Distinguished Lecture Series
2023
Distinguished Lecture: Carbon Stocks of African Dryland Trees from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea South of the Sahara and North of the Equator
CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Compton Tucker, Carbon Stocks of African Dryland Trees from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea South of the Sahara and North of the Equator.
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Jean-Philippe Avouac
Title: “Silent uplift, Monsoonal swing and millenary quakes in the Himalaya”
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Maria T. Zuber
Title: “The Crust of the Moon and Implications for Early Planetary Evolution”
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The challenges of communicating climate science in a politically polarized environment
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Climatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War
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Improving Air Quality: Is less NOx always better?
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. John J. Clague
Danger from the sea – Sea-level rise in a changing climate
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The past and future of drought in the Western United States
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Slow onsets, abrupt changes, and fast reflexes: Research on adaptation in a changing world.
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Richard J. Johnson
Climate Change and the Evolution of Humans
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Graeme L Stephens
The talk for December 2nd has been canceled; no date has been rescheduled at this time
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Thomas Painter
A snow hydrologist's apology: Ruining the mystery of mountain snows
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Is terrestrial net primary production a planetary boundary?
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
Particle Formation from Sulfur Compounds in a Coastal Urban Area: Now and Then
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The quest for evidence: An insider's view on science and politics in Europe
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Dr. David Keith
Moderate, Temporary, and Responsive Solar Geoengineering
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Culture, Rationality, and Risk Perception: the Tragedy of the Science-Communication Commons
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Piecing Together the Climate Story: Linking past, present and future in the climate story
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Thomas H. Jordan
The Prediction Problems of Earthquake System Science
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A new form of global change science: Science for a Sustainability Transition
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Mark Zoback
The Opportunities and Challenges of Shale Gas Development
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Steven Wofsy
Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Richard Seager
The Dust Bowl and Other Great North American Droughts of the Past, Present, and Future
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Christopher Landsea
Hurricanes and Global Warming: Expectations Versus Observations
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Distinguished Lecture Series: David Randall
A University Perspective on Climate Modeling
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Issac M. Held
Global Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Statistics, Interannual variability and the response to global warming
Distinguished Lecture Series: Diana Liverman
Regents Professor in the School of Geography and Development
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Peter Webster
Probability, Prediction and Decisions: A Pathway to the alleviation of poverty in the developing world
Distinguished Lecture Series: Brian Toon
The Anti-Greenhouse Effect along the Spiral of Geologic Time
Distinguished Lecture Series: David Goldston
Loving Science to Death: Problems at the Intersection of Science and Policy
2010
Distinguished Lecture Series: Daniel Jacob
Mercury in the environment: where does it come from, where does it go?
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Peter B. Kelemen
In situ mineral carbonation in peridotite for geological capture and storage of CO2
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: 2010
Mike Hulme:
Why we disagree about Climate Change
Paul B Kelemen:
In situ mineral carbonation in peridotite for geological capture and storage of CO2
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Steve Rayner
The Problem of Uncomfortable Knowledge in Science Policy Debates
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Recent Climatic Change and Deglacierization of the Tropics
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Greg Carmichael
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
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Alan Robock
Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: 2009
Raymond Bradely:
Recent Climatic Change and Deglacierization of the Tropics
Steve Rayner:
The Problem of Uncomfortable Knowledge in Science Policy Debates
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Gerard Roe
The shape of things to come: what are the limits to global climate predictions?
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Susan Solomon
A world of change: Climate yesterday, today, and tomorrow
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Mark Z. Jacobson
Air Pollution Effects of and a Renewable-Energy Solution to Global Warming
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: 2008
Gerard Roe:
The shape of things to come: what are the limits to global climate predictions?
