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AOS Colloquium Series

Spring 2008-2009

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences sponsors a colloquium each Monday afternoon. Talks are held at 3:30 pm in room 811 of the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science Building at 1225 W. Dayton Street. You are invited to join us before the colloquium at 3:15 for coffee, tea, and cookies in room 853 Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences Building.

The following talks are currently scheduled for Spring semester 2008-2009

If you want to refer to last semester's Colloquium series, please click here.

If you want to sign up to meet the colloquium speakers, please go to this web site:
www.aos.wisc.edu/wcal/UW-AOS/index.cgi
You may need to click on the arrow a couple of times to get to the correct week.

January 26

AOS Faculty Candidate #2
Topic: On closing the North Atlantic subtropical nutrient budget

February 2

AOS Faculty Candidate #4
Topic: The global atmospheric circulation on moist isentropes

February 9

AOS Faculty Candidate #6
Topic:Understanding the Recent Poleward Shift of Southern Hemisphere Surface Westerlies

February 16

No Colloquium scheduled

February 23

Faramarz Vakili, UW-Madison Physical Plant
Topic:Topic:WeConserve, AOSS Building and Carbon Footprints

March 2

Dan Vimont
TBA

March 9

Anders Carlson, UW-Madison, Geology and Geophysics
Topic: Rapid Holocene Deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: An Analogue to Our Future?

March 23

Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah, Meteorology
Topic: Front-Mountain Interactions over the Intermountain West

March 24

Special Colloquium
Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah, Meteorology
Topic: Surviving Graduate School and Making Your Mark in the Atmospheric and Related Sciences

March 30

Chris Kucharik, UW-Madison
Topic:Recent Climate Change Across Wisconsin: Impacts on Agricultural Land Management and Crop Productivity

April 6

Pao Wang, UW-Madison AOS
Topic:Drama atop severe storms? What is happening there?

April 13

Ken Heideman, AMS
Topic:The Future of Publishing in AMS Journals and Other Scientific and Technical Publications

April 20

Special Colloquium
Noel R. Urban, Civil Engineering, Michigan Technlogical University
Topic:The Denitrifying of Lake Superior:A Tale of Two Cycles

April 20

Stephan deWekker, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences
Topic:Atmospheric Boundary Layers in Mountainous Terrain: Observations, Mesoscale Modeling, and an Application to Carbon Cycle Studies

April 27

Amato Evan
Topic:PhD Defense

May 4

Gijs de Boer, UW-Madison, AOS
PhD Defense
Topic: Understanding ice nucleation in mixed-phase stratiform clouds

Check the University Calendar for additional events this month.