[ensu] Wed Oct 1 IES Environmental Studies seminar
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- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:07:41 -0400 (EDT)
--- Mona El-Haddad <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Mona El-Haddad" <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Wed Oct 1 IES Environmental Studies seminar
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:45:56 -0400
>
> Institute for Environmental Studies
> Environmental Studies Seminar Series
> WED OCTOBER 2 , 4:00 p.m.
> Room 2093, Earth Sciences Centre (Huron & Bancroft)
> (north of College St., east of Spadina Ave.)
> Kent Moore, Associate Professor, Department of
> Physics, University of
> Toronto
> Trends and variability in the climate of the North
> Pacific
> as expressed in a 300 year long ice core from Mount
> Logan, Yukon
> For a map and updates, please see
> http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/env-fall.html
>
> No registration required ? all are welcome.
>
> Abstract:
> The relatively short length of most instrumental
> climate datasets
> restricts the study of variability and trends that
> exists in the climate
> system. This is particularly true regarding the
> atmosphere where high
> quality spatially dense data exists only since the
> late 1940's. With
> this data, the Pacific North America pattern (PNA)
> has been identified
> as one of the dominant modes of variability in the
> atmosphere. The PNA
> is related to an inter-decadal mode of climate
> variability known as the
> Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The PDO has been
> shown to influence
> marine productivity in the North Pacific as well as
> modulating the
> impact of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in North
> America and
> Australia. In this talk, Dr. Moore will present an
> analysis of a
> 301-year ice core record from a high elevation site
> on Mount Logan in
> Yukon that shows a statistically significant and
> accelerating positive
> trend in snow accumulation from the middle of the
> 19th century that
> appears to be associated with secular changes in the
> PNA and PDO. As he
> will show, a manifestation of this trend has been a
> warming over
> northwestern North America both at the surface and
> throughout the lower
> atmosphere.
>
> For more information, please contact
> Mona El-Haddad, Series Coordinator (416-978-6526;
> <mailto:m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx)
>
> REMAINING FALL SEMINARS:
> WED OCTOBER 23 2002, 4:00 p.m. Special seminar,
> joint with the
> Sustainable Toronto project
> Pamela Robinson, Lecturer, Urban & Environmental
> Studies, Innis College,
> University of Toronto
> Meg Shields, Corporate Management & Policy
> Consultant, City of Toronto
> Anne Mitchell, Executive Director, Canadian
> Institute for Environmental
> Law and Policy
> Lisa King, Sustainability Expert, Toronto and Region
> Conservation
> Authority
> Shifting organizational culture toward
> sustainability
>
> WED NOVEMBER 6 2002, 4:00 p.m.
> Bernard Fleet, Business Development Manager,
> Electrovaya Inc, a publicly
> listed company in the business of portable power.
> The role of information technology in environmental
> management
>
> WED NOVEMBER 20 2002, 4:00 p.m.
> Stanley Griffin, President and CEO, Insurance Bureau
> of Canada
> Natural disasters: what are insurers doing?
>
> WED NOVEMBER 27 2002, 4:00 p.m.
> Kimberly Strong, Associate Professor, Physics
> University of Toronto
> Stratospheric ozone loss in the Arctic as measured
> by ground-based
> remote sounding
>
>
>
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