ATOC Seminar Schedule

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Fall 2009 ATOC Seminars

Duane Physics - Gamow Tower Physics Commons Room (top floor west side)

4pm Fridays

Refreshments at 3:45pm

Seminars on Sep 4, Sep 11, Nov 6, and Dec 4 are in the Reading Room (top floor east side)


  • Friday Sep 4 Matthew Shupe: CU CIRES and NOAA Earth System Research Lab
    • Title - Arctic Clouds: Characterizing their climatically-important properties using ground-based observations
  • Friday Sep 11 Judith Perlwitz: CU CIRES and NOAA Earth System Research Lab
    • Title - Montreal Protocol Accomplishments - Impact of Stratospheric Ozone Changes on Climate
  • Thursday Sep 17 Stephan Borrmann: Director of Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry
    • Title - Tropical clouds: A conundrum of the climate system
  • Friday Sep 25 Cora Randall: CU ATOC and LASP
    • Title - Remote Sensing of the Polar Middle Atmosphere
  • Friday Oct 2 No Seminar
  • Friday Oct 9 David Noone: CU ATOC and CIRES
    • Title - Water isotopes as a means to deducing controls on the global water cycle
  • Friday Oct 16 John Cassano: CU ATOC and CIRES
    • Title - Weather and Climate in the Polar Regions - Probing the Antarctic Atmosphere with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
  • Friday Oct 23 Mary Barth: NCAR/MMM/ACD
    • Title - Thunderstorms and Chemistry: Cloud-scale simulations to understand the influence of convective outflow on the upper troposphere composition
  • Friday Oct 30 David Kingsmill: CU CIRES and NOAA
    • Title - An Overview of the NOAA Hydrometeorology Testbed Project
  • Monday Nov 2 Andrew Dessler: Texas A&M University
    • Title - Estimates of the Water Vapor Climate Feedback during El Nino-Southern Oscillation
  • Friday Nov 6 Charles Brock: NOAA ESRL Chemical Science Division
    • Title - Arctic Aerosols, Forest Fires, and Climate Forcing: Results from Airborne Studies During the International Polar Year, 2008


  • Friday Nov 13 ATOC Fest: A series of 5-minute presentations by ATOC faculty members:
    • Laurie Conway (Admin)
    • Katja Friedrich
    • John Cassano
    • Cora Randall
    • David Noone
    • Linnea Avallone
    • Brian Toon
  • A reception will follow with free pizza and soda


  • Friday Dec 4 William Cheng: NCAR
    • Title - Influence of atmospheric aerosols on the development of precipitating trade wind cumuli in a large eddy simulation