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