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- 01/29/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Coupling of the Climate’s Energy and Water Cycles by Clouds”
- Speaker: William B. Rossow
- Affiliation: Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA
- 02/05/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Simulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the ECHAM GCM”
- Speaker: Stefan Liess
- Affiliation: ITPA, Marine Sciences Research Center
- 02/12/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Evaluation of Ensemble Predictions of Blocking in the NCEP Global Spectral Model”
- Speaker: Joshua S. Watson
- Affiliation: National Weather Service Eastern Regional Headquarters, Bohemia
- 02/19/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Observational Evidence of a Stratospheric Influence on the Troposphere by Planetary Wave Reflection”
- Speaker: Nili Harnik
- Affiliation: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
- 02/26/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “On the Time Variability of the Net Ocean to Atmosphere Heat Flux in Midlatitudes”
- Speaker: Arnaud Czaja
- Affiliation: Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 03/05/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Long Island Sound Circulation and Stratification Sampled by Ferry and by Moored Profilers”
- Speaker: Dan Codiga
- Affiliation: Marine Sciences Technology Center, University of Connecticut
- 03/12/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Assimilation of GPS Occultation Measurements”
- Speaker: Xiaolei Zou
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology, Florida State University
- 03/19/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: Spring Break
- Speaker:
- Affiliation:
- 03/26/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling: Lessons from a Deceptively Simple General Circulation Model”
- Speaker: Lorenzo Polvani
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- 04/02/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Impact of ENSO on Variability of the Global Atmosphere-Ocean System”
- Speaker: Gabriel Lau
- Affiliation: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA
- 04/09/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Haze, Clouds, and Man’s Impact on Climate”
- Speaker: Jim Coakley
- Affiliation: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
- 04/16/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Transport and Entrapment of Zooplankton in Mesoscale Coastal Currents and Eddies off Northern Norway”
- Speaker: Meng Zhou
- Affiliation: Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- 04/23/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Predictability of Dynamical Systems Relevant to Climate and Weather”
- Speaker: Richard Kleeman
- Affiliation: Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- 04/30/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “TBA”
- Speaker: David Ullman
- Affiliation: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
- 05/07/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “TBA”
- Speaker: Isaac Ginis
- Affiliation: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 09/01/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Extending the Limits of Ensemble Forecast Verification with the Minimum Spanning Tree”
- Speaker: Jim Hansen
- Affiliation: EAPS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- 09/08/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Simulating Twentieth Century Climate Change on Global and Regional Scales”
- Speaker: Anthony J. Broccoli
- Affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
- 09/15/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Warmer Earth, Greener North, and Carbon Cycle Perturbations Caused by Northern Hemispheric Droughts”
- Speaker: Compton J. Tucker
- Affiliation: Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
- 09/22/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Role of Spray in Turbulent Air-Sea Exchange”
- Speaker: Edgar L. Andreas
- Affiliation: US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire
- 09/29/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Improved Extended Reconstruction of SST”
- Speaker: Tom Smith
- Affiliation: College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- 10/06/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Air-sea Interaction: the Mechanics of Coupling”
- Speaker: Tihomir Hristov
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- 10/13/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Scaling Properties of Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieved from Ground Based Measurements”
- Speaker: Mikhail Alexandrov
- Affiliation: Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- 10/20/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “A Conceptual Modeling Study on Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and its Implications for Physically Based Climate Modeling”
- Speaker: Guiling Wang
- Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut
- 10/27/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Acceleration of the Global Freshwater Cycle: Will it Change the Ocean Thermohaline Circulation?”
