From eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu Wed Jul 1 09:37:44 2020 From: eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu (eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 13:37:44 +0000 Subject: [Eoas-seminar] Reminder: Oceanography Thesis Defense - Carrie O'Reilly - July 1, 11am - Zoom Message-ID: Title - The Taylor Energy Oil Spill: Implications for Marine Oil Spill Science and Policy Major Professor: Ian MacDonald Zoom Meeting Zoom link - https://fsu.zoom.us/j/96130867237 Meeting ID 96130867237 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu Mon Jul 6 16:44:13 2020 From: eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu (eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 16:44:13 -0400 Subject: [Eoas-seminar] Request for speaker suggestions Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The survey about having an online Colloquium series in the fall came out in favor of having an online seminar series this Fall over one not having one. Please send your suggestions for speakers to the colloquium committee, including myself, Zhaohua Wu and Jeremy Owens. This is a good chance to bring in people from further afield than we can usually accommodate with our budget, e.g. international speakers.? Also, to increase the diversity of our speakers we are also willing to consider postdoc speakers for this semester.? This is also a good chance to invite people who might have travel constraints (e.g. medical, family) that might otherwise prevent them from coming here in person. Thanks, Amy -- Amy Baco-Taylor, PhD Associate Professor Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Florida State University (850) 645-1547 abacotaylor at fsu.edu NOTE new mailing address: EOAS Building 1011 Academic Way Tallahassee, FL 32306 From eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu Tue Jul 7 13:21:46 2020 From: eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu (eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 17:21:46 +0000 Subject: [Eoas-seminar] Oceanography Thesis Defense - Ryan Schubert - July 13, 1:00p - Zoom Message-ID: Title: The Antarctic Coastal Current in the Bellingshausen Sea Major Professor: Kevin Speer Zoom Meeting https://fsu.zoom.us/j/94013023437 Meeting ID: 940 1302 3437 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu Wed Jul 8 12:50:24 2020 From: eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu (eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 16:50:24 +0000 Subject: [Eoas-seminar] FW: StormGeo / Open Positions In-Reply-To: <0236C4E4-0434-43C1-B20A-DB76DC46FC7A@stormgeo.com> References: <0236C4E4-0434-43C1-B20A-DB76DC46FC7A@stormgeo.com> Message-ID: Please see the email below and the attachements about employment opportunities with Geo Storm. If you know of alumni that would be interested in these positions please forward the information on to them. Thank you, Shel From: Henk Grouls Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 11:46 AM To: Shel McGuire Subject: StormGeo / Open Positions Shel, Thank you for reaching out. As I mentioned in last week?s voicemail StormGeo has a few open positions. Attached are two positions we have open for our StormGeo, Inc. (Houston) office. Here is the link to our career site, there you will see the two positions ([1] Industry Manager ? Sales Support, and [2] Sales Support / Junior Industry Manager). Please can you distribute this to your Alumni network. In case you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Henk Henk Grouls Managing Director StormGeo, Inc. VP Cross-Industry & Renewables, StormGeo AS; stormgeo.com +1.713.705.3033 (m) | henk.grouls at stormgeo.com 12650 N. Featherwood Dr., #140, Houston, TX 77034 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sales Support - Junior Industry Manager - SG Houston.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 148308 bytes Desc: Sales Support - Junior Industry Manager - SG Houston.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu Sun Jul 12 16:21:53 2020 From: eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu (eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:21:53 -0400 Subject: [Eoas-seminar] Maggie Vogel Ph.D. defense Monday July 13th at 1:00 EDT Message-ID: Olivia Mason and I are very pleased to announce that Maggie Vogel will be defending her Ph.D. dissertation titled ?Determinants of microbial community composition and diversity in the phyllosphere of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum? on Monday July 13th at 1:00 EDT.? Maggie has spent the last few years applying her love of microbiology to understanding the communities found on the leaf surfaces of turtle grass, an ecological and economically critical coastal marine plant.? Her research includes observation studies, reciprocal transplants in the field, and a large tank study to determine how the microbial community varies with environmental conditions of the plant. We will run this in the new ?covid19 fashion?.? You may sign onto the link below anytime after 12:30 pm on Monday and I will let people in from the waiting room.? We ask that you turn off your video and mute your microphone during her talk.? At any time during the talk, you are encouraged to write questions for Maggie in the chat function in zoom ? I will sort through these and ask her questions at the end of her talk.? If you want to ask a question yourself at the end of her talk, just turn on your video and microphone and get our attention. Hope you are all safe and well and look forward to ?seeing? you on Monday. Tom Miller & Olivia Mason _____________________________ Thomas Miller is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Vogel Defense Time: Jul 13, 2020 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://fsu.zoom.us/j/95736982910 Meeting ID: 957 3698 2910 One tap mobile +13126266799,,95736982910# US (Chicago) +16465588656,,95736982910# US (New York) Dial by your location ??????? +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) ??????? +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) ??????? +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) ??????? +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) ??????? +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) ??????? +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 957 3698 2910 Find your local number: