Hands-on workshop. Working with Cal-Adapt Data in R Friday, December 11 10:00am - 11:30am (PST)

Upcoming Online Webinar:

Working with Cal-Adapt Data in R

Friday, December 11

10:00am - 11:30am (PST)

Registration form (a Google form) not working for you? Please email lucyandrews@berkeley.edu to register. Feel free to include any topics or questions you'd like us to cover.

This hands-on workshop will teach you how to work with climate data from Cal-Adapt - California's primary repository for downscaled climate data - in R. The workshop will draw upon caladaptR, a new R package which streamlines the process of importing climate data into R using the Cal-Adapt API.

Examples will showcase techniques for:

Aggregating climate projections from multiple climate models and years
Joining projected climate data to other tabular data
Transforming climate projections into more intuitive and actionable probabilities
Visualization through charts and maps.

Data wrangling, analysis, and mapping examples will use functions from tidyverse packages and sf.

Requirements:

The workshop will be fairly hands-on and some experience with R is expected. To complete the hands-on exercises, participants will need a recent version of R, RStudio, and several packages (details to be provided a few days before the workshop). Alternately, participants may complete the workshop using a virtual R machine developed for the workshop on RStudio Cloud (free account required, details to be provided). Participants will also need a Zoom account (free accounts are fine). Some familiarity with climate data and Cal-Adapt is helpful but not required.

The 90-minute workshop will include 1 hour of slides and guided exercises, followed by 30-minutes of additional self-paced practice where the instructor will be available for help. People who just want to get an overview of the workflow or run some sample code are welcome to drop off after an hour.

Questions? Please contact the instructor Andy Lyons at andlyons@ucanr.edu.

Fellowships open with Climate Champions Team

Applications Open for the Race To Zero Youth Fellowship
https://racetozero.unfccc.int/youth-fellowship/

If you’re an early career professional, under 30, with a record of engagement or expertise in one or two of the sectors hosting the fellowship or a history of climate/sustainability advocacy and familiarity with multi-stakeholder organising, we highly encourage you to apply.

Time commitment: Each fellow is required to commit about 10 hours per week. Work will be done remotely and online.

Eligibility criteria

Minimum five years of work experience, either in one of the fellowship sectors, or climate leadership or organising
Good communication skills
Self-motivated and willingness to be flexible (you will be working with teams across different time-zones)
Adequate network relevant to sector-specific or climate related work
Ability to commit minimum 10 hours a week to the fellowship
Sufficient English language skills
Laptop and reliable internet connectivity
A commitment to the goals of the Race to Zero campaign to raise non-state actor commitments to the global goals of the Paris Agreement

Best,

Julia

Julia Kim

Climate Change and Energy Program Director

jkim@lgc.org | 916 448-1198 x304

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NEW ORLEANS SOUTH AFRICA CONNECTION

BLACK EMERGENCY MANAGERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

MEDIA RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 1, 2020

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