Meteorology Colloquia 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 are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Alfred K. Blackadar Reading Room (529 Walker).
SPRING 2003	Last updated 6/6/03.

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
January 16	Anne Thompson NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	"Tropospheric Ozone Breakthroughs and a Vision for the Penn State EMS Environment Institute"
Tuesday, January 21 4:00 p.m. in 112 Walker	Susan Brantley Penn State, Department of Geosciences	"The EMS Environment Institute: Strategies for the Future"
January 23	Steve Rayner Oxford University	"Weather Forecasts are for Wimps: Why Water Resource Managers Don't Use Short-Term Climate Forecasts"
Special Seminar: Tues., January 28 4:00 p.m., 112 Walker	Bob Hart and Jeremy Ross Penn State University Department of Meteorology	"A Revolutionary Old Forecasting Technique: Objective Analog Seasonal Forecasting"
January 30	Amy Glasmeier Penn State, Department of Geography	"Environmental Implications of Globalization: Opportunities for Penn State Science, Policy, and Development Research"
Tuesday, February 4 4:00 p.m., 112 Walker	Brent Yarnal Penn State, Department of Geography	"Integrated Regional Environmental Science: Opportunities and Challenges"
February 6	Richard Rood NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	"Earth System Science: Discovery, Applied Research, and Addressing the Needs of Our Sponsors"
February 13
February 20
February 27
March 6
March 13	SPRING BREAK
March 20	Tom Ackerman PNL - DOE	"ARM Observations of Cirrus Cloud Properties in Oklahoma and the Tropical Western Pacific."
March 27 Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom 1-5 p.m.	GEMS Seminar	"The Value of Meteorology to Business and Society"
April 3
April 10	Douglas Lilly Professor Emeritus, University of Oklahoma	Entrainment Into Layered Clouds
*CANCELLED* Special Seminar Tues., April 15 11:00 a.m. 529 Walker Bldg.	*CANCELLED* Dylan Jones Harvard	*CANCELLED*
April 17
April 24
W. John and Gail M. Hussey Commemorative Lecture in Meteorology Friday, April 25 3:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Bldg. Refreshments at 2:30 p.m. in 529 Walker This lecture is co-sponsored with the Penn State Institutes of the Environment.*	Peter Lamb University of Oklahoma George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Meteorology and Director of the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies	"Development and Application of Weather and Climate Information for Use in Decision Making and Policy Formulation--What Really is Involved?" [PDF Announcement] Powerpoint Presentation
April 29	Undergraduate Forum
Special Lecture May 1	Sue Ellen Haupt University of Utah	"The Importance of Equilibrium Solutions in Fluid Flow"
Special Lecture Monday, May 5 4:00 p.m. in 114 EES *Refreshments at 3:30 in EES	Arthur Jameson RJH Scientific, Inc.	"Spurious Power-law Rainfall and Radar Parameters. A Lesson in Sampling"
Special Lecture Thursday, May 8 3:30 p.m. in 112 Walker *Refreshments at 3:00 in 529 Walker	Chris Jeffrey Los Alamos National Lab	"Turbulence Modeling Using Averaged Lagrangians"
Special Lecture Thursday, May 22 4:00 p.m. in 114 EES *Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in EES	Zhaoxia Pu Goddard Earth Sciences & Technology Center, University of Maryland	"Applications of Data Assimilation in Improving Atmospheric Modeling"
Special Lecture Thursday, May 29 4:00 p.m. in 112 Walker *Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in 529 Walker	Mark Roulston Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University	"Probabilistic Weather Forecasting"
Special Lecture Thursday, June 5 4:00 p.m. in 114 EES *Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in EES.	Anne Thompson NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	"Exploring Ozone Pollution with Satellite and Soundings."
Special Lecture Thursday, June 12 4:00 p.m. 529 Walker *Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. outside 529 Walker	John R. Mecikalski University of Wisconsin --CIMMS	"The validation of the Atmospheric Land-EXchange Inverse (ALEXI) model toward the production of accurate regional-scale land surface energy and water flux maps over the IHOP 2002 Experiment domain"

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