E-Newsletter Vol. 12 – 2007

Happy New Year! The Spring 2007 semester officially begins on Monday, January 22.

This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Dr. Sandra E. Yuter from the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University. Her seminar entitled, “Marine Stratocumulus Cloud and Drizzle – New Observational Findings,” will be presented at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, January 24, in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to meet with Dr. Yuter, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at 2-8319 to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Dr. Russell Burke from Hofstra University. Dr. Burke will present a talk entitled, “Diamondback Terrapins of Jamaica Bay: from Evolutionary Ecology to Conservation,” on Friday, January 26 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Michael Frisk, at 2-3750.

Beginning February 2, Friday Weather Discussions will be held weekly at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

We are pleased to welcome to the Center Professor Daniel Knopf who joined ITPA on January 15. Daniel’s office is located in Dana Hall, room 151, and he can be reached at 2-3092. Please stop by to introduce yourself and extend a warm welcome to him.

From January 8 to 20, Professor Sultan Hameed taught a workshop entitled, “Statistical Methods in Climate Research,” at the Global Change Impact Studies Center in Islamabad, Pakistan.

From January 16 to 19, Professor Nicole Reimer visited the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, and the University of Washington, Seattle. She was invited to attend the Aerosol Initiative Meeting and presented a talk entitled, “Aerosol Processing in Clouds: Monte Carlo Simulations on the Impact of Coagulation on the Mixing State.”

During the winter break, Professor Edmund Chang and graduate student Yanjuan Guo attended the Annual General Meeting of the American Meteorological Society held in San Antonio. Professor Chang presented a talk entitled, “Trends in Northern Hemisphere Winter Storm Track Activity in Reanalysis, Observations, and GCM Simulations,” and Yanjuan Guo presented a poster titled, “Assessing the Trends of Southern Hemisphere Transient Wave Activity in Reanalyses and Rawinsonde Observations”.

Student News

On January 28, Shaun Bell will present a talk at the Lenox Elementary School in Baldwin in connection with the “Parents as Reading Partners” Program, which encourages elementary school students to read at least 15 minutes a day. This year, the program is centered around books on meteorological subjects.

Miscellaneous

The Atmospheric Sciences Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory is pleased to announce that their seminars are now open to the public (photo ID required). All are welcome to attend a seminar by Dr. Tad Anderson from the University of Washington on Friday, January 26 at 11:00 a.m. His talk entitled, “Stay the Course or Cut and Run? Strategic Considerations Regarding the Quantification of Climate Forcing by Anthropogenenic Aerosols,” will take place in the conference room of Building 815E. For a list of upcoming BNL seminars, please accesshttp://www.ecd.bnl.gov/ASD_seminar_series.html.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Dr. Sonya Legg from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University. Her seminar entitled, “Tidal Mixing at Steep Topography,” will be presented at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, January 31, in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to meet with Dr. Legg, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at 2-8319 to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Cliff Cunningham from Duke University. Professor Cunningham will present a talk entitled, “Community Assembly in the Northwest Atlantic and the Lesser Antilles,” on Friday, February 2 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Stephan Munch, at 2-3087.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

Last week, Professor Marvin Geller served as a reviewer for the Deutsche Forchungsgemeinschaft (DFG, the German equivalent to the National Science Foundation) for proposals submitted to their Priority Program – Climate and weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES) in Bonn, Germany.

On Saturday, January 27, Professor Minghua Zhang will moderate a question and answer session at the Emma S. Clark Library in Setauket on Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

This week, Professor Minghua Zhang will be attending a meeting of the Atmospheric Model Working Group (AMWG) at the National Center of Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Professor Zhang is co-chairman of the AMWG of the NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM).

