1. Seminar overview, scope and expected outcomes – Alberto Troccoli (WEMC)
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2. Setting the scene: What utilities are looking for in meteorology – Charlie Smith (ESIG)
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3. Climate Projections for the Energy Sector – Robert Vautard (LSCE)
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4. Global Frameworks for Meteorology and Energy Engagement – Roberta Boscolo (WMO)
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5. Bringing the Energy and Meteorology Community Together to Reach 100% Renewable Energy – David Renne (ISES)
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1. What is the current state of play? – Laurent Dubus (EDF/WEMC)
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2. How precipitation trends during Spring and Summer of 2018 impacted the power market up to one year ahead – Kim Bentzen (Danske Commodities)
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3. Simulating and understanding complex meteorological impacts in the energy sector – David Brayshaw (University of Reading)
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1. General Circulation and Energy Transfer across Scales: What you need to know for harvesting energy – Sue Haupt (NCAR/WEMC)
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2. The nature of predictability: climate forecasting for energy applications with a focus on the subseasonal-to-seasonal – David Brayshaw (University of Reading)
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3. Improvements on meteorological modelling approaches relevant for the wind sector: featuring the Global Wind Atlas and European Wind Atlas – Jake Badger (DTU Wind Energy)
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1. IEA wind recommended practices for selecting renewable power forecasting solutions parts 1 and 2: Optimizing the solution selection process and conducting trails and benchmarks – John Zach (UL Renewables, United States) 💡
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2. Advances in Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling for Wind Energy Application – Sue Ellen Haupt (WEMC/National Center – for Atmospheric Research – NCAR, United States)
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3. Summary of Results from the Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2) – James Wilczak (NOAA ESRL, United States)
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4. An investigation of dynamic selection of WRF PBL schemes for renewable energy forecasting in Ireland – Seanie Griffin (University College Dublin, Ireland)
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5. Forecasting wind speed and direction in a marine environment (WRF and GFS) – Sven-Erik Gryning (DTU – Technical University of Denmark Wind Energy, Denmark)
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6. The impact of spatial dependence structures on the skill and evaluation of multi-site probabilistic wind speed forecasts – Marc Hüsch (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
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1. Satellite-based Irradiance Data for Solar Energy Projects: Validation Results & Use Cases – Mauricio Richter (3E, Belgium)
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2. Satellite-based realistic 1 minute resolved irradiance time series based on variability classes – Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt (German Aerospace Center – DLR, Germany)
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3. Spatial variability of incident solar radiation in Ireland and the UK linked to large-scale atmospheric pressure patterns: implications for solar energy generation – João Correia (UCD Energy Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland)
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4. Spectral and Broadband datasets from The National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) – Manajit Sengupta (National Renewable Energy Laboratory – NREL, United States)
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5. Direct and diffuse components of the solar radiation, computed by the fast physical radiative transfer code SMART-G – Mustapha Moulana (HYGEOS, France)
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6. Treating Uncertainties as an Asset: the Use of Probabilistic Forecasts for Dispatch Optimization – Ana Carolina do Amaral Burghi (German Aerospace Centre – DLR, Germany) ⭐
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1. The Added Value of Seasonal Climate Forecasting for Integrated Risk Assessment (SECLI-FIRM) EU H2020 project – Alberto Troccoli (WEMC/University of East Anglia, United Kingdom)
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2. C3S-Energy: a new electricity demand dataset for Europe based on ERA5 – Laurent Dubus, (WEMC/EDF R&D, France) 🌡
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3. A new meteorological reanalysis dataset (MERIDA) to analyze the impact of relevant weather events on the Italian electric system – Riccardo Bonanno (RSE S.p.A. – Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, Italy)
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4. Weather Sensitivity of Electricity Demand in West African Megacities – Arona Diedhiou (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement – IRD LTHE / Université de Grenoble-Alpes, France) 🌍
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5. The sensitivity of future power systems to climate change projections – David Brayshaw (University of Reading, United Kingdom) 🌡
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6. Future energy consumption of buildings in European Cities including urban effects – Jan Remund (Meteotest AG, Switzerland)
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1. Status of seasonal and subseasonal wind and wind power forecasting for the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands: a systematic review – Susana Bayo Besteiro (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
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2. The New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) and web platform – Jake Badger (DTU – Technical University of Denmark Wind Energy, Denmark)
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3. Downscaling Meso- to Microscale Simulations: A Multipoint approach – Renko Buhr (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)
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4. WRF-LES evaluation of turbulence measures using observations from a 250-m tower – Alfredo Peña (DTU – Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
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5. Modelling study of the impact of the sea breeze on offshore wind farms in the Mediterranean and the North Sea – Anna Maria Sempreviva (DTU – Technical University of Denmark Wind Energy, Denmark)
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6. A wind resource experiment in complex terrain compared with meso- to micro-scale model coupling – Jakob Mann (DTU – Technical University of Denmark Wind Energy, Denmark)
