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Upcoming Events

Roger Pielke, Jr., Prospects for Governing Emerging Technologies: Comments, Big Sky, MT. August 17-22, 2008.
Meeting the Global Energy and Climate Change Challenge, August 22-23, 2008, CU-Boulder.
Carl Koval, The Challenge of Developing Carbon-free Energy Panel, CU-Boulder, August 22, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Social Dimensions of Climate Change Panel, CU-Boulder, August 22, 2008.
Bill Travis, The Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Panel, CU-Boulder, August 23, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Assembling the Policy Puzzle Panel, CU-Boulder, August 23, 2008.
Register for Climate Change Symposium, September 4, 2008.
CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series: Susan Solomon, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Sept. 26, 2008.
Marilyn Averill, Climate Litigation: The Role of the Judiciary in U.S. Climate Policy, October 27, 2008.
2008 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 2008.

Previous Events

2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Cairns, Australia, July 29 - August 1, 2008.
Sheldon Drobot, Diagnosing the Recent Decline in Artic Sea Ice and Prospects for the Future, July 28, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Climate Change, Economics, & the Courts, Bozeman, Montana, July 2008.
Roy W. Spencer, Global Warming: Recent Evidence for Reduced Climate Sensitivity, CIRES Auditorium, July 17, 2008.
Ann Bostrom, What do people know about global climate change now?, July 17, 2008
Roger Pielke, Jr., 33rd Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, July 12-15, 2008.
Cafe Scientifique, Rick Adams, Bats as potential eco-indicators of climate change in the West, July 8, 2008.
Global emissions: Where do we go from here?, Tami Bond, NOAA Skaggs Building, July 7, 2008.
2008 GLOBE Learning Expedition (GLE) and Annual Conference, June 22-28, 2008.
A Very Severe Cyclonic Storm “Nargis” of 27 April-3 May,2008 over North Indian Ocean, Akhilesh Gupta, NCAR, June 25
Jamie Brown Kruse, Decision Making Under Risk and Ambiguity, NCAR Mesa Laboratory, June 23, 2008.
William Travis, Sustainability Questioned: Appraising the Viability of Land Use Systems, June 19, 2008.
Isabelle Ruin, Motorists’ Vulnerability to Flash Floods in France, NCAR, June 16, 2008.
Shifting Baselines & New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes & Transformation of the Am West, June 4-6, 2008.
2008 Arizona Monsoon Season Web-Briefing, June 4, 2008.
Ryan Meyer, Copenhagen International Public Value Workshop, May 28-31, 2008
Elizabeth McNie, Exploring the Agora: Co-producing useful Climate Science for Policy, April 25, 2008.
Eva Lövbrand, The Democracy Paradox in Studies of Science and Society, April 9, 2008.
Joe Ryan, Abandoned Mine Cleanups, the Clean Water Act, and Environmental Good Samaritans, March 31, 2008.
The 38th Annual Arctic Workshop, INSTAAR, CU-Boulder, March 5-7, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Department of Geography – Colloquia, CU-Boulder, February 29, 2008.
Elizabeth McNie, Linking Knowledge with Action: Lessons from Indonesian Agroforestry Research, Feb. 11, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Creating a climate for Change: Rethinking communication and climate change, February 8, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Focus the Nation: Campus Teach-in on Global Warming, CU-Boulder, January 31, 2008.
Genevieve Maricle, Shaping Science: Turning Science Studies into Science Action, RESCHEDULED: Dec. 13, 2007
Lisa Dilling, “Usable” carbon science: Supporting carbon governance and decision making across scales, Dec. 3, 2007
The Global Warming Crisis: Colorado's Response, CU-Boulder, Wolf Law Building, December 3, 2007.
Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Literacy Workshop, UCAR, November 27–29, 2007
Sarah Krakoff, Parenting the Planet: Environmental Ethics in Face of Potential Tragedy, CU-Boulder, Nov. 14 2007.
Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Break Through Lecture, CU-Boulder, Nov. 12, 2007.
Jeffrey T. Kiehl, ENVS Colloquium, Nature: Visible & Invisible, Nove,ber 6, 2007.
