CIG Weekly Seminars

Winter Quarter 2005

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, 2:00-3:30

(unless otherwise noted)

JISAO Conference Room (1st 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


Date	Speaker	Topic
Tuesday January 4	Part 1 (20 min.) Ed Sarachik, CSES/CDG Philip Mote, CSES/CIG Part 2 Justin Wettstein, JISAO	Quarterly global climate update Presentation (pdf) Quarterly regional climate update Presentation Climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere over the past few hundred years: Proxy-based reconstructions of the NAM and PNA Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday January 11	NO SEMINAR (AMS Meeting)
Tuesday January 18	John Delaney, UW School of Oceanography	The Neptune Ocean Observing System Presentation Presentation
Tuesday January 25	Nate Mantua, CSES/CIG, and Summer Morelock, UW School of Marine Affairs	Review and discussion of proposal for integrated research work in the Skagit River watershed
Tuesday February 1	Dave Peterson, U.S. Forest Service and CSES/CIG and Dennis Lettenmaier, CSES/CIG and UW Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Assessing the effects of climatic variability and change on PNW forests: a scale-based framework (Peterson) Abstract / Presentation Interactions between fire, climate, and sediment generation in the Pacific Northwest (Lettenmaier) Presentation
Tuesday February 8	Holly Hartmann, CLIMAS	Forecast assessment: Tactics, techniques, and tools Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday February 15	CIG Principals Meeting, 2:00-5:00 (no seminar)
Tuesday February 22	Tom Leschine and Patrick Marchman, UW School of Marine Affairs	Applying risk assessment techniques to salmon management, with implications for factoring in climate effects Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday March 1	Ed Sarachik, CSES/CIG	The barriers to the use of climate information Abstract / Presentation
Tuesday March 8 Special Time & Location: 2:30-3:30, Ocean Sciences Building (OCN) 425	Phil Mote, CSES/CIG	Topic: UK conference on avoiding dangerous climate change Abstract / Presentation