Student News

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Earth Sciences Division, in collaboration with the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at the University of Maryland, is offering a limited number of graduate student research opportunities through its Graduate Student Summer Program. Deadline for applications is February 28. Additional details are posted on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall and may also be obtained by accessing http://earthsciences.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Miscellaneous

There will be a South Campus Blood Drive on Friday, February 2 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the busmobile in front of Endeavour Hall. Please consider donating as there is an urgent need for blood at this time. To schedule an appointment, please contact Katerina in the Main Office at 2-8781.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Dr. Andy Monaghan from the Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University. His seminar entitled, “Changes in Snowfall and Near-Surface Temperature Over Antarctica During the Past 50 Years,” will be presented at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, February 7 in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to meet with Dr. Monaghan, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at 2-8319 to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speakers are MSRC’s Professors Bruce Brownawell and Larry Swanson. Their seminar entitled, “Progress Toward Understanding Contaminant Sources and their Effects on the Polluted Forge River, a Tidal Estuary on the South Shore,” will be presented on Friday, February 9 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Michael Frisk at 2-3750.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the first volume of the 4th Assessment Report, “The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change,” on February 2, 2007. Professor Edmund Chang served as a contributing author to Chapter 3 of the report, “Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change.”

Faculty members who received the NRC assessment survey are asked to complete it before the deadline of February 15.

As a reminder, if you are planning to be out of town, please put your name along with the dates on the board in the ITPA office (Endeavour 129) or send Gina (ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu) an e-mail with the information.

Miscellaneous

The Bay Scallop Bowl takes place on Saturday, February 10, in the Student Activities Center. The competition begins promptly at 9:00 a.m., however, volunteers are asked to arrive no later than 7:30 a.m.

President Kenney invites all faculty, staff and students to participate in Stony Brook Day, the annual advocacy day in Albany, on Tuesday, March 6. For information, please access http:www.stonybrook.edu/albany.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Dr. Mitchell Moncrieff from the Cloud Systems Group, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). His seminar entitled, “Organized Warm-Season Precipitation Systems,” will be presented at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, February 14 in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to meet with Dr. Moncrieff, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at 2-8319 to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is MSRC’s Professor Dong-Ping Wang. His seminar entitled, “Hurricane Katrina: Winds, Waves and Currents,” will be presented on Friday, February 16 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Steve Munch at 2-3087.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Miscellaneous

The Spring 2007 schedules for seminars held at Columbia University, CUNY, may be accessed athttp://www.appmath.columbia.edu/igert and athttp://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm. A complete list of seminars may also be found on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker will present two seminars. Dr. Fuqing Zhang from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A & M University, will present a seminar entitled, “Gravity Waves in Jet Streaks,” on Tuesday, February 20 at 4:00 p.m. The second seminar, “Mesoscale and Regional Scale Data Assimilation,” will be presented on Wednesday, February 21 at 12:00 noon. Both seminars will take place in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to meet with Dr. Zhang, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at 2-8319 to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Ellen K. Pikitch from the PEW Institute of Ocean Science, University of Miami. Her seminar entitled, “Averting the Global Extinction of Sturgeon in the Wild,” will be presented on Friday, February 23 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact Katerina in the Main Office at 2-8781.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

From February 20 through 22, Professor Brian Colle will be in Boulder, CO to participate in the Weather Research and Forecasting Verification Toolkit Workshop. The primary goal of the workshop is to decide on a plan for the new real-time WRF verification tool for the community.

Student News

The first of a three-year, NASA-sponsored Heliophysics Summer School will be hosted by UCAR in Boulder, CO from July 30 to August 7, 2007. The summer school has two principal aims: (1) to deepen the appreciation of the basic science of heliophysics for a select group of students, as teachers take them through highly interactive seminars and hands-on working groups, and (2) to produce a series of textbooks from which heliophysics may be taught at universities worldwide. For further information, please access http://www.vsp.ucar.edu. Additional details are also posted on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall.

The American Meteorological Society has extended the application deadline for the AMS Undergraduate Scholarships, available to students entering their final year of undergraduate study in the Fall of 2007. For application materials, please accesshttp://www.ametsoc.org/amsstudentinfo/scholfeldocs/index.html#3

Miscellaneous

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Professor Edwin P. Gerber from the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University. Professor Gerber’s seminar entitled, “The Spatial Structure and Timescales of the NAO and Annular Modes,” will be presented on Wednesday, February 28 at 12:00 Noon in Endeavour 120. If you would like to meet with Professor Gerber, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at 2-8319 to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is MSRC’s Professor Kamazima Lwiza. His seminar entitled, “Dynamics of Dissolved Oxygen in Long Island Sound” will be presented on Friday, March 2 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Michael Frisk at 2-3750.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

An MSRC faculty meeting has been tentatively scheduled for Thursday, March 22 at 3:00 p.m. in Endeavour 120.

