UCS at AGU 2024

The Union of Concerned Scientists cordially invites you to the following events at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2024, December 9-13, in Washington, D.C., and online everywhere.

For those attending in person, please stop by and visit us at Booth 749. Please also be sure to check out events put on by Scientist Rebellion throughout the week.

Sunday, December 8

PREWS8 - Science to Action: Practical Skills for Scientists to Participate in and Support Nonviolent Grassroots Activism
Please note: this is a Scientist Rebellion event
Rose Z. Abramoff, Wintergreen Earth Science, Whitefield
Marla Marcum, Climate Disobedience Center, Knoxville, TN
Nathan G. Phillips, Boston University, Boston, MA
Dana R. Fisher, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 1:00 - 4:30p ET, 2006 - Liberty M (Marriott Marquis)

Monday, December 9

Scientific Neutrality and Career Risks of Activism Open Discussion – co-hosted by Scientist Rebellion and UCS
Monday, 9 December 2024, 11:00a - 12:00p ET, Pod TBD, Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)

GC13D - Looming Deadlines for Coastal Resilience: Rising Seas, Disruptive Tides, and Risks to Coastal Infrastructure in the US Caribbean
Juan Declet-Barreto, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Rachel Cleetus, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Erika Spanger, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Shana Udvardy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Philip R. Thompson, CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
Benjamin Vitalie, United States
Astrid Caldas, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Monday, 9 December 2024, 1:40 - 5:30p ET, Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)

Grassroots Climate Action Mixer, hosted by Scientist Rebellion
Monday, 9 December 2024, 7:00 - 8:30p ET, Community Room at 1200 U Street, NW

Tuesday, December 10

GC24B-01 - Limiting Global Temperature Rise Requires Better Accounting for Rising GHG Emissions from Warming Ecosystems

Peter C. Frumhoff, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA
Brian Buma, Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, CO
Brendan M. Rogers, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA
Stavroula Sartzetakis, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY
Carly Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Christina Schaedel, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA
Rachel Treharne, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA
Susan Natali, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA
John P. Holdren, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science, Arctic Initiative, Cambridge, MA
Alice Alpert, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY
Josep Gili Canadell, CSIRO Environment, Canberra, Australia
Werner A. Kurz, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, VIctoria, BC, Canada
Kate Dooley, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Carlos Afonso Nobre, University of São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil
Emily Ury, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY
Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 4:00 - 4:10 ET, Salon B (Convention Center)

Wednesday, December 11

GC33H - Sea Level Rise, Flooding, and Looming Deadlines for Coastal Infrastructure
Juan Declet-Barreto, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Rachel Cleetus, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Erika Spanger, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA
Shana Udvardy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Astrid Caldas, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C. Benjamin Vitale, United States
Philip R. Thompson, CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 1:40 - 5:30 ET, 2020 - Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)

Thursday, December 12

A43E - GFMIP results: a first look
Jonah Bloch-Johnson, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Marc J. Alessi, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Cole Jason, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada
Yue Dong, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA
Margaret Duffy, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Jonathan M. Gregory, Met Office Hadley Centre and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Yuan-Jen Lin, Columbia University of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY
Tomoo Ogura, NIES, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Pappu Paul, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL
Cristian Proistosescu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL
Maria Rugenstein, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Masahiro Watanabe, University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Andrew Williams, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Bosong Zhang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
Chen Zhou, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Thursday, 12 December 2024, 1:40 - 5:30p ET, Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)

Grassroots Climate Action Mixer – co-hosted by Scientist Rebellion, Climate Changemakers, and Climate Emergency Fund
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 6:30 – 8:30PM ET, Community Room at 1200 U Street, NW

Friday, December 13

GC51B - Advances in Quantifying and Attributing Climate Impacts and Damages to Inform Climate Risk Management and Litigation I Oral
Vivek Srikrishnan, Cornell University, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY
Emily L. Williams, University of California Merced, Merced, CA
Adam Pollack, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Marc J. Alessi, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Lisa Rennels, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA
Friday, 13 December 2024, 08:30 - 10:00a ET, Salon C (Convention Center)

GC52C - Advances in Quantifying and Attributing Climate Impacts and Damages to Inform Climate Risk Management and Litigation II Oral
Vivek Srikrishnan, Cornell University, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY
Emily L. Williams, University of California Merced, Merced, CA
Adam Pollack, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Marc J. Alessi, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Lisa Rennels, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA
Oriana Chegwidden, CarbonPlan, San Francisco, CA
Friday, 13 December 2024, 10:20 - 11:50AM ET, Salon C (Convention Center)

GC53C - Advances in Quantifying and Attributing Climate Impacts and Damages to Inform Climate Risk Management and Litigation III Poster
Vivek Srikrishnan, Cornell University, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY
Emily L. Williams, University of California Merced, Merced, CA
Adam Pollack, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Marc J. Alessi, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Lisa Rennels, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA
Oriana Chegwidden, CarbonPlan, San Francisco, CA
Friday, 13 December 2024, 1:40 - 5:30AM ET, Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)

A54K-02 - Using Explainable AI to Inform Climate Model Simulations: A Potential Southern Hemisphere SST Influence on Southwestern U.S. Precipitation
Marc J. Alessi, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
Charlotte Connolly, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO
Elizabeth Barnes, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Maria Rugenstein, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Friday, 13 December 2024, 4:00 – 5:30PM ET, eLightning Theater 1 (Convention Center)