic resilience on subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) timescales. First, for wind-driven Santa Ana wildfires in Southern California, we show that improved estimates of live fuel moisture at the onset of individual wind events can substantially improve predictions of fire occurrence, burned area, and individual fire size. Second, in the boreal forests of North America, we show how multi-year drought and overwintering (“zombie”) fires have contributed to four consecutive extreme wildfire seasons. Terrestrial water storage anomalies measured up to six months before the fire season provide a basis for predicting seasonal fire severity, partly through their influence on duff-layer moisture and the ability of fires to survive winter and spring. Because many overwintering fires reemerge shortly after snowmelt, improved predictions may enable targeted early-season interventions before fire suppression resources become overextended. Third, at the global scale, we examine how the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences wildfire activity through widespread perturbations to the terrestrial hydrological cycle. Using more than 25 years of observations from the Global Fire Emissions Database version 5 (GFED5), we show that ENSO state strongly predicts regional burned area and carbon emissions with lead time of more than one year. This predictability arises from large-scale ocean–atmosphere interactions that influence regional precipitation, together with a regional-scale biosphere–atmosphere feedback in which root-zone soil moisture acts as a multi-season reservoir of hydrological memory. Building on this framework, we describe how the current El Niño may increase the risk of extreme wildfire activity during the July–October 2027 dry season in the Amazon, and how such early warnings could inform policies and management strategies to reduce forest damage. Together, these advances show how better understanding of fuel moisture, hydrological memory, and climate teleconnections can extend wildfire predictability across timescales from individual weather events to more than a year in advance, creating new opportunities for proactive fire management.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Moist thermodynamic constraints on large-scale tropical circulations - NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series

Presenter(s): Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sponsor(s): NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory

Seminar Contact(s): psl.seminars@noaa.gov

Remote Access:

Google Meet video call link: https://meet.google.com/rwm-ebtk-kgn

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Abstract: The constraints on tropical motions arising from lower tropospheric convective quasi equilibrium (CQE), the weak temperature gradient (WTG) approximation, and entraining convection are examined. Linear solutions to a highly idealized model show that the high cloud density of the lower free troposphere (LFT, 600-950 hPa) allows gravity waves to quickly adjust the temperature of the cloud-free environment to that of the clouds. As a result, a form of LQE arises in which buoyancy is quasi-conserved as it follows the horizontal flow. Motivated by recent studies on tropical convection, this form of LQE is used with the zero-buoyancy plume framework under the limit in which the bulk entrainment is an inverse function of the saturation deficit (q*-q) to better understand tropical motions. This framework reproduces features of CQE found by previous work along with several new insights. First, it is found that convection quickly responds to balance the large scale LFT saturation deficit sources. This balance constrains the column process —the sum of vertical advection and diabatic sources and sinks of moist static energy (MSE) — of the subcloud layer and LFT to be equal, with their strength proportional to the amplitude of non-WTG adiabatic vertical motions. This result implies that the column process approximately vanishes in slow tropical motions that strongly obey the WTG approximation, allowing horizontal MSE advection to govern their evolution. Second, convective mass fluxes become more top-heavy and exponentially stronger as the saturation deficit decreases, leading to an exponential moisture-precipitation relation, as in observations.

Slides, Recordings, Other materials: Seminar details and speaker bio at https://psl.noaa.gov/seminars/Abstracts/2026/814.html. Seminar is not recorded. Slides available upon request at speaker's discretion.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Using Virtual Research Environments to Expand the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) Indicator

NOAA Library Seminars

Presenter(s): Marjahn Finlayson; National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology Bologna (INGV-Bo) and University of Bologna, and currently hosted by the University of Maryland

Sponsor(s): NOAA Library

Seminar Contact(s): library.seminars@noaa.gov

Remote Access: https://vimeo.com/event/6292553

Accessibility: Captions are available during the live presentation and once uploaded to the NOAA Library YouTube Channel automatic captions are added. Sign language interpreting services and closed captioning are available, but need to be requested at least 5 days before the event.

Abstract: Ocean monitoring indicators (OMI) are based on scientifically verified methods and data that expose the state of the environmental characteristics or processes of the physical ocean or its biodiversity across temporal and spatial frames. We use a novel multi-product approach via local and cloud-based data to replicate and update one of these indicators from the Copernicus Marine Service for the Mediterranean Outflow Water in the North Atlantic Ocean. We exploit virtual research environments to improve with indicators with the latest and best available in-situ and reanalysis temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen products.