- Speaker: Bruce Peterson
- Affiliation: Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
- 11/03/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Recent Results on Global Atmospheric Temperature Trends”
- Speaker: Dian Seidel
- Affiliation: NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD
- 11/10/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Does Smoke Kill Clouds? A Brief Overview on Aerosol Forcing”
- Speaker: Ilan Koren
- Affiliation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
- 11/17/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Deep Convection East of Greenland: Atmospheric Forcing and Oceanic Response”
- Speaker: Robert S. Pickart
- Affiliation: Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
- 11/24/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Thanksgiving Break – No Seminar“
- Speaker:
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- 12/01/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Predictability studies of the Intraseasonal Oscillation with the ECHAM5 GCM”
- Speaker: Stefan Liess
- Affiliation: ITPA, MSRC, Stony Brook University
- 12/08/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Impact of Urbanization and Land-Use on Climate Change”
- Speaker: Ming Cai
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology Florida State University
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Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 01/28/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Cancelled due to snow storm“
- Speaker:
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- 02/04/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Slocum Gliders: A Technological Evolution”
- Speaker: Katarzyna Niewiadomska
- Affiliation: Webb Research Corporation, E. Falmouth, MA
- 02/11/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Natural Forcing of Climate Change in the Pre-Industrial Period”
- Speaker: Gavin Schmidt
- Affiliation: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY
- 02/18/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Representing Cloud Sub-Gridscale Variability in Large-Scale Models”
- Speaker: Robert Pincus
- Affiliation: NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, Colorado
- 02/25/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The National Weather Service and the Value of University Partnerships”
- Speaker: Kenneth Johnson
- Affiliation: National Weather Service, Eastern Region Headquarters, Bohemia, NY
- 03/01/04 11:30am, Monday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Observed Reduction in Surface Solar Radiation in the Last Decades and Consequences for the Water Cycle”
- Speaker: Beate Liepert
- Affiliation: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY
- 03/03/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Observed Reduction in Surface Solar Radiation in the Last Decades and Consequences for the Water Cycle”
- Speaker: Beate Liepert
- Affiliation: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY
- 03/10/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “An Unstructured Grid, Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model: Validation and Application”
- Speaker: Changsheng Chen
- Affiliation: School for Marine and Technology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, MA
- 03/17/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Stationary Wave Responses to Global Warming in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models”
- Speaker: Mingfang Ting
- Affiliation: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY
- 03/24/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Two Physics Ensemble Experiments and Probabilistic Forecasts with NCEP Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting (SREF) System”
- Speaker: Jun Du
- Affiliation: Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, MD
- 03/31/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Seasonal and Intraseasonal Prediction Efforts at NCEP: Toward a Seamless Suite of Forecast Products”
- Speaker: Hua-lu Pan
- Affiliation: Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, MD
- 04/07/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Spring Break – No Seminar“
- Speaker:
- Affiliation:
- 04/14/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Organic Emissions from Boreal, Temperate and Tropical Vegetation and their Role in Climate and Air Qualilty”
- Speaker: Alex B. Guenther
- Affiliation: NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO
- 04/23/04 10:00am, Friday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Tropical Cloud-Climate Feedback Processes and the Fixed Anvil Temperature Hypothesis”
- Speaker: Dennis Hartmann, Cess Distinguished Lecturer
- Affiliation: University of Washington
- 04/28/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “What determines the heat transport of a coupled ocean-atmosphere? And does it matter?”
- Speaker: Dick Ou
- Affiliation: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY
- 05/05/04 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Satellite Microwave Products Developed at NOAA/NESDIS”
- Speaker: Fuzhong Weng
- Affiliation: NOAA, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 08/31/05 11:45am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Organic Aerosol Growth Mechanisms”
- Speaker: Lynn Russell
- Affiliation: Center for Atmospheric Sciences, University of California at San Diego
- 09/09/05 10:30am, Friday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Global Hydrological Response to Warming”
- Speaker: Isaac Held
- Affiliation: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), NOAA
- 09/14/05 11:45am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Interannual Variations and Trends in Tropical Droughts”
- Speaker: Brad Lyon
- Affiliation: International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
- 09/21/05 11:45am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Dynamics in Planetary Atmospheric Physics: Comparative Studies of Equatorial Superrotation for Venus, Titan and Earth”
- Speaker: Xun Zhu
- Affiliation: Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
- 09/28/05 11:45am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Integrated Lag Covariance as a Diagnostic of Climate Sensitivity”
- Speaker: Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
- 10/12/05 11:45am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Global Changes of Water Cycle Intensity”
- Speaker: Michael G. Bosilovich
- Affiliation: Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
- 10/19/05 11:45am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Effect of Internally Versus Externally Mixed Aerosols on Aerosol Chemical Composition and Climate Forcing: An Investigation with the GISS Climate Model”
- Speaker: Susanna Bauer
- Affiliation: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
- 10/26/05 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Potential Predictability of Tropical Indian Ocean Sector Climate Variations”
- Speaker: Roxana C. Wajsowicz
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
- 11/02/05 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Downstream Weather Impacts Associated with Atmospheric Blocking Over the Northeast Pacific”
- Speaker: Marco Carrera
- Affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 11/09/05 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “When Will the Anarctic Ozone Hole Recover?”
