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Upcoming Events

Monday, April 28, 2025
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Goddard Applied Sciences Seminar
Coastal Resilience at NOAA: A Mission of Science, Service, and Stewardship
Mark Osler, NOAA
Please note, this event has been moved to 2:00 p.m. to avoid overlap with the Goddard Town Hall..
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Monday, April 28, 2025
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
ESSIC Seminar Series
Geohazard Connections in a Warming World
Prof. Gary M. Lackmann, North Carolina State University
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
GMAO Seminar Series
A tale of two winters: Why was the North American precipitation forecast signal stronger in the winter of 2024/25 than in 2023/24?
Nathaniel Johnson, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
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