Written by: Kaitlyn Nichols, Ian Campbell, and Maren Hale June 12, 2024, was the culmination of a year of hard work for the most recent cohort of students in the Masters of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Climate Science and Policy (CSP) program. Students gathered at Scripps Seaside Forum with their colleagues, friends, and families to present on their capstone research … Read More
GeoPaths Scholar Daniel Self Reflects on His Research and His Experience in the Heat Hub
Written by: Daniel Self This past spring, I had the pleasure of being selected for the GeoPaths Internship program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. I was matched with mentors Rachel Clemesha and Kristen Guirguis at the Southern California Heat Hub for a research project that culminated in a scientific poster presentation at the Mesa College Research Conference. This was my … Read More
Dr. Kristen Guirguis Publishes New Research on Prediction of Winter Extreme Weather Events
Written by: Maren Hale Hub researcher Kristen Guirguis, along with hub researchers Sasha Gershunov, Rachel Clemesha, and other colleagues, recently published a paper outlining a method for predicting extreme winter weather events in California at a subseasonal scale. The paper, titled “Subseasonal Prediction of Impactful California Winter Weather in a Hybrid Dynamical-Statistical Framework” describes a modeling approach in which historical … Read More
SoCal Heat Hub Launches Weather Stations Education Project
Written by Nicole Fassina and Maren Hale Our education and research teams have been working together since early this summer on an exciting Hub sub-project to bring data science opportunities to schools through weather station installations. We hope to provide weather stations to various schools across San Diego County over the next several years, and co-design uses of weather data … Read More
Dr. Rachel Clemesha Publishes First Hub-Associated Research Article on California’s Coastal Low Clouds and the North American Monsoon
Written by: Maren Hale Hub researcher Dr. Rachel Clemesha, along with colleagues including Hub researcher Dr. Sasha Gershunov, recently published a new article entitled “North American Monsoon Impacts Southern California’s Coastal Low Clouds” in the June 28th issue of Geophysical Research Letters. This article represents the first published work as part of the CoPe SoCal Heat Hub. The paper describes … Read More