Climate Change in America's National Parks
OLYMPEX: A collaborative effort to study precipitation on the Olympic Peninsula
Thursday, July 14, 2016
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EDT
Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8651906736558058753

Overview: During this past October - May, scientists from universities and NASA conducted a large project across the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State to measure rain and snow in storms moving from the Pacific Ocean to the steep Olympic Mountains. This project required collaboration from many groups across the area including the National Park Service, the Quinault Indian Nation, local volunteers, and even mules. Data from this unique, challenging, and rewarding project will be presented to showcase the wealth of new information gained about precipitation in this coastal mountainous region and to explain how the data is being used to improve long-term satellite-based measurements of precipitation and snowpack from the recently launched Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Core Observatory.

About the Speaker​:​

​Angela Rowe is a Research Scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. Growing up in Maryland, her love of thunderstorms and blizzards led her to pursue a degree in Meteorology. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University where she used weather radar data to understand heavy rainfall in mountainous tropical regions. After graduate school, she moved to the Pacific Northwest where her desire to understand the effect of mountains on precipitation brought her to OLYMPEX. During the project, she collected data at two weather radar sites on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula, where she spends her free time hiking.

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About the Webinar Series

This monthly climate change webinar series is presented by the NPS Climate Change Response Program. The purpose of the series is to connect NPS employees, volunteers, and partners with scientists and experts in the field of climate change research. The webinar series is a Service-wide forum where researchers can share credible, up-to-date information and research materials about the impacts of changing climate in national parks and provide participants the opportunity to engage with them in discussion.

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