Weekly CIG Seminar

Spring Quarter 2003 (link to past seminars)

The CIG hosts weekly seminars on a variety of topics related to the scientific and social dimensions of climate variability, climate change, climate impacts assessment, and adaptation to climate impacts. Seminars are held during the academic year and are open to the public. Seminars for this quarter are scheduled for:

Tuesdays, 3:30-5:00

JISAO Conference Room (1st Floor, King Building)
4909 25th Ave. NE, Seattle

(Note: The King Building is located northeast of the UW campus across from University Village shopping center on 25th Ave NE. The building located behind Washington Mutual and next to the Burke Gilman Trail.)

Please note special location on Tuesday, April 22, and special day on Thursday, May 1 (no April 29 seminar).

Date	Speaker	Topic
April 1	Dan Vimont, JISAO	How do we model climate variability in a warmer world?: A framework for modeling ENSO-related regional climate change and variability. Abstract
April 8	Ed Sarachik, CSES David Battisti, JISAO (tentative)	The role of the tropical Pacific in global climate variability: what sort of climate variability might we expect with global warming? Background materials
April 15	Ed Sarachik, CSES Richard Slaughter, Richard Slaughter Assoc. and CIG	Quarterly Climate Report Addressing criticisms of the 2001 IPCC SRES scenarios Abstract / Presentation (pdf)
Tuesday, April 22 Johnson Hall 064 (special location, same time)	Clara Deser, NCAR/Climate and Global Dynamics Division	Pacific decadal climate variability: what the instrumental record tells us Abstract / Presentation
Thursday, May 1 (special date)	Martyn Clark, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado at Boulder	The Western Water Assessment Abstract / Presentation See Martyn's presentation on streamflow forecasting to Dennis Lettenmaier's class.
May 6 (2nd floor CIG conference room this day only)	Ed Miles, CIG	Internal (team) discussion: Issues and opportunities regarding our future direction
May 13	Don Reading, Ben Johnson Associates and CIG	Snake River Water Transfers Abstract / Presentation
May 20	Jeremy Littell, UW College of Forest Resources and CIG	Climate Variability and Fire in the Mountain West: Pacific Teleconnections, Drought, and Severe Fire Years since 1600 Abstract / Presentation (pdf)
May 27	Eban Goodstein, Associate Professor, Economics, Lewis and Clark College	The Costs of Climate Change: A Regional Analysis Abstract / Presentation
June 3	John Field, UW Department of Fisheries and CIG	Modeling Northeast Pacific Ecosystems Abstract/ Presentation
June 10	Andy Wood, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering with co-authors Alan Hamlet and Dennis Lettenmaier	Implementing Real-Time Seasonal Hydrologic Forecasting for the Western U.S.: Recent Progress Abstract/ Presentation

Weekly CIG Seminar

Spring Quarter 2003 (link to past seminars)

Tuesdays, 3:30-5:00

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