Nobel Prize Winner to join AOES Graduate Symposium
Syukuro Manabe, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, will be joining a Question & Answer session at Mason’s 2022 Earth System Observations and Modeling Graduate Symposium (ESOM).
ESOM will be held in person at George Mason’s Fairfax campus on Earth Day, April 22. The symposium provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their work, and for graduate and undergraduate students to network and see current research by students at AOES and throughout the country. Registration for the event is now open; a presentation of work is not required to attend the conference.
Suki Manabe has done fundamental work on climate and on anthropogenic climate change. In theoretical work dating back to the 1960s, he showed how the atmosphere might respond to increases in carbon dioxide. With collaborators at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ, he developed the first coupled ocean-atmosphere, a general circulation model. This work was the foundation of the computer models used today to project the future of climate change. This is not Manabe’s first visit to Mason; most recently he gave a seminar in Fall, 2017.
