About the 2026 Solar Climate Intervention Impacts on Extremes Workshop

The first SCI-EX workshop will focus on impacts on extreme climate events under stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB). The goal of the workshop is to explore and develop internal and external collaborations to expand and advance solar climate intervention research at UT Austin. The workshop will be organized around three main topics, including (1) Downscaled and high-resolution SCI simulations, (2) Cascading and compounding extremes under SCI, and (3) S2S2D predictability under SCI. We will also have speakers that will be discussing ethical and funding considerations of SCI research.

Organizing committee: Danielle Touma, Geeta Persad, and Leyuan (Lexie) Zhang at UT Austin.

This workshop is supported in part by Linda Steen-Norris & Lee Norris. We are grateful for Dr. and Mrs. Norris’s generosity and commitment to advancing research in solar climate intervention.

2026 SCI Workshop Themes

(1) Downscaled and high-resolution SCI simulations for assessment of extremes

(2) Cascading and compounding extremes under SCI

(3) S2S2D predictability of extremes under SCI

(4) Ethical and funding considerations for SCI research

Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey

Shuchi Talati

Dr. Shuchi Talati is a climate technology governance expert and founder & executive director of The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG). Prior to DSG, she most recently served as a Presidential Appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration in the U.S. Department of Energy where she was focused on creating just and sustainable frameworks for carbon dioxide removal. Dr. Talati is a member of the oversight committee for the Exploring Climate Cooling programme and was also a contributing author to the American Geophysical Union’s Ethical Framework for Climate Intervention Research, Experimentation, and Deployment.

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Daniele Visioni

Dr. Daniele Visioni is an assistant professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. His main area of research is global climate modeling and the behavior and impacts of stratospheric aerosols, related to explosive volcanic eruptions and to proposals to deliberately inject aerosols in the stratosphere to potentially ameliorate the impacts of climate change. He’s the co-chair of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) and of the World Climate Research Programme Lighthouse Activity on Climate Intervention Research, through which he collaborates with research groups around the world to improve the assessments of various climate interventions methods.

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