CW3E Represented at the National Council for Science and the Environment National Conference and Global Forum

February 2, 2018

Third year PhD student, Meredith Fish, was accepted to attend the RIKEN International School on Data Assimilation for a workshop in 2018 in Kobe, Japan on full scholarship. RIKEN is Japan’s largest research institute and houses its K computer, ranked number one for 5 consecutive years on the Graph500 supercomputer ranking. Research at the Advanced Institute for Computational Science at RIKEN focuses on weather forecasting, earthquake/tsunami forecasting, space science, drug discovery and manufacturing development.

During the workshop students attended lectures and participated in hands-on sessions lead by top leaders in data assimilation such as Stephen Penny (NCEP), Eugenia Kalnay (U. of Maryland), Gregory Hakim (U. Washington), Sebastian Reich (U. Reading) and Henry Abarbanel (UCSD). Lecture topics included the mathematical background of data assimilation, geoscience applications, data assimilation within a toy model, machine learning and coupled human-earth systems.

This workshop has prepared Meredith to use data assimilation in her research and actively participate in the AR Recon field campaign, which is attempting to leverage data assimilation techniques to quantify uncertainties in forecasts using targeted observations.

Meredith standing in from of the Advanced Institute for Computational Sciences at RIKEN in Kobe, Japan.