BERKELEY ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES CENTER

BERKELEY ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES CENTER

You are invited to participate in the Eighth Atmospheric Science Symposium sponsored by the UC Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center (BASC). Please use the web form to register and submit your poster title.

The goal of the Symposium is to stimulate interaction among the community of atmospheric science researchers and students from UC Berkeley and the surrounding institutions. We invite participants from around the San Francisco Bay Area including (but not limited to) UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford, NASA-AMES, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, SRI, USGS, and the California Air Resources Board.

This symposium will be a two day event including keynote seminars, poster sessions, and discussion.
Thursday, October 2:
141 McCone Hall
UC Berkeley

4:00pm Raymond Pierrehumbert
( U Chicago ) Tropical cloud thermostats: the delusion that doesn't die.

Friday, October 3:
Conference Center
Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley
Krutch Theatre

8:00am Registration

9:00am David Parrish (NOAA IGAC) Can intercontinental pollutant transport really affect local air quality on downwind continents?

10:00am Poster Session Odd poster numbers

11:00am Britton Stephens (NCAR EOL) Comparing global carbon cycle models to observations is hard, but better than the alternative

12:00pm Lunch

1:30pm J. David Neelin ( UCLA ) Rethinking rain in climate models

2:30pm Poster Session Even poster numbers

3:30pm Beverly Law ( Oregon State ) AmeriFlux network observations and modeling to understand land-atmosphere interactions

Click here for directions to Clark Kerr Campus

Poster sessions will be interspersed with the talks. Atmospheric scientists from around the San Francisco Bay Area will have the opportunity to present their work. Participation in the poster sessions by students and postdoctoral researchers is particularly encouraged.

Maximum dimensions for the posters: 3' Horizontal X 4' Vertical

Registration begins August 18, 2008. Poster submissions (only 1 lead-authored poster per registered attendee please) will be accepted prior to September, 26 2008. One poster per person will be accepted up to capacity of the conference site, after which we will send notices to those whose posters cannot be accepted due to space constraints.

Please use the web form to register and to submit your poster title.

Registration fee for the event will be $50 (free for undergraduates), and will include lunch and a reception.

Please make your check to "UC Regents" and send it to:

If you are affiliated with UC Berkeley, please check with your grant administrators and send an IOC instead of a personal check.
We would appreciate receiving your payment by September 26, 2008.
We regret that we are not set up to process credit cards.