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Yifei Fan from Penn State visits the lab

Oct. 3, 2023

Yifei Fan recently visited the Oceans and Climate Lab to share her latest work on SST trends in the subpolar North Atlantic.

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Welcome to two new postdocs in 2022!

March 24, 2022

The Oceans and Climate Lab is excited to welcome soon-to-be-Drs. Ulla Heede (Yale) and Will Rush (UC Santa Cruz) to the team in Fall 2022. Click to read more about their plans to continue tackling problems at the cutting edge of global climate research!

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Joint Yale-CU Postdoctoral Research Associate in Paleoclimate Modeling and Analysis

Oct. 15, 2021

Now accepting applications for a Joint Yale-CU Postdoctoral Research Associate in Paleoclimate Modeling and Analysis, funded in part by the NSF. Collaborators across Yale, CIRES, WHOI, NOAA and UCAR. Work with us to investigate the influence of ice sheets and ...

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What has the Oceans and Climate Lab been studying since 2016?

Jan. 13, 2021

A picture is worth a thousand words (or 50 papers).

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The Oceans and Climate Lab is thrilled to welcome Dr. Sara Sanchez!

May 4, 2020

Dr. Sara Sanchez joins the Oceans and Climate Lab at CU Boulder in Fall, 2020 as a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow for Diversity. Sara was most recently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joint Institute for the study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of ...

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Book published! Physical Oceanography and Climate, Cambridge University Press

May 1, 2020

Professor Karnauskas' textbook, Physical Oceanography and Climate, has been published by Cambridge University Press. "This engaging and accessible textbook focuses on climate dynamics from the perspective of the upper ocean, and specifically on the interaction ...

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OC Lab to host Prof. Chuan Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences for one year

Dec. 13, 2018

The Oceans and Climate Lab is excited to welcome Professor Chuan Gao in 2019! Dr. Gao is an Assistant Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao, China.

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Two OC Lab students publish first papers in 2018

Nov. 23, 2018

Congratulations to doctoral candidates Danielle Lemmon and Ryan Harp for publishing their first peer-reviewed articles in top climate science journals in 2018!

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Symposium on Climate and Health to be held on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus

Feb. 22, 2018

Join us for the 2018 Climate Change and Health Symposium, featuring speakers, a panel discussion, and poster session covering topics such as worker health, climate and infectious disease, climate change education, and research challenges.

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Published this week in Nature Geo. by ATOC team: Southward shift of global wind energy under high CO2 emissions

Dec. 14, 2017

In a warming world, harnessing more wind in coming decades could be critical for countries trying to meet emission reduction standards set by the Paris Climate Agreement.

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