![]() When I was at SFI, I met someone who was a professor at Columbia at that time. How did your interest shift from epidemiology to climate science? I'm quite interested in that part of the problem and how it might change the future climate. This can happen via changes in ozone and it can just be variations occurring from year to year. What goes on up in the stratosphere has a big impact on earth's surface climate. In particular, the component of the earth system modeling that I do is really oriented at studying the stratosphere. Then using that model to inform projections, which we deliver to governments. There are also applications to exoplanets and to paleoclimates, but the work I do is centered around the development and application of the theory and the numerics behind that model. Our goal at GISS is to develop a climate model that we can use to make projections of future climate. Your current research is very much about a complex system. You look in all directions and it's just an expanse. You go there and, like, the view! I was from the east coast and I had never seen views like that. I just remember being in that environment – it was so moving. it just seemed obvious that SFI was the place to pursue that. I was always interested in different things. Even though most of my courses in undergrad were in math - applied or pure - I've always been interested in the arts. I remember having lunch and sitting down next to this old man and then realizing after the fact that it's Cormac McCarthy and just being stunned. What do you remember about your time at SFI? As an undergraduate, you're very much trying to figure out what to do with your life and what you're interested in. That's what initially compelled me to go to SFI. And what was nice about SFI is that I could develop my own project and work with a mentor on that. So via that experience, I became more aware of what was happening at SFI and was like "I really really want to do that", to continue those ideas but also branch out. The summer before, I had been at an REU in Los Alamos, at the national lab, looking at mathematical epidemiology, R 0 and such. I had never come across a program like that. Now everything is interdisciplinary, but at that time (not that it was so long ago), Santa Fe's UCR was so unique. I remember at that point being open to doing anything that was theoretical in spirit, and very open to interdisciplinary projects. I was an applied math major at Brown, but at that time, I hadn't yet chosen the concentration – like chemistry or biology. Why did you decide to do an undergraduate research experience at SFI? She was an Undergraduate Complexity Researcher (UCR) at SFI in 2006. from Columbia University her graduate and postdoctoral studies were supported by NASA fellowships. She also holds a faculty appointment at Columbia University. If you are a member of the Santa Fe community but not yet connected to a church home, we invite you to join us for all that God has to offer when we gather together for worship in His name.Clara Orbe is a Research Physical Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, a small division within NASA Earth Sciences that is oriented toward predicting long-term climate change. It is also our hope that it motivates you to partake in a full worship service at a gospel-preaching church in your own community. If you are not a part of Christ Church Santa Fe, it is our hope that this sermon is of some benefit to you. It is our aim, in the preaching of God’s Word, to call for a response in receiving the Lord’s Supper, going out into all the world nourished and spurred on to glorify and enjoy God in all of life. We’re particularly interested in not severing word from sacrament. It always precedes our weekly celebration of the Lord’s Supper.Īll of these parts of worship are connected, necessary, and ideally, should not be separated. While it is always our aim for the preaching to have wide application, it is directed specifically to the congregation here in Santa Fe, addressing our lives and concerns as followers of Jesus Christ in this time and place.īecause preaching is integral to worship, it is important to emphasize that the sermon follows many other elements of worship: singing, confession of sins, a collection, the reading of Scripture, and, on occasion, a baptism and/or the reception of new members. The sermon is one portion of public worship at Christ Church Santa Fe.
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