Event Details
Simon Fraser University

Special Seminar: #6 of Global Warming Series: Responding to the Climate Change

Thomas Pederson

Wednesday, March 30 at 12:30 PM in IRMACS Theatre

Abstract

 

The Dean of Science Office Presents:        

                                                                                

 

      GLOBAL WARMING: A SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE,  Spring 2011 Seminar Series

                                                               

The Seminars will be in Spring 2011, on consecutive Wednesday's at 12.30 pm. in the IRMACS theatre on the SFU main Burnaby campus, starting Wednesday, February 23rd. and ending Wednesday March 30th. (Except  for David Randall's presentation, which will be on TUESDAY MARCH 15th , at 12:30pm (time has been corrected), again in the IRMACS theatre).

 It is planned that all seminars will be streamed live on the web and available later through the Faculty of Science web page. The "follow up discussions" will be open to any interested parties with questions to ask.

 

ANNOUNCEMENT:  CHANGE OF SEMINAR TIME

The TUESDAY March 15th Seminar will begin at 12:30pm,

NOT 1:00pm as originally posted.

We apologize for any inconvenience

 

                           To view a printable PDF version of this seminar series table, please click here.

 

 

Seminar 1

Seminar 2

Seminar 3

Seminar 4

Seminar 5

Seminar 6

Date:

 Feb. 23

March 2

March 9

March 15

March 23

 March 30

Time:

All Seminars take place: 12.30pm (IRMACS Theatre), 2:00 (IRMACS Board Room)

Except  for David Randall's presentation, which will be on TUESDAY MARCH 15th, at 12:30pm (time has been corrected), again in the IRMACS theatre

Where:

 IRMACS Theatre, and follow up discussion in the IRMACS Board Room

Title/Topic:

 The Instrumental Temperature Record and what it tells us about Climate Change. Climate Change and the Melting Polar Ice-caps The Role of Oceans in Climate The Role of Clouds and Water Vapor in Climate Change The CLOUD experiment at CERN Responding to the Climate Change

Speaker:

 Francis Zwiers, Director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, B.C.

Kenneth Golden, Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Utah.

  Kevin Trenberth, Senior Scientist and Head of the Climate Analysis Section, National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado David Randall, Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Jasper Kirkby, Head of the CLOUD experiment, CERN, Geneva

                                  

 Thomas Pederson, Professor and Director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, University of Victoria, B.C

Host Department:

 Statistics (Richard Lockhart) Mathematics (Nilima Nigam) Wendy Palen (Biosciences) Physics (Mike Plischke)

 Physics

(Igor Herbut)

Chemistry and Earth Sciences

(Tim Storr and Gwenn Flowers)