- Speaker: Paul A. Newman
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
- 11/16/05 10:00am, Tuesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “TOMS and OMI Aerosol Observations”
- Speaker: Omar Torres
- Affiliation: Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
- 11/23/05 Thanksgiving Break – No Seminar
- Title:
- Speaker:
- Affiliation:
- 11/30/05 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Interannual Variations of the Diurnal Tide in the Mesosphere Generated by the Quasi-biennial Oscillation”
- Speaker: Hans G. Mayr
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
- 12/07/05 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Systematic Stochastic Mode Reduction for Climate”
- Speaker: Christian Franzke
- Affiliation: Courant Institute of Mathematics Sciences, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, New York University
Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 01/26/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States: Links to the Tropical Pacific and Radiative Forcing”
- Speaker: Edward Cook
- Affiliation: Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- 02/02/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Extended Wind Stress Analyses for ENSO”
- Speaker: Andrew Wittenberg
- Affiliation: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 02/09/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Oregon Climate Transition: Modeling and Isotope Data”
- Speaker: Ronald Smith
- Affiliation: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
- 02/16/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Maximum Entropy Production and Climate System Functioning”
- Speaker: Axel Kleidon
- Affiliation: Department of Geography and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
- 02/23/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “How Strong is Carbon Cycle-Climate Feedback Under Global Warming?”
- Speaker: Ning Zeng
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
- 03/02/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “An Efficient Bulk Microphysical Parameterization for Use in Operational Forecast Models”
- Speaker: Brad Ferrier
- Affiliation: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 03/09/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Assessment of Moisture and Wind Fields from Reanalyses and TOVS Satellite Retrievals Over the Polar Region”
- Speaker: Cheng-Zhi Zou
- Affiliation: Surface and Atmosphere Team, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administation
- 03/16/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Greenhouse Warming and Hurricane Intensity”
- Speaker: Tom Knutson
- Affiliation: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 03/23/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Spring Break – No Seminar“
- Speaker:
- Affiliation:
- 03/30/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “A New Approach to Using a Cloud-Resolving Model to Study the Interactions Between Clouds, Precipitation and Aerosols”
- Speaker: Wei-Kuo Tao
- Affiliation: Mesoscale Modeling and Dynamic Group, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- 04/05/05 10:00am, Tuesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Floating Honeycombs: Simulating the Atmosphere and Ocean
with Geodesic Grids and Quasi-Lagrangian Vertical Coordinates” - Speaker: David Randall, Cess Distinguished Lecturer
- Affiliation: Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
- Title: “Floating Honeycombs: Simulating the Atmosphere and Ocean
- 04/13/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Partitioning of the Poleward Heat Transport Between the Ocean and Atmosphere”
- Speaker: Arnaud Czaja
- Affiliation: Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 04/20/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Addressing the Issue of Systematic Errors in a Regional Climate Model”
- Speaker: Vasubandhu Misra
- Affiliation: Institute of Global Environment and Society, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
- 04/27/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Warm Pool Dynamics and the Global Mean Climate”
- Speaker: Amy Clement
- Affiliation: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- 05/04/05 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Aerosol Size Distribution and Refractive Index Measured at ARM SGP Site and Their Application to Study Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing”
- Speaker: Jian Wang
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 09/06/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Estimated PDFs of Climate System Properties Including Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings”
- Speaker: Chris Forest
- Affiliation: Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 09/13/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Exploring Pollution-Cloud-Climate Interactions in the Arctic”
- Speaker: Tim Garrett
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology, University of Utah
- 09/20/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Bayesian Approach to Decision Making Using Ensemble Weather Forecasts”
- Speaker: Rick Katz
- Affiliation: Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- 09/27/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Modeling the Terrestrial Biosphere and the Future of the Carbon Sink”
- Speaker: S.W. Pacala
- Affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
- 10/04/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Solar and CO2 Climatic Responses: The Case for Solar Forcing of Arctic Temperature Change on Decadal to Multidecadal Timescales”
- Speaker: Willie Soon
- Affiliation: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- 10/11/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Interannual and Seasonal Variability of Hypoxia in the Benguela Upwelling System: Coupled Oceanic and Shelf Forcing”
- Speaker: Pedro M. Scheel Monteiro
- Affiliation: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
- 10/18/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Climate Modeling of the 20th and 21st Centuries”
- Speaker: Warren Washington
- Affiliation: Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- Dr. Washington is this year’s Robert D. Cess Distinguished Speaker.
