Listed below are upcoming seminars, workshops and other events of interest to the staff of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and to our research partners.
Please consult with the event host/contact for connection details if you wish to remotely join any event marked as "Virtual" or "Hybrid".
This event listing was last updated 2026-06-08. All times shown are New York City local.
- June 9, 2026
- 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. — Virtual
- Sea Level Rise Seminar
- Topic: From Radar Echoes to Ice Sheet Elevations: Insights from Historic Altimetry Missions
- Speaker: Maya Suryawanshi (Indian Inst. Sci.)
- More info: Abstract
- Host/Contact: Patrick Alexander
Sea Level Rise Seminar
Speaker: Maya Suryawanshi (Indian Inst. Sci.)
Title: From Radar Echoes to Ice Sheet Elevations: Insights from Historic Altimetry Missions
This is an on-line, virtual presentation only. Please consult with event host Patrick Alexander for connection details.
Abstract:
Satellite radar altimetry provides the longest continuous record of ice-sheet elevation change, enabling the monitoring of ice mass imbalance and its contribution to global sea-level rise over the past three decades. This presentation introduces the importance of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets in the climate system and the fundamentals of satellite radar altimetry. It then presents a newly reprocessed multi-mission elevation dataset derived from the ERS-1, ERS-2, and Envisat satellite missions (1991–2012), generated using improved waveform retracking and echo relocation techniques. The resulting record provides an improved foundation for quantifying long-term ice-sheet change and its contribution to global sea-level rise.
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- June 23, 2026
- 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. — Virtual
- Sea Level Rise Seminar
- Topic: Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability in southeastern China
- Speaker: Yucheng Lin (CSIRO)
- Host/Contact: Patrick Alexander
- July 14, 2026
- 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. — Virtual
- Sea Level Rise Seminar
- Topic: Projected glacier contributions to sea-level rise and how much downstream hydrology matters
- Speaker: David Rounce (NYU)
- Host/Contact: Patrick Alexander
- July 21, 2026
- 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. — Virtual
- Sea Level Rise Seminar
- Topic: From fracture to flow: how calving ice sheets drive melange and fjord dynamics
- Speaker: Yue Olivia Meng (Purdue Univ.)
- Host/Contact: Patrick Alexander
- July 22, 2026
- 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. — Hybrid
- IRI Climate Forecast Briefing
- Host/Contact: Andrew W. Robertson
Meetings and Workshops
No forthcoming meetings, workshops, and other special events organized by GISS staff members have been announced.
Seminars and Colloquia
Almost all seminars may be attended virtually over the Internet, and interested persons should contact the event host for connection details.
Lunch Seminars usually take place on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. two or three times per month, mostly during the academic year. These presentations are usually hybrid, i.e., in-person with option to attend virtually.
Sea Level Rise Seminars occur on Tuesday mornings at 11 a.m., with virtual presentations by scientists from numerous research institutions. This seminar is two or three times per month, year-round.
ROCKE-3D Seminars discussing topics of interest to exoplanetary and paleoclimate researchers are held from time to time.
Videos of many past seminar presentations and other presentations may be found on YouTube.
