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.
SPRING 2006	Last updated April 24, 2006

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
January 12
Special Seminar Monday, January 16 11:00 a.m., 112 Walker	Mike Montgomery Colorado State University	"Hurricane Isabel (2003): Into the Belly of the Beast"
January 19	Dan Seidov and Bernd J. Haupt Penn State University Earth and Environmental Systems Institute	"Freshwater role in running gloabl ocean conveyor"
January 26
February 2	Wei-Kuo Tao NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center	"A Coupled fvGCM-GCE Modeling System, a 3D Cloud-Resolving Model and A Regional Scale Model"
February 9	Brent Helliker University of Pennsylvania	"Elucidating carbon cycle processes with oxygen isotopes: from plant cells to the planetary boundary layer"
February 16	Jennifer Francis Rutgers University	"Satellite-Derived Clues to the Disappearance of Perennial Arctic Sea Ice,"
February 16 3:00 p.m. 367 Willard Building	Special Seminar by James R. Fleming, Colby College	"Global Climate Change and Human Agency: History, Ethics, and Public Policy"
February 23
March 2	Peggy LeMone NCAR	Influence of Land Cover and Soil Moisture on the Horizontal Distribution of Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes in Southeast Kansas during IHOP_2002 and CASES-97
March 9	SPRING BREAK
March 16	Jose Fuentes University of Virginia Department of Environmental Sciences	Importance of phytogenic hydrocarbons
March 23	Dave Kimmel Horn Point Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science	Regional scale climate forcing of Chesapeake Bay ecosystem dynamics
March 30
April 6	Rich Clark Millersville University	The effects of local and regional scale circulations on air pollutants in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Special Seminar April 7 (Friday) 1:15 p.m. 112 Walker Building	Dr. George Bryan NCAR Mesoscale and Micrometeorology Division	Roll circulations in the convective region of squall lines.
April 13	Eric Crosson Picarro Inc.	"Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy: An Accurate and Specific Technique for Measuring Gas Species at the Parts-Per Billion Concentration Level"
April 20 W. John and Gail M. Hussey Commemorative Lecture in Meteorology	VADM Conrad Lautenbacher Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere NOAA	“From Research, Observations and Models to Action”
Tuesday, April 25 PSUBAMS Special Lecture 3:35 p.m. 109 Walker	Brig. General David L. Johnson U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Director, NOAA's National Weather Service	"NOAA's National Weather Service: Serving the Nation's Environmental Forecasting Needs" [Lecture Announcement]
April 27	Edwin Gerber Columbia University Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	"The Dynamics of the NAO and Annular Modes"

Schedules from previous semesters:

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

Last Updated: April 24, 2006

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