2023 NSF NCAR Explorer Series

A host and panel of 4 presenters sit in front of a lecture audience, with an overlay of the Explorer Series logo

Thank you for your interest in past NSF NCAR Explorer Series lectures from 2023! We hope you enjoy the abstracts, bios, short videos, and the archived lectures from these talks and look forward to seeing you at a future event!

Hydroelectric Séliš Ksanka Ql’ispé Dam (formerly known as Kerr Dam) at Polson, operated by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation in Montana. Due to the spring snow melting in the mountains, all gates of the dam are open.

Divided waters: Weathering our changing flood and drought extremes

Nov. 8, 2023
NSF NCAR Mesa Lab and Online
An airplane wing with an atmospheric instrument flies over an icy sea

The lifecycle of an NSF NCAR airborne field campaign: Flying around the globe to solve the mysteries of the Earth system

Sep. 13, 2023
NSF NCAR Mesa Lab and Online
A total solar eclipse

When you need darkness to see the light: Total solar eclipses

Aug. 30, 2023
NSF NCAR Mesa Lab and Online
Digital model of how winds contribute to the progression of a wildfire

Leaving it all behind: Evacuation lessons from wildfires in Colorado

Aug. 2, 2023
NSF NCAR Mesa Lab and Online
Flooding in a Florida neighborhood

How ensemble prediction systems can tell us what we know (and don’t know) about the future

Jun. 7, 2023
NSF NCAR Mesa Lab and Online
Satellite image of a tropical wave forming off West Africa

La formación de los huracanes en el Océano Atlántico y su importancia

May. 10, 2023
Virtual
IR image of Hurricane Harvey

Longmont Museum - Hurricane Forecasts: Communicating Risk to Communities

Apr. 13, 2023
Longmont Museum
Model of solar magnetism

From numbers to images: Visualizing space weather

Mar. 30, 2023
Virtual
Satellite image showing the location of wildfires in West Africa

How weather and wildfires interact: Insights from aerosols in Sub-Saharan Africa

Feb. 23, 2023
Virtual