1. TOPIC

The Rise of Ocean and Climate Science: A Personal Journey

2. TIME

November 20, 15:30

3. LOCATION

Room A407, Ocean Science and Technology Building, Laoshan Campus

4. ABSTRACT 

The warming planet and rising seas. Climate change is recognized as one of the greatest challenges of our time, and the ocean sets the pace of the planet warming and shapes regional patterns of climate change. My journey in ocean and climate science started in Qingdao by the Yellow Sea. The mysterious oscillation of El Nino inspired me to study coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics, leading to the discovery of a fascinating explanation to a 300-year old climate riddle. Over the short span of my career, climate science has enabled routine forecast of climate anomalies a few seasons in advance and climate projection decades deep into the future. My talk highlights the dazzling rise of climate science over the past 35 years as well as the foundation in mathematics, physics, and computational science. 

5. SPEAKER

XIE Shangping

6. SPEAKER's INTRODUCTION

SHANG-PING XIE 

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION 

B.Sc. 1984 Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China 

Ph.D. 1991 Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan 

APPOINTMENTS 

2012 – Professor, University of California San Diego 

1999-12 Professor (Associate Professor, 1999-02), University of Hawaii 

1994-99 Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan 

1993-94 Research Associate, University of Washington 1991-93 Visiting Scientist, Princeton University

HONORS 

Medal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (highest research honor of the Society), 2002

Roger Revelle Chair in Environmental Science, UCSD, 2012 

National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award, 2013 

Highly Cited Researcher 2014, 2016, Thomson Reuters; 2017, 2018, Clarivate Analytics Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2016 

Distinguished Lecture, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 2017 

Sverdrup Gold Medal and Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2017