Student News

Please remember to sign the February attendance roster in the Endeavour Hall mailroom.

Miscellaneous

All are invited to attend a seminar at Brookhaven National Laboratory on March 2 at 11:00 a.m. in the conference room of Building 815. Dr. Yin-Nan Lee will present a seminar entitled, “Characterization of Chemical Composition and Cloud Nucleating Properties of Marine Aerosols During the 2005 Marine Stratus Experiment (MASE).” For additional information, please contact Nancy Warren at nwarren@bnl.gov.

MSRC’s Spring 2007 Public Lecture Series at Stony Brook Southampton begins on March 9. For a complete list of seminars please visit
http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/news/SBSLS.html.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Professor Fedor Mesinger from the Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Professor Mesinger’s seminar entitled, “North American Regional Reanalysis,” will be presented on Wednesday, March 7, at 12:00 Noon in Endeavour 120. If you would like to meet with Professor Mesinger, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at 2-8319 to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Karl Turekian from Yale University. His seminar entitled, “Two of my Favorite Things: Osmium and Long Island Sound,” will be presented on Friday, March 9 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Stephan Munch at 2-3087.

This week’s Stony Brook/Southampton Lecture Series speaker is MSRC’s Professor Malcolm Bowman. Professor Bowman’s seminar entitled, “Climate Change, Rising Sea Levels, and Storm Surge: What Lies Ahead for Long Island and Metropolitan New York?” will be presented on Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Duke Hall-Chancellors Hall on the Southampton campus. Reception to follow lecture.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

This week, Professor Minghua Zhang and Dr. Wuyin Lin will be in Maryland to attend the NASA Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Science Team Meeting.

Last week, Professor Bob de Zafra received a NASA “Group Achievement Award to the UARS Team” for a decade+ of involvement with the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Correlative Measurements Program, (primarily his work in polar regions, in support of the Microwave Limb Sounder and other instruments on the UARS). Congratulations, Bob!

Student News

MSRC’s recruitment weekend has been scheduled for March 23 – 25. Student volunteers are needed for the following: (1) to host prospective students and provide accommodations for two nights, (2) to participate in the pot-luck dinner, (3) to drive students to and from the airport using Center vehicles, and (3) to host and organize the annual student-hosted, Saturday night dinner.

Miscellaneous

Mark your calendars for this year’s International Potluck Dinner on March 23 in connection with MSRC’s recruitment weekend. Details will be provided in next week’s newsletter.

Stony Brook Day in Albany will take place on Tuesday, March 6 with buses departing from P-Lot at 6:00 a.m. To sign up online, please access http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/DoIT/webforms.nsf/albany. For additional information, please contact Malcolm Bowman at mbowman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is recruiting post-doctoral scientists and short-term senior visitors to work in Princeton at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) as part of the Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI). Further information may be found on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall, and by accessinghttp://www.vsp.ucar.edu.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Dr. Kerry A. Emanuel, who is also this year’s Robert D. Cess Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Emanuel’s seminar entitled, “Is Global Warming Affecting Tropical Cyclone Activity?” will be presented on Wednesday, March 14 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to meet with Dr. Emanuel, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Lawrence Slobodkin from Stony Brook University. His seminar entitled, “My Collected Works and More – A Summary,” will be presented on Friday, March 16 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Stephan Munch at 2-3087.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

Professor Daniel Knopf will present a seminar at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Friday, March 16 at 11:00 a.m. Professor Knopf’s seminar entitled, Atmospheric Processing of Organic Mixtures and Monolayers by O₃, NO₃, and N₂0₅,” will be held in the conference room of Building 815E. Remember to bring a photo ID for entrance to the lab. Abstract available atknopf_abstract_brookhaven.pdf

Student News

Former Ph.D. student, Giovanni Muscari received a NASA “Group Achievement Award to the UARS Team” for a decade+ of involvement with the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Correlative Measurements Program. Dr. Muscari is currently working at the National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology in Rome.

