2007-2008 Hydrology Group Internal Seminar Schedule

Time: 3:30-4:30 pm, alternate weeks (unless otherwise noted)

Room: EE 303 (unless otherwise noted)

Summer 2008

July
Wednesday, July 23	Joe Casola	Climate and the Snowpack of the Washington Cascades
August
Wednesday, August 20, 10 am, 218 More Hall	Fred Lott	Master's Defense: "Adaptability of snowmelt models to changing climate in complex terrain."
September
Friday, September 5, 10:30 am	Amanda Tan	Master's Defense: "Understanding the Eurasian Arctic Runoff Trends and its Sensitivity to Snow Cover Related Fluxes"

 

Spring 2008

April
Wednesday, April 2	Tazebe Bayene	Colorado River Basin Sensitivity to Climate Change
Wednesday, April 16	Mergia Sonessa	Incorporating Multi-model Averaging into a Probabilistic Forecast System
Wednesday, April 30	Dennis Lettenmaier	Recap of 2008 Horton Lecture
May
Wednesday, May 14	Steven Weijs (Delft U., Netherlands)	Minimum Relative Entropy Update of Ensemble Probabilities to Reflect Forecast Information
June
Monday, June 16	Qiuhong Tang	Land surface hydrological processes: Remote sensing observations and modeling

 

Winter 2008

February
Wednesday, February 6	No talk	No talk
Wednesday, February 13	No talk	No talk
Thursday, February 14 (HUB West Ballroom)	Various speakers, including Shraddhanand Shukla and Marketa McGuire Elsner	Water Center Annual Review of Research
Wednesday, February 20	Deg-Hyo Bae	Summary of Ongoing Research Projects
Friday, February 22 (EE 403)	Dan Sheer	CANCELLED: Hydrologic Forecasts - A Key to Resolving the Alabama-Florida-Georgia Water Wars?
Wednesday, February 27	Kostas Andreadis	State-Parameter estimation using data assimilation: Application to the SWOT satellite mission
March
Wednesday, March 5	No talk	No talk
Thursday, March 13 (3:45-4:30 pm, EE 403)	John Schaake	Topics in River Forecasting
Friday, March 14 (8am, EE 403)	Nathalie Voisin	General Exam
Wednesday, March 19	Amanda Tan	Understanding Hydrologic Sensitivities of Eurasian Runoff Trends to Snow-Related Energy Flux Variables
Wednesday, March 26	Huilin Gao	Copula Derived Observation Operators for Assimilating Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture into Land Surface Models / Estimating Continental-Scale Water Balance through Remote Sensing and Modeling

 

Fall 2007

September
Wednesday, Sep 12:	Xiaogang Shi	Hydroclimatology of North America 1: The nature of hydrologic variables
Friday, Sep 21:	Xiaogang Shi	Hydroclimatology of North America 2: The accelerated water cycle and extreme events
Friday, Sep 28:	Various Speakers	UW-UBC Symposium (all day, at UBC)
October
Wednesday, Oct 3:	No seminar	See CIG seminar, Wed. Oct 3, 10 am, 117 JHN
Friday, Oct 12:	Ted Bohn	What's New in VIC 4.0.6?
Wednesday, Oct 17:	Kostas Andreadis	The VIC snow model: An overview
Wednesday, Oct 24:	Qiuhong Tang	Near Real-time Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Remote Sensing Data
November
Friday, Nov 2:	Chunmei Zhu	PhD Defense, 10 am, EE 303
Wednesday, Nov 7:	Lan Cuo	21st century climate change effects on streamflow in the Puget Sound
Wednesday, Nov 14:	Shraddhanand Shukla	Drought Monitoring with Hydrologic Models: An Alternative to standard indices?
Wednesday, Nov 21:	No seminar	Thanksgiving Week
Monday, Nov 26:	Jenny Adam	PhD Defense, 1 pm, EE 303
December
Monday, Dec 3:	Ted Bohn	General Exam, 8 am, EE 403
Wednesday, Dec 12:	No seminar	AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec 10-14
Tuesday, Dec 18:	Stefanie Kirschke	Current research activities at the German Remote Sensing Data Center - Results from a PhD project on Modelling Methane Emissions from Permafrost-Induced Wet Polygonal Tundra in Siberia
Wednesday, Dec 26:	No seminar	Winter Break