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Program for the Study of Global Change


Mark Pagani, Director
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Hagit Affek, Interim Director for the Spring 2012
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

GLOBAL CHANGE SEMINAR SERIES

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Mondays, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM in Room 102, Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Avenue.

Spring 2012 Schedule

      

      Climate and Precipitation:  Past, Present and Future Perspectives

 

January 23, 2012
 

Speaker:  Stephen J. Burns, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Geosciences
Topic: Speleothem Records of the South American Summer Monsoon over the Past Two Glacial Cycles - Tropical and Extratropical Connections

January 30, 2012

Speaker:  Peter deMenocal, Professor, Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Topic:  Green Sahara:  Holocene Climate and Life in North Africa

 

February 6, 2012

Speaker:  David Noone, Professor, University of Colorado and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Topic: Using Isotope Geochemistry to Track the Water Cycles of the Past, Present and Future


February 13, 2012

Speaker:  William Boos, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics

Topic: Are Most Predictions of Twenty-First Century Monsoon Rainfall Wrong?

 

February 20, 2012

Speaker: Ron Smith, Professor, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics

Topic: Orographic precipitation and Stable Isotope Gradients Across the Sierra Nevada and Other Mountain Ranges


February 27, 2012

Speaker:  Jessica Tierney, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Topic:  Indo-Pacific Paleoclimate: Lessons from East Africa

March 19, 2012
Flint Lecture - #1

Speaker:  Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University; Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics Flint Lecturer

Topic:  TBA

 

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Flint Lecture - #2

Speaker:  Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University; Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics Flint Lecturer

Topic:  TBA

 

Friday, March 23, 2012

12:00 NOON

Location:  ESC 110
23 Sachem Street

Flint Lecture - #3

Speaker:  Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University; Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics Flint Lecturer

Topic:  TBA

PLEASE NOTE:  This 3rd Flint Lecture by Michael Bender will be held in ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street as part of the YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminar Series

March 26, 2012

Speaker:  Mark Abbot, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Geology & Planetary Science

Topic:  TBA


April 2, 2012

Speaker:  Brendan Buckley, Associate Research Professor, Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Topic:  Tree Rings and Palm Leaves: Hydroclimate Extremes Over the Past Millennium in Southeast Asia and Their Societal Impacts

 

April 9, 2012

Speaker: Steve Nesbitt, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Topic: Orographic Precipitation and the Global Water Cycle: Present and Future

April 16, 2012

Speaker:  Gabriel Bowen, Associate Professor Purdue University, College of Science

Topic:  Water Redistribution in a Warming World: Insight from Isoscapes in the Early Paleogene and Late 20th Century


April 23, 2012

Speaker:  Paul O'Gorman, Victor P. Starr Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Topic:  Response of Mean and Extreme Precipitation to Climate Change: Theory, Simulations, and Observation

 

In addition to the the weekly Topics in Global Change Seminar Series, the Center for the Study of Global Change has sponsored a number of forums at Yale.  Listed below are the most recent forums, with links provided for more information and to view presentations:

FORUM ON AEROSOLS on Friday, March 26th and Saturday, March 27th, 2010. Click here for the list of presenters and links to their presentations.

Forum on Solar Variability and Climate Change - March 28 and March 29, 2008
For copy of program (word doc),
To view program, click here

Forum on Ocean & Climate
April 11 and April 12, 2008
To view program, click here

The Forum on Carbon Sequestration: Is It Feasible?, sponsored by YIBS' Center for the Study of Global Change, was held on Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8, 2006 at the Environmental Science Center
To view presentations, click here.

The Forum on Climate and Disease, sponsored by YIBS' Center for the Study of Global Change and Center for EcoEpidemiology, was held on Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10, 2005 at Luce Hall Auditorium.
To view videos of talks, click here.

The Forum on Global Climate Change Components, sponsored by YIBS' Center for the Study of Global Change, was held on Friday, October 29 and Saturday, October 30, 2004 at the Environmental Science Center.
To view presentations, click here.

 

 
YALE INSTITUTE FOR BIOSPHERIC STUDIES
Oswald Schmitz, Director
Rose Rita Riccitelli, Assistant Director
LaToya Sealy, Sr. Administrative Assistant
Environmental Science Center, Room 132
21 Sachem St., P.O. Box 208105
New Haven, CT 06520-8105
Phone: (203) 432-9856 ยท Fax: (203) 432-9927