Miscellaneous

In conjunction with MSRC’s recruitment week, the annual International Pot-luck Dinner has been scheduled for Friday, March 23 at 6:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Volunteers are needed to prepare food, and for set-up and clean-up. Sign-up sheets and additional details are posted outside of the mailroom.

All are invited to attend a seminar at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday, March 14 at 11:00 a.m. in the conference room of Building 490. Dr. David McLaughlin, Director of the CASA Engineering Research Center, will present a seminar entitled, “Chasing Interdisciplinarity while Chasing Tornadoes: An Overview of the CASA Engineering Center.” For additional information, please contact Adrienne DeBoard at deboard@bnl.gov.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is David DeWitt from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University. Dr. DeWitt’s seminar entitled, “Annual Cycle Modes in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean,” will be presented on Wednesday, March 21 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to meet with Dr. DeWitt, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Steve Campana from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. His seminar entitled, “Science and Conservation of Sharks in Atlantic Canada,” will be presented on Friday, March 23 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Michael Frisk at 2-3750.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

There will be an MSRC faculty meeting on Thursday, March 22, at 1:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

This week, Professor Marvin Geller will be attending the International Symposium on Coupling Processes in the Equatorial Atmosphere in Kyoto, Japan.

Student News

Stony Brook’s chapter of Sigma Xi is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for awards for Excellence in Research and for Educationally-related Travel. Please see the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall for information and application forms.

Miscellaneous

In conjunction with MSRC’s recruitment weekend, the annual International Pot-luck Dinner will take place on Friday, March 23 at 6:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. We are still in need of volunteers to prepare food, and for set-up and clean-up. Sign-up sheets and additional details are posted outside of the mailroom. Please join us to welcome our prospective students.

MSRC’s softball team is entering two teams, a men’s team and a co-ed team, into the Stony Brook Intramural Softball Leagues. There will be five or six on-campus games, weekdays between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. For more information, please see Owen Doherty in Discovery Hall 105.

The Stony Brook campus community is hosting its 4th annual Earthstock Celebration during the third week in April. Please access http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/earthstock/index.shtml for details.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Professor Ping Chang from the Department of Oceanography, Texas A & M University. Professor Chang’s seminar entitled, “The Cause of the Fragile Relationship Between the Pacific El Nino and the Atlantic El Nino,” will be presented on Wednesday, March 28 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to meet with Professor Chang, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Greg Holland from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). His seminar entitled, “On the Changing Characteristics of North Atlantic Hurricanes: Natural Variability, Climate Trend, and Data Deficiencies,” will be presented on Friday, March 30 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Marvin Geller, at 2-8686.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

Professor Minghua Zhang will be in Monterey, California this week to attend the DOE ARM Science Team Meeting.

During spring break, Professor Edmund Chang will attend a planning meeting for the THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign held at Monterey, CA. This international observation campaign will be held in the second half of 2008.

A New York Times article by Professor Malcolm Bowman entitled, “The Real Riddle of Changing Weather: How Safe is my Home?,” may be viewed by logging into the NY Times website athttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/realestate/11cov.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.

Miscellaneous

Special thanks to all those who participated in MSRC’s recruitment weekend on March 21-23. Fifteen prospective students attended Center-wide events including a poster display of the Center’s research projects, an international pot-luck dinner, talks presented by graduate students and faculty, a graduate student-hosted dinner, and a tour of the Seawolf and local habitats.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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S P R I N G   B R E A K

There will be no Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences seminar, Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium, or Friday Weather Discussion this week. Enjoy the break!

Faculty News

During spring break, Professor Edmund Chang will attend a planning meeting for the THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign held at Monterey, CA. This international observation campaign will be held in the second half of 2008.