- 10/25/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Global Dust Transport: The Impact on Weather, Climate, and the Oceans”
- Speaker: Joseph Prospero
- Affiliation: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- 11/01/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Multi-Scale Modelling of Coupled Biological-Physical Systems in the North Pacific Ocean”
- Speaker: Enrique Curchitser
- Affiliation: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
- 11/08/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Impact of Coastal Boundaries and Small Hills on the Precipitation Distribution Across Southern Connecticut and Long Island, New York”
- Speaker: Brian Colle
- Affiliation: Institute for Terrestrial & Planetary Atmospheres, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University
- 11/15/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Satellite Observations of Atmospheric Gravity Waves”
- Speaker: Joan Alexander
- Affiliation: NorthWest Research Associates
- 11/22/06 Thanksgiving Break – No Seminar
- Title:
- Speaker:
- Affiliation:
- 11/29/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Hurricanes, Global Warming, and Modern Risk Models”
- Speaker: James Elsner
- Affiliation: Department of Geography, Florida State University
- 12/06/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Anthropogenic and Natural Influences in the Evolution of Lower Stratospheric Cooling”
- Speaker: V. Ramaswamy
- Affiliation: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University
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Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 01/25/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Lapse Rate Changes in the Tropics: Expectations vs. Observations”
- Speaker: Steve Sherwood
- Affiliation: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
- 02/01/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “New Simulations with a Coupled Composition-Atmosphere Ocean GCM: Response of Climate, Compostion, and Dynamics to Exernal Forcing”
- Speaker: Drew Shindell
- Affiliation: Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), NASA
- 02/08/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Interactions Between Oregon’s Coastal River Plumes and the Wintertime Wind-Driven Shelf Circulation”
- Speaker: Michael Whitney
- Affiliation: Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut
- 02/15/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Organization of Mesoscale Convective Systems and its Parameterization in GCM”
- Speaker: Anning Cheng
- Affiliation: Langley Research Center, NASA
- 02/22/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Toward the End of Cumulus Parameterization”
- Speaker: Olivier Pauluis
- Affiliation: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- 03/01/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “An Ephemeral Nearshore Observatory of the Physical and Biological Oceanography of Livingston Island, Antarctica”
- Speaker: Joe Warren
- Affiliation: Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University – Southampton
- 03/08/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “NWP Model Representation of Organized Convective Systems”
- Speaker: Gary Lackmann
- Affiliation: Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University
- 03/15/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Lidar Measurements from Space: New Global Results on Cloud and Aerosol Distribution and Overlap, PBL Height and Elevated Aerosol Layers”
- Speaker: James Spinhirne
- Affiliation: Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), NASA
- 03/22/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Cleaning the Air and Improving Health with Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles”
- Speaker: Mark Jacobson
- Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
- 03/29/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Impact of Tropical SSTs on the Seasonal Atmospheric Variability”
- Speaker: Peitao Peng
- Affiliation: Climate Predicition Center (CPC), National Centers of Environment Prediction (NCEP), NOAA
- 04/05/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Do Satellites Detect Trends in Surface Solar Radiation?”
