Karl K. Turekian, Director
Sterling Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

The weekly Topics in Global Change Seminar Series continues through the Spring of 2008. The schedule of speakers is listed below.

GLOBAL CHANGE SEMINAR SERIES  -  Spring - 2008
Emphasis on the post-glacial world

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

January 14	Ellen Thomas, Yale University: “The flooding of Long Island Sound”
January 21	No session:  Martin Luther King Day
January 28	Jay Melosh, University of Arizona: “Death of the Dinos: A giant impact and global firestorms”
February 4	Neil Roberts, Plymouth University: “The pulse of Asia Minor: Changing climates and civilizations in the ancient Near East"
February 11	Larry Edwards, University of Minnesota: “How to terminate a glacial period: Constraints from cave climate records"
February 18	Steven Koonin, BP: Zucker Fellow "Monitoring the earth's climate on the face of the moon"
February 25	Edward Brook, Oregon State  University: "Holocene trends in atmospheric greenhouse gases"
March 3	Anne Hormes, The Norwegian University Centre in Svalbard "The impact of solar activity on glacier mass balance"
March 24	Jess Adkins, California Institute of Technology: "Stalagmite records of the Western Equatorial Pacific climate from the glacial maximum through the Holocene"
March 28 and March 29	Solar Variability Forum Sponsored by the YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change For schedule, click here
March 31	Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey "The dynamics of the Southern Ocean and its importance for global climate"
April 7	Gwenn Flowers, Simon Fraser University: "Holocene climate in central Iceland: Inferences from lake records and glaciological modeling."
April 11 and April 12	Ocean & Climate Forum Sponsored by the YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change For schedule, click here
April 14	Kurt Cuffey, University of California-Berkeley "Taylor Glacier, or Why the Holocene in Antarctica is not dull"
April 21	Carrie Morrill, NOAA:  "Timing and spatial extent of Mid-Holocene abrupt climate change"
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 Solar Variability and         Climate Change - March 28 and         March 29, 2008         For copy of program (word doc),         click here         For copy of program (pdf), click here   Forum on Ocean & Climate April 11 and April 12, 2008 For schedule, 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.