Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule

Seminars: Fall 2007

Seminars are held on Fridays from 3:30-4:30 PM (except where noted) in the Charles H. Jones Auditorium (L1205) in the Ford ES&T Building.

Organizers: Dr. Ellery Ingall, Associate Professor of geochemistry and oceanography, and Dr. Athanasios Nenes, Assistant Professor of aerosols and clouds.

For more information, please contact Susan Ryan at (404) 894-3893.

Aug. 24: Dr. Thanos Nenes, Georgia Tech
"How can in-situ observations constrain and improve modeling of aerosol indirect change"
Aug. 31: Dr. Bruce Buffett, University of Chicago
"Methane clathrates: Origin, evolution and implications for global climate change"
Sept. 7: Dr. Pat Michaels, Cato Institute/University of Virginia
"Global Warming"
Sept. 14: Family Weekend, no seminar
Sept. 21: Dr. Kevin Trenbert, UCAR
"The flow of energy through the Earth's climate system: Land and ocean exchanges"
Sept. 28: Dr. Thomas Algeo, University of Cincinnati
"The big kill: Renewed oceanic overturn at the Permian-Triassic boundary"
Oct. 5: Dr. Franco Molteni, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
"Predictions of tropical rainfall with the ECMWF monthly and seasonal forecast systems."
Oct. 12: Dr. Robert Harris, Oregon State University
"Global warming inferred brom borehole temperature-depth profiles"
Oct. 16 (Tuesday 11 a.m.): Dr. Timothy Palmer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading
"Diagnosing climate sensitivity from data, using the fluctuation dissipation theorem"
Oct. 17 (Wednesday 12 p.m.): Dr. Martin Miller, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading
TBA
Oct. 19: Dr. Peter Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Hurricanes and climate: Some new ideas."
Oct. 26: Dr. Heather C. Allen, Ohio State University
"Heterogeneous Atmospheric Chemistry"
Nov. 2: Dr. Alan Betts, Graduate Student Symposium Keynote Speaker
TBA
Nov. 9: Dr. Paul Silver, Carnegie Institute of Washington
"Triggering and interactions of earthquakes"
Nov. 16: Dr. Benjamin Twining, UNiversity of South Carolina
"Examining the role of plankton in ocean iron biogeochemistry, one cell at a time"
Nov. 23: Thanksgiving Holiday, no seminar
Nov. 30: Dr. Baerbel Honischh, Columbia University
"Empirical systematics of the boron isotope proxy and application to the mid-Pleistocene transition"