https://fsu.zoom.us/u/aeodIWoly -- Olivia U. Mason Associate Professor Florida State University Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science 1011 Academic Way Tallahassee, Fl 32306-4320 Email: omason at fsu.edu Office Phone: 850-645-1725 Fax: 850-644-2581 From eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu Fri Jul 24 13:42:36 2020 From: eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu (eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:42:36 +0000 Subject: [Eoas-seminar] Geology Dissertation Defense - Nawwaf Almuntshry - Aug 4, 2p - zoom meeting Message-ID: Nawwaf Almuntshry - Aug 4, 2pm Title: Structural Evolution of the Mulberry Recess Eastern Blue Ridge-Talladega: Northwest Georgia Appalachians Major Professor: Jim Tull Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 952 6230 8300 https://fsu.zoom.us/meeting/95262308300 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu Mon Jul 27 13:12:13 2020 From: eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu (eoas-seminar at lists.fsu.edu) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:12:13 +0000 Subject: [Eoas-seminar] Meteorology MS Defense for Frederick Soster, Tuesday, August 11, 2020, 3:00 PM, on Zoom 99506435144 Message-ID: Meteorology Seminar Frederick Soster M. S. Meteorology Candidate Title: EVALUATING FRONTAL PRECIPITATION CONSISTENCY WITHIN REANALYSIS DATASETS Major Professor: Dr. Rhys Parfitt Date: August 11th, 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Zoom Meeting URL: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/99506435144 ABSTRACT Precipitation from atmospheric fronts accounts for a significant portion of the total precipitation in the mid-latitudes, with some locations receiving the majority of their precipitation from atmospheric fronts. In addition, a significant proportion of extreme precipitation events coincide with a frontal passage in the mid-latitudes, and some of these events lead to extreme flooding which can have important and costly socio-economic consequences. Climatological studies regarding both atmospheric fronts and precipitation frequently use global reanalysis datasets due to their cohesive record of many atmospheric variables over a temporal range of generally 40 years or longer. Differences between these reanalyses regarding observations assimilated, atmospheric model used, and grid size contribute to differences in regional precipitation accumulations and the structure and frequency of identified atmospheric fronts. It is therefore important to understand how frontal precipitation is represented in global reanalysis datasets. As much of the literature on atmospheric fronts and frontal precipitation are limited to the use of a single global reanalysis or regional model, this thesis seeks to investigate the consistency among frontal identification and frontal precipitation within multiple reanalyses. The following reanalyses were used based on data availability, spatial and temporal resolution, and use within the literature: ERA-20C, ERA-40, ERA-Interim, ERA5, JRA-55, MERRA-2, NCEP-CFSR, and NOAA20C V2C. Two satellite precipitation products, CMORPH and TRMM, were also used for comparison of frontal precipitation with ERA5, as these three datasets shared the same grid and grid spacing. There are numerous methods to identify atmospheric fronts that rely on different parameters involving temperature and/or wind. While different front diagnostics give similar results geographically in terms of frequency and structure, each diagnostic has its own strengths and weaknesses. As the choice of front diagnostic has been shown to result in differences frontal frequency when using the same reanalysis, two different front diagnostics are used. Results show that reanalyses with a finer grid spacing (i.e. less than 0.5o x 0.5o) contain a 200% increase in globally averaged mean annual frontal frequency for one diagnostic and a 450% increase in globally averaged mean annual frontal frequency for the other diagnostic compared to reanalyses with coarse grid spacing (i.e. 2.0o x 2.0o). Results also show that reanalyses with a finer grid spacing see a 150% increase in globally averaged mean annual frontal precipitation proportion for one diagnostic and a 460% increase in globally averaged mean annual frontal precipitation proportion compared to coarser grid-spaced reanalyses. The largest differences between reanalyses in both frontal frequency and frontal precipitation proportion exist in the tropics for both diagnostics. Differences between reanalyses regarding both frontal frequency and frontal precipitation proportion are indicated to be strongly related to the differing grid spacings of each reanalysis. To account for differing grid spacings, the reanalyses and satellite precipitation products are regridded to the same coarser grid spacing, and both diagnostics and their frontal precipitation are recalculated on this grid to attribute differences in both frontal frequency and frontal precipitation to either differing grid spacings between reanalyses or differences inherent to reanalyses. The regridded reanalyses have much more consistency regarding both frontal frequency and frontal precipitation proportion. Globally, 30% of the difference in the means of mean annual frontal frequency of all eight reanalyses is attributed to grid size for one diagnostic, while 59% of the difference is attributed to grid size for the other diagnostic. Allocation of frontal precipitation closely follows the frequency of identified fronts. Globally, 28% of the difference in the means of mean annual frontal precipitation proportion of all eight reanalyses is attributed to grid size for one diagnostic while 61% of the difference is attributed to grid size for the other diagnostic. Both diagnostics show that the percent difference in frontal frequency and frontal precipitation proportion is highly dependent on geographical area. Objective frontal identification and frontal precipitation proportion is highly dependent on the choice of diagnostic, the region under consideration, the grid spacing of the reanalysis, and the reanalysis or reanalyses used. These results strongly suggest that research regarding both frontal identification and frontal precipitation should use more than one reanalysis. 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