Syllabus: ATM OCN 907
Seminar: Research Presentations (1 credit)

Course Description

Required weekly seminar for all M.S. and Ph.D. students pursuing a degree with thesis, given each semester. Students, faculty and research staff present aspects of their work in progress, with topics advertized in the weekly AOS calendar. In-depth discussion will be included, to foster independent, original work. Grading will be based on regular participation. Preq: All graduate students except those pursuing the non-thesis M.S. degree option.

All students will receive credit for attending a talk in either section, regardless of the section in which they are enrolled. A minimum combined count of 10 seminars in this semester is required, as before. We encourage students to attend presentations of their choice in each section every week.

The presentations on research progress will have the following priorities:
(a) Graduate Students: First priority is to all MS thesis students in their last year of the degree, and to all Ph.D students who have not given a presentation in the previous three semesters.
(b) Faculty and Researchers (including those in partner groups CIMSS, CCR, SAGE...).

Course Content

Each session will consist of a presentation of approximately 25 minutes, and 20 minutes will be reserved for open Q/A and discussion. Presenters should start with up to 10 minutes of introductory background suitable for our diverse audience, and prepare in advance three discussion points for the group discussion. Five minutes will be given to a written constructive critique of the content and technique of the presentation.

Preliminary Schedule [please consult "This Week in AOS" for final details.]
Sept. 22: Jean Phillips: Part 2/Case Studies and Discussion
Sept. 29: No Meeting: replaced by UW talk on "Britain's Perspectives on Climate Change"
Oct. 6: Prof. Matt Hitchman "Dynamical Puzzles.."
Oct. 13: Prof. Grant Petty "Ideas/Tutorial on Scientific Units"
Oct. 20: Alex Harrington "Land Surface Sensing and Convection"
Oct. 27: Heather Woods
Nov. 3: Dr. Mark Chandler, Columbia U. "The EdGCM Project: The Democratization of Global Climate Modeling Applications"
Nov. 10: Will Lewis "Ensemble Methods and Tropical Cyclone Prediction
Nov. 17: Brent Maddox
Nov. 24: No Classes
Dec. 1: Dr. Michael Notaro, Center for Climatic Research "Abrupt North african ecosystem change during the mid-Holocene and the role of a negative vegetation feedback on annual precipitation"
Dec. 8
Dec. 15: Last Class-TBD