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2020 STAR Seminars

This page lists past seminars and presentations by STAR scientists and visiting scientists. These seminars include the STAR Science Forum and similar events. Presentation materials for seminars will be provided when available.

All seminar times are given in Eastern Time

All 2020 Presentations

6 November 2020

Title: Development and Applications of Dense Optical Flow for New Generation Satellite Imagery
Presenter(s): Jason Apke, CIRA
Date & Time: 6 November 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only
Description:

16 September 2020

Title: Evidence of Abundant Aerosols Near Cloud Clusters that Developed Into Tropical Cyclones
Presenter(s): Dr. Chris Collimore, NOAA CESSRST/City College of New York
Date & Time: 16 September 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only
Description:

30 June 2020

Title: Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling during Monsoon Onset and Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Indian Ocean
Presenter(s): Heather L. Roman-Stork, Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina
Date & Time: 30 June 2020
11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only,
Description:

23 June 2020

Title: Stable machine-learning parameterization of subgrid processes for climate modeling at a range of resolutions
Presenter(s): Janni Yuval, MIT
Date & Time: 23 June 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only,
Description:

19 June 2020

Title: Recent advances in Land Surface Temperature (LST) retrieval and validation with in-situ measurements
Presenter(s): Frank-M. Gttsche, EUMETSAT's Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Date & Time: 19 June 2020
11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET
Location: via webinar only,
Description:

17 June 2020

Title: Rescheduled: Validation of the Polarimetric Radio Occultation and Heavy Precipitation (ROHP) data and Potential Application to Weather Modeling
Presenter(s): F. Joseph "Joe" Turk and Chi O. Ao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date & Time: 17 June 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Location: via webinar only
Description:

29 May 2020

Title: Improving NCEP’s Global-Scale Wave Ensemble Averages using Neural Networks: Results and Next Steps
Presenter(s): Ricardo Campos, Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering
Date & Time: 29 May 2020
11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only,
Description:

27 May 2020

Title: Earth System Modeling 2.0: Toward Data-Informed Climate Models With Quantified Uncertainties
Presenter(s): Tapio Schneider, Caltech and NASA/JPL
Date & Time: 27 May 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only,
Description:

22 May 2020

Title: CoastWatch Data Portal Demonstration
Presenter(s): Michael Soracco, NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch
Date & Time: 22 May 2020
11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only,
Description:

18 May 2020

Title: Using Deep Learning to Improve Prediction and Understanding of High-impact Weather
Presenter(s): Ryan Lagerquist, University of Oklahoma
Date & Time: 18 May 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only,
Description:

15 April 2020

Title: Towards Physically-Consistent, Data-Driven, and Interpretable Parametrizations of Convection
Presenter(s): Tom Beucler, UC Irvine and Columbia
Date & Time: 15 April 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only,
Description:

8 April 2020

Title: Special Seminar Series on AI: Understanding Key Components of the Atmospheric Science Machine Learning Pipeline
Presenter(s): David John Gagne, NCAR
Date & Time: 8 April 2020
11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only
Description:

1 April 2020

Title: Special Seminar Series on AI: Introduction to Machine Learning Applications for Numerical Weather Prediction Systems
Presenter(s): Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NWS/NCEP/EMC
Date & Time: 1 April 2020
11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only
Description:

25 March 2020

Title: Special Seminar Series on AI: History and Potential of Artificial Intelligence for the Environmental Sciences
Presenter(s): Philippe Tissot, Conrad Blucher Institute - Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Date & Time: 25 March 2020
11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location: Via webinar only
Description:

11 March 2020

Title: SeaHawk-1: The First Dedicated Ocean Color CubeSat Mission
Presenter(s): Dr. Sara Rivero-Calle, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Date & Time: 11 March 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar (see access below) or for NOAA College Park folks, NCWCP, Rm 3555,
Description:

19 February 2020

Title: Exploring Instrument Hosting Potentials from Emerging Internet Platforms
Presenter(s): Likun Wang, Riverside Technology, inc
Date & Time: 19 February 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Location: NCWCP - Large Conf Rm - 2552-2553
Description:

12 February 2020

Title: Using Ocean Color to Report on Sustainable Development Goal 14.1.1
Presenter(s): Emily Smail, CICESS/NOAA SOCD
Date & Time: 12 February 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET
Location: Via webinar (see access below) or for NOAA College Park folks, NCWCP, Rm 3555
Description: