Past Distinguished Lectures

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Past Distinguished Lectures
2005	Myles Allen, University of Oxford How much carbon can we afford to emit?
2003	Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University Looking back to our future: Is the IPCC optimistic on climate change?
2000	David Anderson, European Centre For Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Seasonal Forecasting at the ECMWF
2004	Tanya Atwater, University of California, Santa Barbara A Half-Billion Years of Plate Tectonics in the Western United States, or How the West Was Made
2002	Michael Bender, Princeton University An Absolute Age Scale for the Vostok Ice Core: Implications for the Role of Milankovitch Forcing of Glacial-Interglacial Climate Change
2006	Steve Boyes, University of KwaZulu-Natal The Okavango Delta - Africa's Wetland Wilderness
2009	Raymond Bradley Climate System Research Center, Dept of Geosciences University of Massachusetts, Amherst Recent Climatic Change and Deglacierization of the Tropics
2004	Wallace Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Sea Ice and Global Climate
2009	Greg Carmichael Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, The University of Iowa What Goes Around Comes Around: The globalization of air pollution and the implications for the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat
2003	Thure Cerling, University of Utah Welcome to the C4-World: Ecological Change and Evolution in the Neogene
2007	Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Greenland Ice Cores tell tales on the Eemian Period and beyond
2004	Dianne Dumanoski, Former writer for the Boston Globe Author of Our Stolen Future Understanding the Planetary Emergency as a "Human Crisis">
2004	Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Simple Model of Multiple Climate Regimes
2008	Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hurricanes in the Climate System
2004	Philip England, University of Oxford The Viscosity of the Continents
2003	Inez Fung, University of California Berkeley Carbon-Climate Interactions: A Contemporary View
2004	Paul Gipe , Ontario Sustainable Energy Association Overview of Worldwide Wind Energy Development
2007	Prasad Gogineni, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging of Ice-bed Interface and Radar Sounding of Fast-Flowing Glaciers
2002	Christopher Green, McGill University Stabilizing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: What will it take?
2005	Bernard Hallet, University of Washington Self-Organization in Landscapes
2007	Stefan Hastenrath, University of Wisconsin-Madison Variations of East African climate, glaciers and lakes over the past two centuries
2007	Stephen Hickman, U.S. Geological Survey Structure and Properties of the San Andreas Fault at Seismogenic Depths: Recent Results from the SAFOD Experiment
2002	James Holton, University of Washington The Tropical Tropopause Layer, the Quasibiennial Oscillation, and Stratospheric Dehydration
2008	Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University Air Pollution Effects of and a Renewable-Energy Solution to Global Warming
2003	Claude Jaupart, Inst. de Physique du Globe de Paris Physical Controls on Volcanic Eruptions
2005	Lucile Jones, United States Geological Survey The Politics of Earthquake Prediction
2001	Roger Kennedy, US National Park Service The Abrasion of Human and Natural Systems: Fire, Flood, Risk and Responsibility
2004	Daniel Kevles, Yale University Patenting Life: Innovation and Controversy in the Political Economy of Patent Law
2002	Dennis Lettenmaier, University of Washington Implications of Hydrologic Variability and Change for Western Water Management
2006	Amanda Lynch, A factorial analysis of storm surge flooding in Barrow, Alaska: an adaptation study
2005	Meghan Miller, Central Washington University GPS constraints on seismic hazard in the Pacific Northwest
2007	Gerald North, Texas A&M University Climate Change over the Last Thousand Years and the Next Hundred
1998	Joyce Penner, University of Michigan Climate Change and Radiative Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols: A Summary of Current Understanding
2006	George Philander, Princeton University State of Fear the Day After Tomorrow? (A Geological Perspective on Global Warming)
2000	Roger Pielke Jr., National Center for Atmospheric Research Seasonal Climate Forecasts: Opportunities for and Obstacles to Use in Decision Making
2006	Walter Pitman, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Evidence for and Implications of the Black Sea Noah's Flood: Geology, Archaeology, Language and Myth
2004	V. Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Asian Brown Cloud
2003	Christina Ravelo, University of California, Santa Cruz Do Tropical Conditions Determine Climate Sensitivity? Lessons from the Warm Pliocene
2002	Andrew Revkin, New York Times The Daily Planet: Why the Media Stumble over the Environment
2004	Paul Richards, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Monitoring Nuclear Explosions: Why, How, and What Do We Learn?
2009	Alan Robock, Rutgers University Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?
2008	Gerard Roe, University of Washington The shape of things to come: what are the limits to global climate predictions?
2004	William Ruddiman, University of Virginia The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago
2000	Jim Rustad, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Molecular Simulation Of Chemistry At Complex Mineral-Water Interfaces
2003	Daniel Sarewitz, Columbia University Science, Values, and Climate Change: Probing the Limits of Objectivity
2004	Jeff Severinghaus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography How air bubbles trapped in glacial ice have changed our view of abrupt climate change
2008	Susan Solomon National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration A world of change: Climate yesterday, today, and tomorrow
2006	Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center/ The Ohio State University Glaciological Evidence of Abrupt Tropical Climate Change: Past, Present and Future
2005	Michael Tjernström, Stockholm University CIRES Visiting Fellow So, what's so special about Arctic clouds?
2007	John Wallace, Year-to-year Variability and Long-term Trends in the Circulation over High Latitudes
1998	Cort Wilmott, University of Delaware Spatially Interpolating and Mapping Climate Fields from Lousy Weather-Station Networks
2002	Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Revisionist View of the Milankovitch Hypothesis for Climate Change
2005	James C. Zachos, University of California Santa Cruz A Rapid Rise in Greenhouse Gas Concentrations 55 Million Years Ago: Lessons for the Future

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Past Distinguished Lectures