BIOMES: Elizabeth Yankovsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, presents "Challenges & Application of Ocean Modeling"

Seminar Abstract:
In this talk, I’ll speak about the development of climate models as a tool for understanding and predicting the evolution of our planet’s oceans, atmosphere, land, and cryosphere. I’ll be focusing on the ocean component of these models, and discussing the challenges that ocean modelers face when running numerical simulations of such a nonlinear and turbulent system. Specific examples of ocean turbulence, such as eddies, will be discussed from two perspectives: (1) understanding their governing physics and influences on the large-scale climate state, and (2) improving their representation in modern state-of-the art climate models. I’ll then speak about an exciting application of ocean modeling: marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). I’ll be presenting a hierarchy of modeling approaches that I’ve employed to inform ocean alkalinity enhancement, a particularly scalable and promising effort within the mCDR space.

About the Series:
Over the last fourteen years, the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) has hosted this weekly seminar series. The school's flagship forum is designed to bring cutting-edge research and impactful work to the community.

BIOMES stands for 'Bridging Issues & Optimizing Methods in Environmental Studies"

The series is a community-sourced and student-led effort to bring different perspectives to YSE's main stage.

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