- Speaker: Rachel Pinker
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
- 04/12/06 Spring Break – No Seminar
- Title:
- Speaker:
- Affiliation:
- 04/19/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Climatic Controls on Central African Hydrology During the Past 20,000 Years”
- Speaker: Enno Schefuss
- Affiliation: Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
- 04/26/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Organic Carbon Aerosol in the Free Troposphere”
- Speaker: Colette Heald
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group, Harvard University
- 05/03/06 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Tropical Influences on Extratropical Precipitation Systems”
- Speaker: John Gyakum
- Affiliation: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University
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Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 09/05/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Breaking Synoptic-Scale Rossby Waves Causing Blocks, Heavy Precipitation,…”
- Speaker: Olivia Martius
- Affiliation: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- 09/12/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Characterizing the Equatorial QBO and its Effects on the Winter Circulation in the Northern Hemisphere: Implications for Seasonal Forecasting”
- Speaker: Kevin Hamilton
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii
- 09/19/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Seasonal and Interannual Variations of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds and the Associated Physics”
- Speaker: Wuyin Lin
- Affiliation: Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
- 09/26/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Climatology of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the North Atlantic(1948 – 2004)”
- Speaker: Ron McTaggart-Cowan
- Affiliation: Numerical Weather Prediction, Division, Canadian Meteorological Service
- 10/03/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Response of Squall Lines to Nocturnal Cooling”
- Speaker: Matthew Parker
- Affiliation: Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University
- 10/10/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Considering Arctic Sea Ice Stability”
- Speaker: Michael Winton
- Affiliation: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
- 10/17/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Emergence and Structure of Jets in Baroclinic Turbulence”
- Speaker: Brian Farrell
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
- 10/24/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Role of Dust in Inhibiting Hurricane Formation”
- Speaker: William K.M. Lau
- Affiliation: Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
- 10/31/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Estimating Eliassen-Palm Flux Using COSMIC Radio Occultation”
- Speaker: Stephen Leroy
- Affiliation: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- 11/07/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Black Carbon Aerosol and Tropical Convective Precipitation”
- Speaker: Chien Wang
- Affiliation: Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 11/14/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Dynamic Role of Tropical Cyclones in the Climate System”
- Speaker: Matthew Huber
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University
- 11/21/07 Thanksgiving Break – No Seminar
- Title:
- Speaker:
- Affiliation:
- 11/28/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge”
- Speaker: Andrew Vogelmann
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- 12/05/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Effects of Semivolatile Emissions and Photochemical Aging on Urban and Regional Primary and Secondary Organic Aerosol Concentrations”
- Speaker: Allen Robinson
- Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- 12/12/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Physical Response of the Coastal Ocean to a Severe Storm in the Palamos Submarine Canyon (NW Mediterranean)”
- Speaker: Antoni Jordi Ballester
- Affiliation: Marine Sciences Research Center, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
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Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 01/24/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Marine Stratocumulus Cloud and Drizzle – New Observational Findings”
- Speaker: Sandra E. Yuter
- Affiliation: Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University
- 01/31/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Tidal Mixing at Steep Topography”
- Speaker: Sonya Legg
- Affiliation: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University
- 02/07/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Changes in Snowfall and Near-Surface Temperature Over Antarctica During the Past 50 Years”
- Speaker: Andy Monaghan
- Affiliation: Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
- 02/14/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Organized Warm-Season Precipitation Systems”
- Speaker: Mitchell Moncrieff
- Affiliation: Cloud Systems Group, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- 02/21/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Mesoscale and Regional Scale Data Assimilation”
- Speaker: Fuqing Zhang
- Affiliation: Department of Atmospherics Sciences, Texas A&M University
- 02/28/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Spatial Structure and Timescales of the NAO and Annular Modes”
- Speaker: Edwin P. Gerber
- Affiliation: Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- 03/07/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “North American Regional Reanalysis”
- Speaker: Fedor Mesinger
- Affiliation: National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Environmental Modeling Center
- 03/14/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Is Global Warming Affecting Tropical Cyclone Activity?”
