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Friday, September 14th:
September 14-16, 2012
6:00-7:30 p.m.
7:30-9:30
Reception, Koenig Alumni Center, CU campus
Keynote Lecture, Hale 270, CU campus
Introductory Remarks: Carol Cleland, Philosophy
Opening of Conference: Mary Kraus, Associate Dean for the Sciences
Introduction of Speaker: Benjamin Hale, Philosophy and ENVS
Keynote: Wendy Parker, Ohio University
“Models, Measurement, and the Construction of Global Climate Datasets”
Saturday, September 15th (Canyon Half of Millennium Ballroom):
8:45-9:30 a.m. “Building Trust, Removing Doubt? Robustness Analysis and Climate
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:30
10:30-11:15
Modeling,” Jay Odenbaugh, Lewis and Clark College
Coffee Break
“Going…Going…Gone? Science and the History of an Ice-Free Arctic
Ocean,” Brandon Luedtke, University of Kansas
“Global Physics: The Positivist Inversion in Nineteenth-Century
Climatology,” Kevin Donnelly, Alvernia University
Coffee Break
CPCC Conference: Interdisciplinary Environmental Teaching Roundtable
11:15-11:30
11:30-12:30
12:30-1:45
2:00-2:45
2:45-3:30
Lunch (on your own)
“History and the Limits of Scientific Boundaries: A Controversy over
Sunspots and Climatic Change, 1974-1983,” Gabriel Henderson, Michigan
State University
“How Invasion Biology Might Inform the Fisher-Wright Controversy,”
Clement Loo, Wesleyan University
Late Afternoon Break 3:30-6:00
6:00-7:30 Keynote Lecture, Millennium Ballroom, Second Floor
Introduction of Speaker, Paul Sutter, History
Keynote: Spencer Weart, Center for History of Physics
“The Discovery of Global Warming”
7:30-9:30 Reception, Grand Pavilion, Millennium Courtyard
Sunday, September 16th (Benson 185, CU campus):
8:45-9:00 a.m.
9:00-9:45
Continental Breakfast
“A Paleo-perspective on Contemporary Warming,” Gifford Miller,
Geosciences and INSTAAR

9:45-10:30
10:30-10:45
10:45-11:30
11:30-12:15
12:15-1:30
1:30-2:15
2:15-3:00
3:00
3:30
“The Contributions of Systems Dynamics to Understanding Climate
Challenges and Sustainability Solutions,” Jonah Bea-Taylor, Georgia Tech
Coffee Break
Rumsey???
“Objectivity and a Comparison of Methodological Scenario Approaches for the IPCC,” Vanessa Schweizer, University Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR)
Lunch (on your own)
“Scientific Uncertainty and U.S. Acid Rain Politics: The Controversy on
Source-Receptor Relationships in the 1980s,” Milena Wazeck, New York
University
“What Ever Happened to the Plutonium Economy?” George Gonzalez,
University of Miami
Closing Remarks, Carol Cleland, Philosophy
Happy Hour (buy your own food and drink)
Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13 th Street