Schedule 2016

Date Speakers Affiliations Title
01/18/2016 – – – – – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday –
02/08/2016 Dr. David Arctur

 

 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