Recordings: Recordings will be shared 24 hours after the event on the NOAA Library YouTube channel.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Assessing Shifts in Alaska Rain-On-Snow Winter Seasonality
VAWS Webinar Series

Presenter(s): Tricia Hutton, Ph.D. Student in Earth System Science with a concentration in Atmospheric and Climate Science

Sponsor(s): NOAA/OAR/Climate Program Office, Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA), and the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness (ACCAP)

Seminar Contact(s): Jessica Ramos, jaramos2@alaska.edu, Christi Buffington, cbuffington@alaska.edu

Remote Access:
Registration link:https://uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-webinar-alaska-ros-winter-seasonality/

Accessibility: N/A

Abstract: Rain falling on snow-covered ground, called rain-on-snow (ROS) events, can create ice layers that last until spring, creating hazards to transportation, wildlife, and powerlines in Alaska. These events are challenging to study due to Alaska’s mountainous terrain and the limited number of weather station observations. To address this, high-resolution reanalysis data from the winter season 1950 through 2022 were used to examine when and where ROS events happen across the state. This study found that the majority of these events occur in the early winter season, November and December, with coastal regions experiencing ROS more often with higher accumulations of rain than interior Alaska. Over this dataset, a seasonal shift is seen with an increase in December ROS, leading to increased development of a thick ice layer that will last through spring melt. This provides information needed for future planning for communities' safety, infrastructure, and ecosystems as the climate continues to change.

Slides, Recordings, Other materials: Recording will be shared after the webinar with all who register

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Fractures and Fixes in the Southeast U.S. Wild-Caught Shrimp Fishery
NOAA Gulf of America Forum Webinar Series

Presenter(s): Carissa Gervasi, Cooperative Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) assistant scientist and NOAA affiliate

Sponsor(s): NOAA's Gulf of America Regional Collaboration Team, a part of NOAA's Regional Collaboration Network

Seminar Contact(s): Kristen Laursen, Kristen.R.Laursen@noaa.gov , NOAA Fisheries and Regional Collaboration Network

Remote Access: Please register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3475035545357176154

Note: This webinar will be recorded. Please do not share any Personal or Business Identifiable Information (PII or BII) during the webinar.

Abstract:

Modern wild-capture fisheries routinely face market, operational, and regulatory challenges. Analyzing the Southeast U.S. shrimp fishery, we present a mixed-methods evaluation combining quantitative vessel-level economic survey modeling with qualitative thematic analysis using a Document Salience Index (DSI) across >100 stakeholder interviews. Quantitative findings reveal record-low profitability driven by cheap farmed imports and rising fuel costs, while qualitative data highlights deteriorating infrastructure, labor deficits, and regulatory burdens. Integratively, participants propose actionable solutions—including premium product differentiation, import policy enforcement, and agricultural-parity support—to build resilient, sustainable fishery futures.

Slides, Recordings, Other materials: This webinar will be recorded and shared online. Please contact Kristen.R.Laursen@noaa.gov for the recording and/or PDF of this webinar.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Aerial Surveys for Ice Seals and Polar Bears: An Application for Edge Computing

Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Monster Seminar Jam

Presenter(s): Erin Moreland, M.S., Research Zoologist, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center

Sponsor(s): NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Seminar Contact(s): nwfsc.monsterjam@noaa.gov

Remote Access: Online: meet.google.com/wtc-ivfo-jzg
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Abstract: N/A

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Living On the Edge: The Ecology of Mountain Goats and Avalanches in Alaska

Presenter(s): Kevin White, Wildlife Ecologist, University of Alaska Southeast

Sponsor(s): NOAA/OAR/Climate Program Office and the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness (ACCAP)

Seminar Contact(s): Ed Plumb (ewplumb@alaska.edu) & Genie Bey (genie.bey@noaa.gov)

Remote Access: https://uaf-accap.org/event/mountain-goats-and-avalanches/

Abstract: Survival in extreme environments requires perilous trade-offs. Mountain goats use steep, exposed terrain to avoid carnivores such as wolves, but there can be a significant cost of this behavior – exposure to snow avalanches. In this presentation, Kevin White, a wildlife ecologist with the University of Alaska Southeast, will talk about long-term studies describing the extraordinary natural history and population ecology of mountain goats in coastal Alaska. He will specifically focus on recent analyses seeking to understand how avalanches transform mountain landscapes and alpine wildlife populations that inhabit them. Functioning as ecologically extreme events, avalanches can elicit substantial population declines requiring more than a generation for demographic recovery – highlighting the importance of climate-linked factors for mountain wildlife populations. The exciting multidisciplinary research involved extensive collaboration with University of Alaska snow scientists Eran Hood and Gabe Wolken, and others from the US, Canada and Switzerland.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: How chronic warming and marine heatwaves reshape fish biomass and ranges

NOAA Library Seminars

Presenter(s): Shahar Chaikin, PhD, National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Sponsor(s): NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and NOAA Library

Seminar Contact(s): Dr. Bai Li (bai.li@noaa.gov) and Library Seminars

Remote Access: https://vimeo.com/event/6291882

Accessibility: Captions are available during the live presentation and once uploaded to the NOAA Central Library YouTube Channel automatic captions are added. Sign language interpreting services and closed captioning are available, but need to be requested at least 5 days before the event.

