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The following is a list of upcoming seminars which may be of interest related to the course. Extra Credit (up to 10) may be earned by handing in a summary (see details) of the talk within one week of the seminar. Past lectures are below. Week 8: May
19-23 ----------------------------- Wednesday, May 21, 2008
7pm, 220 Kane Hall The Cold Rush: Arctic
Energy The race is on to find oil and gas in the
melting Arctic. As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps
rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic
energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix. A panel of international energy
experts a) discuss the Arctic as an energy frontier, united by resources,
location/proximity, and environmental/logistical challenges; and b) introduce
the work of the Arctic Council and its Arctic Energy Action Team. Panelists: - Peter Sharp, Senior Policy Analyst,
Energy Secretariat (GDEE) Department of Foreign Affairs & International
Trade Canada (DFAIT), Ottawa. - Ben Ellis, Member, Executive Committee,
Arctic Council's Energy Action Team; Managing Director, Institute of the North,
Anchorage. - Mikhail Alexseev, Associate Professor,
Political Science, San Diego State University. http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/news/flyers/Arctic_full_page.pdf Thursday May 22, 3:30 pm
ATG 310c Atmospheric Dynamics Seminar Ron Lindsay, Meteorologist, Department of
Applied Physics Lab, UW Modeling Trends in Arctic Sea Ice UPCOMING – PUT THESE ON
YOUR CALENDAR Week 1 of MAR 31 - APR 4 Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 7:30 p.m.; Kane Hall 210JISAO Lecture SeriesDr. Jonathan Overpeck, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth "Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference?" More information: http://jisao.washington.edu/JISAO_admin/JISAO_LectureSeries/index.html This one should be very good! Friday, April 4, 2008, 3:30 p.m.; JHN 075
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium Art Rangno, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UW “Adventures in Cloud Seeding” Though cloud seeding is more along the lines of weather modification,
rather than climate per se, Art should be very entertaining. Week 2:
Apr 7-11
----------------------------- Thu April 10, 2008, 1:30-3pm, SAFS 203 Climate Impacts Group Spring Seminar Part 1: "Quarterly climate update" with Todd
Mitchell (CSES) and Philip Mote (CSES) Part 2: "Dead zones in the California Current"
with Francis Chan (Oregon State
University) http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/seminars.shtml Thu April 10, 4-5pm, Fishery Sciences Auditorium, Room 102 "Effects of Seasonal Sea Ice on the Southeast Bering Sea
Ecosystem" with George Hunt
(SAFS) http://www.fish.washington.edu/seminars/ Friday, April 11, 2008, 3:30 p.m.; JHN 075
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium Phil Rasch, Scientist, Climate and Global Dynamics
Division, NCAR "Explorations of Geoengineering the Earth System as a
Strategy for Countering Global Warming" This one should be quite good!\ Week 3: Apr 14-18 ---------------------------- Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:30pm, Gates Hall, Rm 138 (Law School) Robert Swan & the Voyage for Cleaner
Energy The Berman Environmental Law Clinic will be hosting British
polar explorer and environmental leader Robert Swan for a dynamic
presentation during his Voyage for Cleaner Energy. The Voyage for Cleaner
Energy is a 5 year, worldwide lecture series and sailing expedition that
includes stops in the US, Russia, Europe, China and India. The 2041 sailboat will be open to students for tours on April 17
and 18. Call Melissa Ritti at 530.903.0292 for details, go to http://www.2041.com/
for more information http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/news/flyers/SWAN.pdf ***Thursday, April 17, 2008, 7:30 PM, Kane
120*** Atmospheric Science Distinguished Lecture Sir Brian Hoskins, Univ of Reading, UK "Climate Change in an Uncertain World" http://www.atmos.washington.edu/Hoskins_DVL_Lecture/ Attend this
