Discipline 101
Seminars

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The Discipline 101 Series of the C-CoAST RCN concluded in April 20, 2022. We will keep participants abreast of future D101 opportunities.

Past Seminar Recordings

Disciplines 101 Seminar #13: Coastal Climate Impacts: How Do We Make the Science Relevant? and Long-term Resilience and Stochastic Optimization

In this second D101 of the Fall 2021 Series, Patrick Barnard discusses how coastal vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding -- from days to decades -- is assessed at the federal level by the USGS. Industrial and Systems Engineer Sara Shashaani then talks about uncertainty analysis in problems related to coastal resilience: how do we account for uncertainty over long time scales when data-driven models are data poor?

Disciplines 101 Seminar #12: Small But Mighty: Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry in the Coastal Zone and Microbial Water Quality and Extreme Flooding

In this first D101 of the Fall 2021 Series, Microbial Ecologist Dana Hunt of Duke University discusses microbial responses to pulse disturbances, focusing on hurricane impacts in the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound System (NC). Environmental Engineer Angela Harris of North Carolina State University then tell us about microbial contaminants in the coastal zone and water quality concerns during flood events.

Disciplines 101 Seminar #11: Climatology and Climate Challenges in NC

In this last D101 of the Spring Series (and Earth Day!), NC State Climatologist Kathie Dello discusses climate challenges in North Carolina, barriers to resilience, and the need for local solutions for climate adaptation. We end with a discussion amongst all attendees synthesizing the 2020-2021 D101 series.
Discipline 101 Seminars

Share “languages,” models, goals & perspectives

The Disciplines 101 Seminars are online gatherings in which researchers with a wide range of disciplinary expertise take turns teaching each other about the fundamental concepts, theories, perspectives, tools, and analytical approaches used in their disciplines. The idea is to spend time getting to know each other’s disciplinary languages in the deep way necessary to catalyze transdisciplinary collaboration. We will focus primarily on learning key disciplinary fundamentals (concepts and theories) most relevant to coastal research. However, participants will also highlight research projects and connections to other coastal research, providing the opportunity to think about common foci through different lenses, with emphasis on the time- and spatial-scale aspects of those lenses. These seminars focus on catalyzing new transdisciplinary academic research, but they are intended to be accessible to a broad audience, and community partners are encouraged to join.

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