Abstract: Climate change threatens marine ecosystems through gradual warming and acute thermal extremes. This seminar disentangles the impacts of these press and pulse stressors on marine fishes. First, using over 700,000 biomass estimates across the Northern Hemisphere, we show that chronic ocean warming consistently reduces fish biomass. Conversely, marine heatwaves (MHWs) drive short-term, edge-dependent effects: transient biomass gains at cold edges and losses at warm edges. Shifting to biogeography, we examine the Mediterranean Sea's invasion corridor. Using 32 years of records for Lessepsian fishes, we demonstrate that chronic warming facilitates tropical colonization, whereas MHWs have no detectable effect on species spread. These findings reveal how chronic warming simultaneously reduces biomass in established ranges while opening new corridors for redistribution. Managing these shifting baselines will ultimately require proactive, transboundary conservation strategies.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: 2026 Ed Ricketts Memorial Award and Lecture: Between Pacific Seamounts: Water, Heat, and Solutes from Rocks to Octopus and Back Again

Series: National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series

Presenter(s): Andrew T. Fisher, Ph.D., Researcher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5892826430262859864

Sponsor(s): NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Seminar Contact(s): Claire.Fackler@noaa.gov

Abstract: Dr. Andrew T. Fisher has been a positive force in deep-sea research and teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz for more than 30 years. He is an effective teacher who uses quick wit and an exceptional knack for humor to enliven topics and create lasting understanding of serious and complex subjects. His work in the two connected worlds of the deep-sea and water/groundwater management provides a deep well of relevant material for sanctuary audiences. Dr. Fisher will provide a lecture showing and linking results from field and modeling studies to illustrate how novel tools and computing help create new opportunities in subseafloor exploration and discovery.

The Ed Ricketts Memorial Award was created to honor scientists who have exhibited exemplary work throughout their career and advanced knowledge, appreciation, conservation and/or protection of the marine environment. Recipients are selected by the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Research Activity Panel.

For the lecture abstract and history of the Ed Ricketts Memorial Award, see the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary’s Research Activity Panel Page.

Accessibility: English captions will be provided for the recording.

Recording: The presentation will be recorded; once captioned it will be hosted on the archived webpage: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/webinar-series-archives.html.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: El Niño and drought in the U.S. Southern Region - NOAA Drought Seminar Series

Presenter(s): John Nielsen-Gammon, Regents Professor at Texas A&M; Texas State Climatologist

Sponsor(s): NOAA Research's Physical Science Laboratory and National Integrated Drought Information System, and the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center

Seminar Contact(s): Andrew.Hoell@noaa.gov

Remote Access:
Register before the seminar at: https://noaaresearch.webex.com/weblink/register/rada73daad48f9df2fa252b5bfb7c6c76

Accessibility: Live closed captioning

Abstract: Drought in the Southern United States can be brief and intense or long and devastating. Vulnerability arises from the marginally adequate precipitation under normal conditions and the large swings in precipitation on an interannual basis. ENSO is a primary factor contributing to large precipitation variability, with average precipitation during the cool season differing by a factor of two between El Niño and La Niña. Departures from normal precipitation are most predictable during the cool season, a time of recharge and replenishment before summer evaporation takes over. With drought having recently reached near-record extent across the southern United States, the current El Niño provides well-grounded hope for drought relief. Summertime precipitation lacks predictability, however. The worst multi-year drought on record for Texas was in the 1950s, when La Niñas were common and the only El Niño failed to deliver.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Presenter(s): Talia Tamarin-Brodsky , Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science | Class of 1947 Career Development Professor, MIT

Sponsor(s): Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) Seminar Series

Seminar Contact(s): John Xun Yang, jxyang@umd.edu

Remote Access:

Webinar: https://go.umd.edu/essicseminarwebinars

Zoom Meeting ID: 918 7733 3086
Zoom password: essic
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Global call-in numbers: https://umd.zoom.us/u/aMElEpvNu