Miscellaneous

Mark your calendars for Earthstock 2007: A Week Long Celebration of Earth Day. A week-long series of programs and events (April 16 -20) marks the University’s fourth annual Earth-Stock festivities in celebration of Earth Day. Earthstock 2007 is the University’s largest so far. A week’s worth of programming including films, discussions, a parliamentary debate, a panel presentation, lectures, an exhibition of student research and conversations about the current environmental crisis, global warming and issues of sustainability. The week-long programming series concludes with a large festival on Friday April 20 from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on the Academic Mall which includes two stages for music and dance performances, strolling street performers, exhibitions from local business and environmental groups, and a “Melting Globe” – an ice sculpture symbolizing global warming and the current environmental crisis. For a full schedule of events, please visithttp://www.stonybrook.edu/earthstock.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Professor Peter H. Daum from the Atmospheric Sciences Division of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Professor Daum’s seminar entitled, “Microphysical Properties of Stratus/Stratocumulus Clouds During the 2005 Marine Stratus/Stratocumulus Experiment (MASE),” will be presented on Wednesday, April 11 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to meet with Professor Daum, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is MSRC’s Professor Marvin Geller from the Institute of Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres (ITPA). His seminar entitled, “Atmospheric Waves – The Essential Ingredient,” will be presented on Friday, April 13 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Steve Munch at 2-3087.

This week’s Stony Brook/Southampton Lecture Series speaker is MSRC’s Dr. David Black. Dr. Black’s seminar entitled, “Global Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and What You Can Do About It,” will be presented on Friday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Duke Hall-Chancellors Hall on the Southampton campus. Reception to follow lecture.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

Professor Minghua Zhang will be in Paris this week to attend the CFMIP/ENSEMBLES Workshop on Assessment of Cloud and Water Vapour Feedback Processes in GCMs.

Student News

The 2007 Graduate Climate Conference will take place on October 19 through 21 at the Charles L. Pack Forest Recreational Center in Seattle, Washington. Abstracts and applications are due by May 15. Additional information may be obtained from the ITPA bulletin board and by accessing
http://depts.washington.edu/uwpcc/ourprog/GradConf_2007_Application.html.

Please remember to sign the February attendance roster in the mailroom.

Miscellaneous

Mark your calendars for MSRC’s Convocation ceremony scheduled for Friday, May 18, at 8:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The University’s 20th Annual Spring Pride Patrol will take place on April 20 to coincide with Earth Day. Sign-up sheets may be found on the ITPA bulletin aboard in Endeavour Hall.

Lawrence Martin, Chair of the Committee on Honorary Degrees, invites the University community for nominations for 2008 Honorary Degrees. Deadline for submission is April 23. Additional information may be found on the ITPA bulletin board.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Professor Robert X. Black from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Black’s seminar entitled, “Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling During Spring Onset,” will be presented on Wednesday, April 18 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to meet with Professor Black, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Dana K. Savidge from the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. Her seminar entitled, “Wind, Gulf Stream and Buoyancy Forcing on the Shelf Near Cape Hatteras,” will be presented on Friday, April 20 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Charlie Flagg at 2-3184.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Student News

Key-Hong Park will defend his Ph.D. thesis proposal on Thursday, April 19 at 1:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 113.

Students who wish to be considered for graduation in May must complete a “Request for Dissertation Examining Committee Appointment and Authorization to Schedule a Dissertation Defense” form which can be obtained from MSRC’s Educational Programs Office in Endeavour 105.

Miscellaneous

“Earthstock 2007: A Week Long Celebration of Earth Day,” takes place from April 16-20. For a full schedule of events, please access http://www.stonybrook.edu/earthstock.

There will be a South Campus Blood Drive on April 20 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. To schedule an appointment, please contact Katerina in the Main Office at 2-8701.

Vax to Flax, MSRC’s annual race has been tentatively scheduled for Saturday, May 5. For those interested in participating, please contact Juliet Kinney at jwkinney@ic.sunysb.edu.

Mark your calendars for MSRC’s Convocation ceremony scheduled for Friday, May 18, at 8:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Professor Catherine Naud from Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University. Professor Naud’s seminar entitled, “Impact of Atmospheric State and Dynamics on Cloud Properties,” will be presented on Wednesday, April 25 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to meet with Professor Naud, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed to schedule an appointment.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor David W. Townsend from the University of Maine. His seminar entitled, “Blooms of Alexandrium fundyense (the red tide dinoflagellate) in the Gulf of Maine,” will be presented on Friday, April 27 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Charlie Flagg at 2-3184.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Student News

Please remember to sign the March attendance roster in the mailroom of Endeavour Hall. Payroll has advised us that they will begin holding paychecks if attendance rosters are not signed. Please make every effort to sign at the end of each month.