- Speaker: Kerry A. Emanuel
- Affiliation: Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dr. Emanual is this year’s Robert D. Cess Distinguished Speaker
- 03/21/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Annual Cycle Modes in the Tropical Atlantic Cycle”
- Speaker: David G. DeWitt
- Affiliation: International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
- 03/28/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Cause of the Fragile Relationship Between the Pacific El Nino and the Atlantic El Nino”
- Speaker: Ping Chang
- Affiliation: Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
- 04/04/07 Spring Break – No Seminar
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- 04/11/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Microphysical Properties of Stratus/Stratocumulus Clouds During the 2005 Marine Status/Stratocumulus Experiment (MASE)”
- Speaker: Peter H. Daum
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
- 04/18/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling During Spring Onset”
- Speaker: Robert X. Black
- Affiliation: School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 04/25/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Impact of Atmospheric State and Dynamics on Cloud Properties”
- Speaker: Catherine Naud
- Affiliation: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- 05/02/07 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Links Between Annual, Milankovitch and Continuum Temperature Variability”
- Speaker: Peter Huybers
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
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Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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09/03/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Consider a spherical earth: Heat capacity, time constant and sensitivity of
earth’s climate system” - Speaker: Stephen Schwartz
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Title: “Consider a spherical earth: Heat capacity, time constant and sensitivity of
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09/10/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Extracting Cloud Properties from Doppler Radar Spectra”
- Speaker: Edward Luke
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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09/17/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Surface Fluxes and Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations”
- Speaker: Adam Sobel
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
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09/24/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Late Holocene Tropical Atlantic Climate Variability”
- Speaker: David Black
- Affiliation: School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
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10/01/08 Rosh Hashanah – No Seminar
- Title:
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10/08/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “A Re-interpretation of the Impact of North Atlantic Oscillation on European Climate”
- Speaker: Jawed Iqbal
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi, Pakistan
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10/15/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Tornadogenesis: Our Current Understanding and Questions to Guide Future Research”
- Speaker: Paul Markowski
- Affiliation: Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University
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10/22/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Climatic Effects of Regional Nuclear Wars”
- Speaker: Alan Robock
- Affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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10/29/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Storm Track Dynamics and Variability – – What Don’t We Know About Storm Tracks?”
- Speaker: Edmund Chang
- Affiliation: School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
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11/05/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Statistical Approaches to Aerosol Dynamics for Climate Stimulation”
- Speaker: Robert McGraw
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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11/12/08 Conference on Coastal Storms – No Seminar
- Title:
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11/19/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Recent Global Changes in Greenhouse Gases: How Much and Why?”
- Speaker: Ronald Prinn
- Affiliation: Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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11/26/08 Thanksgiving Break – No Seminar
- Title:
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12/03/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Global Ocean Circulation and its Variability”
- Speaker: Carl Wunsch
- Affiliation: Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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12/10/08 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “A Model Investigation on the Role of Air-Sea Interaction in the Climatological Evolution and ENSO-Related Variability of the Summer Monsoon Over South China and Western Pacific”
- Speaker: Gabriel Lau
- Affiliation: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton University
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Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 01/30/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Middle Atmosphere Advances During the 1960s and Foundations They Established for Contemporary Research”
- Speaker: Marvin Geller
- Affiliation: School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
- 02/06/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Effect of Remote Sea Surface Temperature Change on Tropical Cyclone Potential Intensity”
- Speaker: Gabriel Vecchi
- Affiliation: NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton Forrestal Campus
- 02/13/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Climate and Vegetation in the Middle East: Interannual Variability and Drought Feedbacks”
- Speaker: Benjamin Zaitchik
