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Climate and public-health: Training decision makers

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This week and next, 12 public-health professionals and climate scientists from ten countries will be at Columbia University's Lamont campus, where the IRI is based, to learn how to use climate information to make better decisions for health-care planning and disease prevention. They're taking part in the second Summer Institute on Climate Information for Public Health, organized by IRI, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) and the Mailman School of Public Health.
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Upcoming events and seminars...

June 4, 2009: Columbia Water Center seminar series: Multi-scale Dynamics of Statistical Scaling in Floods on River Networks, by Vijay Gupta. view

June 5, 2009: IRI Seminar: Multi-scale Dynamics of Statistical Scaling in Floods on River Networks, by Vijay K. Gupta. view

June 5, 2009: Summer Institute Seminar: The Environmental Protection Agency's role in coordinating national and international efforts on climate and health, Pai-Yei Whung, EPA's Chief Scientist. view

June 18, 2009: IRI Seminar: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing. Our monthly meeting during which we unveil the latest global and regional forecasts, as well as discuss climate-related events around the world. view
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AMNH Science Bulletin on Peatland Fire Risk

The Science Bulletins crew over at the American Museum of Natural History has produced a wonderful Bio Bulletin on IRI's work on predicting fire risk in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. View the online version here, or see it "live" at the museum's Hall of Biodiversity, now through June 12! Not from the New York area? Click here for a list of locations world-wide that show Bio Bulletins.




Recent news, publications and other notables...

Science Bulletin: Predicting Peatland Fire Risk (amnh.org). view

Monsoon pauses after 'Aila' signs off from east (hindubusinessline.com). view

A Cloudy Crystal Ball for the Coming Season's Hurricanes (sciencemag.org). view


Current seasonal precipitation forecast...

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