Events

Speaker - Leo Siqueira, University of Miami (hosted by S. Larson) Seminar Title - Seasonal to Decadal Impact of Western Boundary Currents on Climate (1216 Jordan Addition and Zoom). Abstract - Midlatitude sea surface temperature (SST) variability, forced and damped by oceanic processes, can impact large-scale atmospheric circulation, pointing to an ocean's crucial role outside the Tropics. This talk's first part…

Speaker - Lauren Toth, US Geological Survey (hosted by S. Zhang),  Zoom only Seminar title - Geological perspectives on the degradation and restoration of coral reefs Bio -  Lauren Toth is a coral-reef ecologist who uses clues from the geologic record to better understand the modern decline of coral-reef ecosystems and to inform future coral-reef management and…

Speaker - Grant Colip, M.S. Graduate Student, Earth Science Seminar Title -  Interpreting seismic reflection imagery to reconstruct late Quaternary earthquake history at Lake Crescent, Washington, USA Location - 1132 Jordan Hall and Zoom Committee Chairs:  Lonnie Leithold, Karl Wegmann Committee Members:  Del Wayne Bohnenstiehl, Daniel Brothers

Speaker - Ryan Kramer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (hosted by S. Larson),  Zoom only Seminar title -  Observing and Modeling Earth’s Energy Imbalance in a Warming World Abstract -  Like anything in life, climate change is about balance. Or rather a lack thereof. When Earth’s incoming and outgoing energy is in balance, the climate is stable. Currently…

Speaker - Julian Chesnutt,  PhD Graduate Student, Earth Science  Seminar Title - Mass Wasting Landforms on Earth and Mars:  A Tale of Two Mesas Location - Wednesday, March 8th ~ 10:00 A.M. 2106 Jordan Hall and Zoom Committee Chair: Karl Wegmann Committee Members: Del Bohnenstiehl, Paul Byrne, Helena Mitasova, Peter Harries

Speaker - Samantha Michlowitz, MS Graduate Student, Atmospheric Science  Seminar Title - The Role of Ocean Circulation on Externally Forced Trends in the Tropical North Atlantic Monday, March 20, 2023 ~ 8:00 A.M., 1132 Jordan Hall and Zoom Committee Chair: Sarah Larson Committee Members: Anantha Aiyyer, Gary Lackmann

Speaker - Erica Thompson, Senior Policy Fellow, Ethics of Modelling and Simulation at the LSE Data Science Institute, UK (London School of Economics), Website (hosted by W. Robinson), Zoom only.  Seminar Title - Escaping from Model Land Abstract - We seek to understand the future of the climate system by making models, but it is not easy to assess the…