Colloquia for Spring 2015
Jul 16, 2015
MS Defense
“Estimating Emission Rates of Volatile Organic Compounds from Oil and Natural Gas Operations in the Piceance Basin”
By Landan MacDonald
Advisor: Jeff Pierce, co-advisor: Jeff Collett
Jun 26, 2015
MS Defense
“Wake Vortices and Tropical Cyclogenesis Downstream of Sumatra over the Indian Ocean”
By Caitlin Fine
Advisor: Richard Johnson
May 14, 2015
MS Defense
“Uncertainties in Global Aerosols and Climate Effects Due to Biofuel Emissions”
By Jack Kodros
Advisor: Jeff Pierce
May 08, 2015
PhD Defense
“Cumulus Moistening, the Diurnal Cycle, and Large-Scale Tropical Dynamics”
By James Ruppert
Advisor: Richard Johnson
May 07, 2015
PhD Defense
“Linear and Nonlinear Properties of Numerical Methods for the Rotating Shallow Water Equations”
By Chris Eldred
Advisor: David Randall
May 06, 2015
PhD Defense
“Balanced and Transient Aspects of the Intertropical Convergence Zone”
By Alex Gonzalez
Advisor: Wayne Schubert
Apr 21, 2015
PhD Defense
“Toward an Improved Understanding of the Synoptic and Mesoscale Dynamics Governing Nocturnal Heavy-Rain-Producing Mesoscale Convective Systems”
By John Peters
Advisor: Russ Schumacher
Apr 15, 2015
MS Defense
“Vertical and Horizontal Mixing in the Tropical Tropopause Layer”
By Sasha Glanville
Advisor: Thomas Birner
Apr 03, 2015
MS Defense
“Time-Filtered Inverse Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange”
By Nick Geyer
Advisor: Scott Denning
Apr 03, 2015
MS Defense
“On the Observed Relationships Between Variability in Sea Surface Temperatures and the Atmospheric Circulation in the Northern Hemisphere”
By Samantha Wills
Advisor: David Thompson
Mar 27, 2015
MS Defense
“Tropical Tropopause Layer Variability Associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation during DYNAMO”
By Erin Dagg
Advisor: Thomas Birner and Richard Johnson
Mar 13, 2015
MS Defense
“The Spatial and Temporal Properties of Precipitation Uncertainty Structures over Tropical Oceans”
By Jianbo Liu
Advisor: Chris Kummerow
Jan 29, 2015
MS Defense
“The Validation of Emission Rate Estimation Methods”
By Bradley Wells
Advisor: Jeff Collett and Jeff Pierce