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ClimaTea Schedule (Spring 2012)
ClimaTea is held every Tuesday from 3-4pm in the HUCE Seminar room, which is on the 3rd floor of the Geo Museum in the Harvard Center for the Environment.
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January
Tuesday, January 31st, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Marianna Linz
Article: McPhaden et al. (2011), 'El Nino and its relationship to changing background conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean'
More background: Yeh et al. (2009), 'El Nino in a Changing Climate'
   
February
Tuesday, February 7th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Katie Dagon
Article: Tzedakis et al. (2012), 'Determining the natural length of the current interglacial'
   
*Special Seminar* Thursday, February 9th, *12pm*, *Geological Museum Room 418*
Speaker: Timothy Merlis (Princeton University)
Title: Response of tropical climate to greenhouse gas changes and orbital forcing
   
Tuesday, February 14th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Thomas Laepple
Title: How variable is the Holocene?
Background Reading: Crowley (2000), 'Causes of Climate Change Over the Past 1000 Years'
   
*Special Seminar* Friday, February 17th, *2pm*, *Shaler Seminar Room (Geological Museum Room 413)*
Speaker: Dr. Bjoern Machalett
Title: Late Pleistocene Aeolian Dust Dynamics in Asia and their Teleconnection with Abrupt Climate Events in the Northern Hemisphere
   
Tuesday, February 21st, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Peter Huybers
Article: Hsiang et al. (2011), 'Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate'
   
Tuesday, February 28th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
No ClimaTea Today.
   
March
Tuesday, March 6th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Charlotte Persson-Gulda
Article: Liu et al. (2011), 'Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall'
   
Tuesday, March 13th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
No ClimaTea Today (Spring Break)
   
Tuesday, March 20th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Shaun Marcott (Oregon State University)
Title: A Reconstruction of Global Temperature for the last 11,000 years
   
Tuesday, March 27th, 3pm, *Hoffman 311*
Presenter: Jenny Middleton
Article: Martinez-Garcia et al. (2011), 'Southern Ocean dust-climate coupling over the past four million years'
   
April
Tuesday, April 3rd, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Octavia Crompton
Article: Kinnard et al. (2011), 'Reconstructed changes in Arctic sea ice over the past 1,450 years'
   
*Special Seminar* Tuesday, April 10th, *11:30am*, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: David Thompson (Colorado State University)
Title: Towards Understanding the Atmospheric Circulation Response to Anthropogenic Forcing
   
Tuesday, April 10th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Cristi Proistosescu
Article: Schmittner et al. (2011), 'Climate sensitivity estimated from temperature reconstructions of the last glacial maximum'
Background Reading: Braconnot et al. (2012), 'Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data'
   
*Special Seminar* Thursday, April 12th, *4pm*, *Haller Hall (Geological Museum 102)*
Speaker: Paul Valdes (University of Bristol)
Title: Modelling the Last Deglaciation: Are climate models too stable?
   
Tuesday, April 17th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Jeremy Shakun
Title: Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation
Background Reading: Shakun et al. (2012), 'Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation'
Additional Background Reading: Wolff (2012), 'A tale of two hemispheres'
   
*Special Seminar* Thursday, April 19th, *12pm*, *Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor of Hoffman*
Speaker: Jeffrey Shaman (Columbia University)
Title: Complex Wavenumber Rossby Wave Ray Tracing and the Seasonal Effects of ENSO on European Precipitation
   
Tuesday, April 24th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Alex Robel
Article: Francis and Vavrus (2012), 'Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes'
   
May
Tuesday, May 1st, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Andy Rhines
Article: Kobashi et al. (2011), 'High variability of Greenland surface temperature over the past 4000 years estimated from trapped air in an ice core'
Additional Background Reading: Severinghaus et al., (1998), 'Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice'
   
   

     
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Questions?
Email the organizers:
Katie Dagon
Mary Moore