Abstract: Extreme near-surface moist heat and severe convective storms are among the leading causes of weather-related damages worldwide. Episodes of extreme moist heat and severe convection frequently co-occur across midlatitude land regions, yet the processes that constrain their maximum intensities remain poorly understood. Here, a theoretical framework is developed that links their maximum intensities to preexisting low-level energy inversions in the atmosphere. By accounting for the stored-energy nature of midlatitude severe convection, in which near-surface moist heat and atmospheric instability accumulate before convection initiates, this framework identifies low-level inversions as a critical factor shaping compound extreme heat and convective weather risks. Under climate change, these moist weather extremes are projected to intensify substantially in the midlatitudes, particularly downstream of major highland terrains. This intensification is tightly constrained by changes in low-level atmospheric inversions: amplified warming over western highlands is transported downstream by prevailing westerlies, strengthening inversions and raising the attainable maxima of moist heat and convection. These results highlight low-level inversions as a key regulator of midlatitude moist weather extremes and their response to climate change.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: FORCE BLUE Veterans Conduct Tour of Duty in Your National Marine Sanctuaries

Series: National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series

Presenter(s): Jim Ritterhoff, Executive Director, Co-Founder, FORCE BLUE with Panelists: Angelo Fiore, Navy Diver, U.S. Navy Veteran, Dan Henderson, Green Beret, U.S. Army Veteran, Ricky Brown, Navy Seal, U.S. Navy Veteran, Stephanie Gandulla, Superintendent, NOAA’s Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary, and facilitated by Kate Thompson, Outreach and Engagement Division Lead, NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/952102761419370584

Sponsor(s): NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Seminar Contact(s): Claire.Fackler@noaa.gov

Abstract: All national marine sanctuaries rely on the energy and passion of volunteers. With the mission of healing veterans and healing the ocean, FORCE BLUE redeploys Special Operations veterans and military-trained combat divers to work alongside scientists on conservation projects. When Special Operations veterans team up with NOAA's marine scientists, there's nothing we can't accomplish. The former Special Operations divers of FORCE BLUE are working with top scientists and environmentalists from NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries on a multi-year Sanctuaries Tour of Duty campaign to conduct marine conservation missions in and around each of America's iconic national marine sanctuaries. Learn more about FORCE BLUE, the past and upcoming projects, and get your questions answered from a panel of veterans.

Accessibility: English captions will be provided for the recording.

Recording: The presentation will be recorded; once captioned it will be hosted on the archived webpage: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/webinar-series-archives.html.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Streamflow Forecasting using Physical-Aware AI/DL Models and Improving the Precipitation Forecasts at the Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Scale in Support of Adaptive Reservoir Operation
Great Lakes Seminar Series

Presenter(s): Dr. Tiantian Yang, Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan

Sponsor(s): CIGLR and NOAA GLERL

Seminar Contact(s): Margaret Throckmorton, margaret.throckmorton@noaa.gov

Remote Access:

Please register at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1571851282521547862
More details at: https://ciglr.seas.umich.edu/event/10082026-tiantian-yang/

Accessibility: Closed captions are available at GoToWebinar during the talk.

Abstract: Reservoirs and lakes are fundamental and multi-functional water infrastructures that collect, store, and deliver surface freshwater for a multitude of uses, including flood and fire control, recreation, wildlife habitat, residential, industrial, agricultural practices, irrigation, hydro-electric power generation, drought mitigation, and more. In recent years, more frequent and severe abrupt weather extremes, natural hazards, aging infrastructure, and increased water demands due to population growth have placed another significant barrier preventing the effective, sustainable, and adaptive operation of the existing reservoir and lake systems. Therefore, new technologies and innovations are critically needed to improve the existing reservoir and lake operation and management of built water systems in our nation. In support of adaptive reservoir operation Dr. Tiantian Yang will present his current research on enhancing streamflow prediction at subseasonal-to-seasonal timescales by improving precipitation forecasts and hydrologic simulations through the integration of physical hydrologic models and physically-aware artificial intelligence and deep learning (AI/DL) tools. These hybrid models aim to retain the interpretability and physical consistency of traditional models while leveraging the pattern recognition and scalability of AI/DL.

