Events
April 2021
MEAS Department Seminar
Speaker- Rachel Foster, Stockholm University (hosted by R. Paerl) Seminar Title- It takes two to tango in the open sea: the ecology and activity of diatom-diazotroph symbioses Bio - After earning a B.S. in Biology with a focus on Marine and Freshwater Biology from the University of New Hampshire, USA, Dr. Rachel A. Foster spent several years exploring the California coast prior to volunteering on her first oceanographic research cruise to the Western Tropical North Atlantic. It was an experience that set…
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Speaker - Lian Xie, MEAS - Marine Science (host- E. Hyland) Seminar Title - Forecasting Atlantic hurricane activities from a season to a year in advance: the magical power and the limitations of Machine Learning Abstract - Two approaches of Machine Learning (ML) applications in pre-season Atlantic hurricane predictions are explored using historical hurricane and climate data from 1950-2019. In one approach, ML is used to optimize the ensemble forecasts based on a group of nine multivariate linear regression models. The other approach is to directly…
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