| November 30, 2023 | Cambridge University Press published a new book entitled "
Statistics and Data Visualization in Climate Science with R and Python."
The book is authored by Sam Shen, SDSU Distinguished Professor and C2S2 Co-Director, with Jerry North, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Atmospheric Science at Texas A & M University. The book is endorsed by the world top scientists in the field, such as PROFESSOR JOHN M. WALLACE, a member of the National
Academy of Science, and PROFESSOR ANA P. BARROS, a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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| August 31, 2023 | SDSU Climate Informatics Lab directed by C2S2 Co-Director Sam Shen receives a major NSF AI-Institute-Climate Science
research grant of $2.7M for four years.
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| July 31, 2023 | C2S2 faculty Trent Biggs is the lead PI of a major California Climate Action grant
of $1.9M for two years.
The research is on the rural heat islands: Mapping and mitigating farmworker exposure to heat stress.
The project is a collaboration between San Diego State University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California Cooperative Extension, and Lideres Campesinas.
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| December 9, 2022 | NOAA awards $60 million in education grants to Minority Serving Institutions for five years.
Grants will increase diversity in future STEM workforce. SDSU is part of this award, and participates in the
project entitled "Cooperative Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies
(CESSRST)
led by the City University of New York. The SDSU lead PI is Walter Oechel. This is the second funding cycle, called CESSRST-II. SDSU participated in the first CSSRST cycle in 2015-2021.
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| July 31, 2019 | Cambridge University Press publiushes a book authored by Sam Shen
Shen, S.S.P., and R.C.J. Somerville, 2019: Climate Mathematics: Theory and Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 391pp. The book website
www.climatemathematics.org has the R code, Python code,
datasets, all the figure files for the book, and other resources. This book has a distinct feature of
audience-book interaction: Every figure in the book can be reproduced by the provided
real climate data and Python or R code.
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| June 23, 2017 | Walter Oechel on the Paris Agreement with
SDSU NewsCenter :
“It is clear that we have to switch to greater energy efficiency, and to sustainable, renewable, energy sources.”
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| March 11, 2017 | C2S2 held a half-day centerwide retreat the Science Dean's conference room. The faculty shared the vision for
future collaborations among the C2S2 faculty, particularly cross departments. The pdf file of Co-Director Walt Oechel's presentations can be downloaded from
here
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| February 5, 2017 | C2S2 Co-Director Sam Shen leads the organization committee of the STATMOS-SIO Workshop on Argo Data Statistics
to be
held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), La Jolla/San Diego, California, April 25-27 (Tuesday-Thursday), 2017.
Argo is the world’s most comprehensive oceanic observation system for temperature, salinity, and currents at both surface and in deep oceans
since the early 2000s (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/). STATMOS (Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) is an NSF research network
that includes both SDSU and SIO.
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| September 29, 2016 | C2S2 Assistant Professor Donatella Zona was invited to publish a commentary on
Nature
on long-term effects of permafrost thaw: Nature 537, 625–626 (29 September 2016), doi:10.1038/537625a.
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| September 28, 2016 | C2S2 Co-Director Walter Oechel appeared on
KPBS news:
San Diego’s Forests Face Possible Extinction.
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| September 22, 2016 | San Diego State University becomes a new partner for the NOAA Cooperative Science Centers
under the NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP). SDSU joins the NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing and Technology Center (CREST), one of the four NOAA EPP centers.
The total grant award to CREST is $15.5 million for five years. SDSU budget is $1,143,750, plus sub-contracts for special projects. Walter Oechel is the PI for the
SDSU site of the NOAA CREST. NOAA EPP fellowships are available to train the STEM-major undergraduate and graduate students from the underrepresented minority groups for NOAA missions.
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| September 22, 2016 | San Diego State University joins the second NOAA Cooperative Science Center:
NOAA Center for for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS).
SDSU is one of the 13 NCAS partner institutions. The NCAS award is also $15.5 million for five years, renewable for another five years.
The SDSU budget will be based on sub-contracts for special projects. The SDSU site PI is Sam Shen. NOAA EPP fellowships are available to train the STEM-major undergraduate and graduate students from the underrepresented minority groups for NOAA missions.
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| December 21, 2015 | The Washington Post
reported an
international team's research led by
Donatella Zona and Walter Oechel: Scientists say we could be underestimating Arctic methane emissions
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| November 1, 2015 | San Diego State University has become a formal member of
the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
In his letter of October 26, 2015, UCAR Interim President Michael Thompson notified SDSU President Elliot Hirshman that "the UCAR members at their annual meeting in Boulder on Ocotber 14, 2015 elected San Diego
State University to membership in UCAR." C2S2 is SDSU's main academic unit for UCAR business. SDSU's UCAR member representatives are Samuel Shen and Walter Oechel.
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| October 15, 2014 | Science Daily Featured Research: Weather History Time Machine Created |
| July 13, 2014 | San Diego homes 48 of World's Top Scientists |
| July 9, 2014 | Walter Oechel: a World’s Most Influential Scientific Mind |
| March 3, 2014 | Ghosts of Climate Past |
| February 26, 2014 | Matthew Lauer: Fishing for Answers |
| January 27, 2014 | Sam Shen to Present 24th Albert W. Johnson Research Lecture |
| January 8, 2014 | Sam Shen: Scaling Mountains, Then Moving Them |
| July 19, 2013 | SDSU Contributes to Sustainability in China |
| May 10, 2013 | C2S2 Selected as an SDSU Area of Excellence |
| September 20, 2012 | To the Arctic and Beyond |
