PMEL Seminars

For more information about the seminars listed here:

• FOCI Seminar Series
• JISAO - A Seminar Clearing House Web Page
• UW School of Oceanography seminars - (206)543-5060 Ocean Currents Seminar Schedule
• UW Atmospheric Sciences seminars - (206)543-4250 Tropospiel Seminar Schedule
• UW Earth and Space Sciences seminars - (206)543-8904 Seminar Schedule
• APL - (206) 685-3092

2008

Friday, June 13

Gael Alory, CSIRO, Hobart Australia, "Warming of the upper equatorial Indian Ocean and changes in the heat budget (1960-2000) ". 1:15 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Wednesday, April 23

Dr. Susan Solomon, NOAA CSD/ESRL, Co-Chair of Working Group One of the IPCC. "A world of change: Climate Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow". 3:30p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, March 13

Dr. Alexandre Ganachaud, PMEL/JISAO. "Southwest Pacific Ocean and SPICE: Jets around Vanuatu and New Caledonia from an inverse box model". 11:00 a.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

2007

Thursday, 8 November

Diana Greenslade, Research Scientist, Ocean and Marine Forecasting Group, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia. "Modeling and Forecasting for the Australian Tsunami Warning System". 11:00 a.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 4 October

Chris Dunbar, Field Site Manager for USAID Post-Tsunami Sustainable Coastal Livelihoods Program. "Tsunami Recovery and Preparedness in Southern Thailand". 11:00 a.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 20 September

Dr. Debby Ianson, Institute for Ocean Studies, Sidney, BC, Canada. "Carbon in coastal upwelling regions: does what comes up go down?" 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Wednesday, 20 June

Simone Alin, UW Oceanography. "Connecting the dots: Freshwater ecosystems link the carbon cycles of land, air, and sea ." 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Tuesday, 27 March

Dr. Colm Sweeney, CIRES, Boulder. "Constraining global air-sea gas exchange for CO2 with recent bomb 14C measurements and multiple wind products." 11:00 a.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

2006

Thursday, 7 December

Dr. Ulf Reibesell, Stiftung Alfred-Wegener Institut fur Polar und Meeresforschung in der Helmhotz-Gemeinschaft, Bremerhaven, Germamy. "Ocean Acidification." 10:00 a.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Monday, 4 December

Dr. Motoki Nagura, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan. "Pausing Mechanism of Transition from La Nina and El Nino: a View from Observational Heat Balance in the Mixed Layer from 1999 to 2002." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 30 November

Dr. Yolande Serra, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson. "Horizontal and vertical structure and energetics of easterly waves in the Pacific ITCZ." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 19 October

Dr. Alexandre Ganachaud, PMEL/JISAO. "SPICE: a Southwest Pacific Ocean Circulation Experiment: Architecture and preliminary studies." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 14 September

Charitha Pattiaratchi, School of Environmental Systems Engineering, University of Western Australia. "Tide Gage Observations of 2004, 2005, and 2006 Indian Ocean of Tsunami Impacts on Sri Lanka and Western Australia." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104. See Abstract

Thursday, 3 August

Christian Meinen, AOML. "Transport variability along the subtropical Atlantic western boundary: Implications for monitoring the Meridional Overturning Circulation." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Monday, 22 May

Robert S. Pickart, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska. "Aleutian low-pressure systems and their influence on two ocean basins." 10:00 a.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Tuesday, 25 April

Dr. John Schneider, Geoscience Australia, Canberra. "Tsunami Inundation Modelling and Applications to Risk Assessment in Australia." 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 16 March

John Osborne, OCRD/PMEL. "Argo/GTSPP NQuery: A Network-enabled Database Query Tool for Exploring NODC Argo and GTSPP Datasets." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Monday, 6 March

Matthias Lankhorst . "Mid-depth circulation features of the northeastern Atlantic as observed by floats." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 2 March

Dr. Edward Baker, OERD/PMEL. "Quantifying the global distribution of hydrothermal venting." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 26 January

Dr. Robert Embley, OERD/PMEL. "Recent Explorations of Western Pacific Island Arcs and Implications for NOAA Research. " 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 19 January

Francois Primeau, Earth System Science, UC, Irvine. "Multiple Equilibria and the Elongation-Contraction of the Kuroshio and Gulf Stream Extension Systems. " 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Friday, 13 January

