NARRAGANSETT, R.I., July 13, 2017鈥擨mportant research is going on at the 溏心vlog免费B站鈥檚 Graduate School of Oceanography, and students there are ready to explain it to you and answer your questions during free monthly talks.
鈥淭he Bay Informed Discussion Series鈥� kicked off last month with a talk about climate change in the ocean and its influence on Narragansett Bay and will continue July 20 to discuss the influence of a warming ocean and atmosphere in causing severe weather.
鈥淪torms on the Horizon: Climate Change and Weather鈥� by graduate students Nyla Husain and Victoria Treadaway will start at 7 p.m. in GSO鈥檚 Corless Auditorium, 215 South Ferry Road, Narragansett. No registration is required; parking is available.
鈥淕lobal warming is changing the way the ocean interacts with the atmosphere, causing stronger and more frequent severe weather across the globe,鈥� says Joe Langan, program coordinator and doctoral student at GSO. 鈥淭his seminar will describe how air-sea interactions affect marine weather by the transport of heat, momentum and gases at the ocean surface. We鈥檒l also focus on how storms affect the atmosphere鈥檚 chemistry.鈥�
Langan says the purpose of the monthly series is to inform the public about important environmental and scientific issues involving the ocean and spark an interest in getting involved locally and nationally.
鈥淚n the current media environment, we feel it鈥檚 important to communicate our science directly to the public and talk about some of the marine science issues in Rhode Island and across the globe,鈥� says Langan. 鈥淲e also want to get better communicating our science. We鈥檙e used to giving very technical presentations, but for the layperson they don鈥檛 make sense. This gives graduate students (at GSO) an opportunity to improve their science communication skills.鈥�
Nearly 100 people attended last month鈥檚 event. The students gave presentations and then took questions from the audience. 鈥淭he auditorium was filled,鈥� Langan says. 鈥淲e were happy with that, for sure.鈥�
The August talk will be about carbon in the ocean, and plans for the following months include topics such as oceanography at the North and South Poles and studying past climate to understand future climate change. Talks will be on the third Thursday of every month through the academic year.
For more information, email gsobayinformed@gmail.com or visit the organizers鈥� Facebook page.