Posterside Hangouts #3 Ecology and Environmental Science

Posterside Hangouts #3 Ecology and Environmental Science

Please join us for the next Posterside Hangouts (see http://goo.gl/64mGp9 for event post). We’ll be discussing: (a) global warming and severe thunderstorms (see below), (b) the use of mobile data and geo-statistics to examine air quality, and (c) disease outbreaks in aquaculture and its implications for food security.

Originally shared by Noah Diffenbaugh

Round-Up of New Paper on Global Warming and Severe Thunderstorms

Here is the round-up of the new paper that my colleagues Martin Scherer and Jeff Trapp have published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The peer-reviewed paper is available open-access here:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/09/18/1307758110.abstract

The story by Bjorn Carey of Stanford University News Service is here:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/climate-severe-thunderstorms-092313.html

Some news stories include:

The New York Times :

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/study-sees-a-higher-risk-of-storms-on-the-horizon.html

USA TODAY :

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/09/23/climate-change-global-warming-thunderstorms-tornadoes/2854979/

NBC News :

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/warming-planet-could-spawn-bigger-badder-thunderstorms-4B11234466

National Geographic :