Seminars

Fall 2009 ESSC Brown Bag Series

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are from 11:15am to 12:30pm in 529 Walker Building.

Date
Location
Speaker/Discussion Leader Topic
September 9
529 Walker
Dr. James Kasting
Geosciences, Penn State

Production of oxidants by photochemistry and lightning in the anoxic Archean atmosphere

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September 23
529 Walker
Dr. Tom Knutson
GFDL/NOAA

Atlantic Hurricanes and Climate Change: A Look at Historical Data

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September 23
Meteorology Colloquium
3:30 PM
112 Walker
Dr. Tom Knutson
GFDL/NOAA
Atlantic Hurricanes and Climate Change: A Regional Modeling Downscaling Approach
September 30
529 Walker
Dr. Thorsten Wagener
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State
The importance of precipitation for the identification of hydrologic models for flood forecasting, water resource modeling and climate change impact studies
October 7
529 Walker
Dr. Matt Thomas
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State
Evaluating the influence of temperature variation on transmission of vector-borne diseases
October 28
529 Walker
Roman Tonkonojenkov
Geosciences, Penn State
Improving estimates of key climate system properties using Bayesian inversion of an Earth System Model
November 11
529 Walker
Dr. Ray Najjar
Meteorology, Penn State
How well do global models simulate regional climate? Case study for the Mid-Atlantic Region
December 1
Geosciences Colloquium
4 PM
22 Deike
Dr. Jeffrey Park
Yale
Perche Apennino? Seismic Anisotropy, Subduction, Mantle Flow and Uplift in Central Italy
December 2
529 Walker
Dr. Jeffrey Park
Yale
Smoking Guns and Dogs that Didn't Bark: Coherence and Correlation in Historical Climate Time Series