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CIG Weekly Seminars
Fall Quarter 2009
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The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the UW Center for Science in the Earth System (CSES) 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 (fall, winter, and spring quarters) and are open to the public.
CIG seminars are scheduled for:
Tuesdays, 4:00-5:00
(unless otherwise noted)
CIG seminars during fall quarter will held in:
UW Ocean Sciences Bldg (OSB), Room 425 (directions/UW campus map)
1503 Boat St., Seattle
Information for presenters
Current CIG Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
Tuesday, |
Manu DiLorenzo, Georgia Tech
|
ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: an integrated view of Pacific decadal dynamics? Related papers: DiLorenzo 2009, DiLorenzo 2008 (in Geophysical Research Letters) |
| Tuesday, October 13 |
Jim Johnstone, UC Berkeley | Summer fog in the coast redwood region: Pacific climate context and ecological implications Related paper: Dawson, TE 1998 (in Oecologia) |
Tuesday,
|
Dan Vimont, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin | The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts Related paper: Guston, DH 2001 (in Science, Technolgy and Human Values) |
| Tuesday, October 27 |
Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research | The Importance/Unimportance of High Resolution Information on Future Regional Climate for Coping with Climate Change Related papers: Mearns, L. 2009 and Hulme and Dessai 2008 |
Tuesday, |
Jessica Halofsky, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab | Adapting Natural Resource Management to Climate Change: The Olympic Case Study Related papers: Blate, GM (2009) and Mawdsley et al. (2009) |
Tuesday,
|
Mary Ruckelshaus, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
Assessing climate impacts on Pacific salmon: are there opportunities for adaptation Related paper: Battin 2007 (in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) |
| Tuesday, November 17 |
Cliff Mass, UW Atmospheric Sciences | Trends in Extreme Precipitation in the Pacific Northwest |
| Tuesday, November 24 |
Simone Alin, NOAA | Ocean acidification as a stressor in PNW marine ecosystems |
| Tuesday, December 1 |
Paul Henshaw | Careers for Scientists in the Energy Industry - What's an Oceanographer doing in an Oil Company? |
| Tuesday, December 8 |
Ken Westrick, 3TIER | Climate change implications on renewable energy: The gap between science information and effective business decisions |
Other UW Seminars
Other UW seminars that may be of interest include the following:
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