2015
| Date | Speakers | Affiliations | Titles | Album |
| 01/19/2015 | – – | – – | – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – | – – |
| 02/09/2015 | Dr. Shannon Loomis, Postdoc | JSG, UT Austin | Northeast African Temperature Variability since the Late Pleistocene | photo |
| 02/20/2015 | Prof. Alex Hall | UCLA | Developing a Physical Understanding of Regional Climate Change – Tech Session invited speaker – | — |
| 02/23/2015 | Prof. Yutian Wu | Purdue University | What Determines the Height of Extratropical Tropopause? | — |
| 03/02/2015 | Prof. Elinor Martin | University of Oklahoma | Understanding Rainfall Variability in West Africa: Insights from CMIP5 Simulations | — |
| 03/09/2015 | Gang Zhang, PhD Candidate | JSG, UT Austin | Variability of West African Monsoon Rainfall: From Diurnal Cycle to Interannual Variations | — |
| 03/10/2015 | Dr. William Randel | NCAR/ACD | Tropical Tropopause Dynamics Observed from a Decade of GPS Radio Occultation Data – This talk is on Tuesday – | photo |
| 03/16/2015 | – – | – – | – Spring Break – | |
| 03/25/2015 | Dr. Pedro DiNezio | University of Hawaii | Dynamics, Predictability, and Impacts of 2-year La Niña | photo |
| 03/26/2015 | Prof. Ranga B. Myneni | Boston University | The Greenness Confusion in Amazon Rainforests | — |
| 03/30/2015 | Prof. Jagadish Shukla | George Mason University/COLA | photo | |
| 04/06/2015 | Qinjian Jin, PhD Candidate | JSG, UT Austin | The Positive Response of Indian Summer Rainfall to Middle East Dust | — |
| 04/09/2015 | Dr. Kevin Bowman | NASA/JPL | Climate Forcing in the Earth System: Contributions from the NASA Carbon Monitoring System Flux Project – This talk is on Thursday – | — |
| 04/13/2015 | Yongfei Zhang, PhD Candidate | JSG, UT Austin | Multivariate Land Data Assimilation Using DART/CLM4: The value of MODIS Snow Cover and GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage in Northern Hemisphere Snow Data Assimilation | — |
| 04/20/2015 | Alex Resovsky, MS | JSG, UT Austin | Effects of Simulated Inundation on Wetland CH4 flux Predictions for the Southeastern U.S. | — |
| 04/29/2015 | Prof. John Michael Wallace | University of Washington | – Round table discussion with graduate students and early career scientists – | photo1, photo2, photo3 |
| – – | – – | – – | – Summer begins – | – – |
| 08/31/2015 | Prof. Zong-Liang Yang | JSG, UT Austin | How to Give a Good Presentation? | – – |
| 09/07/2015 | – – | – – | – Labor Day – | – – |
| 09/14/2015 | Dr. Ahmad Tavakoly | US Army Engineer Research and Development Center | Toward Hyper-Resolution Continental Flood Inundation Modeling: Development of AutoRAPID | photo |
| 09/21/2015 | Prof. Rong Fu | JSG, UT Austin | A Seamless Approach for Improving Prediction and Projection of Drought and Flood Risk over the US Great Plains | photo |
| 10/05/2015 | Dr. Katherine Ellins | UTIG, UT Austin | The EarthLabs Climate Series: Supporting Students’ Understanding of Change Over Time and Space | — |
| 10/12/2015 | Dr. Long Zhao, postdoc | JSG, UT Austin | Soil Moisture Microwave Land Data Assimilation Using CLM and DART | photo |
| 10/19/2015 | Dr. Nick Fang | UT Arlington | A Parametric Model – Dynamic Moving Storm (DMS) Builder and Its Applications in Flood Vulnerability Assessment | — |
| 10/26/2015 | Prof. Kerry Cook | JSG, UT Austin | The West African Monsoon: Dynamics of the Monsoon Jump and Recent Trends | — |
| 11/02/2015 | Dr. Gordon Wells, Teresa Howard | CSR, UT Austin | How Green Is My State? Using Satellite Vegetation Indices to Explore the Nature of Texas Drought | photo |
| 11/09/2015 | Adam Bowerman, PhD student | JSG, UT Austin | An Interhemispheric Influence on the North Atlantic Subtropical High: Impacts from South American Winter Cold Surges | photo |
| 11/16/2015 | Dr. Hui Zheng, visiting scientist | JSG, UT Austin | Does Region-Specific Soil Texture Data Improve the Simulation of the Terrestrial Water Cycle in China? | — |
| 11/23/2015 | Dr. Todd Caldwell | BEG, UT Austin | The Validation of Soil Moisture from Sensors, Satellites and Simulations | — |
| 11/24/2015 | Geeta Persad, PhD student | Princeton University | Black Carbon Aerosol: The Hare to Carbon Dioxide’s Tortoise
–Special Climate Forum Seminar– |
photo |
| 11/30/2015 | Peirong Lin, PhD student | JSG, UT Austin | The Role of Northern Hemisphere Snow Data Assimilation in Seasonal Forecasts of Surface Air Temperature | photo |
| 12/11/2015 | Dr. Jose Marengo | National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), Brazil | Overview of Climate Change and Natural Disasters Worldwide and in Brazil in the Context of Impacts and Adaptation
–Special Climate Forum Seminar– |
