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by Sarah Dance<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Snowbird<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just got back from attending the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Dynamical Systems<\/a> in the beautiful mountains of Snowbird, Utah, USA.\u00a0 I was invited to attend the meeting to give part of a Mini-Tutorial on Data Assimilation (available here<\/a>) with Elaine Spille<\/a>r and Eric Kostelich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even though my undergraduate degree and Ph.D. were in Applied Mathematics, I don\u2019t tend to go to many Mathematics conferences. I often meet with fellow data assimilation practitioners at Meteorology conferences instead.\u00a0 So it was great to see people proving data assimilation related theorems, applying data assimilation in different applications like neuroscience and cancer treatment, and of course, to get some new ideas from dynamical systems approaches that have potential to be applied in different ways.\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed Mary Silber<\/a>\u2019s talk on using Landsat data to understand vegetation pattern formation in the drylands of Africa<\/p>\n

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Gowda\/Silber’s work on African drylands. This image shows shrublands in Somalia from high above. Two images \u2013 from 1952 (purple) and 2006 (green) \u2013 are overlaid here for comparison. The colors highlight the large communities of shrubs and grasses which grow in bands along this sloping landscape. Over the fifty years shown here, all the vegetation has moved uphill \u2013 the green bands of modern plant growth are further up the hillside than the purple bands from 1952.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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