MAR 7, 2016 ADRIENNE WOOTTEN A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Peter Thorne when he visited the Southeast CSC and the NCSU Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Thorne is one of the lead authors of Chapter 2 of the National Climate Assessment (“Our Changing Climate”) and a … Continue reading The Invisible Elephant in the Room
Author: Adrienne Wootten
Working With Downscaled Datasets
JUL 23, 2015 ADRIENNE WOOTTEN This post originally appeared on May 20, 2013 and is part of our throw-back series. One of the projects I’m involved with for the Southeast Climate Science Center involves synthesizing the information available from several datasets created from downscaled climate change projections. In the process of working on this project I was … Continue reading Working With Downscaled Datasets
Adaptation Takes Center Stage
JUN 29, 2015 ADRIENNE WOOTTEN St. Louis is better known by some as the gateway to the West. On May 12 - 15, 2015 it became a gateway for adaptation and collaboration. The National Adaptation Forum (NAF) was hosted in St. Louis this year, and it was one of those rare meetings which gathered scientists and … Continue reading Adaptation Takes Center Stage
The Uncertain Choice of Words
MAY 14, 2014 ADRIENNE WOOTTEN A few days ago, I got notice about a special issue in Environmental Communication on “Media Research on Climate Change: Where have we been and where are we heading?” One article in particular caught my attention: “How Grammatical Choice Shapes Media Representations of Climate (Un)certainty” by Bailey et al. The article offers a … Continue reading The Uncertain Choice of Words