Recordings: See this link: https://ciglr.seas.umich.edu/event/10082026-tiantian-yang/

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Environmental nucleic acids have expiration dates: multi-omic monitoring and when to trust It

Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Monster Seminar Jam

Presenter(s): Aden Ip, PhD, University of Washington

Sponsor(s): NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Seminar Contact(s): nwfsc.monsterjam@noaa.gov

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Abstract: N/A

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Integrating management-relevant research into the planning of dredge operations in Southeast Florida

Presenter(s): Xaymara Serrano, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office, Habitat Conservation Division and Erin Winslow, NOAA NMFS, Office of Habitat Conservation, Habitat Protection Division

Sponsor(s): NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program

Remote Access: https://meet.google.com/pgn-asvi-kgp

Seminar Contact(s): Caroline Donovan, caroline.donovan@noaa.gov

Accessibility: Closed captioning available through Google Meet platform

Abstract: Dredging operations and coastal development pose considerable threats to adjacent, already-stressed coral reef ecosystems. Fostering cross-line office collaboration within NOAA, alongside federal, state, academic, and NGO partners, has proven to be a valuable approach for delivering applied, management-relevant research. Over a decade of survey data shows urbanized reefs retain high conservation value, supporting millions of stony corals within 1.2 km of the Port Everglades channel, including ESA-listed staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis). Comparative studies across Port Miami and Port Everglades helped establish rapid dive survey methods for sediment deposition and benthic stress indicators to aid real-time decision-making. Coupled with photogrammetry, water quality monitoring, and laboratory turbidity experiments, these findings directly inform ESA Section 7 and EFH consultations in Southeast Florida, refining protective thresholds and improving conservation outcomes.

Recordings: Seminar recording will be available afterward, as requested.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: New Climate Normals Maps for Alaska and Adjacent Drainages in Canada
VAWS Webinar Series

Presenter(s): Dr. Christopher Daly, Director, PRISM Climate Group, Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Oregon State University

Sponsor(s): NOAA/OAR/Climate Program Office, Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA), and the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness (ACCAP)

Seminar Contact(s): Jessica Ramos, jaramos2@alaska.edu, Christi Buffington, cbuffington@alaska.edu

Remote Access:
Registration link: https://uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-webinar-prism-climate-products/

Accessibility: N/A

Abstract: In the late 1990s, the USDA NRCS collaborated with Oregon State University’s PRISM Climate Group to develop digital, state of the science precipitation and temperature maps for Alaska. This was a landmark project for several reasons. It resulted in the first update of official USDA climate maps since the 1960s. The products were reviewed by experts from Alaska and subsequently became the standard source of spatial climate data for the state. In 2009, with support from the National Park Service, PRISM climate products for Alaska were updated to the 1971-2000 normal period. They were updated to the 1981-2010 normal period in 2018, also sponsored by the National Park Service. Now, under funding from NOAA, the maps have been updated to the 1991-2020 normal period and extended into Canada to encompass upstream reaches of the Yukon River. This presentation will provide an overview of the dramatic spatial variations of climate in Alaska as depicted in the new maps and discuss the mapping process. Topics include acquiring and QC’ing the disparate array of station data, the peer review process, and modeling challenges in this remote and complex region.

Slides, Recordings, Other materials: Recording will be shared after the webinar with all who register

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Extreme temperature events in the NW Atlantic Shelf.

Presenter(s): Vincent Saba, NOAA NEFSC

Sponsor(s): U.S. Climate-Fisheries Seminar Series; coordinator is
Vincent.Saba@noaa.gov

Location: Webinar

Abstract: TBD

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Leveraging eDNA to inform salmon ecology in the Lake Washington basin

Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Monster Seminar Jam

Presenter(s): Carl Ostberg, PhD, Research Fish Biologist, Western Fisheries Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey

Sponsor(s): NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Seminar Contact(s): nwfsc.monsterjam@noaa.gov

Remote Access: Online: meet.google.com/wtc-ivfo-jzg
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Abstract: N/A

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Meet Me in the Middle: Humpback Whales Coordinate to Hunt Along the Seafloor

Series: National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series

Presenter(s): David Wiley, Ph.D., Research Ecologist, NOAA’s Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3800009401017767509

Sponsor(s): NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Seminar Contact(s): Claire.Fackler@noaa.gov

Abstract: Beneath the surface of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off Massachusetts, humpback whales work together to capture one of the region's smallest and most elusive fish. A newly published study led by scientists at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary provides the first direct documentation of humpback whales cooperatively hunting along the seafloor. The whales repeatedly approached one another in coordinated formations, corralling schools of northern sand lance before opening their mouths to capture the fish at nearly the same time. Join Dr. David Wiley to learn more about this research.

Accessibility: English captions will be provided for the recording.

Recording: The presentation will be recorded; once captioned it will be hosted on the archived webpage: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/webinar-series-archives.html.

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NOAA Science Seminar Series

Title: Using collaborative research to understand regional oceanographic influences on Northern shortfin squid distribution.

Presenter(s): Mary Kate Munley & Sarah Salois, NOAA NEFSC

Sponsor(s): U.S. Climate-Fisheries Seminar Series; coordinator is
Vincent.Saba@noaa.gov

Location: Webinar

Abstract: TBD

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