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies A Social Research conference, New School in NY, November 1-2, 2007.
Gerald North, Climate Change over the Last Thousand Years and the Next Hundred, CIRES, November 2, 2007.
Jeff Fiedler, Federal Climate Policy 101: State of Play and Key Issues, UCAR, October 31, 2007
Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Tallahassee, Florida, October 22-26, 2007
The Art of Climate Change, Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law, CU-Boulder, October 25, 2007.
South Platte River Forum: A River of Change, Longmont, Colorado, October 24-25, 2007
Climate Information: Responding to User Needs Workshop, October 22-23, 2007
Marilyn Averill, The Ethics of Uncertainty in Climate Change, 4S conference, Montreal, October 11-13, 2007.
Marilyn Averill, Beyond Federal Agency Litigation, Climate Change Law conference, Denver, Sept. 24-25, 2007.
Lisa Dilling, EcoArts Panel at Norlin Library, Climate Change: Is It Debatable?, September 25, 2007
Call For Papers: International Groundwater Conference on Groundwater Dynamics and Global Change, March 11-14, 2008
Global Warming Affects Us All: What Must Be Done?, September 24, 2007.
GEOSS Workshop: Regional Decisions for Climate Change, Boulder Colorado, September 21-22, 2007
Lisa Dilling, EVENT CANCELLED: EcoArts Panel at Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Earth Wisdom, September 20, 2007
Tapping Into Water Resource Planning: Water Supply and Land Use Decision Making, Tucson, AZ, September 18, 2007.
DISCCRS III Symposium: Interdisciplinary initiative for recent PhD graduates dealing with Climate Change & Impacts.
Kathy Jacobs, Design of Decision-Support Research Programs to support Adaptive Water Management, Sept. 12, 2007.
Russ Monson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Climate Change and Forests in the Colorado Front Range, Sept. 11, 20
Lisa Dilling, Creating a Climate for Change, Boulder Valley Rotary, September 11, 2007.
Climate Change Workshop Detecting the Atmospheric Response to the Changing Face of the Earth, August 27-29, 2007.
Tom Yulsman, Telling Inconvenient Truths: Science and journalism in the global warming debate, August 14, 2007.
Coleen Vogel, Whither Sustainability Science - a view from the South, July 30, 2007.
Weather and Society * Integrated Studies (WAS-IS) Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, July 12-20, 2007.
Arthur Greene, Forecasts of Near-term Climate Change, July 12, 2007.
Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, July 8-11, 2007.
Erich Roeckner, Climate Response to Carbonaceous Aerosol Emissions, June 29, 2007.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Politicization of expert advice, BMBF conference, Munich, Germany, June 25, 2007.
William Clark, Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence, June 19, 2007.
Greg Holland, Hurricanes and Global Warming: Mixing Science and Politics, June 19, 2007.
Michelle L'Heureux, Overview of Intraseasonal Climate Activities at NCEP/Climate Prediction Center, June 14, 2007.
Michelle L'Heureux, Overview of Intraseasonal Climate Activities at NCEP/Climate Prediction Center, June 14, 2007.
Steve Nerem, Satellite Measurements of Sea Level Change: What do they tell us?, June 1 2007, TIME CHANGE-Now at 1pm
Ricardo Rozzi, Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve: Biocultural Conservation & Sustainable Development, May 31, 2007.
Genevieve Maricle, Knowledge transfer from academia, WSWC/CDWR Workshop, Irvine, CA, May 17, 2007.
Granger Morgan, Climate, Uncertainty and Decision Making" on Tuesday, May 15, 2007.
Genevieve Maricle, Shaping Climate Science: the Role for Human Dimensions, May 10, 2007.
Use of economics to solve resource & env. problems: Water mgmt & Vehicular pollution in India, May 4, 2007.
Krister Andersson, Decentralization, Local Institutions, and Environmental Change, April 30, 2007.
Diana Liverman, Carbon Finance, Adaptation and Climate Science, April 24, 2007.
