paleoCAMP: Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies
PaleoCAMP is a 2-week summer school for graduate students in paleoclimatology, hosted at a rotating location in the American West. The school’s mission is to provide vital cross-disciplinary training for the next generation of climate scientists, provide an optimal environment for networking and mentoring of rising stars in paleoclimatology, and promote diversity and inclusive practices in order to encourage retention of underrepresented groups in the Geosciences.
Past climates are a guide to what might happen in the future as anthropogenic emissions rise. At paleoCAMP we focus on the “big questions” that can be answered with the study of ancient climates, like climate sensitivity, ecosystem responses, and shifts in the hydrological cycle. Our pedagogy is deliberately “timescale agnostic”, recognizing that Earth system responses and feedbacks operate across a continuum of timescales.
More details are available at the paleoCAMP website. paleoCAMP is funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation with additional support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Applications for paleoCAMP 2025, which will once again be held in the eastern Sierra Nevada in the summer of 2025, will open in late autumn of 2024.