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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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FALL 2007
Last updated January 14, 2008
Date Speaker & Affiliation Title (click for abstract)

August 30

 

 
September 6    
September 13

Terry and Carmen Tarbell Lecture in Meteorology

Robert E. Livezey
Chief
Climate Services Division
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
NWS/NOAA/DOC

"Candid views on the U.S.enterprise for prediction of climate variability and change (A National Climate Service?)"
September 20  
September 27    
October 4    
October 11 Fuqing Zhang
Texas A&M University		 Predictability of Severe Weather at the Mesoscales
October 18

Anne Thompson
Penn State

 "Strategic Oxonesonde Networks: Looking at Ozone Processes, Budgets and Climate Signatures One Profile at a Time"
Special Seminar
Friday, October 19
1:30 p.m.
529 Walker		 Dale Durran
University of Washington		 "The behavior and up-scale influence of gravity wave drag in a slowly evolving flow"
October 25 Olivia Martius
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich		  

Special Seminar
Friday, October 26
1:30 p.m.
112 Walker

 John G. W. Kelley
NOAA, Coast Survey Development Laboratory
 "NOAA's GIS Web Mapping Portal to Real-Time Coastal Observations and Forecasts"
November 1 Tony Broccoli
Rutgers 		 
November 8

 

  
November 15 Kerry Emanuel
MIT 		"Hurricanes and Global Warming"
November 22 THANKSGIVING  
November 29
 Peter Bowyer
Environment Canada

"Tropical Cyclone Ocean Waves: Size Matters"

[Abstract]

December 6    
December 13 Bruce Miller
Penn State Energy Institute		 "Pollution Control Options for Coal-Fired Power Plants & An Overview of the Harvard School of Public Health's TERESA (Toxicological Evaluation of Realistic Emissions of Source Aerosols) Study"
     

 

Schedules from previous semesters:
[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]