Johannes Loschnigg, Science, Policy & U.S. Congress: Current Issues involving NASA, NOAA & Climate Change, April 20
Genevieve Maricle, Shaping Climate Science: The Role for Human Dimensions Research, April 20, 2007.
Climate and Riparian Areas Workshop: Climate Change / Variability and Ecosystem Impacts, April 11-13, 2007.
Eva Lövbrand, The politics of expertise in the Kyoto negotiations on land use change and forestry, April 13, 2007.
Amanda Staudt, What Factors Led to the Recent Shift in U.S. Attitudes toward Climate Change?, April 13, 2007.
Marilyn Averill, U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Massachusetts vs. EPA, April 10, 2007
Nat Logar, Models for societal benefit from federally-funded mission institutions, April 3, 2007.
Global Warming Expo, Boulder Theater, April 3, 2007.
Book release of Moser/Dilling, Creating a Climate for Change, March 30, 2007.
Elisabeth A. Holland, Our Changing Climate, The Underlying Role of Biogeochemistry, March 23, 2007.
The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock, March 16-17, 2007.
Doug Kenney and Chris Goemans, Managing Residential Water Demand: Lessons from Aurora, March 13, 2007.
Heather Lazrus, Weathering the waves: ethnographic research on global climate change in Tuvalu, March 13, 2007.
Roger Kasperson, Integrative Approaches & Vulnerability Assessment: Stresses & Social - Ecological, March 13, 2007.
Ice Fest, Celebrating the Launch of International Polar Year, Mar 8-11, 2007.
Mark Squillace, The Future of Federal Wetlands Regulation, March 6, 2007.
Lisa Dilling, Communicating about climate change, February 28, 2007.
Lisa Dilling, "Usable” carbon science: Creating new science policies to support decision making, February 27, 2007.
Rosina Bierbaum, Sustainability and Climate Change: Issues for Adaptation, February 23, 2007
Maxine Burkett, Making the Case for Climate Justice, February 23, 2007.
Susan Soloman, IPCC (2007) Climate Change: The Physical Science Basis, February 21, 2007.
Dan Sarewitz, Assessing and Enhancing the Usefulness of Society’s Climate Research Investment, February 17, 2007.
Lisa Dilling, The Challenge of Communicating About Climate Change To Support Societal Action, AAAS Meeting, Feb. 16
Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation?, RGS London, February 7-8, 2008.
Björn-Ola Linnér, Who gets what, how and when: Hist. Responsibility & Emissions Trade in Climate Policy, Feb. 6.
Lisa Dilling, Carbon Management and Human Dimensions in the NACP, Jan. 25, 2007.
Kathleen Tierney, Value of Multidisciplinary & Interdisciplinary Research for Disaster Loss Reduction, Jan. 23.
Marilyn Averill, Climate Ethics, ENVS Seminar, January 19, 2007.
The Second Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research, 87th AMS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, January
American Geophysical Union Fall 2006 Meeting, December 12-13, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
Institutions for Sustainable Development Face of Global Environmental Change, Bali, Dec. 6-9, 2006.
Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenges, Beijing, China, Nov. 9-12, 2006.
Nat Logar, Relevant knowledge and user collaboration in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Nov. 11, Beijing, China
Lisa Dilling, Terrestrial Carbon Sink Thresholds, Ecothresholds Project meeting, Nov. 9 2006.
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4s) Conference, November 3, 2006, Vancouver, BC.
NOAA's 31st Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Boulder CO, Oct. 23-27, 2006.
Kevin Vranes, Colorado Academy talk on Global Warming/Climate Change and Energy Use, October 24, 2006.
Sarah Krakoff, Climate Change, Morality and Law, October 18, 2006.
Panel Discussion on An Inconvenient Truth: Assessing the Science and Policy Implications, September 28.
Jana Milford, Dealing with Uncertainty in Regulatory Applications of Air Quality Models, September 25, 2006.
Washington Summit on Climate Stabilization, Washington, DC, September 18-21, 2006.
Managing Drought and Water Scarcity in Vulnerable Environments, Boulder CO, Sept. 18-20, 2006.
Lisa Dilling, Enhancing Reliability and Usability of Science Information, GSA specialty Meeting, Sept. 18-20.
