Past AOS Events
Monday, Jan. 22
AOS Colloquium
3:30PM
Room 811 AOSS
Dr. Karl Heinz Wyrwoll
School of Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Topic: Model Sensitivity of the Australian Summer Monsoon to Milankovitch Variations
Tuesday, Jan. 23
CIMMS/SSEC Seminar
10 AM
Room 351 AOSS
Philip Frost
CSIR–Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
Topic: Development of a long term vegetation dataset combining NOAA AVHRR, Spot VGT, and MODIS
Friday, Jan. 26
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Monday, Jan. 29
AOS Colloquium
3:30PM
Room 811 AOSS
Dr. Shane Mayor, NCAR
Topic: The Possible Marriage of the Volume Imaging Lidar (VIL) and the High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) Techniques at 1.5–microns
Tuesday, Jan. 30
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
12:05 PM
Room 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Jim Kossin
UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Topic: Hurricane variability and trends in a changing climate
Wednesday, Jan. 31
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave.
Nancy Wiegand, Scientist
Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility
Topic: Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies
AOS 907-1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
organizational meeting
Thursday, Feb. 1
AOS 915
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Eric Deweaver
Topic: Wave Kinematics
Friday, Feb. 2
Environmental Chemistry & Technology Seminar
12 NOON
Room 102 Water Science & Engineering Lab, 660 N Park St.
David Snyder, UW–Madison
Topic: Sources of Atmospheric Mercury: Connecting Emissions Data and Atmospheric Observations
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907-2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
organizational meeting
Monday, Feb. 5
AOS Colloquium
David Lorenz
CCR
Topic: The response of the extratropical hydrological cycle to global warming
Wednesday, Feb. 7
WUN/AOS 965 Seminar
11 AM
Room 351 AOSS
Lynne Talley
University of California, San Diego
Topic: Climate Change in the Ocean: Regional Perspectives
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
Ken Potter
Civil & Environmental Engineering, UW–Madison
Topic: Quantifying the Sediment Retention Benefits of Wetlands: A Case Study
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Yun Liu
Topic: Atmospheric Response to Midlatitude SST Anomalies
Thursday, Feb. 8
History of Science Colloquium
3:45 PM
Room 8147 Social Science
Naomi Oreskes
University of California, San Diego
Topic: Opportunities and Opportunism: How Cold War Military Oceanographers Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists Who Would Resolve the Question of Global Warming
**cookies and coffee in room 7130 at 3:30
Friday, Feb. 9
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Ralf Bennartz
Topic: Observational constraints on the first indirect aerosol effect
Weeks Lecture Series
3:30 PM
Room AB20 Weeks Hall
Dr. Naomi Oreskes
University of California, San Diego
Topic: Cold War Scientists and the Denial of Global Warming
Monday, Feb. 12
AOS Colloquium
3:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Paul Menzel
SSEC
Topic: A Wisconsin perspective on 40 years of geostationary observations of the Earth
Wednesday, Feb. 14
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
Jack Williams, Dept. of Geography, CCR
Topic: How will species respond to future novel climate regimes? Lessons from the late Quaternary
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Andy Hulme
Topic: TBA
Friday, Feb. 16
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
TBA
Tuesday, Feb. 20
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
12:05 PM
Room 4724 Chamberlin Hall
Clint Sprott
UW Department of Physics
Topic: Simple models of complex chaotic systems
Wednesday, Feb. 21
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
Tom Eggert, UW-Madison School of Business
Topic: Teaching Sustainability: Creating Business Leaders with Heart
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Scott Spak
Topic: Great Lakes Aerosols in Models and Measurements
Thursday, Feb. 22
Global Sustainability Lecure Series
4:30 PM
Room 1800 Engineering Hall
Kerry Emanuel, MIT
Topic: Is Global Warming Affecting Hurricanes?
Friday, Feb. 23
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS Colloquium/AOS 907–2 (Special Date and Time)
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Kerry Emanuel
Topic: The Hurricane Embryo
Monday, Feb. 26
AOS Colloquium
CANCELLED
Wednesday, Feb. 28
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
John Norman, Soil Science/AOS, UW–Madison
Topic: Science, Spirituality, and Integrity
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
JP Argenti
Topic: Modeling Biome Response to Climate Change: Multi–equilibrium states in sub–Saharan Africa
Friday, March 2
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Nick Bassill
Topic: WRF model forecast track sensitivities of tropical cyclone Ernesto (2006) to various parameterizations and grid spacings
Monday, March 5
AOS Colloquium
3:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Lisa Goddard
IRI, ENSO
Topic: More Certain Uncertainty in Seasonal Climate Forecasts
Wednesday, March 7
WUN/AOS 965 Seminar
11 AM
Room 351 AOSS
Peter Cox, University of Exeter
Topic: Interactions between the physical, chemical and biological components of the climate system
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
Colleen F. Moore, UW– Madison Psychology Dept.
