Time Schedule:
James W Murray
ATM S 586
Seattle Campus
Weekly lectures focusing on a particular aspect of climate (topic to change each year) from invited speakers (both UW and outside), plus one or two keynote speakers, followed by class discussion. Offered: jointly with ESS 586/OCEAN 586.
Class description
PCC586 UW Program on Climate Change RESEARCH SEMINAR
Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30 OSB425
The schedule as of 23 September is as follows:
Sept 25 Mike Alexander (NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder) The influence of the extratropics on ENSO: testing the “seasonal footprinting mechanism Oct 2 No Seminar Oct 9 Mike Wallace (Atmospheric Sciences, UW) To Be Announced Oct 16 Julian Sachs (Oceanography; UW) Large Changes in Tropical Climate during the last 1000 years Oct 23 Peter Rhines (Oceanography, UW) To Be Announced Oct 30 Lucy Hutyra (Urban Ecology Research Lab, UW) Carbon and water Exchange in the Amazonian Rain Forest Nov 6 Jim Overland (NOAA PMEL) To Be Announced Nov 13 Speaker to be announced Nov 20 David Rutledge (Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Cal Tech) Hubbert’s Peak, The Coal Question and Climate Change Nov 27 Cecilia Bitz (Atmospheric Sciences, UW) To Be Announced Dec 4 Lyatt Jaegle (Atmospheric Sciences, UW) To Be Announced
James W. Murray Oceanography
Oct 10 No Seminar Oct 17 No Seminar Oct 24 David Bodansky (Dept. of Physics; Univ. Washington) Nuclear Option and Carbon Reduction Oct 31 Jim Hansen (KMS Financial Services) Implications for Peak Oil and Gas on Global Warming Nov 7 KC Golden (Policy Director, Climate Solutions) Honing our Rebewable Edge or Digging the Climate Hole Deeper?: Washington State’s Energy Policy at the Crossroads. Nov 14 Ken Caldiera (Dept. of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institute) Arctic Geoengineering Nov 21 Denis Hayes (President and CEO; Bullitt Foundation) Sunpower: The Core Role of Direct Solar Conversion in any Renewable Energy Future Nov 28 No Seminar Dec 5 Klaus Lackner (Earth Institute; Columbia University) TBA Dec 8 Ulf Riebesel (IFM-GEOMAR; Kiel) Experimental Studies of the Effect of Ocean Acidification on Ocean Ecology
17 Sept 2006
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Seminars on Tuesdays reading and Discussion of the next weeks speaker on Thurdays
Recommended preparation
contact instructor
Class assignments and grading
Attendance and particpation
