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Center for the Study of Global Change

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

GLOBAL CHANGE SEMINAR SERIES 

The weekly Topics in Global Change Seminar Series continues through the Fall of 2009.

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

Fall 2009 Schedule

With emphasis on climate change consequences  

September 7, 2009
 
John Wettlaufer, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University: Whither Arctic Sea Ice?
September 14, 2009 Inez Fung, University of California, Berkeley, Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar:  What Don't We Know About Global Warming?
September 21, 2009 Inez Fung, University of California, Berkeley, Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar:  Can the Carbon Budget Be Managed?
September 28, 2009 Robert Adair, Department of Physics, Yale University:  Stochastic Contributions to Global Temperature Changes
October 5, 2009 Richard Feely, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):  Ocean Acidification:  The Other CO2 Problem
October 12, 2009

No Seminar

October 19 No Seminar: Geological Society of America Meeting
October 26, 2009

Taro Takahashi, Lamont-Doherty Earth Oberservatory, Columbia University:  Uptake of Atmospheric CO2 by the Global Oceans:  How Is It Changing in Recent Decades?

November 2, 2009 Paul Halloran, Meteorology Office Hadley Centre, UK:  Ocean Acidification and the Carbonate Pump
November 9, 2009

Peter Brewer, MBARI:  Limits to Marine Life Posed by CO2 and O2 Levels

November 16, 2009 Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University: Global Warming Impacts on Drought Around the World
November 30, 2009

Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian Institution:  Global Change and the Future of Coral Reefs

December 7, 2009

Sydney Levitus, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):  Global Ocean Heat Content 1955-2008 and Earth's Heat Balance


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),
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.

 

  Karl K. Turekian
YALE INSTITUTE FOR BIOSPHERIC STUDIES
Jeffrey Park, 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
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