Training for novel directions in quantitative climate science (QCS)

In the middle of the Paris heatwave, I spent two weeks (while trying not to melt) attending the XIVth Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment (FDSE) Summer School at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France. The summer school is co-organized each year by faculty members and researchers from the University... [Read More]

Putting my fear of alligators to the side, I travelled to St. Petersburg, Florida, to attend the Underwater Glider User Group (UG2) Workshop in May 2026. Gliders are torpedo-shaped autonomous profiling platforms to which sensors can be affixed to measure physical and biogeochemical water properties, record passive acoustics, and photograph... [Read More]

From May 24 to May 27, I had the opportunity to attend the 2026 Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) conference, in Halifax, NS, which would not have been possible without the QCS Conference Travel Award. This year, it was a joint conference with the International Association of Hydrogeologists Canada (IAH-CNC), and... [Read More]

As someone with the last name MacDonald, I am very appreciative to have had the support of the QCS travel award to reunite me with a piece of my long-lost Scottish heritage. Something just felt right as bagpipes filled the air while I headed for the Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM)... [Read More]