Symposium

Extreme Events under Climate Change

The annual BASC Symposium took place on March 6 and 7, 2025. This year's theme was “Extreme Events under Climate Change.”

Thursday, March 6

3:45pm-5:00pm Quantifying causes and consequences of historical changes in extreme climate conditions - Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University

Friday, March 7

9:00am-9:15am Introduction - Kristie Boering, BASC Director

9:15am-10:15am Historical Perspective on Recent Extreme Precipitation Events With a Focus on Helene - Kenneth Kunkel, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies

10:15am-11:15am Morning poster session

11:15am-12:15pm A global discrepancy in near surface humidity trends between Earth System Models and observations - Isla Simpson, NCAR

1:30pm-2:30pm Understanding the climatology of extremely high daily temperatures, and their sensitivity to global warming - Lucas Vargas Zeppetello, UC Berkeley

2:30pm-3:30pm Afternoon poster session

3:30pm-4:30pm Extreme value statistics in hydrometeorology: challenges and research directions - Enrico Zorzetto, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Going with the flow: AI/ML in Atmospheric Science

The annual BASC Symposium will take place on March 7 and 8, 2024. This year, the theme is “Going with the flow: AI/ML in Atmospheric Science”

Thursday, March 7

3:45pm-5:00pm Machine learning in climate science, from emulation to discoveries - Pierre Gentine, Columbia University

Friday, March 8

9:00am-9:15am Introduction - Kristie Boering, BASC Director

9:15am-10:15am Machine Learning for Earth System Prediction and Predictability - Maria Molina, University of Maryland

10:15am-11:15am Morning poster session

11:15am-12:15pm Accelerating climate science with machine learning: Earth system emulation - Duncan Watson-Parris, UC San Diego

1:30pm-2:30pm From hydroclimate academic research to large-scale geospatial ML at Google X - Ali Ahmadalipour, Google X

2:30pm-3:30pm Afternoon poster session

3:30pm-4:30pm Towards kilometer-scale digital twins for weather and climate prediction - Karthik Kashinath, Nvidia

Atmospheric science, Climate science and Environmental justice

The first in-person BASC Symposium to be held since 2020 will take place on February 23 and 24, 2023. This year, the symposium is featuring invited speakers who work at the intersection of atmospheric science, climate science and environmental justice.

Thursday, February 23, 2023

3:45-5:00 Observing air pollution inequality in U.S. cities from space - Sally Pusede, University of Virginia

Friday, February 24, 2023

8:50-9:00 Welcome and introduction Kristie Boering, BASC Director

9:00-10:00 Utilizing spatiotemporal data for climate-related health studies: Hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, wildfires, anomalous temperatures, and air pollution - Robbie Parks, Columbia University

10:00-11:00 Morning poster session

11:00-12:00 Atmospheric science in action: Student and postdoc perspectives on community engaged research James Butler, Yi Ji, Libby Koolik, Jennifer Ofodile, Rebecca Sugrue, UC Berkeley Moderators: Tina Chow and Josh Apte, UC Berkeley

1:15-2:15 Afternoon poster session

2:15-3:15 Can air quality regulatory policy achieve environmental justice? A policymaker’s perspective - John Balmes, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco

3:15-4:00 Closing discussion: Resources and next steps - where do we go from here? - Josh Apte and Tina Chow, UC Berkeley

BASC 2020 Symposium

• All models are wrong, some are useful (what came next is most important for climate modeling) - Ken Carslaw, University of Leeds
• Valuing the climate - Solomon Hsiang, UC Berkeley
• Trends in wildfires and agricultural fires: Implications for climate and air quality - Loretta Mickley, Harvard University
• Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in urban and rural environments: Overload or limitation - Pamela Templer, Boston University
• Spectral analysis of a time series: from additive perspective to multiplicative perspective - Zhaohua Wu, Florida State

BASC 2019 Symposium

• Land hydrology and energy controls on tropical rainfall - Benjamin Lintner, Rutgers University
• Land hydrology and energy controls on tropical rainfall - William Boos, UC Berkeley
• What do East Asian speleothem records tell us about past climate changes? - Kathleen Johnson, UC Irvine
• Jung-Eun Lee(Brown University) What do East Asian speleothem records tell us about past climate changes? - Jung-Eun Lee, Brown University
• Land use and water - Paolo D'Odorico, UC Berkeley
• Land use and water - Abigail Swann, University of Washington
• Monitoring carbon dioxide - Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Monitoring carbon dioxide - Ronald Cohen, UC Berkeley