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Department of Meteorology
Penn State University
503 Walker Building
University Park PA 16802-5013
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All departmental colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m.  in room 112 Walker Building unless otherwise noted.  Refreshments for Thursday seminars are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Alfred K. Blackadar Reading Room (529 Walker). Previous semester schedules are listed at the bottom of the page.

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SPRING 2008
Last updated April 25, 2008
Date Speaker & Affiliation Title (click for abstract)

January 17

 

 
January 24 Tamás Várnai
Joint Center for Earth System Technology, University of Maryland,
Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA GSFC		 Three-dimensional radiative processes in atmospheric remote sensing [Abstract]
January 31

Massimo Cassiani
Duke University

 "Modeling Methods and Theoretical Aspects of Turbulent Dispersion"
February 7 Vanda Grubisic
Desert Research Institute

"Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment: New Insights into Lee Waves and Atmospheric Rotors"

[Abstract]
February 14 George Bryan
NCAR

"Gravity currents in a deep anelastic atmosphere"

[Abstract]

Monday
February 18

Leanna House
Durham University (UK)

"Inferring Model Structural Error from a Multi-Model Ensemble"

[Abstract]
February 21 Benjamin Lintner
UCLA 		"Life on the edge (of convection zones): Convective margins theory and variability"

Monday
February 25

 Chris Forest
MIT

"Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate Predictions"

[Abstract]
February 28 Marcelo Chamecki
Johns Hopkins

"Large eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer and
applications to pollen dispersion"


[Abstract]

Monday
March 3
3:35 P.M.
22 Deike

 Cristina Archer
Stanford University		 “The Importance of Wind Power in a Clean and Renewable Future”
Wednesday
March 5
3:30 P.M.
22 Deike

Karen Fisher-Vanden
Dartmouth College

 "Technology, Development, and the Environment"
March 6 No seminar No seminar

Monday
March 17
3:30 P.M.
22 Deike

 Ming Cai
Florida State University

"Dynamical Polar Warming Amplification and a New Climate Feedback Analysis Framework"

[Abstract]
March 20 Steven Feldstein
Penn State		 "Teleconnections: Physical Processes and Applications"

Monday
March 24
3:30 p.m.
22 Deike

Jose Fuentes
University of Virginia

"Forest-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks"

[Abstract]
March 27    

April 3
 
April 10    
April 17

Peter Sullivan
Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division
NCAR

"High resolution simulations and observations of
PBLS with complex surface layers"

[Abstract]
April 24

The W. John and Gail M. Hussey Commemorative Lecture in Meteorology
Levon Kazarian
Managing Director,
Morgan Stanley

 "Weather and Commodity Trading"
May 1 Troy Thornberry
NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Chemical Sciences Division and
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder

"Measurement of aerosol organic compounds using a novel collection/thermal-desorption PTR-ITMS instrument"

 

 
     
     
     

 

Schedules from previous semesters:
[Fall 2007 schedule]  
[Fall 2006 schedule] [Spring 2006 schedule]
[Fall 2005 schedule] [Spring 2005 schedule]
[Fall 2004 schedule] [Spring 2004 schedule]
[Fall 2003 schedule] [Spring 2003 schedule]
[Fall 2002 schedule]