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Distinguished Lecturer Series 2019-2020

Date Place & Time Speaker Title
Tuesday,
Sept. 10, 2019
Bahen Centre,
BA1130, 4:00 P.M.
Elizabeth Thomas
Univ. of Buffalo
Looking back to Greenland’s future:  Climate dynamics and ice sheet response during Holocene climate change
Tuesday,
Sept. 24, 2019
Bahen Centre,
BA1130, 4:00 P.M.
Robert Pickart
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Impact of Ice and Winds on Phytoplankton Blooms in the Chukchi Sea in a Changing Climate
Tuesday,
Oct. 8, 2019
Bahen Centre,
BA1130, 4:00 P.M.
Jess Adkins
Caltech
The Deep Ocean’s Role in Climate Change
Wednesday,
Oct. 9, 2019
Davis Building, UTM, Rm DV3130, 12:00 Noon Thomas Opel
Alfred Wegener Inst., Germany
Ice Wedge Paleoclimatology – The Siberian Perspective
Tuesday,
Oct. 22, 2019
Bahen Centre,
BA1130, 4:00 P.M.
Francesco Pausata
UQAM
The Sahara Greening during the African Humid Period:  An Overview of its Regional and Global Impacts
Tuesday,
Oct. 29, 2019
UTSC, Room EV151, 3:00 P.M. Thomas Bianchi
Univ. of Florida
Carbon Re-mineralization and Burial in the Coastal Margin:Linkages in the Anthropocene
Tuesday,
Nov. 5, 2019
Bahen Centre,
BA1130, 4:00 P.M.
Kevin Gurney
Northern Arizona Univ.
From the Globe to the Building:  Multiscale Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Information System
Tuesday,
Nov. 19, 2019
Bahen Centre,
BA1130, 4:00 P.M.
John Fyfe
CCCMA, Env. Canada
Uncertainty in the Fingerprints of Human-Caused Climate Change:  How Irreducible is the Irreducible?
Tuesday,
Dec. 3, 2019
Bahen Centre
BA1130, 4:00 P.M.
Yuxuan Wang
Univ. of Houston
Impacts of Droughts on Air Quality
Tuesday,
Jan. 7, 2020
Bahen Centre
BA1190, 4:00 P.M.
Andrew Kemp
Tufts University
Sea Level and Climate Variability During the Past 2000 Years
Tuesday,
Jan. 21, 2020
Bahen Centre
BA1190, 4:00 P.M.
Noelle E. Selin
MIT
Tracing Policies to Impacts:  Air Pollution, Climate Change Sustainability
Tuesday,
Feb. 4, 2020
Bahen Centre
BA1190, 4:00 P.M.
Malte Jansen
Univ of Chicago
Understanding the Past and Future Changes in the Ocean’s Overturning Circulation
Tuesday,
Feb. 25, 2020
Bahen Centre
BA1190, 4:00 P.M.
Mike Flanagan
Univ. of Alberta
Hot and Smokey – is this the New Reality for Canada?
Tuesday,
Mar. 10, 2020
Bahen Centre
BA1190, 4:00 P.M.
Joel Thornton
Univ of Washington
New Insights Into the Effects of Atmospheric Particles on Weather and Climate
Tuesday,
Mar. 24, 2020
CANCELLED Paul Meyers
Univ. of Alberta
From the Arctic Ocean to the Labrador Sea Through the Canadian Arctic – Processes and Pathways
Tuesday,
April 7, 2020
CANCELLED Julienne Stroeve
Univ. of Manitoba
Using Radar to Illuminate Snow on Sea Ice, from Freeze Up Through Winter

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