Schedule 2016
Date | Speakers | Affiliations | Title |
01/18/2016 | – – | – – | – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – |
02/08/2016 | Dr. David Arctur
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UT Austin: JSG, School of Information, Cockrell School of Engineering | Science helping the data to help the science |
02/15/2016 | Sudip Chakraborty, PhD Candidate | JSG, UT Austin | Longevity of meso-scale convections over the tropics as a function of natural and anthropogenic variability |
02/22/2016 | Dr. Jiangfeng Wei | JSG, UT Austin | Role of ocean evaporation anomalies in recent California drought |
02/29/2016 | Sagar Parajuli, PhD Candidate | JSG, UT Austin | Understanding dust emission mechanism and improving its representation in climate models using observations, numerical modeling, and wind-tunnel experiments *Eligible for the best PhD talk award* |
03/07/2016 | Dr. Larry Hopper | Meteorologist, National Weather Service | Leveraging local research for short and long-term decision support in South Central Texas: from historical flash floods to El Niños |
03/14/2016 | – – | – – | – Spring Break – |
04/04/2016 | Yonghwan Kwon, PhD Candidate | JSG, UT Austin | Snow modeling, microwave remote sensing, and data assimilation for characterizing the continental-scale snow water storage *Eligible for the best PhD talk award* |
04/11/2016 | Dr. Huilin Gao | Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M | Impact of climate change, urbanization, and flow regulation on Texas water resources |
04/15/2016 | Dr. Steven Massie | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Univ of Colorado | How Cloud Structure Changes as Absorptive Aerosols Increase |
04/25/2016 | Robert Joseph | USGS Texas Water Science Center | U.S. Geological Survey Response to Flooding in Texas, May–June 2015 |