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Climatic Change vol 109 no. 1
A supplemental issue of Climatic Change focuses in impacts in California. Worth checking out!
2011 AGU meetings
The CCWAS IGERT will be at the 2011 meetings of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco! Look for us (Graham Fogg, Tom Harter, and lots of others) at various talks, mixers, and at the Academic Showcase booth A-16. And I'll be at the booth on Thursday.
You can find blogs and tweets from the meetings at the AGU website, http://blogs.agu.org/blogs/
Chilean desert blooms
The Atacama desert of Chile ranks as one of the driest regions on Earth, with many regions receiving less than a millimeter of rainfall per year. However, in July 2011, several heavy rains -- which means a few millimeters-- fell in the lowlands with up to a meter of snow blanketing parts of the mountains. The result: spectacular flowers. Photos courtesy of Sonia Montecinos (CEAZA), flower ID by Sonia and Art Shapiro (UC Davis).
"Pata de Guanaco," Cistanthe longiscapa
Añañuca amarilla, Rhodophiala bagnoldii
Terciopelo (which means "velvet") or Cartucho, Argylia radiata (Bignoniaceae)
2011 DataONE meeting
CCWAS IGERT trainer and computer science faculty member Bertram Ludaescher currently is at the 2011 meeting of DataOne in New Mexico. DataONE, the largest NSF-funded DataNet effort, will ensure the preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data. Bertram is organizing a meeting on data provenance from scientific workflows. We hope to get details from him soon!