Global Management at Urban and Regional Levels: Connecting Development Decisions to Global Issues, Sept. 4-8, 2006.
Lisa Dilling, Cross-scale carbon governance challenges in the U.S., Carbon Mgmt at urban/regional lvls., Sept 4-8.
Lisa Dilling, Implications of mismatched supply and demand for climate science, GRC Conference, Aug. 13-18, 2006.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Decision making in a world of uncertainty, GRC Conference, August 17.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Climate Change: Understanding the Degree of the Problem, July 20, 2006.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Institutions and Knowledge Provision: Reconciling Supply of and Demand for Science, June 29.
Lisa Dilling, Communicating about climate change, NOAA Research Outreach Workshop, June 13, 2006.
Roger Pielke, Jr., “Doing Something” About Climate Change, CC and the Future of American West Conference, June 9.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Finding Solutions Session, Climate Change and the Future of American West Conference, June 8.
Lisa Dilling, Communication about global warming, Global Warming Forum, University of Denver, 31 May
Outstanding Issues in Seasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction, Spring AGU meeting, Baltimore.
Special Session at the 2006 Joint Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, May 23-26, 2006.
Climate Change and Disaster Losses Workshop, Hohenkammer Germany, May 25-26, 2006.
Lisa Dilling, Science Policy Research and Assessment on Climate: An overview and current progress, May 12.
Nat Logar, Missed opportunities, mischaracterization, useable science: ARS Global Change Nat'l Program, April 22.
Securing the Future: The Changing Global Environment, Marilyn Averill, April 13.
CIRES Members' Council Symposium, Poster Sessions, Elizabeth McNie, Genevieve Maricle, Erik Fisher, April 12.
Policy, Politics, and Science in the White House: Conversations with Presidential Science Advisors, CU
Dr. Frank Press, science advisor to President Jimmy Carter, April 11.
Coping with Climate Change, Symposium Highlighting CU activities to help decisionmakers prepare for future, April 4
Marilyn Averill, Climate in the Courtroom, CIRES Climate Symposium, April 4, 2006.
Genevieve Maricle, SPARC talk at Coping with Climate Change Symposium, April 4, 2006.
Lisa Dilling, The State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR), Climate Change Symposium, April 4.
Marilyn Averill, Climate in the Courtroom talk at the Climate Change Symposium, April 4, 2006.
Lisa Dilling, Creating a Climate for Change: What Have We Learned About Communicating About Climate Change and its
Roger Pielke, Jr., Climate Change and Coastal Development: US-UK Dialogue on Research Developments, April 3.
DISCCRS Symposium, Preparing Ph.D. Graduates for Climate-Change/Impacts Careers, Mar. 26-Apr. 2, 2006.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Role of societal & climate factors in historical and projected tropical cyclone damage, March 28
Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, March 21-24, 2006.
Sustainable and Renewable Energy Initiative, Town Hall Meeting, 3:30-5:30pm, March 21.
Marilyn Averill, Climate Litigation: Democratic Participation, and Civic Education, WPSA Annual Meeting, March 19.
Roger Pielke Jr., Disasters, Death and Destruction: Accounting for Recent Calamities, March 15.
Diane McKnight, Climate change, acid mine drainage, mountain sports in Colo Rocky Mtns, March 13, 2006.
12th Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy, University of Groningen, April 28-29, 2006.
CU Sustainable Energy Forum, Old Main Auditorium, February 7, 2006.
National Science Board's Forum on Hurricane Research, UCAR, February 7, 2006.
Emma Tompkins, A framework for incorporating climate change into coastal decision making, Feb. 6, 2006.
Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, June 25-29, 3007, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Dr. George Keyworth, science advisor to President Ronald Reagan, Jan. 31, 2006.
The GMO Debate: Dissonance of Science, Environmentalism, and Society, Dr. Steven Strauss, Jan. 27, 2006.
Climate and Rangelands Workshop, San Carlos, Arizona, January 25-26, 2006.
Marilyn Averill, My experiences at the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention, Jan. 23, 2006.
