2014

Date Speakers Affiliations Titles
01/06/2014 Prof. Jonathon Wright Tsinghua University Does the Rainforest Initiate the Wet Season over the Southern Amazon?
01/13/2014 Prof. Walter Robinson North Carolina State University How will the Storm Track Change?: High Resolution Studies of the North Atlantic Atmospheric Circulation and Weather
01/20/2014 – – – – – Martin Luther King Holiday –
01/27/2014 Dr. David Arctur UT Austin Using GEOSS to Federate & Find Authoritative Water Data Globally
02/03/2014 Dr. Nelun Fernando JSG, UT Austin Are Flash Droughts over the US Southern Plains Predictable?
02/10/2014 Dr. Yu Zhang University of Oklahoma Development and Evaluation of an Advance Regional and Global Hydrological Prediction System enabled by Satellite Remote Sensing, Numerical Weather Forecasting, and Ensemble Data Assimilation
02/17/2014 Prof. Yi Ming Princeton University/GFDL Towards Understanding Global and Regional Climate Change: Theory and Modeling
02/24/2014 – – – – – Poster Day –
03/03/2014 Dr. Lianghong Gu Oak Ridge National Lab Measurement and Modeling of Mesophyll Conductance
03/10/2014 – – – – – Spring Break –
03/17/2014 – – – – – –
03/24/2014 Dr. Graeme Stephens NASA/JPL An Understanding of the Earth’s Climate from a Water and Energy Cycle Perspective
03/28/2014 Prof. Steven Wofsy Harvard University What is Driving Long-Term and Short-Term Increases in Atmospheric Methane?
03/31/2014 Adam Bowerman, Gang Zhang UT Austin – Round Table Discussion –
04/07/2014 Dr. Alan Betts University of Vermont The Coupling between Clouds, Land-use, Precipitation and Snow Cover and the Climate of the Canadian Prairies
04/21/2014 Dr. Todd Caldwell BEG, UT Austin Drought, Soil Moisture and Water Resources in Texas
– – – – – – – Summer Begins –
09/01/2014 – – – – – Labor Day –
09/08/2014 Prof. Wenhong Li Duke University Enhancement of Water Extreme Events over the Southeastern United States
09/15/2014 – – – – – –
09/22/2014 Dr. Wei-kuo Tao NASA Goddard Microphysics in Multi-scale Modeling System with Unified Physics
09/29/2014 Kai Zhang, PhD Candidate JSG, UT Austin On Stratospheric Water Vapor Variations
10/06/2014 – – – – – Hot Science – Cool Talk –
10/13/2014 – – – – – –
10/20/2014 Sudip Chakraborty, PhD Candidate JSG, UT Austin Change in Deep Convective Ice Water Content and Rainrate as Observed from the AURA MLS, CloudSat, TRMM, Aqua MODIS, and ISCCP Datasets
10/27/2014 – – – – – –
11/03/2014 Prof. Joshua Fu University of Tennessee The Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on Future Air Quality, Human Health, and Energy Infrastructure
11/10/2014 Prof. Huilin Gao Texas A&M University Reservoirs from on High: Monitoring Reservoir Storage Variations using Synergistic Satellite Data