Welcome!
Please join us for the ATOC Colloquium, every other Friday in the conference room SEEL 303. Come early for coffee starting at 10:45 AM across the hall in SEEL 306, and lunch will be served after!
About the ATOC Colloquium
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Colloquium will be held every other Friday from 11:00 AM-noon. Come early for coffee starting at 10:45 AM, and stay after for discussions as lunch is provided on site.
Colloquia will alternate between the following two formats:
A. Full-length talk by a faculty member or invited speaker
B. Three conference-length talks by graduate students or post-docs
If you would like to nominate a speaker (including yourself), please email the Chair of the ATOC Colloquium Committee, Prof. Jan Lenaerts.
Upcoming Schedule
Fall 2019
| Date | Format | Room | Speaker(s) | Title & Abstract |
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09/06/2019 |
A | SEEL 303 | Jeffrey Weiss (CU Boulder) | |
| 09/20/2019 | B | SEEC S372A/A |
Matt Cann
Matt Gentry
Elina Valkonen |
Considering the Influence of Clouds on Ocean Carbon Uptake A Novel Intensity Metric for Arctic Cyclones – A Comparison with the more Traditional Metrics |
| 10/04/2019 | A | SEEL 303 | Cathy Smith (NOAA) | |
| 10/18/2019 | B | SEEL 303 |
Nick Luchetti Tessa Gorte Abigail Smith |
|
| 11/01/2019 | A | SEEL 303 | Brooke Anderson (CSU) | |
| 11/15/2019 | B | SEEL 303 | Kristen Aponte / Carolyn Brinkworth (UCAR) |
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| 12/06/2019 | - | SEEC C120 | ESSS Poster Conference | |
Spring 2020
| Date | Format | Room | Speaker(s) | Title & Abstract |
|
01/24/2020 |
A | SEEC S228 | James Brasseur (ASEN/CU) | |
| 02/07/2020 | B | SEEC S228 |
Connor Nelson Hannah Zanowski TBD (spot open) |
|
| 02/28/2020 | A | SEEC S228 | Gerald Meehl (NCAR) | |
| 03/06/2020 | A | SEEC S228 |
Rochelle Worsnop (NOAA) |
|
| 03/20/2020 | B | SEEC S228 |
Eleanor Middlemass TBD (spot open) TBD (spot open) |
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| 04/10/2020 | A | SEEC S228 | TBD |
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| 04/24/2020 | B | SEEC S228 |
Ho-Hsuan Wei TBD (spot open) TBD (spot open) |
Past colloquia
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
| Date | Format | Speaker(s) | Title |
| 09/07/2018 | A* | Cora Randall & Brian Toon (CU Boulder) |
Clouds on the Edge of Space: Insight from the NASA Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) Mission (Randall) The environmental impacts of nuclear war are far more damaging than the explosions and could kill 90% of the Earth's population (Toon) |
| 09/21/2018 | B | Ariel Morrison, Jason West, Steffen Mauceri |
Observed and Simulated Cloud Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss from CALIPSO and CESM1 (Morrison) The Role of Oceanic Processes in the Initiation of Indian Summer Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations over the Indian Ocean (West) Aerosol Retrieval from Hyperspectral Imagery over India (Mauceri) |
| 10/05/2018 | A | Nikki Lovenduski (CU Boulder) |
A Change in the Forecast: Ocean Biogeochemistry over the Next Decade |
| 10/19/2018 | B | Vineel Yettella, Bobby Wallace, Lynn Montgomery |
An ensemble covariance framework for quantifying forced climate variability and its time of emergence (Yetella) Hidden Water: Investigating a firn aquifer in Southeast Greenland (Montgomery) Deep Hail Accumulations: How can we identify storms that produce the largest threat? (Wallace) |
| 11/02/2018 | A | Dan McGrath (CSU) | How much is really out there? Forays into measuring snow accumulation on glaciers and implications for glacier mass balance |
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(Room change: SEEL303) |
B | Riley Brady, Guo Lin, Maaike Izeboud |
On the role of climate modes in modulating the air-sea CO2 fluxes in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (Brady) Interactions Between a Nocturnal MCS and the Stable Boundary Layer, as Observed by an Airborne Compact Raman Lidar During PECAN (Lin) Response of Greenland Ice Sheet firn to cloud radiative forcing (Izeboud) |
| 11/30/2018 | ESSS Poster Conference | TBD |
* The inaugural colloquium was given by two faculty members.