V. "Ram" Ramanathan, Victor Alderson Professor of Applied Ocean Sciences , Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego

Global Dimming and Global Warming

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November 3, 2005, 4 PM, Haller Hall

Ralph Keeling, Professor of Geochemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego

An Update on Recent Trends in Atmospheric CO 2 , O 2 and Related Tracers

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December 1, 2005, 4 PM, Haller Hall

Christopher S. Bretherton, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

Feedbacks Between Moisture, Cumulus Convection, and Large-Scale Circulations over the Tropical Oceans

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January 7, 2006, Term Break

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February 2, 2006, 4 PM, Haller Hall

Richard Seager, Doherty Senior Research Scientist Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

North American droughts of the last millennium: reconstructions, causes and consequences

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March 2, 2006, 4 PM, Haller Hall

Gerald Haug, Geologist, Geoforschungszentrum, Potsdam, Germany

El Niño, Climate, and Societies

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April 6, 2006, 4 PM, Haller Hall

Herbert Huppert, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics , University of Cambridge

Carbon Sequestration

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May 4, 2006, 4 PM, Haller Hall

Richard Kleeman, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, NYU

Predictability in dynamical systems relevant to climate and weather