UCS at AGU 2023

The Union of Concerned Scientists cordially invites you to the following events at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023, December 11-15, in San Francisco, CA, and online everywhere.

For those attending in person, please stop by and visit us at Booth 1241.

Monday, December 11

GC11B - Attributing, Projecting, and Linking Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Sources, Air Quality, and Climate Impacts I Oral
Carly Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Joshua Laughner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Dien Wu, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA
Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Monday, 11 December 2023, 08:30 - 10:00a PST, 2006 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

GC11B-02 - Attributing increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western North American forests to emissions from major fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers: an example of litigation-relevant science

Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists, Berkeley, CA
John T Abatzoglou, University of California Merced
Carly Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Union of Concerned Scientists, Oakland, CA
Rachel Licker, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
L. Delta Merner, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington, DC
Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Monday, 11 December 2023, 08:40 - 08:50 PST, 2006 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Tuesday, December 12

GC21G - Attributing, Projecting, and Linking Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Sources, Air Quality, and Climate Impacts II Poster
Carly Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Joshua Laughner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Dien Wu, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA
Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 08:30a - 12:50 PST, Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, MC)

SY23B-0882 - Chapter 21 - Northeast - The Fifth National Climate Assessment
Jessica Whitehead, Old Dominion University, Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience, Norfolk, VA
Ellen L Mecray, NOAA, NESDIS/NCEI/CWC/Regional Climate Services, Norton, MA
Mark C. Bove, Munich Reinsurance America Inc., Hightstown, NJ
Melissa Finucane, Union of Concerned Scientists, Pittsburgh, PA
Erin Lane, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Newton Square, PA
Franco A Montalto, Drexel University, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Philadelphia, PA
Shaun O'Rourke, Quantified Ventures, Burlington, VT
Lisa A Kerr and David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME
Daniel Zarrilli, Columbia University, New York City, NY
Paulinus Chigbu, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Natural Sciences, Princess Anne, MD
Casey C. Thornbrugh, United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Mashpee, MA; Northeast and Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Mashpee, MA
Enrique N Curchitser, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ
James G. Hunter, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Kevin T Law, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
Joshua Hernandez, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington, DC
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 14:10 - 18:30 PST, Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, MC)

TH25K - From Attribution to Outcomes: How Can Attribution Science Contribute to Real-World Change?
Carly Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Rachel Licker, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington, DC
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 18:30 - 19:30 PST, 2003 - West (Level 2, West, MC)

Wednesday, December 13

C32A-04 - Future Climate and Sea Level Projections Using a Coupled Antarctic Ice Sheet - Climate Model

Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Yue Dong, University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO
Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, State College, PA
Natalya A Gomez, McGill University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
Alan Condron, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA
Robert M Deconto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 10:50 - 11:00 PST, 2004 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

C32A-07 - The role of the solid Earth in Antarctica’s contribution to future global sea levels
Natalya A Gomez, McGill University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
Maryam Yousefi, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA
Rob DeConto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Andrew Lloyd, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY
Konstantin Latychev, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA
Andrew Nyblade, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA
Douglas Wiens, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Richard C Aster, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO
Terry J Wilson, Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
Wednesday, 13 December, 2023, 11:20 - 11:30 PST, 2004 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Thursday, December 14

SY43B - Science to Action: Grassroots Activism for Scientists I Oral
Rose Z Abramoff, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Westminster, CO
Peter Kalmus, Climate Science Education Project, NY
Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Eliza S Nemser, Climate Changemakers, San Francisco, CA
Carly Anne Philips, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 14:10 - 15:40 PST, 2020 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

SY43B-01 - From Apolitical to Action: Learning from Organizing Frameworks to Support Scientist Activism
Melissa Varga and Ortal Ullman, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA, and Washington, DC
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 14:12 - 14:15 PST, 2020 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

SY43B-09 - Creating community and connection through advocacy in Wisconsin
Susan M Nossal, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI
Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Kaitlin Sundling, Karl Broman, and Hilary Habeck Hunt, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI
Barbara Smith, American Federation of Teachers Local 4848, Madison, WI
Stephen Burns, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 14:36 - 14:39 PST, 2020 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

H44D-05A Multibenefit Land Repurposing Project Selection Tool for Critically Overdrafted Groundwater Sub-Basins in the San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
Thomas C Harmon, University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA
Humberto Flores and Jose M Rodriguez Flores, University of California Merced, Environmental Systems Graduate Program, Merced, CA
Angel Santiago Fernandez Bou, Union of Concerned Scientists, Merced, CA
Josue Medellin-Azuara, University of California, Merced, Water Systems Management Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA
Yelenka Nunez Bolano, University of California Merced, Environmental Systems Program, Merced, CA
Thursday, 15 December 2023, 16:40 - 16:50 PST, 3024 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Friday, December 15

SY51E - Science to Action: Grassroots Activism for Scientists II Poster
Rose Z Abramoff, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Westminster, CO
Peter Kalmus, Climate Science Education Project, NY
Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Eliza S Nemser, Climate Changemakers, San Francisco, CA
Friday, 15 December 2023, 08:30a - 12:50p PST, Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, MC)

SY51E-0616 - How scientific expertise can advance climate activism and litigation
Carly Anne Phillips and Sarah Goodspeed, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Friday, 15 December 2023, 08:30a - 12:50 PST, Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, MC)

G52A - Advances in Our Understanding of Past, Present, and Future Sea Level Change I Oral
Denis Felikson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Kyra H. Adams, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Benjamin Hamlington, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Friday, 15 December 2023, 10:20 - 11:50 PST, 158 - South (Upper Mezzanine, South, MC)

G52A-08 - Using Sea Level Rise Research to Inform Climate Litigation and Advance Climate Justice
Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
L. Delta Merner, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Rachel Licker, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Friday, 15 December 2023, 11:30 - 11:40 PST, 158 - South (Upper Mezzanine, South, Moscone Center)

G53A - Advances in Our Understanding of Past, Present, and Future Sea Level Change III Poster
Denis Felikson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Kyra H. Adams, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Benjamin Hamlington, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Friday, 15 December, 14:10 - 18:30 PST, Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

G53B - Advances in Our Understanding of Past, Present, and Future Sea Level Change II eLightning
Denis Felikson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Kyra H. Adams, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Benjamin Hamlington, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Shaina Sadai, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Friday, 15 December, 14:10 - 15:40 PST, eLightning Theater V, Hall D - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)