Seminars
2012 - 2013 Seminar Schedule
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(All seminars are on Tuesday at 3:30 pm and are held in theTuring Auditorium, unless otherwise noted)
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| OCT 9 |
Dan Nepstad | International Program Director, IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) | Managing the Global Land Crisis: Roundtables, REDD, and Beyond |
| OCT 30 | Paul Fine | UC Berkeley | Insect herbivores, chemical defenses and the diversification of Amazonian trees |
| NOV 13 | Douglas Bird | Senior Research Scientist, Department of Anthoropology, Stanford University | Aboriginal Australians as trophic regulators: fire, hunting, and small mammal extinctions in the Western Desert of Australia. |
| NOV 27 | William Ingram | University of Oxford and UK Met Office Hadley Centre | Perturbed-physics ensembles with atmospheric general circulation models |
| DEC 11 | Granger Morgan | Carnegie Mellon | Why I stopped doing Climate Integrated Assessment…why you should too… and some thoughts on what we might better be doing instead |
| DEC 18 | John Terborgh | Research Professor Emeritus and Director, Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University | Enemies Maintain the Diversity of Tropical Tree Communities |
| JAN 8 | Ken Caldeira | Faculty, Department of Glonal Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science | Using global climate models to evaluate environmental problems and potential solutions |
| JAN 29 | Christian Frankenberg | Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology | Retrievals of greenhouse gases and chlorophyll fluorescence from space using high resolution near-infrared spectroscopy. |
| FEB 5 | Jon Krosnick | Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Stanford University | The American Public's Views of Climate Change: An Update |
| MAR 12 | Emmanuel Frossard | Professor, Plant Nutrition, Institute of Plant Sciences and Dept of Agricultural, and Food Sciences of the ETH, Zurich |
Integrated Nutrient Management in Agroecosystems |
| MAR 19 | Clara Deser | Senior Scientist, Climate Analysis Section, Climate and Glonal Dynamics, National Climate for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) | Climate Projections over North America in the Coming Decades: Uncertainty due to Natural Variability |
| APR 16 | Yi Ming | Physical Scientist, NOAA/GFDL Princeton University | A Top-down Framework for Understanding Regional Climate Change |
| APR 30 | Kelly Sims Gallagher | Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Fletcher School, Tufts University | China Carbon Policy and Emissions |