{"id":212727,"date":"2025-03-25T11:33:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=212727"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:24:31","slug":"enso-winter-school-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/25\/enso-winter-school-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o research brings global experts to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_212728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212728\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-group.jpg\" alt=\"group of people standing and smiling\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-212728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-group.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-group-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-group-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-212728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> Winter School 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/hawaii.edu\/enso-winter-school-2025\/\"><abbr title=\"El Nino Southern Oscillation\">ENSO<\/abbr> Winter School 2025<\/a> from March 15 to 23, bringing together 32 students and 19 instructors from 16 countries. The program provided an immersive learning experience focused on El Ni&#241;o-Southern Oscillation (<abbr>ENSO<\/abbr>), a climate pattern that influences global weather.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 50th anniversary of key milestones in <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> research, including the work of Klaus Wyrtki, the late renowned oceanographer from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. His groundbreaking studies helped shape modern understanding of El Ni&#241;o and its impacts on weather patterns worldwide.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/19\/klaus-wrtyki-honor\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Legislature honors late oceanographer Klaus Wyrtki<\/a>, March 19, 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over the nine-day program, participants engaged in morning lectures covering <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> fundamentals, followed by student-led discussions on influential scientific papers. Afternoons featured student presentations, hands-on training and collaborative research projects. The curriculum provided participants a more thorough look at <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> through real-world data analysis, modeling techniques and forecasting methods.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-discussions-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people talking in a classroom\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-212732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-discussions-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-discussions-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-discussions.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This year\u2019s <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> Winter School was an incredible opportunity for students to engage directly with leading researchers and gain hands-on experience in <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> science,&rdquo; said Christina Karamperidou, chair of the school\u2019s scientific organizing committee, and professor and associate department chair in <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/atmo\/\">Department of Atmospheric Sciences<\/a>. &ldquo;Seeing participants from around the world collaborate and deepen their understanding of climate variability was truly inspiring. By hosting this vibrant community of scientists and future research leaders, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa reinforces its reputation as a central hub for cutting-edge <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> research.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-classroom-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people sitting in a classroom\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-212733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-classroom-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-classroom-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-classroom.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Participating in the <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> Winter School has not only deepened my understanding of the El Ni&#241;o-Southern Oscillation but also broadened my perspective on nature and its dynamics, as well as strengthened my professional network,&rdquo; said Roger Manay-Torres from the Instituto Geof&#237;sico del Per&#250;. &ldquo;This experience has been incredibly valuable, both academically and professionally, and it has far exceeded my expectations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Regina R. Rodrigues, a professor of physical oceanography at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil was one of the lecturers, and talked about <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr>\u2019s impacts on weather extremes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a great experience to spend more than a week with students, earlier career researchers and many of the most prominent experts on <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr>,&rdquo; Rodrigues said. &ldquo;I learned more about past <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> from paleoclimate records and about future <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> from climate projections.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-coconut-island-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people standing and talking dockside\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-212729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-coconut-island-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-coconut-island-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-soest-enso-winter-school-coconut-island.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>J&#233;r&#244;me Vialard, a senior scientist at Institut de Recherche pour le D&#233;veloppement in Paris, added, &ldquo;I have worked on <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> for almost 30 years, but found the lectures of other instructors useful. Some refreshed my memory, and some taught me new things on topics I know less about, such as paleo-climate or machine learning.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The school was supported by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/\">School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a>, International and U.S. <abbr>CLIVAR<\/abbr>, <abbr>IAPSO\/IUGG<\/abbr>, <abbr>CIMAR<\/abbr> and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 50th anniversary of key milestones in <abbr>ENSO<\/abbr> research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[745,98,1467,1363,92,9,704],"class_list":["post-212727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-atmospheric-sciences","tag-climate","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-manoa-research","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-weather","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212846,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212727\/revisions\/212846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}