RSMAS Climate Seminar Series and
Vetlesen Visiting Climate Scholar
An inter-disciplinary seminar series examining climate issues from physical, chemical, biological and human perspectives.

Winter/Spring 2005


January 2005

Thu 6th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Slobodan P. Simonovic
University of Western Ontario		 Inverse Modeling of Water Resources Risk and Vulnerability to Changing Climatic Conditions in the Upper Thames River Basin


February 2005

Thu 17th
9:00a-10:00a
SLAB Seminar Room		 Roger Pielke Jr.
University of Colorado		 Climate Change and Disasters
FOR MORE INFO SEE: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt= 6dhphv5Mvz4UV%2FzHyXNMKx%3D%3D
Fri 18th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room		Ed Sarachik
University of Washington		 Climate Variability and Predictability on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales
Mon 28th
4:00p-5:00p
SLAB Seminar Room		Prof. Zev Levin
Tel Aviv University		 Natural and Human Impact on Rain -- A Historical Perspective


March 2005

Thu 10th
9:30a-10:30a
SLAB Seminar Room		 Anthony Leiserowitz
University of Oregon		 Global Warming in the American Mind: Public Risk Perceptions and Policy
Tue 22nd
9:30a-10:30a
SLAB Seminar Room		 Johannes Loschnigg
Professional Staff Member, Committee on Science
U.S. House of Representatives		 The Life of a Scientist on Capitol Hill


April 2005

Thu 7th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Ben Santer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		 Recent Developments in Climate Change Detection and Attributions



PAST SEMINARS


October 2002

Mon 7th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Alex Hall
University of California-Los Angeles 		The Role of Surface Albedo Feedback in Climate Variability and Climate Change


November 2002

Tue 19th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Jeff Shaman
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University 		Monitoring and Forecasting St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Transmission in


February 2003

Fri 14th
10:00a-11:00a
SLAB Seminar Room
NOTE: THIS IS 1/2 HOUR EARLIER THAN THE REGULAR TIME 		Mark Cane
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University 		Tropical-Extratropical Connections in the Pacific
Mon 17th
11:00a-12:00p
SLAB Seminar Room 		Andrew Wittenberg
Postdoctoral Scientist, NOAA/GFDL 		A Baseline Statistical Model for Tropical Pacific Wind Stress Anomalies
Tue 18th
11:00a-12:00p
SLAB Seminar Room 		Prof Andy Moore
University of Colorado http://paos.colorado.edu/faculty/Moore.html 		Some Thoughts on the Stochastic Nature of ENSO


March 2003

Fri 14th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Brain Soden
NOAA/GFDL-CIMAS, visiting scientist 		Global warming and the atmospheric hydrologic cycle
Mon 31st
10:00a-11:00a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Elke Weber
Columbia University 		The Psychology of Climate Variability and Climate Forecasts


April 2003

Fri 18th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Hal Wanless
University of Miami
Departmaent of Geological Sciences 		Stepped Inundation of South Florida Past, Present and Future


May 2003

Fri 9th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Nick A. Bond
University of Washington/JISAO
 U.S. Winter Weather Anomalies with El Nino and Negative Artic Oscillation: 2002-03 and Before
Fri 16th
10:30a-11:30a MSC 343
"PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE" 		Balaji Rajagopalan
CIRES, University of Colorado
 A Stochastic Nonparametric Framework for Ensemble Hydrologic Forecast and Downscaling


October 2003

Fri 17th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Vetlesen Visiting Climate Scholar Lecture
Dr. Jim Jones
University of Florida		 Climate Change and Agriculture: Why Worry?
Abstract
Fri 31st
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		David Enfield
NOAA/AOML		 The Western Hemisphere Warm Pool:A Climate Capacitor


November 2003

Fri 21st
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Vetlesen Visiting Climate Scholar Lecture
Prashant Sardeshmukh
CIRES/Climate Diagonostics Center
University of Colorado		 To What Extent Are Weather and Climate Models Random Number Generators
Tue 25th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room
NOTE: SPECIAL DAY 		Mike Wallace
University of Washington		 TITLE---TBA


December 2003

Fri 5th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Guillermo Podesta
University of Miami, RSMAS		 TITLE---TBA


January 2004

Fri 16th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Vetlesen Visiting Climate Scholar Lecture
Andrew Weaver
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
University of Victoria		 TITLE---TBA


April 2004

Fri 16th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Dr. Heidi Cullen
The Weather Channel
 As The World Warms: Climate Change, Politics, and the Media
Mon 19th
10:30a-11:30a
SLAB Seminar Room 		Raghu Murtugudde
ESSIC/METO
University of Maryland		 Do Climate Models Need to Worry About Biological Feedbacks


May 2004

Thu 6th
11:30a-12:30p
SLAB Seminar Room 		David Neelin
UCLA
 Mechanisms for Regional Precipitation Anomalies in Teleconnections and Global Warming

Logistics:

The RSMAS Climate Seminar 
is normally held on Fridays from 
10:30-11:30 AM in the seminar 
room in the Science and Administration Building(SLAB). 
However, times may vary.




Organizers:

Feel free to contact the organizers 
with questions, input or suggested speakers.

Andy Bakun(MBF)
(305)361-4986
Kenny Broad(MAF)
(305)361-4851
Amy Clement(MPO)
(305)361-4846
Will Drennan(AMP)
(305)361-4798
Rana Fine(MAC)
(305)361-4722
Larry Peterson(MGG)
(305)361-4692
Chidong Zhang(MPO)
(305)361-4042
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