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National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) and NCAR Societal Impacts Program (SIP) Seminar Series
View Seminar Calendar and Upcoming Presentation Abstracts
View Past Presentations and Abstracts
NOAA's Earth Systems Research Laboratory and NCAR's Societal Impacts Program have partnered in a seminar series to be held on the third Monday of each month at NOAA's David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, Colorado. To view the upcoming seminar calendar, as well as abstracts for upcoming presentations, please click here. To view past presentations, please click here.
Please note that all visitors, including pedestrians and bike riders, are required to check in at the Visitors Center at the main entrance on Broadway to obtain a visitor badge before proceeding to the seminar. Visitors must present a U.S. photo ID or foreign passport. No other forms of identification will be accepted. Please allow extra time to accommodate these procedures.
Seminar Calendar and Upcoming Presentation Abstracts
ESRL-NCAR Seminar Series Schedule - Upcoming Talks
July 28, 2008 - Sheldon Drobot: Diagnosing the Recent Decline in Arctic Sea Ice and Prospects for 2008
We begin by giving an overview of the modern sea ice record (1953-2008) and then discuss why we think it is declining. We then highlight comments on why the loss of sea ice matters to humans and the environment, and finish with a forecast for 2008.
August 18, 2008 - (tentative) - Mary Hayden: Weather, Climate and Dengue Fever
Weather fluctuations and climate variability influence infectious disease transmission, particularly the field survivability of Aedes aegypti, the vector for dengue fever and yellow fever. We will report an outbreak of classic dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever in south Texas in 2005 and discuss innovative strategies to reduce transmission that are currently being tested.
September 15, 2008 - Julie Demuth: A Geo-Spatial Analysis of People’s Attitudes and Behaviors for Weather Forecast Information
We conducted a nationwide, controlled-access Internet survey of the general public with 1465 completed responses. The survey included questions to assess people's sources, perceptions, uses, and values for weather forecast information and their perceptions and interpretations for forecast uncertainty information. We matched respondents with climatological data and forecast verification measures based on their reported locations to assess how their experiences with weather compare with their attitudes and behaviors regarding weather forecast information. This presentation will discuss the findings from these survey questions with an emphasis on geographic variations across the U.S.
October 20, 2008 - Jenifer Martin: Practices of Questioning In Public Meetings With Science Experts
This talk will examine from a language and social interaction (LSI) perspective how questions shape (and constrain) the discourse of both a scientist giving a talk, and public participants in a city council meeting about restoring Puget Sound. Examining the questions that participants use in a public forum reveals communicative strategies indicative of tacit, complex notions that underpin the tension in a expert-public dialogue. What other actions are performed in the work of questioning in a public interaction between citizens and science experts?
November 17, 2008 - Olga Wilhelmi: GIS, Weather, and Societal Impacts
December 15, 2008 - Eve Gruntfest: Weaving Social Science Into The National Weather Center
Past Seminar Presentations
Please click on a presentation or abstract below to view and/or download in PDF format.
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Next Talk: July 28, 2008
2:00-3:00 p.m. |
The next ESRL NCAR Seminar Series talk will be Monday, July 28, 2008 at 2 p.m. at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, Colo. To view the complete abstract for this talk, please click here. For directions to the talk and information about visiting NOAA's Boulder Labs, please click here.
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