The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) congratulates Peter Van Oevelen, Director of the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Core Project, on receiving the Kenneth C. Spengler Award from the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The award recognizes his "distinguished leadership of the International GEWEX Project Office, bridging weather, water, and climate communities and fostering inclusive, global collaboration across Earth system sciences."

WCRP also congratulates Sara Pryor, recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advance of Applied Meteorology, recognizing her "outstanding contributions to actionable research, leadership, international collaborations, and mentorship that have helped to advance the field of renewable energy."

Recipients will be honored at the 107th AMS Annual Meeting in Denver, 10–14 January 2027.

Read the AMS article: "American Meteorological Society Announces 2027 Weather, Water, and Climate Honorees"

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has opened registration for experts to review First Order Draft of Working Group I contribution to the Seventh Assessment Report. The expert review, the first of multiple review stages, will run from 10 August to 2 October 2026.

WCRP and the Ocean University of China (OUC) invite applications for the position of Staff Scientist at the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO), based at the Ocean University of China (OUC), Qingdao, China. CLIVAR is dedicated to understanding the role of the ocean in the variability, predictability, and change of climate and to the benefit of society and the environment in which we live. The ICPO Staff Scientist will provides technical support to the ICPO to serve as an executive arm of the WCRP Secretariat, specifically for the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) and its panels, research focus areas, and working groups. The call will remain open until August 17, 2026.

To know more about the position, please read the CLIVAR call webpage. 

 

 

We are pleased to announce that two proposals have been approved by the CLIVAR SSG as new Research Foci, with implementation set to begin in July 2026:

• The Ocean Oxygen to Carbon Heat Nexus in a Warming Climate (O2CH),  co-chaired by Lijing Cheng and Takamitsu Ito.
• Confronting Earth System Model Trends and Multidecadal Variability with Observations (CEMT-MV), co-chaired by Isla Simpson, Malte Stuecker, Noel Keenlyside and Tiffany Shaw.
  (The membership and webpage is being finalized and will be available on CLIVAR website soon). 

Learn more about the two new CLIVAR Research Foci.

 

The International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO), hosted by the Ocean University of China and Laoshan Laboratory in Qingdao, China, warmly welcomes Dr. John Zhang as its new director. Dr. Zhang brings a rich educational background in atmospheric and ocean sciences, holding a B.Sc. from Peking University, an M.Sc. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program. Prior to joining the ICPO, John spent over 20 years in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where he served as a supervisory oceanographer over the past decade.

To know more about Dr. Zhang, visit the CLIVAR website.

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