The Global Carbon Cycle and the Duke Forest CO2 Experiment, by Dr. William Schlesinger, Jan. 20, 2006.
Climate-Compatible Synthetic Liquid Fuels from Coal and Biomass with CO2 Capture and Storage, Jan. 19, 2006.
Dec. 14, 2005: Wyoming Climate Workshop, Cheyenne, WY
SPARC Workshop/Team Meeting, Boulder, CO, December 12-13, 2005.
Dec. 1, 2005: Colorado Climate Workshop, NOAA-CDC
Hans von Storch, Research collaborations related to climate modeling and extreme events, Nov. 18, 2005.
Nov. 17, 2005: Lisa Dilling, CIRES Visiting Fellows Poster Session
Nov. 14-16, 2005: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Workshop: Climate Science in Support of Decision Making
Nov. 15, 2005: The Legal Dimensions of Climate Change: A Conference by and for the Legal Profession, Wash DC
Juan Lucena, Changing policies for the promotion of science and engineering education at NSF, Nov. 14, 2005.
Nov. 3-4, 2005: National Academies' Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, UCAR
Panel Session of the Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate of the National Research Council, Nov. 3, 2005.
Oct. 26, 2004: Decision Making Under Climate Change Uncertainty, Rad Byerly
Oct. 21, 2005: Climate Change, Demographics, and Hurricanes, Joel Gratz
Oct. 17, 2005: New England Integrated Sciences and Assessments (NEISA), Silver Spring, MD.
The 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, October 9-13, 2005.
Sept. 25-30, 2005: Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference, Broomfield, CO
Sept. 12, 2005: Western Water Assessment (WWA), Silver Spring, MD
SPARC 2005 Workshop on RISA Science Policy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 15-17, 2005.
Aug. 2, 2005: Living with a Climate in Transition: The Pacific Islands RISA Experience
Jul. 15-21, 2005: North American Weather and Climate Extremes: Progress in Monitoring and Research, Aspen, CO
Hans von Storch, Hockey Sticks, the tragedy of the commons and sustainability of climate science, July 8, 2005.
June 29-July 1, 2005: IPCC Workshop on New Emissions Scenarios, Laxenburg, Austria
Decision Support and Carbon Cycle Science Workshop, University of Colorado-Boulder, June 13-14, 2005.
June 13, 2005: Climate Information and Water Management Decision in the Carolinas
May 11, 2005: The Pacific Northwest's Climate Impacts Group: Climate Science in Public Interest
May 10-11, 2005: Past climate variability and change in the Arctic and at high latitudes
Apr. 15, 2005: California Applications Program (CAP), Silver Spring, MD
Mar. 28, 2005: Taking steps towards a multidimensional view of the science-policy interface, Sarah Michaels
Mar. 21-24, 2005: Third USDA Symposium on Greenhouse Gases & Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry
Mar. 7, 2005: RISA CLIMA Perspectives on Climate Research, Assessment & Decision Support
Mar. 7, 2005: Roundtable Discussion with Björn-Ola Linnér of Swedish Institute for Climate Science & Policy Researc
Mar. 7, 2005: Scientists Pushing Back, Susan Avery
Mar. 3-4, 2005: Interfaces between Climate and Economic Dynamics, Symposium NCCR Climate 2005
Feb. 28, 2005: Does Water Flow towards Money or Downhill? Lessons from the Western Water Assessment, Brad Udall
Susan Avery, Changing the Climate on Climate, February 28, 2005.
Lisa Dilling, In Search of Pasteur's Quadrant: "Use-Inspired" Carbon Cycle Science, February 28, 2005.
Genevieve Maricle: One-Stop Shopping for Usable Science: The Case of Climate Information, February 28, 2005.
Lisa Dilling: Pilot Study on Reconciling Supply and Demand, December 14, 2004.
Carbon Cycle Science: Reconciling Supply and Demand, Fort Collins, CO, September 16-17, 2004.

Roger Pielke, Jr., Have we Underestimated the Carbon Dioxide Challenge? May 13, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Economics and Politics of Direct Air Capture of CO2 from the Atmosphere, April 25, 2008.