Mearns Symposium

Agenda Track

Agenda for Mearns Symposium

A Symposium Sponsored by NSF NCAR and UCAR to Celebrate Dr. Linda Mearn’s Contributions and her Appointment as NSF NCAR Distinguished Scholar

Mesa Lab Auditorium and Hybrid

9:30 Coffee, Tea – Mesa Lab Mezzanine
10:00 Welcome – Moderator: Sue Ellen Haupt | Everette Joseph – NSF NCAR Director

10:15 Filippo Giorgi - The Early Days of Regional Modeling and the Dynamic Duo
10:45 Bill Easterling - Crossing Scales: My Forty Year Friendship and Collaboration with Linda Mearns
11:15 Bill Gutowski - Elevating the Regional Modeling Community: A Legacy of Linda Mearns
11:45 Ruby Leung - Earth System Modeling for Actionable Science
12:15 Lunch – Mesa Lab Café – on your own

1:15 Diana Liverman - Learning, Living and Laughing with Linda as a Graduate Student and After: UCLA and NCAR in the 1980s
1:35 Cynthia Rosenzweig - The Variability of Variability - Notes from the Front Lines with Linda Mearns
1:55 Amanda Lynch - Decisions under Irreducible Uncertainty and Other Things Linda Tried to Teach Me
2:25 Hayley Fowler - My journey through downscaling with Linda Mearns: from uncertainty
to transdisciplinary approaches
2:45 Break
3:00 Presentation of Distinguished Scholar Award - Everette Joseph, NSF NCAR Director

3:00 Seminar – Dr. Linda Mearns - Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: Towards an Integrated Approach
4:00 Tributes: Moderator: Barbara Brown
5:00 Distinguished Scholar Reception - All Welcome – Mesa Lab Cafe

10:00 Robert Lempert – Is Reduce What we Should Aspire to Do with Uncertainty?
10:30 Melissa Bukovsky - Process-Informed Determination of Credibility Across Different Downscaling Methods
11:00 Jennifer Jacobs - The Road Less Traveled: Partnering with Linda Mearns to DevelopvTransportation Resilience to a Changing Climate
11:20 Claudia Tebaldi - Multi-model Ensembles, Uncertainty Cascades, and Interdisciplinary Work: It all Started with Linda
11:40 Seth McGinnis and Rachel McCrary - Not Where We Expected to Go: Journeys of Discovery Led by Linda Mearns
12:10 Lunch – Mesa Lab Café – on your own

1:15 Joel Smith - Benefit of Hindsight: How Our Projections from the Late '80s/Early '90s for Future Climate Change Impacts Fared: What Did We Get Right; What did We Get Wrong, and What did We Miss?
1:35 Stefan Rahimi - An Early-Career Perception of how Linda Mearns helped shape the Great Relay Race to improve Regional Downscaling
1:55 Barbara Brown - Women in Atmospheric Sciences and Statistical Applications to Climate
2:15 Additional Tributes
2:45 Ending Sentiments - Linda Mearns
3:00 Adjourn