2014 Summer Institute Schedule
The Summer Institute for the
NOAA Climate & Global Change & PACE
Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
13 - 17 July 2014
Sheraton Steamboat Resorts
2200 Village Inn Court
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477
Telephone: 970-879-2220
Meeting Location | Aspen/Boardroom
Sunday | 13 July |
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| 6:30 - 7:30 pm | Icebreaker | Seven’s Deck | |
Monday | 14 July |
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| 8:00 am | Breakfast Meeting | Aspen Room/Boardroom | |
| 8:30 | Logistics/1 minute – 1 slide – participant introductions | Mick Follows, Institute Leader |
| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:30 | The Madden-Julian Oscillation in a warmer world | Nathan Arnold, Class 23 |
| 11:00 | The atmosphere's response to climate change: A jet-stream perspective | Elizabeth Barnes Keys, Class 22 |
| 11:30 | Shortwave and longwave radiative contributions to global warming | Aaron Donohoe, Class 21 |
| 12:00 pm | Drought and the carbon cycle: Using plant hydraulics to better predict carbon cycle consequences of drought | Bill Anderegg, Class 23 |
| 12:30 | Adjourn for networking and discussion groups. | |
Tuesday | 15 July |
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| 8:00 am | Breakfast Meeting | Aspen Room/Boardroom | |
| 8:30 | Impact of oxidation on the chemistry and optical properties of light absorbing carbonaceous aerosol | Eleanor Browne, Class 22 |
| 9:00 | Space-based spectroscopy: insights into the chemistry of urban and remote atmospheres | Lukas Valin, Class 23 |
| 9:30 | A perspective on the role of data assimilation in geosciences: From estimating seasonal sources and sinks of atmospheric trace gases to improving decadal climate prediction skills | Abhishek Chatterjee, Class 22 |
| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:30 | Water vapor in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere | Tra Dinh, Class 22 |
| 11:00 | Representing large-scale turbulence in ocean models | Malte Jansen, Class 23 |
| 11:30 | Probabilistic weather and climate forecasting | Nir Krakauer, Class 16 |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | On your own | |
| 1:30 | Controls on recycling versus export of marine organic matter: Insights from stable isotope approaches | Hilary Close, Class 22 |
| 2:00 | Evaluating the relative importance of suspended and sinking particles to the meso and bathypelagic food webs of the Central North Pacific | Brian Popp, University Hawaii, Manoa |
| 2:30 | Ice ages and ancient oceans: Insight from fossil foraminifera | Katherine Allen, Class 23 |
| 3:00 |
Break |
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| 3:30 | Windows to past climate change: Reconstructing hydrologic variability in tropical Australasia through the late pleistocene using cave records | Michael Griffiths, Class 20 |
| 4:00 | Progress in Central American dendroclimatology | Daniel Griffin, Class 23 |
| 4:30 | Reconstructing terrestrial environments using oxygen isotopes in biogenic apatite and some thoughts on non-traditional careers in climate research | Kate Dennis, Class 21 |
| 5:00 | Adjourn until Evening Session | |
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Evening Session |
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| 6:00 pm | Working Dinner | Aspen Room/Boardroom | |
| 6:30 | Ventilation and stratification of the Southwest Pacific Ocean across the last glacial termination | Liz Sykes |
| 7:00 | Climate change questionnaire and group discussionnation | David Battisti |
| 9:00 pm | Adjourn | |
Wednesday | 16 July |
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| 8:00 am | Breakfast Meeting | Aspen Room/Boardroom | |
| 8:30 | Climate information for applications community projects | Evan Oswald, PACE 2013 |
| 9:00 | Drought, climate change and water and food security in Syria and Yemen | Colin Kelley, PACE 2013 |
| 9:30 |
Break |
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| 9:50 | Precise interhemispheric phasing of the bipolar seesaw during abrupt Dansgaard-Oeschger events | Christo Buizert, Class 22 |
| 10:20 | Tropical Pacific hydrographic variability during the last deglaciation | Katherine Wejnert, Class 22 |
| 10:50 | The Atlantic circumpolar current during the last glacial maximum | Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, GIT |
| 11:20 |
Break |
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| 11:40 | Exploring the consequences of land use change on soil quality and microbial diversity in a tropical agroforestry system | Seeta Sistla, Class 23 |
| 12:10 pm | The influence of food web dynamics and physiological rates on plankton community structure | Darcy Taniguchi, Class 23 |
| 12:40 | Eating your competitor: Mixotrophy and the marine carbon cycle | Mick Follows, MIT |
| 1:15 | Adjourn until Evening Dinner | |
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Evening Reception/Dinner |
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| 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Program wrap-up dinner (outside weather permitting at Sheraton Hotel | Sevens or Sevens Deck | |
Thursday | 17 July |
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| 8:00 am | Breakfast Meeting | Aspen Room/Boardroom | |
| 8:30 | The seeds of western water supply: How and when do naturally emitted aerosols enhance Sierra Nevada snowfall | Andrew Martin, PACE 2012 |
| 9:00 | Messing with moisture advection to test an idea about the mysterious Madden-Julian Oscillation | Michael Pritchard, Class 21 |
| 9:30 | Analyzing climate impacts using a low resolution CESM ensemble | Ryan Sriver, Class 18 |
| 10:00 | Interactions between tropical cyclones and the ocean: Implications at climate timescales | Emmanuel Vincent, Class 22 |
| 10:30 |
Break |
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| 11:00 | Atmosphere-biosphere-climate interactions: Enhanced conversion of forest emissions to aerosols | Ben Lee, Class 22 |
| 11:30 | Is the Southern Ocean carbon sink weakening? | Nicole Lovenduski, Class 17 |
| 12:00 pm | Climate, Wildfire and Management as Drivers of Change in Western US Forests | Anthony Westerling, UC Merced |
| 12:30 | Adjourn | End of Institute | |