Fall 2012
September 21. Climate Effects of Combustion and Dust Aerosols in Snow
Charlie Zender, University of California, Irvine
Sierra Hall 279, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00
September 28. Benefits and Challenges of High Spatial Resolution in Climate Models
James Kinter, Director, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospheric Studies
& Professor of Climate Dynamics, George Mason University
Sierra Hall 279, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00
October 5. The Mathematics of Paleoclimate Reconstructions
Julien Emile-Geary, Department of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematical Sciences, USC
Sierra Hall 279, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00
October 12. The Educational Global Climate Modeling Project (EdGCM)
Mark Chandler, Columbia University, NASA/GISS
Sierra Hall 279, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00
October 25. Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth from tobacco to global warming
Naomi Oreskes, UC San Diego
USU Theater, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Power point: click here
November 2. Mid-Century Climate Change in the Los Angeles Region
Alex Hall, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Chaparral Hall 5127, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 For additional information, click here
Spring 2013
February 8 . Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
Aradhna Tripathi, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Live Oak 1325, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00
February 14, 15. Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know
Riley Duren, The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2013, JPL
See: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.cfm?year=2013&month=2
February 20. Technical and economic plans to power the world, U.S., and individual states for all purposes with wind, water, and sunlight
Mark Jacobson, Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program, Stanford University
Bianchi Planetarium, 3:30 p.m.
April 26. Milankovitch Cycles and the Earth's Climate
John Baez, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside
Live Oak 1325, 2:00 p.m.
Archive: Spring 2011 Seminar
