Thursday, January 23, 2020, 3:00 PM
Dr. Christopher Bone
Title: Contextualizing the role of climate change in large scale forest disturbances
Location: Halpern Centre for Graduate Students, Room 112
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Dr. Astrid Brousselle
Title: Leading the way to an eco-social society
Location: Halpern Centre for Graduate Students, Room 108
Monday, March 18, 2019
Johannes Feddema
Title: Reinventing climate classification systems to develop better metrics for climate change detection
Location: Geography Boardroom
Friday, January 25, 2019:
Francis Zwiers
Title: Event attribution – are we doing it reliably?
Location: Room 108, Halpern Centre
Thursday, November 15, 2018:
Armel Castellan
Title: Evolution of Impact-Based Forecasting
Location: The Welcome Centre Room, University Centre (Mystic Market)
Thursday, November 1, 2018:
Matthew Asplin
Title: From Multiyear Arctic Pack Ice to Predominantly First-year Sea Ice Cover: Implications of the Changing Sea Ice Cover on Storm Impacts in the Western Canadian Arctic
Location: The Welcome Centre Room, University Centre (Mystic Market)
Thursday, April 26, 2018:
Hayley Dosser
Title: A Turbulent Arctic
Location: The Welcome Centre Room, University Centre (Mystic Market)
Thursday, March 29, 2018:
Boualem Khouider
Title: Using a stochastic convective parametrization to improve the simulation of tropical modes of variability in a GCM
Location: The Welcome Centre Room, University Centre (Mystic Market)
Friday, March 02, 2018:
Kenneth Porter, Amanda Broad, and Chris Krasowski, Climate Action Secretariat, BC Government
Title: So you’re a ploicy analyst at the Climate Action Secretariat, what now?
Location: The Welcome Centre Room, University Centre (Mystic Market)
Wednesday, February 07, 2018:
Andrew Shao, CCCma
Title: Representing the numerical ocean: an overview of ocean modelling
Location: Geography Department – B307 David Turpin Building
Thursday, December 07, 2017:
Michael Eby, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Title: The University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model: World Tour
Location: The Welcome Centre Room, University Centre (Mystic Market)
Title: Anthropogenic influence on the recent very hot summers in Northern hemispheric land areas
Location: The Welcome Centre Room, University Centre (Mystic Market)
Jim Christian, CCCma
Title: Ocean Biogeochemistry in the Canadian Earth System Model
Location: Geography Seminar Room – B215 David Trupin Building
Thursday, October 12, 2017:
Randy Scharien, Department of Geography
Title: Linking winter and spring thermodynamic sea ice states: application to seasonal sea ice melt pond fraction prediction
Location: The Welcome Centre Room in University Centre (Near Mystic Market)
Wednesday, April 5, 2017: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Terry Prowse
Department of Geography and
Water & Climate Impacts Research Centre
Location: Grad House, David Clode Room
Wednesday, March 22, 2017: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Randy Scharien
Department of Geography
Title: “Observational needs for sea ice models: novel approaches for closing the gap using satellite remote sensing”
Location: Grad House, David Clode Room
Wednesday, March 8, 2017: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Christian Seiler
Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
Title: “Biases and projections of explosive cyclones in global and regional climate model”
Location: Grad House
Wednesday, February 22, 2017: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Neil Swart
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Location: Grad House, David Clode Room
Wednesday, December 07, 2016: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Kasia Tokarska, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Title: “Can we still limit the global warming to 1.5ºC?” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House
Thursday, December 01, 2016: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Trevor Hancock, School of Public Health and Social Policy
Title: “Climate Change and Health: Impacts, implications and responses” (View Abstract)
Location: Cadboro Commons, Campus View
This event is sponsored by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.
Thursday, November 17, 2016: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Jennifer Jackson, Hakai Institute
Title: “Physical oceanography of British Columbia’s central coast near Calvert Island from 2012 – 2016” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House
Wednesday, November 2, 2016: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Amber Holdsworth, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Title: “Understanding the Dynamics of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer: an Illustration of Idealized Modelling” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House
Thursday, October 20, 2016: Doors open at 15:00, presentation at 15:30
Trevor Murdock, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
Title: “A climate scientist, an engineer, and an adaptation expert walk into a coffee shop…” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House
Thursday, October 6, 2016: Doors open at 16:00, presentation at 16:30
Gregory M. Flato
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Title: “The Changing Arctic Climate: From Science to Scenarios” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House
This event is sponsored by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
Wednesday July 13, 2016
Speaker: Thomas Pedersen, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Title: “Responding to the Climate Change Challenge is a Social Imperative and an Economic Opportunity” (View Abstract)
Location: Cadboro Commons (Haro Room)
Wednesday March 30, 2016
Speaker: Francis Zwiers, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
Title: “Changing Extremes – is it real or just imagined?” (View Abstract)
Location: Cadboro Commons
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Speaker: Michael Whiticar
Title: “Understanding and Tracking Some Critical Methane Interactions between Geo-, Hydro-, Cryo- and Atmosphere” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Speaker: Bill Merryfield, CCCma
Title: “Prediction and impacts of the great 2015-16 El Niño: A pre-postmortem”
Location: Grad House
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2016
Speaker: Nadja Steiner, CCCma
Title: “Climate change impacts on Arctic marine ecosystems”
Location: Grad House
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016
Speaker: Adam Monahan, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Title: “Does the Climate Play Dice with the Weather?”
Location: Grad House
Friday December 11 , 2015
Speaker: Andrew Weaver, MLA, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Title: “Political Challenges and Opportunities to Climate Change Mitigation: A View from the Front Lines”
Location: Cadboro Commons (Haro Room)
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Speaker: Roberta Hamme, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Title: “Neon, it’s not just for signs anymore: What noble gases can tell us about ocean carbon” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House Restaurant
Monday, November 16, 2015
Speaker: Nathan Gillett, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Title: “Understanding the causes of Arctic climate change”
Location: Grad House Restaurant
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Speaker: David Atkinson, Department of Geography
Title: “Physical Stressors and the Northern Coastal Context” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House Restaurant
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Speaker: Colin Goldblatt, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Title: “Palaeoclimate and the evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere” (View Abstract)
Location: Grad House Restaurant
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Speaker: Johannes Feddema, Chair, Department of Geography
Title: “Modeling Urban Systems in an Earth System Model” (View Abstract)
Location: University Club