Baton Rouge, La. – The SU Ag Center’s Air,
Nutrient, Soil, Water, Ecosystem, and Remote Sensing (SU-ANSWERS) Institute will
host a two-day Educational Global Climate Modeling (EdGCM) Workshop on October
15-16, 2019.
The workshop will be held in the GIS
Laboratory, room 390, of the P.B.S. Pinchback Engineering Building on the
campus of Southern University. The October 15 session will begin at 1 p.m., and
the October 16 session will begin at 9:30 a.m.
EdGCM is a software suite that allows
users to run a fully functional 3D Global Climate Model (GCM) on laptops or
desktop computers. The Global Climate Model was developed by NASA and has been
used in research projects by scientists worldwide to study climates of the
past, present, and future. EdGCM provides a user-friendly interface, as well as
a database and scientific visualization tools that make it possible for
educators and students to access some of NASA’s most advanced climate modeling
capabilities.
The aim of this workshop is to equip
students and educators with a scientific model to predict climate change and
assess the impacts of changing climates.
The workshop is free and open to the
public. For registration information, contact Zhu Ning, Ph.D., Director of the
SU-ANSWERS Institute and Endowed Professor in the SU College of Agricultural,
Family and Consumer Sciences, at zhu_ning@subr.edu
or by calling 225-771-6292.
The EdGCM Workshop is funded by a USDA’s National
Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Capacity Building Grants titled, “A
Modeling Approach to Climate Change and Natural Resource Education.” EdGCM is
the creation and intellectual property of Columbia University and NASA.
The mission of the SU-ANSWERS Institute is
to promote natural and biological resources conservation through research,
education, and service to communities both in urban and rural settings. For
additional information about the SU-ANSWERS Institute click here.
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies
(GISS) and Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research are
co-sponsors of this event.
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