2007-2008 ASP Seminar Series Update

ASP Retreat

15 October 2007

2007-2008 Committee

• Yue Deng

• Stephanie Herrmann

• Jian Liu

• Ryan Torn

• With help from Luciana Rizzo

Overview

• Purpose of Seminar Series

• How speakers were chosen

• Format of Seminars

• 2007-2008 speakers

Goals of Series

• Expose post-docs to a variety of different research topics within atmospheric science via talks meant for a broad scientific audience

• Chance to engage scientists from local community

Parameters of Series

• Want speakers who can give talks that can be understood and enjoyed by a wide variety of scientists

• Series of seminars should reflect broad disciplines of all post-docs

• Must be from local community

Procedure

• Sent an email to all post-docs in late August asking for nominations for speakers, followed up a week later

• Received 30 nominations from the post-docs

Decision Process

• Seminar committee sorts through the nominations

• Grouped potential speakers by research area

• Identified research areas that were not represented, asked post-docs working in those areas who they think would be good choices

• Ranked speakers within research area

• Extended invitations to one speaker from each area

Seminars

• Third Wednesday of each month (exception is Nov. 14) at 11:00 a.m.

• Location depends on speaker’s area of research (i.e., a climate speaker will be at Mesa Lab)

• 45 minute talk followed by discussion period

• BRING QUESTIONS!!!!

Post-Seminar Lunch

• Immediately after the seminar in the NCAR cafeteria

• Good chance to further discuss research ideas or the seminar with the speaker

• Provides an opportunity to learn about the speaker’s career path and solicit career advice.

• Open to All!

Speaker ScheduleSeptember 19 Morris

WeismanAdvances in Explicit Convective Forecasting with WRF-ARW

October 17 Jose Jimenez

Organic Aerosols: New Techniques and Field Results

November 14 Steven Nerem

Measuring Global Sea-level change

December 19 Rebecca Morss

Societal Impacts of Weather Forecasts

Speaker Schedule

January 16 Tom Bogdan Space Weather

February 13 Jeff Forbes Solar Semidiurnal Tide in the Atmosphere

TBD Greg Frost Regional Air Pollution Measurements and Modeling

TBD Dave Randall Clouds and Climate

Reminder:ASP Seminar:

Wednesday, October 17 11:00

Jose Jimenez

“Organic Aerosols: New Techniques and Field Results”

Center Green-1 South Auditorium

Questions or Comments:

• Ryan Torn (torn@ucar.edu, x8185)

• Yue Deng (ydeng@ucar.edu, x2191)

• Stefanie Herrmann (stefanie@ucar.edu, x8080)

• Jian Lu (jianlu@ucar.edu, x1356)