Colloquia and Lectures in the Department of Meteorology

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.
FALL 2003	Last updated December 17, 2003

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
September 4	Graduate Student Reception
September 11	PSUBAMS
POSTPONED Special Lecture Tarbell Lecture September 18	POSTPONED To be rescheduled. John E. Jones, Jr. Deputy Director, NWS	POSTPONED [Click for Bio]
Special Lecture Tues., September 23 11:15 a.m. 9 Walker Bldg.	Wes Junker NCEP	Difficulties in Forecasting Precipitation Associated with MCSs and MCCs
September 25	Harold Brooks NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory	Synthetic severe weather climatologies from sounding parameters
October 2	Diane Henderson William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Dept. of Mathematics Penn State	"Deep-water, surface wave patterns in1 and 2 dimensions"
Special Lecture Mon., October 6 2:30 p.m. 529 Walker Bldg.	Christoph Kiemle DLR - Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Arbeitsgruppe Lidar	"High resolution airborne DIAL measurements of water vapor and vertical humidity fluxes during IHOP."
October 9	Robert J. Leffler NOAA	"Going...Going...Gone? Earth's Disappearing Tropical Glaciers"
October 16	John Clark Dept. of Meteorology Penn State	"Baroclinic Instability, Cyclogenesis and Our Never-Ending Quest for Normalcy"
October 23	Andrew Carleton Department of Geography Penn State	"Jet contrails and the climate: Lessons from 'synoptic climatology"
October 30
Special Lecture W. John and Gail M. Hussey Commemorative Lecture in Meteorology Friday, October 31 4:00 p.m. 112 Walker	Jim Fleming Colby College	"Climate, Culture, and Carbon Dioxidie" [Bio] [Visit Itinerary] Prof. Fleming will also give a lecture hosted by the Rock Ethics Institute on October 30, 4:00 p.m. in Foster Auditorium at Pattee Library.The title of that talk is "Fixing the Weather and Climate for Civilian and Military Purposes."
November 6, 4:00 p.m. ROOM: Applied Science Building (ASB) Auditorium *Refreshments in 529 Walker at 3:30	Geary Schwemmer and David Miller NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	"New Scanning Lidar Technology Enables Boundary Layer, Cloud Coverage, and Wind Measurements."
Rescheduled from Nov. 6 Special Lecture Irvin Hall Academic Committee Lecture Friday, November 7, 6:00 p.m. 112 Walker *refreshments following the lecture.	Paul Kocin The Weather Channel	"So, what do you do during the summer?"
November 13	Robert Crane Assoc. Dean for Education Dept. of Geography Penn State	"Limited by Linear Thinking? Try SOMs Instead"
November 20	Mick Follows MIT	"Models of the Global Ocean Iron Cycle"
November 27	Thanksgiving Day
December 4	Swarn Gill California University of Pennsylvania	"Vertical Motions of Drops of Different Sizes and the Growth of Drizzle in Marine Stratus"
December 11

Schedules from previous semesters:

[Spring 2003 schedule]

[Fall 2002 schedule]

Last Updated: December 17, 2003

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