Miscellaneous

MSRC’s Convocation ceremony will take place on Friday, May 18, at 8:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker is Professor Peter Huber from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. Professor Huber’s seminar entitled, “Links Between Annual, Milankovitch and Continuum Temperature Variability,” will be presented on Wednesday, May 2 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to meet with Professor Huber, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed to schedule an appointment. This is the last TAOS seminar of the Spring semester. The Fall semester seminar schedule will be available in August.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Mak Saito from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His seminar entitled, “A Comparison of the Trace Metal Biogeochemistry Between the Costa Rica Upwelling Dome and the Ross Sea, Antarctica,” will be presented on Friday, May 4 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For additional information, please contact the host, Chris Gobler, 2-3736. This is the last OAC seminar this semester.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139. Topic to be announced on day of discussion.

Faculty News

Professor Brian Colle has been awarded a two-year COMET grant to investigate Ensemble Streamflow Prediction in collaboration with a few surrounding National Weather Services offices. He has also been awarded a three-year grant by the National Science Foundation to study convective evolution over the Northeast and it’s modification by New York City and the marine environment.

An ITPA faculty meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, May 3, at 3:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 113.

An MSRC faculty meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 8, at 9:00 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

Professor Brian Colle has been named as an Editor to the journal “Weather and Forecasting” for the American Meteorological Society. Congratulations, Brian.

Student News

Graduate student Joe Olson and Professor Brian Colle have a note in April’s “Monthly Weather Review” entitled, “A Modified Approach to Initialize an Idealized Extratropical Cyclone within a Mesoscale Model.”

MSRC’s Convocation ceremony takes place on Friday, May 18, at 8:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Congratulations to all of our Spring 2007 graduates.

Miscellaneous

This year’s Vax to Flax race will be held on Saturday, May 5. For details, please contact Juliet Kinney at jwkinney@ic.sunysb.edu.

There will be a seminar at Brookhaven National Laboratory on May 1 at 11:00 a.m. in the conference room of building 815. Michelle Hawkins of Howard University will present a seminar entitled, “Investigation of Ozone Concentrations in the Tropical Atlantic Marine Boundary Layer During Saharan Dust and Biomass Burning Events.” This seminar is open to the public, however, a photo ID is required for entrance onto the BNL site.

SUNY Oswego is recruiting for a research faculty member at the Associate Professor level in weather and/or climate modeling. Please see the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall for details, or contact Professor Alfred Stamm at (315) 312-2806.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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The Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences seminars and Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium series have concluded for the spring 2007 semester. Fall schedules will be available in mid-August.

Friday Weather Discussions will resume in September.

Faculty News

On May 11, Professor Nicole Riemer will visit the University of California at Davis to meet with Tony Wexler regarding their collaborative research on cloud aerosol interactions. From May 18 to 25, she will visit the Research Center and University in Karlsruhe to advance the work on the impact of organic films on the heterogeneous hydrolysis of N205 in collaboration with Bernhard Vogel’s group.

An MSRC faculty meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 8, at 9:00 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

Student News

Congratulations to Katherine Rojowsky, the 2007 winner of the Petra M. Uldehofen Memorial Scholarship.

MSRC’s Convocation ceremony takes place on Friday, May 18, at 8:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Congratulations to all of our Spring 2007 graduates.

Miscellaneous

The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) Meteorology Office is currently recruiting for graduates and/or post-docs to fill vacancies in the boundary layer, convection and radiation groups of the Atmospheric Processes and Parameterization area. To expand a little on the generic brochure linked from that page, this is the area of the Met Office often-quoted as an example of the “GCSS process” in action. We do the whole range, from large-eddy and cloud resolving model research, to parameterization development in the single column model, to testing in the full GCM, as well as getting involved in the detailed analysis of the GCM itself. Closing date for applications is May 16. There are also vacancies in all the other areas of NWP research, e.g., observations based research (flying the aircraft), data assimilation, satellite applications and IT. For details on the current recruitment campaign, please access http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/recruitment/vacancies/index.html and follow the link to Research and Development Rolling Recruitment.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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