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Events
May 2001
 

 

 

1 May 2001 (0930 hrs EST).  Washington, DC (Room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Third Assessment Report.  Hearing before the US Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (Chair: John McCain, R-AZ).  Witnesses:

  • Senator Chuck Hagel

  • Venkatachala Ramaswamy, Senior Scientist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory,            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

  • James J. McCarthy, Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
  • Jayant Sathaye, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of             California
  • James Hansen, Chief, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA
  •   Richard Lindzen, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2 May 2000 (0930 hrs EST).   Washington, DC (628 Dirksen Senate Office Building).  Science of global climate change and issues related to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions.  Hearing before the US Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works (Chair: Bob Smith, R-NH). Witnesses:

  • Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloane Professor of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Kevin E. Trenberth, Head, Climate Analysis Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • John R. Christy, Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama at Huntsville
  • Rattan Lal, School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
  • James A. Edmonds, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • James E. Rogers, Vice Chairman, President, and CEO, Cinergy Corp.
  • Marilyn A. Brown, Director, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1-3 May 2001.  Fort Collins, Colorado. Gaining Knowledge from Environmental Data: A Workshop on the Data-Information-Knowledge Continuum .   This workshop addresses what must be done at environmental data centers to actively assist scientists and policy makers to gain knowledge from data. In a plenary session with national leaders from science, policy, data centers, and industry; the importance of knowledge gained from data to the Nation and its implications to data centers will be discussed. Sponsor:  U.S. Global Change Research Program, Data and Information Working Group (DIWG).  Hosted by: U.S. Geological Survey.  Contact: Tel. +1 970 226 9303.  E-mail: USGSglobalchange@aol.com.  (link posted 17 April 2001)

May 9 -- 11, 2001.  Beijing, CHINA.   Asian Monsoon Variability on Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Time Scales.  Sponsors: Joint Oceanic Institutes (JOI), Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR), International Marine Global Change Study (IMAGES)
Contact: S. Clemens , Geological Sciences, Box 1846, Brown University , Providence , RI 02912-1846.  Tel: +1 401 863 1964.  Fax: +1 401 863 2058.  Email: Steven_Clemens@Brown.edu.

11 May 2001.  Washington, DC.  Does Climate Change Matter? Should We Worry about It? A Perspective on the Latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessments. 1st Lecture in Museum of Natural History's Global Warming Speaker Series, �From the Inside Out."  Speaker:  Dr. Stephen Schneider, professor of biological sciences and senior fellow at the Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, editor of the journal, Climatic Change, editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, and lead author of the report for Working Group 2 of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.   Web: http://www.mnh.si.edu/cal_events.html.   (link posted 17 April 2001)

14-17 May 2001.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Annual Meeting.  Held in conjunction with the 58th Annual Eastern Snow Conference. Contact (CGU conference): S. Pagiatakis, Geomatics Canada, 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E9.  Tel: +1 613 995 8720.  Fax: +1 613 992 6628.  Email: sppagiat@NRCan.gc.ca.  Web: http://www.cgu-ugc.ca.  Contact (snow conference):  J. Pomeroy, Centre for Glaciology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K. SY23 3DB.  Tel: +44 1970 622781.  Fax: +44  1970 622659. Email: john.pomeroy@aber.ac.uk. Web: www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/crysys/esc/.

14-18 May, 2001.  Argonne, Illinois.  �Eco-informa 2001: Environmental Risks & the Global Community- Strategies for Meeting the Challenges. --   Contact: Alvin Young, US Department of Energy, Center for Risk Excellence, Argonne, Illinois, USA. Tel: +1-630-252-2503. Fax: +1-630-252-2654.

14 - 18 May, 2001.  San Diego, California.   11th AMS Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere.  Contact: Prof. G.W.K. Moore. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7, Canada.  Tel: +1 416-978-4686.  Fax: +1 416 978 8905.  Email: moore@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca

14 - 18 May, 2001.  San Diego, California.  Sixth AMS Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography.  Contact: Jennifer Francis. Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Rd., New Brunswick, NJ, 08901-8521.  Tel: +1 732 708 1217. Fax: +1 732 872 3088.  Email: francis@imcs.rutgers.edu

22 May 2001 (Tuesday).  1400 hrs EST, 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC.  Wildlife and Human Diseases: Symptoms of Endangered Marine Ecosystems & Climate Change.  Briefing sponsored by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.  Speakers to include:

  • Introduction.  Congressman James L. Oberstar (D-MN), Ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
  • Marine Mammals.  David A. Jessup, Senior Wildlife Veterinarian, California Department of Fish and Game
  • Marine Birds.  Flo Tseng, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Population Health, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine
  • Marine Turtles.  Alonso Aguirre, Director for Conservation Medicine, Wildlife Trust
  • Coral Reefs.  Raymond L. Hayes, Jr., Assistant Dean for Medical Education, Professor of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine
  • Human Health.  Paul R. Epstein, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School

Hearing  to examine issues relating to carbon sequestration. Hearing (23 May 2001) before US Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on  Science, Technology, and Space.  Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) presided. Written statements (PDF files) available online:  (posted 24 May 2001)

  • Dale Heydlauff, Vice President, Environmental Affairs
  • John Kimble, Soil Scientist Researcher, US Department of Agriculture
  • John Kadyszewski Advisor to the President, Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
  • Mike Coda, Director, Climate Change Program, The Nature Conservancy
  • Robert Bonnie, Economist, Environmental Defense

22- 25 May 2001. Minneapolis, Minnesota.  National Flood Conference. Sponsor: Federal Insurance Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency.  Contact: Catherine King, NFIP Bureau and Statistical Agent, 7700 Hubble Drive, Lanham, MD 20706.  Fax: +1 301 918 1471.

29 May - 2 June 2001. Boston, Massachusetts.  American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2001 Spring Meeting.  Contact: Meetings Department, AGU, 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009.  Tel: 800  966 2481 (toll free) or +1 202 462 6900.  Fax: + 1 202 328 0565.  Email: meetinginfo@agu.org. Web:  www.agu.org/meetings/sm01top.html

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