November 13, 2024
Several lab members attended and presented at the 2024 Rutgers Climate Symposium.
November 3-5, 2024
Megan, Tyler and Sofia attend the NASEC conference and present their work!
Tyler’s reflection on the experience: During my time at the Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference I had the opportunity to hear from a variety of speakers from NOAA and NASA about weather prediction, the tools used for gathering data on extreme storms, and the state of the climate. Through this conference I was able to meet with other environmentally focused students and engage in discussions with them. I also had the opportunity to share my research with those attending and engage in discussions about our own personal work.
September 10, 2024
Lab bonding at North Bowl in Philadelphia! Enjoyed Taco Tuesday and even had a couple strikes.
August, 2024
In August of 2024, Grace had the opportunity to travel to Alaska and experience what living on a research vessel was like through a program called STEMSEAS. She was abord R/V Sikuliaq for 6 nights and 7 days, traveling from Seward to Nome. Not only did she get a glimpse of the scientific operations that would occur on a real cruise but also got a tour of the machinery rooms that kept the vessel running. Despite some intense seasickness, Grace was able to get a firsthand experience of what science at sea looks like.
July 19, 2024
Emma presented her research at the Earth Educator’s Rendezvous hosted at Temple University.
July 10, 2024
James leads a talk at GFDL. He and Dr. Beadling run into Anna and Sofia.
June, 2024
Anna and Sofia (fellow owl) began their internship at GFDL.
May 9, 2024
Several members of the OCC Lab graduated with their Bachelors of Science from Temple!
May 8, 2024
Lab award ceremony for graduating members and their families. Featuring awesome t-shirts!
April 26, 2024
Several members attended the EES Spring barbeque and even got some EES shirts!
March 13, 2024
The lab celebrates Will’s admittance and successful visit to Ohio University for his PHD! Will brought us all back t-shirts!
February 18-23, 2024
Dr. Beadling and James present their work on ocean circulation and sea level at the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans.
January 28 – February 1, 2024
Will presents his research at the 2024 American Meteorological Society conference in Baltimore, MD.
November 15, 2023
Several members of the lab attended and presented alongside Dr. Beadling at the 2023 Rutgers Climate Symposium!
August 1st, 2023
James Milward, M.S. student, just returned from a successful completion of Climatematch Academy’s Computational Tools for Climate Science course! Read below for details on his experience:
Attending the first ever Climate Match Academy was a great experience that I am honored to have been a part of. The team behind CMA developed an extensive series of tutorials that offered insight into various sub-fields of climate science. The tutorials utilized Python to introduce data analysis methods used within those fields. Students were broken up into smaller working groups, or “pods”, and worked through the coding tutorials in a peer-programming fashion.
Throughout the week, each pod developed a group project which allowed us to explore our own research interests, practice the techniques we learned in the tutorials, and present the project to other groups on the final day. The CMA team was actively communicating with all of the students in a group Discord chat where they offered advice on technical issues, scientific and programming questions, and provided resources for academic and career development.
The materials presented in the tutorials contain quality, detailed explanations for performing high level analyses of all kinds. It was clear that the organizers, keynote speakers, career panelists and everyone else involved with the course were both passionate and highly skilled within their fields. I would recommend anyone interested in learning about climate science – particularly those interested in programming – to apply for the course and clear your schedule for two weeks!
December 15, 2022
Jordan MacIsaac, a senior from Purdue University who worked with Dr. Beadling as a 2022 William M. Lapenta Intern at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) presented her work at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Annual Meeting in Chicago! Jordan and Dr. Beadling investigated the changes in sea level induced from changes in the density structure of the ocean as a result of the melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Great work Jordan – this was an exciting project to work on together and I am excited for us to move this forward !
December 5, 2022
Dr. Beadling was selected to serve on the World Climate Research Programme’s Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 7 (CMIP7) Model Benchmarking Task team! Read more here: https://wcrp-cmip.org/cmip7-task-teams/model-benchmarking/.
“The aim of the Model Benchmarking TT is to provide a systematic and rapid performance assessment of the expected models participating in CMIP7 with a set of new and informative diagnostics and performance metrics, ideally along with the model output and documentation.
The goal is to fully integrate the evaluation tools into the CMIP publication workflow, and their diagnostic outputs published alongside the model output on the ESGF, ideally displayed through an easily accessible website.
Main objective: to pave the way for enhancing existing community evaluation tools that facilitate the systematic and rapid performance assessment of models while addressing new challenges such as higher resolution, unstructured grids, and enhanced complexity, and creating a framework in which these tools are applied optimally and their diagnostics output published alongside the CMIP7 model output.”
https://wcrp-cmip.org/cmip7-task-teams/model-benchmarking/
August 31, 2022
“2021 was an exceptionally turbulent year in the Southern Ocean and continued monitoring is vital to decipher whether the anomalies we observed are a harbinger of a changing ocean state as the climate warms.“
The 2021 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) State of the Climate report was released! the BAMS State of the Climate Report is a peer-reviewed international publication released each year to provide a comprehensive summary of the global climate system for the previous calendar year. Dr. Becki Beadling served as lead author for the Southern Ocean section for the Antarctica and the Southern Ocean chapter for this years report.
The Southern Ocean is a vast sink for the excess heat and carbon trapped on our planet, yet its dynamics are changing. Exactly how this region responds as greenhouse gas concentrations rise is central to understanding the trajectory of our climate system. 2021 proved to be turbulent year for the Southern Ocean, with enhanced ocean mixing to near-record-breaking depths, stronger ocean currents, high levels of biological productivity, and a continued uptake of heat from the atmosphere. We need to continue to monitor these properties as they may be a harbinger of a changing ocean state.
Click here for a nice write up about the report that was featured in Temple’s News!
August 1st, 2022
Dr. Rebecca (Becki) Beadling is officially a Temple Owl and has started as an Assistant Professor in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Temple University! I will be looking for motivated students and postdocs in the coming months – please see the Opportunities tab at the top of the website for information!