Topic: Environmental Injustices: Blame and moral judgments after tough choices
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Chiou–Jin Chen
Topic: TBA
Thursday, March 8
Roy F Weston Global Sustainability Lecture
4:30 PM
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St
Dr. Rosamond Naylor, Stanford University
Topic: Food Security and the Environment
Friday, March 9
CIMSS Seminar
10 AM
Room 351 AOSS
Elisiabeth Weisz and Jinlong Li
Topic: Handling IR emissivity spectrum in hyperspectral sounding retrieval: Cloudy sounding and cloud-top height retrieval from AIRS alone
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Greg Tripoli
Topic: Space Borne Doppler Radar: Its time is arriving
Sunday, March 11
Daylight Savings – spring ahead one hour
Monday, March 12
AOS Colloquium
3:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Zhengyu Liu and Michael Notaro (website)
Topic: On the cause of abrupt ecosystem collapse in Northern Africa during the Holocene: Climate variability vs. vegetation feedback
Wednesday, March 14
WUN/AOS 965 Seminar
12:30 PM
Room 1039 AOSS
Christoph Heinze, University of Bergen
Topic: Ocean biogeochemical feedbacks to climate change and rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
Jeff Pieterick, Vice President, North Prairie Productions, LLC
Topic: Biodiesel: An Emerging Industry
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Shih–Hao Su
Topic: The gravity wave features on the cloud top of a thunderstorm
Friday, March 16
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Ross Lazear
Topic:The role of diabatic heating on the formation of atmospheric blocking
Monday, March 19
AOS Colloquium
3:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Stefan Hastenrath, UW–Madison
Topic: Circulation and teleconnection mechanisms of Northeast Brazil droughts
Wednesday, March 21
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
Amato Evan, CIMSS
Topic: West African Dust Outbreaks and Atlantic Hurricane Activity
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Brett Hoover
Topic: Hurricane Steering as a Potential Vorticity Advection Process
Friday, March 23
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Jerry Tjiputra
Topic: Adjoint sensitivity of the air–sea CO2 flux to marine ecosystem model
Monday, March 26
AOS Colloquium
CANCELLED
Tuesday, March 27
CIMSS Seminar
2:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Liam Gumley
Topic: The NPP Atmosphere Product Evaluation And Test Element (PEATE) – Overview and Progress
Wednesday, March 28
WUN/AOS 965 Seminar
11 AM
Room 351 AOSS
Prof. Don Wuebbles, UIUC
Topic: Evaluating the Impacts of Aviation on Climate Change
AOS 405
1:20 PM
Room 823 AOSS
John Young
Topic: Regional Patterns of Change in a Chaotic Climate
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Andrea Lang
Topic: TBA
Friday, March 30
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Richard Dworak
Topic: Historical AVHRR Winds – Validation and Comparison to ERA–40
March 31 – April 8
Spring Break
Wednesday, April 4
1 PM
Room 1039 AOSS
Mary Anne Evans, University of Michigan
Topic: Internal wave effects on photosynthesis: Experiments, theory, and modeling
Friday, April 6
3:30 PM
Room 1039 AOSS
Ed Hall, University of Minnesota
Topic: The Interactive Effect of Temperature and Resources on the Metabolism and Stoichiometry of Natural Bacterioplankton Communities
Monday, April 9
AOS Colloquium
3:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Raghu Murtugudde
University of Maryland, the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
Topic: Nature's Laws and Biological loopholes: Revisiting Bio-Climate Feedbacks and ENSO variability
Tuesday, April 10
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
12:05 PM
Room 4724 Chamberlin Hall
Amato Evan
SSEC
Topic: The relationship between West African dust outbreaks and Atlantic hurricane activity
SSEC Seminar
2:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
David Reusch, Earth & Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State
Topic: Nonlinear (Paleo)Climatology: Studying Polar Climate with Self-Organizing Maps
Climate Change & Wisconsin's Future: Issues & Opportunities Panel Discussion
Sponsored by the Nelson Institute
2:30-4 PM
180 Science Hall
Participants include the members of the State Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
Wednesday, April 11
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
Sharon Dunwoody, UW Journalism and Mass Communication
Topic: When It Comes to Communication Channels, One Size Does Not Fit All
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Justin Sieglaff
Topic: Sensitivity of High Spectral Resolution Infrared Sounders to Thermodynamic Variability in the Lower Troposphere
Thursday, April 12
Seeking Solutions to Global Warming: The Wisconsin Idea in Action
Sponsored by WISPERG and the Nelson Institute
7-8:30 PM
2103 Chamberlain Hall
Guests include: Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, Paul Meier (Dir. Energy Institute), Prof. Tracey Holloway (Nelson Institute, AOS), Dan Kohler (State Directory, WISPIRG), and John Magnuson (Director Emeritus, Center for Limnology)
Friday, April 13
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Jerome Vidot
Topic: XCO2 Retrieval Over Clouds: The OCO Method Tested on SCIAMACHY
Monday, April 16
AOS Colloquium
CANCELLED
Tuesday, April 17
Global Warming Speaker Series: Part I
6 PM
Room 1651 Humanities
Caroline Garber, WDNR Bureau of Air Management
Topic: Climate Policy: What Are Our Options?
