Mearns Symposium
A Symposium Sponsored by NSF NCAR to Celebrate Dr. Linda Mearn’s Contributions and her Appointment as NSF NCAR Distinguished Scholar
April 4-5, 2024, Mesa Lab Auditorium and Hybrid

AGENDA
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
9:30 Coffee, Tea – Mesa Lab Mezzanine
10:00 Welcome – Moderator: Sue Ellen Haupt | Everette Joseph – NSF NCAR Director

Session 1: Moderator: Rachel McCrary
10:15 Filippo Giorgi - The Early Days of Regional Modeling and the Dynamic Duo
10:45 Bill Easterling - Crossing Scales: My Forty Year Friendship and Collaboration with Linda Mearns
11:15 Bill Gutowski - Elevating the Regional Modeling Community: A Legacy of Linda Mearns
11:45 Ruby Leung - Earth System Modeling for Actionable Science
12:15 Lunch – Mesa Lab Café – on your own

Session 2: Moderator: Jeff Anderson
1:15 Diana Liverman - Learning, Living and Laughing with Linda as a Graduate Student and After: UCLA and NCAR in the 1980s
1:35 Cynthia Rosenzweig - The Variability of Variability - Notes from the Front Lines with Linda Mearns
1:55 Amanda Lynch - Decisions under Irreducible Uncertainty and Other Things Linda Tried to Teach Me
2:25 Hayley Fowler - My journey through downscaling with Linda Mearns: from uncertainty
to transdisciplinary approaches
2:45 Break
3:00 Seminar – Dr. Linda Mearns - Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: Towards an Integrated Approach
4:00 Tributes: Moderator: Barbara Brown
5:00 Distinguished Scholar Reception - All Welcome – Mesa Lab Cafe

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
9:30 Coffee, Tea – Mesa Lab Mezzanine

Session 3: Moderator: Christine Shields
10:00 Robert Lempert – Is Reduce What we Should Aspire to Do with Uncertainty?
10:30 Melissa Bukovsky - Process-Informed Determination of Credibility Across Different Downscaling Methods
11:00 Jennifer Jacobs - The Road Less Traveled: Partnering with Linda Mearns to DevelopvTransportation Resilience to a Changing Climate
11:20 Claudia Tebaldi - Multi-model Ensembles, Uncertainty Cascades, and Interdisciplinary Work: It all Started with Linda
11:40 Seth McGinnis and Rachel McCrary - Not Where We Expected to Go: Journeys of Discovery Led by Linda Mearns
12:10 Lunch – Mesa Lab Café – on your own

Session 4: Moderator: Seth McGinnis
1:15 Joel Smith - Benefit of Hindsight: How Our Projections from the Late '80s/Early '90s for Future Climate Change Impacts Fared: What Did We Get Right; What did We Get Wrong, and What did We Miss?
1:35 Stefan Rahimi - An Early-Career Perception of how Linda Mearns helped shape the Great Relay Race to improve Regional Downscaling
1:55 Barbara Brown - Women in Atmospheric Sciences and Statistical Applications to Climate
2:15 Additional Tributes
2:45 Ending Sentiments - Linda Mearns
3:00 Adjourn

Please join us as we celebrate Linda Mearns’ far-reaching contributions and newly awarded NSF NCAR Distinguished Scholar appointment. We invited some of Linda’s colleagues to share their research and the important ways they have collaborated with Linda over the years. It will also include a seminar by Dr. Mearns, when she will accept the NSF NCAR Distinguished Scholar Award, followed by an opportunity to hear testimonials from participants. We will further honor Linda with a reception at the Mesa Lab on April 4.

https://ral.ucar.edu/events/2024/mear...