Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center BASC joint group meeting         General Earth & Planetary Science Civil & Environmental Engineering Energy and Resources Group ESPM Geography Integrative Biology Physical Chemistry Physics To be added to/removed from the BASC seminar mailing list, please send an email to majordomo@lists.berkeley.edu that contains the text subscribe basc_seminar. If there is an upcoming seminar you would like to see posted please write to LukeValin-AT-berkeley.edu. Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004 Spring 2004 Fall 2003 December 17, 1-2pm Space Sciences Lab Addition Library Carl Christensen (Oxford University Computing Laboratory) Distributed Computing and Climate Forecasting With climateprediction.net December 16, 11am-noon LBNL Earth Sciences Bldg 90, Rm 2063 Susan Ustin (UC Davis) Optical Remote Sensing Measurements of Environmental Processes:State of the Science and New Directions December 5, 1:30pm 775B Tan Hall Professor Barbara Noziere (University of Miami) Detection and chemistry of organic peroxyl radicals in the atmosphere December 4, 4pm 141 McCone Hall Professor Kristie Boering (University of California, Berkeley) Unusual isotope effects, greenhouse gases, and climate: From the molecular to the global scale December 2, 4pm 120 Latimer Hall Professor Marcia B. Baker (University of Washington) A New Look at Homogeneous Freezing of Ice December 1, 4pm 159 Mulford Jianwu Tang (UC Berkeley) Spatial and Temporal Variation and Driving Factors of Soil Respiration in Forest and Savanna Ecosystems in California November 24, 4pm 159 Mulford Greg Asner (CIW, Stanford University) Woody Encroachment and Desertification: Assessments Using Remote Sensing and Carbon Isotopes October 29, 4pm 575 McCone Hall Professor Nate Mantua (University of Washington) Decades long El Nino-like climate variations: the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and its impacts on marine and terrestrial systems October 27, 4pm 159 Mulford Allen Goldstein (UC Berkeley) Chemical Interactions Between Forests and the Atmosphere October 22, 4pm-6pm 110 Barrows Hall David Keith (Carnegie Mellon University) Does Renewability matter? Climate Change and the Future of Energy Systems October 9, 4pm 101 LSA Dave Schimel (NCAR) Carbon in all the Wrong Places: The Role of Complex Terrain in Mid-Latitude Carbon Budgets October 8, 4pm-6pm 110 Barrows Hall Professor Richard Norgaard (University of California, Berkeley) Collectively Seeing Complex Systems October 6, 2:10pm 375 Birge Hall Nir Shaviv The Milky Way, Cosmic Rays and Climate October 2, 4pm 141 McCone Hall Jeff Severinghaus (UCSD/Scripps) Abrupt changes in the Earth's climate recorded in air bubbles in polar ice October 1, 3:45pm 575 McCone Hall Professor Rob Rhew (University of California, Berkeley) A gene for stratospheric ozone loss? Genetic control of methyl halide production in Arabidopsis October 1, 5pm 775B Tan Hall Rupert Holzinger (ESPM, University of California, Berkeley) Large vertical gradients indicate emission, photochemical production, deposition, or a combination for a wide variety of organic trace gases in a Ponderosa Pine plantation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. September 17, 4pm-6pm 110 Barrows Hall Pat O'Brien (Chevron Texaco) Biodiversity and the Oil and Gas Industry: The Energy and Biodiversity Initiative September 11, 4pm 141 McCone Hall Professor John Chiang (University of California, Berkeley) How does El Nino impact the climate over tropical regions outside the Pacific? A proposed mechanism based on El Nino's control over tropospheric temperature. September 9, 4pm-6pm 110 Barrows Hall Karen Seto (Stanford University) A Tale of Two Deltas: Drivers and Outcomes of Land-Use Change in Vietnam and China For complete seminar listings, click on department links above.