Wednesday, April 18
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Hester Wing Yee Leung
Topic: The Cloud Dynamics and Radiation Database (CDRD) Approach for Passive Microwave Precipitation Retrieval
Thursday, April 19
CIMSS Seminar
11 AM
Room 811 AOSS
Timothy Olsen
Topic: Outreach from the Environmental Remote Sensing Center: Growing the Geospatial Workforce in Wisconsin, Alaska and Beyond
Friday, April 20
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Andrew Parker
Topic: Observations, Structure and Formation of Polar Stratospheric Clouds
Monday, April 23
CIMSS Seminar
10 AM
Room 351 AOSS
Zhiquan Liu, NCAR/MMM
Topic: Radiance Assimilation in WRF–Var: Implementations and Initial Results
AOS Colloquium
3:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Brian Soden
RSMAS/MPO, University of Miami
Topic: Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation
Tuesday, April 24
AOS Colloquium
9:30 AM
Room 811 AOSS
Kevin E Trenberth
NCAR
Topic: The water and energy budgets of hurricanes and implications for climate change
CIMSS Seminar
CANCELLED
Room 811 AOSS
Don Wylie, Paul Menzel, & Bryan Baum
Topic: Cloud Cover Measurements – What we know and thought we knew
International Environmental Law: Global Climate Change
2:45-6 PM (reception 5:30-6 PM)
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School
Register by April 16 (registration is free)
Details: http://law.wisc.edu/ils/glsi/events.htm
Wednesday, April 25
SAGE Seminar
12 NOON
Room 272 Enzyme Institute, 1710 University Ave
Steve Vavrus, CCR
Topic: A Changing Arctic: Climate and Clouds in the Far North
AOS 405 Conference
1:20 PM
Room 823 AOSS
Multiple Speakers and Topics
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
David Ullman
Topic: Tales of a Landlubber Downunder: Life on a oceanographic research vessel in the Southern Ocean
AOS Awards Ceremony
3:30 PM
Room 853 AOSS
Nelson Institute & AOS Department Lecture
3:30 PM
Memorial Union (check TITU for room)
Fran Pavley
Topic: Leading the Way on Climate Change
Satellite Seminar
7 PM
Room 1360 Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Tim Schmit, NOAA
Topic: Weather Satellites: Current Capabilities and Future Needs
Friday, April 27
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Andrew Heidinger, CIMSS
Topic: TBA
Monday, April 30
PhD Presentation
1 PM
Room 823 AOSS
William E. Lewis
Topic: The impact of spaceborne Doppler radar observations on the simulation of a tropical cyclone
AOS Colloquium
3:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Tom Bettge
Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, NCAR
Topic: Strategic Directions in High Performance Computing at NCAR
Public Lecture
4 PM
5055 Vilas Hall
Hans Peter Peters, Research Center Juelich, Free University Berlin
Topic: Public Communication about Global Climate Change in Germany: The Role of Science
Wednesday, May 2
AOS 405 Conference
1:20 PM
Room 823 AOSS
Multiple Speakers and Topics
AOS 907–1
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Abby Fontaine
Topic: The role of the Pacific meridional mode and the WES feedback on the onset of ENSO
Thursday, May 3
EC&T Seminar
12 NOON
102 Water Science & Engineering Lab
Dylan Millet, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Topic: Characterizing Emission Sources of Reactive Gases and Particles using Atmospheric Observations
Friday, May 4
EC&T Seminar
12:05 PM
102 Water Science & Engineering Laboratory
Rebecca Sheesley, PhD, EC&T
Topic: Advances in the Analysis of Organic Tracers in Atmospheric Particulate Matter
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Jessica Staude
Topic: Antarctic Composite Climatology: Cloud Mass Transport
Monday, May 7
AOS Colloquium
3:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Dave Bromwich, Ohio State
Topic: Multi-decadal Climate Variability and Change in Antarctica
Tuesday, May 8
CIMSS Seminar
2:30 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Jason Brunner
Topic: Towards an Objective Enhanced-V Detection Algorithm
Wednesday, May 9
AOS 405 Conference
1:20 PM
Room 823 AOSS
Multiple Speakers and Topics
Friday, May 11
Last Class Day
Weather Watch
12:15 PM
Room 811 AOSS
AOS 907–2
2:25 PM
Room 811 AOSS
Michael Pavalonis
Topic: Applications of satellite–derived infrared cloud emissivity spectra
May 13-19
Exam Week
May 18-20
Commencement Weekend
Seniors Graduate at 10am on May 20
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