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