Global change and rising pressure on the environment are having increasingly visible impacts on the sustainability of human activities. For example, heat waves seem to be more and more frequent. It is essential to be able to forecast the likely size and impact of these and other extreme events such as droughts and major windstorms if we are to adapt to them and attempt to mitigate their future effects. Continue reading
Category Archives: Climate Change
Workshop
MPE Summer School
The QRM Tutorial team offers a Summer School from August 21 to August 24 in Montreal as part of the thematic semester “Risk in Complex Systems”. It will take place in the room Beethoven at the CIRANO, 14th floor, 1130, … Continue reading
Long Term Program
Hazards inherent to complex interconnected systems can lead to disasters of epic proportions with untold environmental, economic and social consequences. The identification, quantification, prediction, control, and mitigation of risk factors is thus essential to ensure individual protection and system integrity while promoting sustainable development. Continue reading
Meeting
The theme is quantitative modeling for managing natural resources in an era of climate change.
Four keynote speakers (Hugh Possingham, Garciela Ana Canziani, Jim Cushing, and Shandelle M. Henson) will address the use of mathematical models to study biodiversity and the effects of climate change on various ecosystems and offer recommendations for managing them in a sustainable manner. Continue reading
Colloquium or Seminar
ERC NUMERIWAVES Seminar New analytical and numerical methods in wave propagation Tarmo SOOMERE, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, Institute of Cybernetics at TUT, Head of Wave Engineering Laboratory, Estonian Academy of Sciences CHANGING WAVE CLIMATE IN THE BALTIC … Continue reading
Meeting
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MPE Summer School
IIASA’s annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. From June through August accepted participants work within the … Continue reading
Curriculum Material
Tom Pfaff’s Sustainability Materials for Mathematics
Materials are available for mathematics courses (mostly Calculus I, Statistics, & Differential Equations) covering a variety of sustainability related topics. Tom Pfaff’s Sustainability Materials Sustainability Math Resources Website
Curriculum Material
NASA Exploring Climate Change Through Graphs, Rates and Slopes
SpaceMath@NASA in collaboration with Houghton-Mifflin has produced a multi-media module for seventh grade math students that covers climate change. The module includes a press release, NASA video, and a series of standards-based three math problems for student exploration of global … Continue reading
Curriculum Material
NASA Exploring Climate Change by Graphing Functions
SpaceMath@NASA in collaboration with Houghton-Mifflin has produced a multi-media module for sixth grade math students that covers climate change. The module includes a press release, NASA video, and a series of standards-based three math problems for student exploration of global … Continue reading
Curriculum Material
NASA SpaceMath – Problems in Earth Science
SpaceMath@NASA has created a number of individual math problems for grades 5-12 that feature Earth science themes. This webpage is the archive of these problems – each is given by its title, content, grade level and math skill, and consists … Continue reading
Curriculum Material
NASA Remote Sensing Math
With 103 problems designed for middle and high school students, this book covers many topics in remote sensing, satellite imaging, image analysis and interpretation. Examples are culled from NASA earth science and astronomy missions. Students learn about instrument resolution and … Continue reading
Curriculum Material
NASA Earth Math
With 46 problems tailored for grades 5-9, students explore the simple mathematics behind global climate change through analyzing graphical data, data from NASA satellites, and by performing simple calculations of carbon usage using home electric bills and national and international … Continue reading
Special Session
We all know something about waves; we’ve seen them in the sea and as ripples on a pond. We know that sound travels to our ears as a wave and that some properties of light can be explained by its … Continue reading
Public Lecture
Curriculum Material
MCRN Mathematics and Climate Annotated Reading Lists
MCRN Annotated reading lists: Each reading list is designed to provide an introductory guide to one area of climate science through its literature. They can be used for independent study, or as the foundation for upper division and graduate reading courses. … Continue reading
Curriculum Material
AMS-ASA-MAA-SIAM Math Awareness Month
April is Math Awareness Month in the US! Check out the essays, posters and related materials for 2013 and previous years‘ themes, including: 2013 – Mathematical and Sustainability 2011 – Unraveling Complex Systems 2009 – Mathematics and Climate 2008 – … Continue reading
Workshop
The aim of the conference is to bring together scientists from three areas as diverse as Earth Sciences of fluid phenomena, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and the Theory of Extreme Events for dynamical systems. Though they have historically common roots and … Continue reading
Long Term Program
Fields Institute program on the Mathematics of Oceans, that is to take place in the year 2013 as a part of the initiative for the Mathematics of Planet Earth.
There are three principal themes for this program:
(1) nonlinear ocean wave dynamics, including extreme wave dynamics such as rogue waves and tsunamis,
(2) oceanic circulation and ocean-atmosphere interaction, including global scale phenomena such as the meridional overturning circulation and currents such as the Gulf Stream, mesoscale processes described by quasi-geostrophic flows, as well as highly nonlinear submesoscale processes, including their role in the stability of the earth’s climate, and the impact of their variations; and
(3) wave interactions and turbulence, including statistical descriptions of ocean wave spectra and its role in predictions of sea state and weather. Continue reading