Seminars

ESSC Brown Bag Series
WUN Horizons in Earth Systems Series
Past 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

 

2009-2010 WUN Horizons in Earth Systems Virtual Seminar Series

This year's theme: Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet

All WUN Seminars are from noon to 1 PM in 541 Deike.

Date
Location
 Speaker/Discussion Leader Topic
October 14
541 Deike
Dave Beerling
University of Sheffield		 Co-evolution of photosynthetic organisms and the environment
November 4
541 Deike
 Appy Sluijs
Universiteit Utrecht		 Global change during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
December 9
541 Deike
 Mike Benton
University of Bristol 		The end-Permian mass extinction: death and destruction in the red beds of Russia
January 13
541 Deike
 Ted Moore
University of Michigan		 Radiolarians and environmental change: the Eocene/Oligocene climate transition
February 10
541 Deike
 Blair Hedges
Penn State		 Molecular clocks and the timetree of life
March 10
541 Deike
 Sven Thatje
University of Southampton		 Evolution: Crabs go deep to avoid hot water
April 21
541 Deike
 Jane Francis
University of Leeds		 Ice in a greenhouse world? Climate signals from latest Cretaceous sequences in Antarctica
May 12
541 Deike
 Jeffrey Bada
Scripps Institute of Oceanography		 The origin of life: transformation from a abiotic to a biotic Earth
Past Seminars:
Fall 2008 ESSC Brown Bag Series
Spring/Summer 2008 Seminars
Fall 2007 ESSC Brown Bag Series
Spring 2007 ESSC Brown Bag Series
Fall 2006 ESSC Brown Bag Series
Spring 2006 ESSC Brown Bag Series

Last updated 10 November, 2009