DOCP Seminar Series 2007-2008

Fridays, 11am-12noon.
All talks in Geochem Seminar Room unless otherwise noted
Contact: Zachary Tessler (ztessler AT ldeo DOT columbia DOT edu)

Fall Spring



Fall Semester

Date Speaker Title
Sept 14 Olivia Martius
Inst. for Atmos. and Climate Sci./APAM
Breaking synoptic-scale Rossby waves cause blocks, heavy precipitation,...?
NOTE: Seismology Seminar Room
Monday
Sept 17
3:30pm
Peter Baines
Univ. of Melbourne
Decadal variability in rainfall and the Hadley circulation
Sept 21 John Marshall
MIT
GFD Experiments in Climate and Paleoclimate
Sept 28 Hosni Ghedira
NOAA-CREST
Development of sea and lake ice maps using Geostationary Satellites
Oct 5 Raghu Murtugudde
UMD
From Physics to Fish: Nature's Rules and Biological Loopholes
Oct 12 Amy Leventer
Colgate
The last ice sheet recession along the East Antarctic Margin: A model for ice sheet response in a warmer world?
Oct 19 Luke Oman
JHU
Modeling the Volcanic Aerosol Distribution and Climatic Response of High-Latitude Volcanic Eruptions
Wednesday
Oct 24
3:30pm
David Smeed
Nat'l Oceanographic Centre, UK
Deep ocean convection: observations from an adaptive network of underwater gliders
Oct 26 Chris Boxe
NASA JPL
Surface Chemistry and Physics: Implications for Terrestrial Polar Science and Planetary Science
Nov 2 Michael Mann
Penn State
Paleoclimate Reconstructions over the Past Millennium and How They Can Inform our Understanding of Climate Dynamics
NOTE: Monell Auditorium
Nov 9 Eli Tziperman
Harvard
On the predictability and dynamics of westerly wind bursts in the equatorial Pacific
Wednesday
Nov 14
Tim Osborn
CRU, Univ of East Anglina
Recent Changes in UK Precipitation Intensity and Constructing "Probabilistic" Scenarios of Future Meteorological Drought
Nov 16 Carl Wunsch
MIT
Three Lectures on Inverse Methods and State Estimation, Lecture 3
First two lectures are part of the IGERT Colloquium
NOTE: Monell Auditorium
Nov 23 ------- Thanksgiving
Nov 30 Tom Delworth
NOAA GFDL
Decadal-scale changes in the Atlantic Ocean - natural variability and human-induced climate change
Dec 7 Luca Centurioni
SIO
Permanent Meanders in the California Current System



Spring Semester

Date Speaker Title
Jan 25 Pavel Berloff
WHOI
On Decadal Variability of the Ocean Gyres
Feb 1
Feb 8 Larissa Back
MIT
A simple model of climatological rainfall and vertical motion profiles over the tropical oceans.
Feb 15 Ian Eisenman
Harvard
Rain driven by receding ice sheets as a cause of past abrupt climate change
Wednesday,
Feb 20
Seismology Seminar Room
Lei Zhou
U.Maryland
Influence of Indonesian Throughflow in the southwestern Indian Ocean
Feb 22 Hartmut Peters
University of Miami
REDSOX - The Red Sea Outflow Experiment
Feb 29 Hezi Gildor
LDEO
Evidence for submesoscale barriers to mixing in the ocean from current measurements and aerial-photographs
Mar 7 ------- AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting
Mar 14 Braddock Linsley
SUNY-Albany
Coral-based Geochemical Records of South Pacific Convergence Zone Variability
Mar 21 ------- Spring Break
Mar 28
Comer Building, Conf. Room
Paul Roundy
SUNY Albany
Associations of atmospheric and oceanic Kelvin waves with the Madden Julian Oscillation and Mid-latitude weather
Apr 4
Comer Building
Jake Gebbie
Harvard
What is the 'age' of the deep ocean?: An inverse method for modern-day and paleoceanographic tracers
Apr 11
Comer Building
Jorge Sarmiento
Princeton
A global carbon budget update
Apr 18
Comer Building
Sonya Legg
NOAA GFDL
Improving representation of overflows in climate models: the Gravity Current Entrainment Climate Process Team
Apr 25
Comer Building
Jian Lu
NCAR
Response of the zonal mean atmospheric circulation: global warming vs. El Nino
May 2
Comer Building
Richard Cullather
LDEO
Studies of the Recent Climate of Coastal Antarctica
Last Update: April 23, 2008