- Affiliation: Hydrological Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- 02/20/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Associations of Atmospheric and Oceanic Equatorial Kelvin Waves with the Madden Julian Oscillation and Mid-Latitude Weather”
- Speaker: Paul Roundy
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany
- 02/27/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Hadley Cell Expansion Under Global Warming”
- Speaker: Michael Previdi
- Affiliation: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
- 03/05/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Simulations of Ozone and Fine Particles Over New York State for Air Quality Planning, Forecasting, and Climate Change Impact Assessment”
- Speaker: Christian Hogrefe
- Affiliation: NY State Department of Environmental Conservation
- 03/12/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Estuarine Boundary Layer Mixing Processes: Insights from Dye Experiments”
- Speaker: Bob Chant
- Affiliation: Institute of Marine and Coastal Studies, Rutgers University
- 03/19/08 Spring Break – No Seminar
- Title:
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- 03/26/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Impact of Scaling Behavior on Tropical Cyclone Intensities”
- Speaker: Kyle Swanson
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- 04/02/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Understanding the Poleward Shift of Southern Hemisphere Surface Westerlies: Observations and Idealized Models”
- Speaker: Gang Chen
- Affiliation: NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 04/09/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Multi-Model Ensembles in Seasonal Climate Forecasts at IRI”
- Speaker: Shuhua Li
- Affiliation: International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth Institute at Columbia University
- 04/16/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Recent Advancement in Understanding of Water Wave and Muddy Seafloor Interactions”
- Speaker: Philip Li-Fan Liu
- Affiliation: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
- 04/23/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Atmospheric Brown Clouds and Global Warming: A Double Threat for Asia?”
- Speaker: V. Ramanathan
- Affiliation: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
- Dr. Ramanathan is this year’s Robert D. Cess Distinguished Speaker
- 04/30/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “An Energetic-Based Analysis of Two Consecutive Extratropical Cyclones”
- Speaker: Steven Decker
- Affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
- 05/07/08 12 noon, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Recent Advances in High-Resolution Paleohurricane Reconstruction with Stalagmite Stable Isotope Records from Central American Caves”
- Speaker: Amy Frappier
- Affiliation: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Boston College
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Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- 01/28/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Dynamical Climate Perturbations and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem”
- Speaker: R. Alan Plumb
- Affiliation: Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 02/04/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “African Easterly Waves: Origin and Propagation Dynamics”
- Speaker: Anantha Aiyyer
- Affiliation: Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University
- 02/11/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Sedimentary Rock Cycle on Mars and its Astrobiological Implications”
- Speaker: Scott M. McLennan
- Affiliation: Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University
- 02/18/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Solar Influences on the Earth’s Climate”
- Speaker: Marvin Geller
- Affiliation: School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
- 02/25/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Organic Material in Aqueous Atmospheric Aerosols”
- Speaker: V. Faye McNeill
- Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
- 03/04/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Use of Climate Information in the Tropics: Learning from Practice”
- Speaker: Lareef Zubair
- Affiliation: International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
- 03/11/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “A Synergy of Microwave Cloud Tomography and Scanning Radar: Moving Toward a 3D View of Clouds”
- Speaker: Dong Huang
- Affiliation: Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- 03/18/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Groundwater May Be a Key Player in the Global Water Cycle”
- Speaker: Ying Fan Reinfelder
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
- 03/25/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “The Ocean’s Role in Developing Double ITCZ in Equatorial Pacific, Ocean in CCSM3”
- Speaker: Hailong Liu
- Affiliation: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 04/01/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Modern Weather Forecasting: Scientific Opportunities and Operational Challenges”
- Speaker: Lance Bosart
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany
- Dr. Bosart is this year’s Robert D. Cess Distinguished Speaker
- 04/08/09 Spring Break – No Seminar
- Title:
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- 04/15/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Equatorial Convergence of India and Changes in Early Cenozoic Climate”
- Speaker: Dennis Kent
- Affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
- 04/22/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Offshore Wind Power”
- Speaker: Kevin Pearce
- Affiliation: Marine Engineering and Offshore Operations, Bluewater Wind, Hoboken, New Jersey
- 04/29/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “Amplification of the North American Dust Bowl Drought Through Human Induced Land Degradation”
- Speaker: Benjamin Cook
- Affiliation: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
- 05/06/09 12:00pm, Wednesday, Endeavour 120
- Title: “21st Century Sea Level Rise Projections: Methods and Uncertainties”
- Speaker: Radley Horton
- Affiliation: Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
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