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1. Comparing capacity expansion outcomes for the Australia’s National Electricity Market using three sources of weather-related input data – Roger Dargaville (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
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2. Sunny Windy Sundays: Understanding the relationships between renewable energy supply and demand in Great Britain – Daniel Drew (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
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3. The Use of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model in Dynamic Line Rating – Kenneth Fenton (NOAA ESRL GSD, United States)
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4. Ancillary services from a renewable-sourced virtual power plant: the REstable project – Simon Camal (MINES ParisTech, France)
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5. Micro-grid improved PV power integration from diesel control using a thermal-infrared sky imager nowcasting system – Sylvain Cros (Reuniwatt, France)
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6. Flexible hydro-solar-wind mixes for reliable power supply in West Africa – Sebastian Sterl (Vrije Universiteit Brussel – VUB, Belgium) 🌍
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1. An assessment of surface shortwave radiation in South Africa – Nosipho Zwane (South African Weather Service, South Africa) 🌍
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2. Soiling of Solar Panels within PerduS project – Frank Wagner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT, Germany)
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3. Forecasting of atmospheric icing – validation and applications within wind energy – Brian Riget Broe (Kjeller Vindteknikk, Sweden)
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4. Climate-proofing for the hydropower sector: Opportunities and challenges using state-of-the-art seasonal predictions – Christof LC Lorenz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT / Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research – IMK-IFU, Germany) ⚠
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5. Numerical Weather Prediction of Supercooled Low Stratus Clouds over Heterogeneous Surfaces using the MUSC One-Dimensional Model: First Results – Erik J Janzon (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden)
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6. Benchmarking seasonal prediction of inflows to hydropower systems against a statistical approach – Martin Drews (DTU – Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) 🌡
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1. Calibration of DNI ensemble forecasts with quantile regression – Jose L. Casado-Rubio (AEMET – Spanish Meteorological Service, Spain)
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2. Calibration Methods for Ensemble solar probabilistic forecasts in an insular context – Josselin Le Gal La Salle (Université de la Réunion, Réunion, France)
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3. Copula-based models for solar power supply to distribution networks, using global radiation forecasts – Freimut von Loeper (Universität Ulm, Germany)
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4. Modeling Aerosol Optical Depth over the Arabian Desert for Solar Irradiance Forecasting – Jared A Lee (National Center for Atmospheric Research – NCAR, United States)
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5. Probabilistic photovoltaic forecasting combining heterogeneous sources of input data for multiple time-frames – Thomas Carriere (MINES ParisTech, France)
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6. Beyond-RMSE analysis of WRF parametrization for day-ahead irradiance forecasting – Hadrien Verbois (NUS, Singapore)
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1. Validation of NWP models by lidar measurements with particular emphasis on turbine hub-height wind speed and power forecasts – Yelena Pichugina (Colorado University Boulder / NOAA, United States)
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2. Improved very short‐term spatio‐temporal wind forecasting using atmospheric regimes – Jethro Browell (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
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3. Towards a global dynamic wind atlas: assessing the quality of MERRA-2 and ERA5 reanalysis for wind power simulation without and with bias-correcting using the Global Wind Atlas – Katharina Gruber (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria) 🌡
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4. Very Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting using Regime Switching for Power Ramps – Leo May (Strathclyde University, United Kingdom)
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5. Requirements of operational wind power forecasting: Experiences from an utility perspective – Malte Rieck (Vattenfall Energy Trading GmbH, Germany)
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6. Probabilistic short-range forecasting for icing-related wind power production losses – Heiner Körnich (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden)
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1. Graphical user interface for weather forecast products tailored to the needs of transmission and distribution systems – Jonas von Schumann (Deutscher Wetterdienst – DWD, Germany)
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2. Impact of input weather data on highly renewable power systems – Alexander Kies (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany)
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3. Improvements for Online Feed-in estimations based on PV power output measurements – Daniel Lassahn (Meteocontrol Energy & Weather Services GmbH, Germany)
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4. Estimation of forecast gust return levels in a real time decision support system – Julie Capo (Météo-France, France)
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5. Examinations on effectiveness of photovoltaic systems in different local and micro climatic environments – Gergely Csákberényi-Nagy (Renewable Energy Park Research Center / University of Debrecen, Hungary)
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6. Energy Education: Panacea to sustainable and affordable access to clean energy – Idowu Adegbite (Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria) 🌍
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1. Probabilistic Forecasting and Bidding Strategy of Ancillary Services for Aggregated Renewable Power Plants – Simon Camal (MINES ParisTech – PSL Research University, Italy)
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2. Quantifying the value of improved probabilistic power forecasts for power system applications using stochastic dispatch models – Bruno Schyska (DLR-Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Germany)
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3. Maximization of the Value of Intra-day Wind and Solar Forecasts for an Island Grid System via Customized Forecasts and Evaluation Metrics – John Zack (UL Renewables, United States)
