Events
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WRAL chief meteorologist Greg Fishel and renowned hurricane specialist Kerry Emmanuel hosted a presentation on the future of hurricanes in North Carolina last night. The town hall presentation has been recorded and is available at https://www.wral.com/news/video/14586628/#47gpHetXx8OqUdW8.99. Note that the full presentation is almost two hours long.
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Last week I attended the Waste to Worth conference in Seattle, a meeting filled with useful information on a variety of topics related to managing livestock and animal waste under expanding regulations and increasingly variable climate. Our sister blog posted an entry on some of the things that were being discussed at the W2W meeting.…
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If you live in any of the counties below in northeast Georgia, your help is needed for a University of Georgia study on wind and wind-related damage. Participation is easy–use your computer to fill out a 20-30 minute survey on wind damage in your area and your opinions of several severe weather conditions. In return…
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The Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop presentations from last week’s meeting in New Mexico are now available as PDF files online. You can see the agenda and link to the presentations at https://aces.nmsu.edu/cpasw/presentations.html. If there is not a PDF available it is because the author did not want it published. Lots of good information there on…
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The Waste to Worth conference begins today in Seattle. I’m expecting to see a good group of people interacting on a variety of topics related to animal agriculture and waste management. There will also be a track on livestock and climate at the conference. I’ll be there all week and hope to share some insights…
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Each year on March 23, the World Meteorological Organization, along with its 191 members — including the National Weather Service — and the worldwide meteorological community, celebrates World Meteorological Day. This day commemorates the formation of the WMO. This year’s theme is “Climate knowledge for climate action,” highlighting both recent advances in climate science and…
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Clint Thompson of the University of Georgia released a report today on damage to early blueberry varieties in Georgia which was published in Growing Georgia here. Very cold temperatures contributed to damage in some areas that could total up to 50 percent of some varieties. Producers used frost protection in the form of overhead sprinklers to…