CIG Weekly Seminars

Fall Quarter 2004

Outreach, Classes, and Seminars

In This Section . . .

The Climate Impacts Group (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

(unless otherwise noted)

CIG Conference Room (2nd Floor, Lisa Li Building)
4909 25th Ave. NE, Seattle

(Note: The Lisa Li building is the building formerly known as the King Building. The Lisa Li 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.)

Information for presenters

Winter quarter 2005 seminars begin on Tuesday, January 4. The scheduled time is 2:00-3:30. A winter quarter seminar schedule will be posted shortly.


Date	Speaker	Topic
Tuesday October 5	Part 1 (15 min.) Ed Sarachik, CSES/CDG Philip Mote, CSES/CIG Part 2 Dave Peterson, U.S. Forest Service and CIG Don McKenzie, U.S. Forest Service and CIG	Quarterly climate report (global) Presentation (pdf) Quarterly climate report (regional) Presentation Climatic change and wildfire: past, present, and future Abstract / Presentations: Peterson, McKenzie
Tuesday October 12	Gordon Grant, U.S. Forest Service and Oregon State University	Geologic and topographic controls on streamflow response to climate change in the Western U.S. Abstract Watershed Processes Group website
Tuesday October 19	Elizabeth Clark* and Kostas Andreadis, Graduate Students (MSE), UW Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Dennis Lettenmaier, CSES/CIG presenters	Severity-area-duration analysis of 20th century drought in the conterminous United States Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday October 26	NO CIG SEMINAR THIS WEEK (Boise climate/water fall forecast meeting)
Tuesday November 2	Gregg Garfin, CLIMAS Program Manager	Research update and progress report from the CLIMAS RISA Abstract / Presentation (pdf)
Thursday November 4 1:30-3:00	* Special CIG seminar * Holger Meinke, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Australia	Climate variability, change and seasonal forecasting in Australia - global lessons from two decades of local effort Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday November 9	John Bartholow, U.S. Geological Survey	Are fish in hot water? Abstract / Presentation Video referenced on slide #13 of presentation (NOTE: Large file - 77 MB)
Tuesday November 16	Nathan VanRheenen, CIG and UW Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering (PhD candidate), and Rick Palmer, CSES/CIG	Attention Snake River water users - You really can have it all! (or maybe you can't): Optimization as a means to better long-term water policies in the Snake River Basin Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday November 23	Jim O'Connor, U.S. Geological Survey	Our vanishing glaciers—A 100-year photographic record of glacier retreat in the central Oregon Cascade Range Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday November 30	Anne C. Steinemann, UW Center for Water and Watershed Studies	Using climate forecasts for drought management Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday December 7 CANCELLED	Ken Bible, UW College of Forest Resources	Long-term carbon dynamics of an old-growth Douglas-fir forest Abstract / Presentation