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4. Renewable Energy Forecasting for Kuwait: A Progress Report – Jared A Lee (National Center for Atmospheric Research – NCAR, United States)
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5. Characterization of the model error in COSMO-D2-EPS using a flow-dependent partial SDE – Martin Sprengel (Deutscher Wetterdienst – DWD, Germany)
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6. Development and implementation of wind and solar generation forecasts for system operations in Colombia – Sebastián Ortega (XM, Colombia)
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1. Impact of atmospheric aerosols on solar power production – Dust outbreak in West Africa – Ina Neher  (University of Applied Science Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany) 🌍
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2. Enabling Resilient UK Energy Infrastructure: Natural Hazard Characterisation – Michael G Sanderson (Met Office, United Kingdom)
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3. Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Offshore Wind Farms in the Taiwan Strait of China – Bin Wu (Fujian Climate Center, China)
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4. The implications of inter-annual weather variability for GB electricity system investment strategies – Hannah C Bloomfield (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
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5. High-Resolution Dynamic Downscaling of CMIP5 Model Data to Assess the Effects of Climate Change on Renewable Energy Distribution in New York State: Project Overview and Preliminary Results – Jeffrey M Freedman (Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, United States)
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6. The Financial Impact of Climate Change on siting of wind farms – Merlinde Kay (University of New South Wales, Australia)
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1. Impacts of wind farm wakes on ocean surface waves and air-sea fluxes – Jana Fischereit (DTU Wind Energy, Denmark)
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2. Climate-aligned capital allocation. Implications for the energy sector investment portfolio strategy – Ekaterina Reshetnikova (EcoAct, France)
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3. Adaptation challenges and opportunities for the European energy system – Hans-Martin Füssel (European Environment Agency, Denmark) ⚠
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4. Assessing the efficiency of national and state climate policies in the transition to a low carbon electricity system in Australia – Changlong Wang (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
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5. Overview of the Miño-Sil: a heavily dammed basin and potential for new power plants – Juan Antonio Anel (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
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6. Projections of the future European water use in electricity generation and related vulnerabilities – Morten Andreas Dahl Madl Larsen (DTU, Denmark)
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• C3S Energy Operational Service – overview, progress and highlights – Alberto Troccoli (WEMC)
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• Energy Models – discussion of energy demand, wind power, solar power and hydropower – Laurent Dubus (EDF)
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• Seasonal Forecasts – discussion of the models developed and applied bias adjustment methods – Lucas Grigis (Météo-France)
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• Climate Projections – discussion of the climate projection of energy-relevant variables – Robert Vautard (CEA)
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• Sensitivity of the electric grid in the Western U.S. to climate change – Gary Geernaert (US Department of Energy)
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• Renewable and resilient transition pathways in a changing climate – John A Dutton (Prescient Weather)
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• Climate Change Adaptation strategy: new challenges for EDF Group? – Antoine Badinier (EDF)
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• Climate risks for a Transmission System Operator (TSO) – Jean Thorey (RTE)
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• Introduction – Liz Bentley (Royal Meteorological Society)
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• Challenges to Improve Predictions in the Renewable Sector – Shanti Majithia (Director of Energy and Climate Advisory Services (UK) & RMetS Fellow)
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• How and Why Data Sharing Should Be Developed – Anna Maria Sempreviva (DTU Wind Energy)
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• Data Difficulties, Dealing with Issues, and Potential Paths Forward to Improve the Wider Use of Data – Sue Haupt (NCAR)
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• WEMC’s Special Interest Group on Energy and Meteorology Education – Kit Rackley (WEMC)
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• Different types of funding for startups and early stage SMEs and what funders require from applicants in the way of marketable products/services, management team, business plan, etc – Andreas Helgason Rex (Lendino)
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• Orbital Micro-Systems: how it started out, what it’s aims and objectives are, and what it has achieved to date – William Hosack (Orbital Micro-Systems)
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• Serial entrepreneurship in the weather business – Jan Dutton (Prescient Weather)
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• Introduction – Jan Remund (Meteotest)
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• Best practices for automatic and expert based data quality control methods and for gap filling methods – Philippe Blanc (MINES ParisTech)
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• Data Quality Assessment using NREL’s SERI QC – Manajit Sengupta (NREL)
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• Gap filling of long-term solar radiation measurements in Denmark – Adam R. Jensen (DTU)
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• Use of satellite data for QC of in-situ measurement – Ana Gracia (European Commission JRC)
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• Workshop overview
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• Workshop outcomes
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• Introduction & Engaging Outward, Technical Inward: Examples of the Best – Kit Rackley (WEMC/Geogramblings)
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• Example from academia – an experience of public speaking – Sebastian Sterl (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
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• Alternative ways to communicate science – Jared Lee (NCAR)
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