The
Dean
of
Science
Office
at
Simon
Fraser
University
Presents:
GLOBAL
WARMING:
A
SCIENCE
PERSPECTIVE,
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
1.00
pm
to
2.00
pm,
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.
Date:
Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Seminar 3
Seminar 4
Seminar 5
Seminar 6
Wednesday
February 23, 2011
Wednesday
March 2, 2011
Wednesday
March 9, 2011
Tuesday
March 15, 2011
Wednesday
March 23, 2011
Wednesday
March 30, 2011
Time:
All Seminars take place: 12.30pm (IRMACS Theatre), and 2:00 for discussion (IRMACS Board Room) –
Except Tuesday March 15th Seminar : presentation is at 1:00pm in IRMACS Theatre
Where:
IRMACS Theatre, and follow up discussion in the IRMACS Board Room
The Instrumental Temperature
Record and what it tells us about
Climate Change.
Title/
Topic:
Speaker:
Francis Zwiers, Director of the
Pacific Climate Impacts
Consortium, University of
Victoria, B.C.
Statistics
(Richard Lockhart )
Host
Dept.
Climate Change and the
Melting Polar Ice-caps
The Role of
The Role of Oceans Clouds and Water
in Climate
Vapor in Climate
Change
Kevin Trenberth,
David Randall,
Senior Scientist and
Professor,
Kenneth Golden, Professor
Head of the Climate
Department of
of Mathematics and
Analysis Section,
Atmospheric
Adjunct Professor of
National Centre for
Sciences,
Bioengineering, University
Atmospheric
Colorado State
of Utah.
Research, Boulder,
University, Fort
Colorado
Collins, Colorado
Mathematics
(Nilima Nigam)
Wendy Palen
(Biosciences)
Physics
(Mike Plischke)
The CLOUD
experiment at CERN
Jasper Kirkby,
Head of the CLOUD
experiment, CERN,
Geneva
Physics
(Igor Herbut)
Responding to the
Climate Change
Thomas Pederson,
Professor and
Director of the
Pacific Institute
for Climate
Solutions,
University of
Victoria, B.C
Chemistry and
Earth Sciences
(Tim Storr and
Gwenn Flowers)