lecture! You can register at the link above. Week 4:
Apr 21-25
------------------------- 04.22.2008 :: Earth Day People and Climate Change
Presentation Tue, 7pm, Seattle REI Join photographer Benjamin Drummond and writer Sara Joy
Steele for a multimedia presentation that explores how three
Nordic communities are adjusting to climate change. More information: http://www.rei.com/stores/events/11 Wednesday, April 23, 2008,
7:30 p.m. HUB East Ballroom 2008 Daniel L. and Irma Evans Lecture Speaker: Dr. Timothy L. Killeen * Director,
National Center for Atmospheric Research * President,
American Geophysical Union Lecture: Climate and Weather Modeling 2008: From a Global
to a Regional Perspective http://www.ce.washington.edu/about/events/events.html Music and
refreshments afterwards… (if you needed another reason to attend) 04.25.2008 :: Environmental Policy Brown Bag Lunch Fri, 12pm, Kincaid A23D William Calvin (UW) Author of Global Fever: How to Treat
Climate Change More information: kla5@u.washington.edu Friday, April 25, 2008, 3:30 p.m.; JHN 075
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium Robert J. Charlson, Emeritus Prof., Atmospheric Sciences,
UW Aerosol Effects on Climate: A Short History; or An Idiosyncratic View of How
Aerosol-Climate Research Arrived at Where it is Today Week 5:
Apr 28 - May 2
------------------------- Thur, May 1, 2008, 1:30-3pm, UW SAFS 203 Climate Impacts Group Spring Seminar: Joe Casola "Assessing the impacts of global warming on snowpack
in the Washington Cascades" with Joe Casola (UW Atmospheric Sciences) http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/seminars.shtml Thur, May 1, 2008, 3:30 pm; ATG 310c Ka-Kit Tung, Professor and Chair of Applied Math, UW Controversies on the Sun Influence on Global Warming and
Whether such an Influence is Already in the IPCC AR4 Friday, May 2, 2008, 3:30 p.m.; KANE 210
******* Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium Susan Solomon Sr. Scientist, NOAA ESRL,
Boulder New Perspectives on Linkages Between Ozone Depletion and
Climate Change Attend
this lecture! Solomon is the co-chair of the IPCC Working Group I
Report, which deals with the science behind climate change. This report shared the Nobel Peace Award with
Al Gore in 2007. Dr. Solomon’s
pioneering work in the mid 1980’s in identifying the mechanism that produces
the Antarctic ozone hole contributed toward the protection of the ozone
layer. Week 6:
May 5-9
------------------------- Wednesday, May 07, 2008, 3:30 PM, Physics/Astro Aud (PAA)
A102 Carl Wunsch, Special Climate Seminar Carl Wunsch, Professor of Physical Oceanography at MIT will
give an ocean circulation and climate lecture. Will be a
lecture targeted toward faculty and grad students – could be interesting or
could be very confusing. ***Thursday, May 08, 2008, 7:00 PM, Kane
120*** PCC 7th Annual Public Lecture (2008) Professor Carl Wunsch "The Ocean and Climate Change: Exciting Stories,
Realistic Problems, and the Future" Attend this lecture! Week 7:
May 12-16
------------------------- *****Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:30 PM, Kane 110***** Fleagle Endowed Lecture in Atmospheric
Sciences Policy Dr. Ralph J.
Cicerone, President National Academy of Sciences “Climate Change and Human Energy Usage: Constraints and
Options” http://www.atmos.washington.edu/Fleagle_Lecture_2008/ Attend this
lecture… Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:30 p.m., JHN 075 Atmospheric Sciences Special Seminar Dr. Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences World Energy Usage:
Finding a Sustainable Trajectory Or this one. Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:30 p.m., ATG 310C Atmospheric Dynamics Seminar Round table discussion of predictions of this year’s Arctic
sea ice minimum
Friday, May 16, 2008 12:30, OSB 425 CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR – Dr Peter Brewer,
MBARI, "Assessing the impacts of a high CO2 ocean: Experiments,
theory, and predicting change," 12:30, 425 OSB. |
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