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  • Reid Bryson - 1920-2008
    Pioneer of climatology dies at 88

  • Reid Bryson honored with SAA symposium
    The Society for American Archeology hosted a symposium in honor of Reid Bryson. The "Climate People and Behavior" symposium held on March 29, 2008 at the SAA annual meeting in Vancouver, BC concentrated on the development and use of Bryson's Macrophysical climate model.

  • CCR releases interactive 20th and 21st Century IPCC Maps of select atmospheric variables for seasonal and annual averages.

  • CPEP Spring 2008 Seminar Series Schedule
    Time: 1:30 pm
    Location: 1039 AOS Building

    Date Speaker Title
    1/28/08 Reid Bryson
    CCR    		 The River Effect of ICE-olation from the Climate
    2/4/08 TBD
    2/11/08 Anders Carlson
    Geology AND Nelson Inst.    		 Past Ice Sheet Responses to a Warming Climate
    2/18/08 Eric DeWeaver
    AOS AND CCR    		 Does global warming threaten the polar bear?
    2/25/08 Dan Vimont
    AOS AND CCR    		 Update on Research
    3/3/08 Prof. Sung-In Na
    Hiroshima Shudo University    		 CDM, Climate Change Policy and the Sustainable Development: Methodological Framework for Evaluation
    3/10/08 John Kutzbach
    CCR    		 Orbital forcing of monsoons - transient simulation for the past 300,000 years
    3/17/08 SPRING BREAK — no meeting
    3/24/08 — combined w/ AOS Colloq. Time: 3:30 pm, Rm. 811 AOSS Bob Krumenaker
    National Park Service - Apostle Islands National Lakeshore    		 Not-So-Early Worries About Climate Change: Climate Change and The National Parks
    3/31/08 John Kutzbach
    CCR    		 Simulations of climate change for Africa, future and past
    4/7/08 Galen McKinley
    AOS AND CCR    		 Update on Research
    4/14/08 TBD TBD
    4/21/08 Larry Agenbroad
    The Mammoth Site    		 Mammoths, Man, and the post-Pleistocene World
    4/28/08 Kevin Anchukiatis
    Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University    		 Climate reconstruction from tree-rings in the tropics: Examples from Central America and Asia
    5/5/08 Phil Higuera
    Montana State University - Bozeman    		 Response of Holocene fire regimes in Alaska to climatic and vegetational change
    5/12/08 John Hawks
    Anthropology    		 Accelerating into new environments: recent human evolution

  • UW research plays role in Bali forum

  • CCR Research Using CMIP3 - IPCC AR4 Climate Models

  • October 23, 2007
    Second Annual Wisconsin Climate Change Forum
    The 2007 Forum will consist of a keynote address by Dr. Susan Solomon, a Senior Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who co-chaired Working Group I (The Physical Basis of Climate Change) for the 4th Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Her lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. and be followed by a panel discussion including experts in various fields relating to climate change and its impacts. An informal reception begins at 6:30 p.m.

    Location: AB20 Weeks Hall, Geology Building 1215 W. Dayton St.
    More info (PDF). Photo slideshow from event.

    6:30pm-7:00pm: Informal Reception
    7:00pm-7:30pm: Keynote Address by Dr. Susan Solomon (NOAA / University of Colorado - Boulder). "Climate Change: A Review for Everyone."
    8:00pm-9:00pm: Forum Panel Discussion

  • October 22, 2007
    Reid Bryson Lecture Series
    "Ozone Depletion and its Links to Antarctic Climate"
    Lecture by Dr. Susan Solomon.
    3:30 PM, Monday, October 22, 2007
    Room 132, Noland Hall, 250 N. Mills St.
    More info (PDF)
    Photo slideshow

  • Supercomputer to power climate change study

  • Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll is visiting Madison while on sabbatical leave from the School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia. His research interests range from geomorphology-earth surface processes to Quaternary geology-paleoclimatology. Current projects include:
    • The uplift-climate history of the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau
    • Late Quaternary paleohydrology and paleoclimates of western Australia
    • Late Quaternary history of the northwest Australian monsoon
    • Investigation of the relationship between the Australian and East Asian monsoon systems using Atmosphere Ocean Global Circulation Model simulations
    • Prediction of eolian instability and dust transport under past and future climates

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