Dr. Alexander Rabinovich, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia." The Sumatra tsunami of December 26, 2004: Observations and  Analysis." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 5 January

Taka Ito, UW/JISAO. "What controls dissolved argon in the subtropical thermocline - air-sea gas exchange or diapycnal mixing?" 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

2005

Thursday, 15 December

Igor Kamenkovich, UW / Atmos. Sci. "Role of daily atmospheric forcing in the Southern Ocean." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Monday, 5 December

Dr. Lisa Ballance, Southwest Fisheries Science Center . "Ecosystem Monitoring in the Tropical Pacific and California Current: Why, How, Applications and an Opportunity for Partnerships." 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 1 December

Dr. Donald Denbo AND Willa Zhu, PMEL/JISAO. "PMEL Argo Float Laboratory: Instrument Management and Testing." AND "PMEL Argo Float Processing: Data Management and Visualization." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 10 November

Tim Ahern , IRIS Data Management. "IRIS: Managing the Infrastructure for Seismology ." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 3 November

Sergei Rodionov , PMEL, Ocean Environment Research Division. "The Aleutian Low, Storm Tracks, and Winter Climate Variability in the Bering Sea ." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 27 October

Sara Fletcher, UCLA . " Preindustrial, Anthropogenic, and Contemporary Air-sea CO2 Fluxes " 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 20 October

Dr. Richard Feely, PMEL, Ocean Climate Research Division. "Carbon Dioxide and Global Climate Change:A Threat to Biodiversity in the Oceans?" 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Wednesday, 19 October

Galen Gisler, Los Alamos National Laboratory. " SAGE Calculations of the Tsunami Threat from La Palma." 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Tuesday, 11 October

Ed Harrison, PMEL. "Dateline El Niños." 12:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Tuesday, 26 July

Dr. Yolande Serra, Dept. of Atomspheric Science, Univ of Arizona. "Horizontal and vertical structure of snyoptic disturbances in the tropical east Pacific." 3:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 23 June

Dr. Meghan Cronin. "The KEO story: Past, Present, Future." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 9 June

John Osborne. "Comprehensive Ocean Data Analysis and Visualization with Java Ocean Atlas." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 26 May

LT Richard Hester. "Multiple Regimes of North Pacific Ocean Circulation: the Hypothesis and Preliminary Modeling Results." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 12 May

Nazila Merarti / Chris Moore, JISAO/PMEL. "GIS use at PMEL and how it fits in with NOAA and OOS." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 28 April

Dr. John Bullister, PMEL. "CFCs as Tracers in the Ocean." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Friday, 22 April

Rob Bell, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand. "Tsunami Riskscape: Comparing risk across hazards and some lessons from Thailand." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 14 April

Dr. Dongxiao Zhang, PMEL. "Decadal Changes of Ocean Circulation Linked to Pacific Climate Variability." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 31 March

Dr. William Lavelle, PMEL. "Currents and turbulence at seamounts and ridges." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Friday, 25 March

Special seminar featuring two speakers and two presentations -

Dr. Pramot Souisuporn AND Absornsuda Siripong, Marine Science Dept., Chulalongkorn Univeristy, Bangkok, Thailand. "December 26, 2004 tsunami waves along the coast of Thailand" and "Risk Assessment & Mitigation of Tsunami Damage." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 24 March

Dr. Dake Chen, LDEO. "Indo-Pacific Tripole: an intrinsic mode of tropical climate variability." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Monday, 21 March

Hiroyuki Tomita, Tokai University, Japan, "Studies of surface latent heat flux data." 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 17 March

Calvin Mordy, PMEL. "Nutrient Analysis in the CLIVAR and FOCI Programs." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 3 March

Phyllis Stabeno, PMEL. "The Aleutian Islands," 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier, UW, "The evolution of hydrology in an interdisciplinary earth science setting." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 17 February

CANCELED
Steven Hankin, PMEL, "Getting more value from research observations and products through network-centered data management." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 3 February

Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier, UW, "The evolution of hydrology in an interdisciplinary earth science setting." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 20 January

Dr. Timothy Bates, PMEL, "PMEL, Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate and Air Quality." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Thursday, 6 January

Dr. Frank González, PMEL, "PMEL Tsunami Research: the Science, the Projects, and the Programs." 2:00 p.m., Bldg. 3, Room 2104.

Seminar announcements from previous years:

• 2004
• 2003
• 2002