Morning Coffee Webinar with Partners for Climate Action

Join local scientists in discovering 200 year-old records of NY State climate to see how the past compares to the near future under rapid climate change.

This webinar includes speakers Conrad Vispo and Anna Duhon of Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program, who will describe the first-of-its-kind historical meteorological and phenological network of citizen science throughout New York State from 1826-1872.  Kerissa Fuccillo Battle, the Founding Director of Community Greenways Collaborative, will demonstrate how historical records of plant phenology — the seasonal timing of events — have already revealed multi-week changes in springtime flowering and leaf-out. Jeff Freedman from the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the University at Albany (SUNY) will present regional climate predictions for the mid-21st century, highlighting the still-unknown aspects of how such changes contrast with the pre-global warming past.  Wrapping it all up will be Anton Seimon from Bard College, who will outline some major research questions to guide analysis as we compare the historical archives to current data collected by the New York State Mesonet, a state-of-the-science contemporary version of the historical network.

Noah Coleman, PCA’s Communications Manager, will moderate the webinar on Tuesday, January 14th, from 8:30 to 9:30 AM EST, with time for Q&A. Please register here.