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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.
SPRING 2005	Last updated May 9, 2005

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
January 13	Dan Kirk-Davidoff University of Maryland, College Park	"Can We Use the Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem to Predict Climate Sensitivity?"
January 20	Andy Gerrard Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Clemson University	"Global forecasts of thermospheric gravity wave activity as generated from tropospheric sources: An overview of the FOREGRATS model and SOFDI/All-sky Imager measurements as applied to the prediction of Equatorial Spread-F (ESF)"
January 27	Alan Taylor Department of Geography Penn State	"Human and climatic influences on fire regimes and forests in the northern Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe USA"
February 3	Fei Chen NCAR	"Progress in representing surface heterogeneity in mesoscale models and its impacts on PBL development and convective initiation"
February 10 3:00 p.m.	3:00 p.m. Reception for new Graduate Students that arrived in January.
February 17	Eric Post Department of Biology Penn State	"Some like it cold (and dry); ecological consequences of arctic climate change"
February 24	Anne Thompson Penn State University, Department of Meteorology (talk by Paul Newman has been cancelled)	"IONS-2004: A North American Ozonesonde Network in the 'Summer that Wasn't.'"
March 3	David Stauffer Penn State University	"Penn State NWP for Scientific Research, the Battlefield and the Olympics..."
March 10	SPRING BREAK no colloquium
March 17	Tim Kane Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Meteorology Penn State	"Putting the 'D' back in Lidar"
March 24	Lance Bosart Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University at Albany, SUNY	"Strong Surface Fronts Over Sloping Terrain and Coastal Plains"
March 31	Galen McKinley University of Wisconsin	"Air-sea CO2 Flux Variability: Ocean Models & Atmospheric Inversions"
April 7	Mark Askelson University of North Dakota	"Precipitation, the Rear Flank Downdraft, and Tornadoes"
April 14	Van Bowersox Illinois State Water Survey	"Monitoring Chemical Climate Change in the United States -- Results from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program"
April 21	Brian Kahn Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)	"On the detection and retrieval of cirrus properties using AIRS data"
April 28 11:15 a.m. 529 Walker Bldg.	SPECIAL SEMINAR from Meteo 497D	PAMREX 2004-5 Dual-Doppler Observations of a Narrow Cold-Frontal Rainband
April 28 Refreshments: A light lunch will be served from 12:00 - 1:30 in the Department Weather Station	*HUSSEY COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE IN METEOROLOGY* Richard Anthes President, UCAR	"Imperatives for Atmospheric Sciences in the Next Decade"

Schedules from previous semesters:

	[Spring 2005 schedule]
[Fall 2004 schedule]	[Spring 2004 schedule]
[Fall 2003 schedule]	[Spring 2003 schedule]
[Fall 2002 schedule]

Last Updated: May 9, 2005

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