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Distinguished Lecturer Series 2017-2018

Date Place & Time Speaker Title
Tuesday, Sept 26, 2017 McLennan Physical Labs, Rm MP134, 4:00 p.m. V. Ramaswamy, GFDL Princeton Modelling of the Earth System with applications to weather and climate
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 McLennan Physical Labs, Rm MP134, 4:10 p.m. Tim Bertram, Univ of Wisconsin Air-sea exchange of reactive trace gases: Implications for atmospheric oxidants and aerosol particles
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 McLennan Physical Labs, Rm MP134, 4:00 p.m. Alberto Reyes, Univ. of Alberta Diamond mines, Arctic forests, and ancient climate warming under modest greenhouse gas forcing
Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017 McLennan Physical
Labs, Rm MP134,
4:00 p.m.
Chris Stokes, Durham University How ice sheets collapse:  A lesson from the Laurentide
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017 McLennan Physical Labs, Rm MP134, 4:00 p.m. Nadine Unger, University of Exeter Air pollution impacts on the carbon cycle and climate
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017 McLennan Physical Labs, Rm MP134, 4:00 p.m. Adam Sobel, Columbia University Extreme weather events and climate:  Trends, attribution, and risk assessment
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018 Bahen Centre, Rm BA1210, 4:0 p.m. Andrew Ingersoll, Cal Tech Rapid overturning of the glacial ocean and the sea water equation of state
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018 Bahen Centre, Rm BA1210, 4:00 p.m. John Scinnoca, CCCma, Univ. ofVictoria Co-ordinated Global and Regional Climate Modelling
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018 UTM, Mississauga
Rm KN L1220, 3:10
Andrea Grottoli, Ohio State University Coral reefs and climate change:  How will they survive?
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018 Bahen Centre, Rm BA1210, 4:00 p.m. Tom Gleeson, University of Victoria Is groundwater actually connected to other Earth system?
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018 Bahen Centre, Rm BA1210, 4:00 p.m. Anna Hargreaves, McGill University Dynamics at the edge:  the role of peripheral populations in current and future species distributions
Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2018 Bahen Centre, Rm BA1210, 4:00 p.m. Charles Miller, JPL Unexpected insights into the Arctic carbon cycle or, How I spent my summer vacations
Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2018 Bahen Centre, Rm BA1210, 4:00 p.m. John Lin, University of Utah CO2  and carbon emissions from Cities: Linkages to air quality, socioeconomic activity and stakeholders in the Salt Lake City urban area
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Bahen Centre, Rm BA1210, 4:00 p.m. Ros Rickaby , Oxford University Reading Earth’s climate revolutions through algae