AOS Colloquium Series

Spring 2011-2012

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.

Abstracts for the Fall 2011 Colloquium Series may be found here.

The following talks are currently scheduled for Spring semester 2010-2011

To sign up to meet the with colloquium speakers, please go to:
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 30

Matthew Hitchman, UW-Madison, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Topic: Volcanic Eruptions, the Quasibiennial Oscillation, and the Stratospheric Circulation

February 6

Jack Williams, Director of the Center for Climatic Research, Professor of Geography, Bryson CPEP Professor, UW-Madison
Topic: Using the Last Deglaciation as a Model System for Testing Species & Community Distribution Models

February 13

No Colloquium

February 20

Bryan Norcross, Director of Weather Presentation, The Weather Channel
Topic: The Hurricane Andrew Story & Communicating Risk: Andrew to Irene

February 27

No Colloquium

March 5

Norm Wood, Colorado State University
Topic: Estimating Snowfall from CloudSat Using Explicit Observational Constraints

March 12

Gil Bohrer, Ohio State University
Topic: Detecting and Modeling Hydrodynamic Stresses on Stomatal Conductance in the Forest Accelerated Successes Stomatal Conductance in the Forest acclerrated a succession Exeperiment (FASET)

THURSDAY, March 15
Special Colloquium
2:30 PM
Room 811

Gregory Carmichael, University of Iowa Dept of Chemical & Biological Engineering and Co-Director for the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER)
Topic: Sensitivity Analysis of Aerosol Feedbacks on Chemistry and Climate at Urban and Regional Scales