Past Seminars, Spring-Summer 2009

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are 3:30-4:30 in Burt 193.

Mar 24, 2009
Mattias Green, University of Bangor, UK:
"Tidal mixing and the strength of the Meridional overturning circulation"

Mar 31, 2009: Special PO and Faculty Hiring Strategy Committee Seminar Series
Emanuel DiLorenzo, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology:
"ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: a paradigm for Pacific Low-Frequency Variability"

Apr 7, 2009. 10:00-11:00 am: Special PO and OC 679 EBC Seminar
Jane Huyer, COAS, OSU:
"Five Decades of Coastal Circulation Studies at OSU"

Apr 14, 2009
Brian Arbic, Florida State University:
"Some recent results on global modeling of oceanic mesoscale eddies, barotropic tides, and baroclinic tides"

April 21, 2009
Jim Moum, COAS, OSU:
"Are Tropical Instability Waves Responsible for the Equatorial Cold Tongue?"

April 28, 2009
Levi Kilcher, COAS, OSU:
"Evolution of the Columbia River tidal plume"

May 19, 2009
Andrey Koch, COAS, OSU:
"Modeling analysis of a separated jet in the Coastal Transition Zone off Oregon"

June 2, 2009
Peng Yu, COAS, OSU:
"A reduced-dynamics variational approach for the assimilation of altimeter data"

June 18, 2009
Yi Chao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology & Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, UCLA:
"A Coastal Ocean Modeling, Data Assimilation and Forecasting System"

June 23, 2009: Special PO Seminar and a Precursor to the COAS 50th Anniversary
Craig Biegel, Florida State University:
"The Oceanography of Wayne V. Burt"

June 26, 2009 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Jianping Gan, Department of Mathematics, Atmospheric, Marine and Coastal Environment (AMCE) Program, School of Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology:
"Intensification of upwelling and nutrient enrichment induced by widened shelf and river plume in the northeastern South China Sea"

July 21, 2009: Joint PO/AtS Seminar
Tracy Haack, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division:
"Air-sea interaction and atmospheric wind forcing along the U.S. West Coast"

Upcoming Seminars, Summer 2009

July 28, 2009
Peter R. Oke, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Australia:
"Reanalysis of extreme oceanic events in the Tasman Sea"

August 4, 2009
Andreas Schmittner, COAS, OSU:
"Using tracer observations to reduce the uncertainty of ocean diapycnal mixing and climate-carbon cycle projections"

Please contact Andrey Koch for seminar scheduling.