Mark Z. Jacobson:
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Gerald North
Climate Change over the Last Thousand Years and the Next Hundred
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Greenland Ice Cores tell tales on the Eemian Period and beyond
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Prasad Gogineni
Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging of Ice-bed Interface and Radar Sounding of Fast-Flowing Glaciers
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Stephen Hickman
Structure and Properties of the San Andreas Fault at Seismogenic Depths: Recent Results from the SAFOD Experiment
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: John Wallace
Year-to-year Variability and Long-term Trends in the Circulation over High Latitudes
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Stefan Hastenrath
Variations of East African climate, glaciers and lakes over the past two centuries
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: 2007
Prasad Gogineni:
Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagine of Ice-bed Interface and Radar Sounding of Fast Flowing Glaciers
Stephen Hickman:
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Amanda Lynch
A factorial analysis of storm surge flooding in Barrow, Alaska: an adaptation study
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Walter Pitman
Evidence for and Implications of the Black Sea Noah's Flood: Geology, Archaeology, Language and Myth
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Steve Boyes
The Okavango Delta - Africa's Wetland Wilderness
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State of Fear the Day After Tomorrow? (A Geological Perspective on Global Warming)
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Lonnie Thompson
Glaciological Evidence of Abrupt Tropical Climate Change: Past, Present and Future
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Distinguished Lecture Series: 2006
Steve Boyes:
The Okavango Delta - Africa's Wetland Wilderness
George Philander:
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Meghan Miller
GPS constraints on seismic hazard in the Pacific Northwest
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Distinguished Lecture Series: James C. Zachos
A Rapid Rise in Greenhouse Gas Concentrations 55 Million Years Ago: Lessons for the Future
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Distinguished Lecture Series: 2005
Myles Allen
How much carbon can we afford to emit?
Lucile Jones
The Politics of Earthquake Prediction
Michael Tjernström
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Tanya Atwater
A Half-Billion Years of Plate Tectonics in the Western United States, or How the West Was Made
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Jeff Severinghaus
How air bubbles trapped in glacial ice have changed our view of abrupt climate change
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Dianne Dumanoski
Understanding the Planetary Emergency as a "Human Crisis"
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Daniel Kevles
Patenting Life: Innovation and Controversy in the Political Economy of Patent Law
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Distinguished Lecture Series: William Ruddiman
The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago
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Distinguished Lecture Series: 2004
Dianne Dumanoski
Understanding the Planetary Emergency as a "Human Crisis"
Philip England
The Viscosity of the Continents
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Richard Alley
Looking back to our future: Is the IPCC optimistic on climate change?
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Daniel Sarewitz
Science, Values, and Climate Change: Probing the Limits of Objectivity
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Richard Alley:
Looking back to our future: Is the IPCC optimistic on climate change?
Inez Fung:
Carbon-Climate Interactions: A Contemporary View
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Andrew Revkin
The Daily Planet: Why the Media Stumble over the Environment
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: James Holton
The Tropical Tropopause Layer, the Quasibiennial Oscillation, and Stratospheric Dehydration
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Michael Bender
An Absolute Age Scale for the Vostok Ice Core: Implications for the Role of Milankovitch Forcing of Glacial-Interglacial Climate Change
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Carl Wunsch
A Revisionist View of the Milankovitch Hypothesis for Climate Change
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Dennis Lettenmaier
Implications of Hydrologic Variability and Change for Western Water Management
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Christopher Green
Stabilizing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: What will it take?
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Michael Bender
James Holton:
The Tropical Tropopause Layer, The Quasibiennial Oscillation, and the Stratospheric Dehydration
Andrew Revkin:
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Roger Kennedy
The Abrasion of Human and Natural Systems: Fire, Flood, Risk and Responsibility
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: 2001
Roger Kennedy:
The Abrasion of Human and Natural Systems: Fire, Flood, Risk and Responsibility
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Roger Pielke Jr
Seasonal Climate Forecasts: Opportunities for and Obstacles to Use in Decision Making
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: 2000
David Anderson:
Jim Rustad:
Roger Pielke Jr:
Season Climate Forecasts: Opportunities for and Obstacles to Use in Decision Making
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Distinguished Lecture Series: 1998
Joyce Penner:
Cort Wilmont:
Spatially Interpolating and Mapping Climate Fields from Lousy Weather-Station Networks
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Cort Wilmott
Spatially Interpolating and Mapping Climate Fields from Lousy Weather-Station Networks
View EventDistinguished Lecture Series: Cort Wilmott
Spatially Interpolating and Mapping Climate Fields from Lousy Weather-Station Networks
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