NOAA scientists to speak on climate change in the Arctic and Great Lakes at AGU

NOAA scientists will participate in press conferences to highlight how communities near and far are affected by climate change at the upcoming American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago. NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. will kick off the press conference to unveil the 2022 Arctic Report Card and NOAA scientists will discuss impacts of climate change on the Great Lakes. A NOAA scientist will also join a media roundtable on how the world’s biggest solar telescope will help improve space weather prediction and other observations.

Monday, Dec. 12, 10 a.m. CST: The uncertain future of the Great Lakes. The cross-agency panel will include Lauren Fry, Ph.D., physical scientist, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory; Alexander VanDeWeghe, researcher, University of Michigan; Yi Hong, Ph.D., research scholar, NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research at the University of Michigan; and Riley Balikian, assistant research scientist, Illinois State Geological Survey. 
Tuesday, Dec. 13, at 10 a.m. CST: NOAA 2022 Arctic Report Card. NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, PhD., will headline a panel of experts to present the 2022 Arctic Report Card. The panel includes Matthew Druckenmiller, Ph.D., research scientist, National Snow & Ice Data Center, lead editor of the Arctic Report Card; Karen Frey, Ph.D., Clark University, and lead author of Arctic plankton blooms chapter; John Walsh, Ph.D., chief scientist, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, and lead author of precipitation chapter; and Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer, director of Climate Initiatives for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and author of chapter on how rapid environmental Arctic change affects people.
Tuesday, Dec. 13, 1 p.m. CST: World’s biggest solar telescope to examine upcoming eclipses, help improve space weather prediction and more. Elsayed Talaat, Ph.D., director of the Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service will be part of the media roundtable discussion about the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, completed in 2021. Other panelists are Carrie Black, Ph.D., program director of the National Solar Observatory and the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope; and Nicholeen Viall, Ph.D., research astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 

AGU is free offsite linkfor all journalists who attend in person or virtually. 

Reporters attending in person and remotely will have access to all press conferences and roundtables, but must register in advance for the AGU Fall meeting. To register, go to the Fall Meeting Press Center offsite link and click on the “Register” button within the giant orange “Press Registration” square to start the registration process. Media will be prompted to login to their existing AGU account, or create a new AGU account, before registering.

Remote reporters will then be able to access press events in real-time through the online meeting platform from the AGU Fall Meeting website offsite link, by clicking the purple ATTEND button at the time of the press conference. They will need the email and password they created during press registration.  

Press events will be held at the McCormick Place Convention Center North Building in Room N228 for press conferences and Room N231 for roundtable discussions. 

Please go to AGU’s website offsite link for a full list of all AGU press conferences and media roundtables.