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Upcoming New York Metro Area Climate Events
 
Please send additional events to agregg@law.colubia.edu
 
 
 
Intersection of Energy and the Economy Building a Responsible, Sustainable Energy Future, Elizabeth Cheney, Vice President, Safety, Environment and Sustainable Development, Shell Upstream Americas

Date & Time: November 18, 2009, 1:15 to 2:45 pm
Location: U.N. Conference Room 7
Information: Roma Stibravy, Chairperson: ngosustainability@gmail.com
Link: http://www.unngosustainability.org/

 

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series with Chris Hunter of Climate Change Capital
 
Date & Time: November 18th, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: Room 410 International Affairs Building
Information: Seating is limited, so please RSVP with Jonathan Burnston, Assistant Director of Events, at jcb2203@columbia.edu

 

Lloyd Irland: REDD: A shovel-ready program to save tropical forests?

Date & Time: Nov 18, 2009, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Kroon Hall - Burke Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Information: Rosanne Stoddard rosanne.stoddard@yale.edu, 203-432-5136
Link: http://environment.research.yale.edu/calendar/day/2009-11-18/



Vertical structures of tropical diabatic heating: Ubiquity of the leading modes and its dynamical implications, Chidong ZHANG (U Miami) - Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium

Date: November 18, 2009, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Location: Room 1302 of Warren Weaver Hall at 251 Mercer Street, New York
Information: Shafer Smith, (212) 998-3224
Link: http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium




Dorothy Peteet and Daniel Klocke, GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Lunch Seminar

Date: November 18, 2009, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.,
Location: 7th Floor Conference Room, GISS, 2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025-7886
Information: Visitors must arrange in advance for a building pass. Ms. Patricia Formosa, (212) 678-5540 or pformosa@giss.nasa.gov
Link: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/calendar/seminars.rp




Predecessor rain events ahead of tropical cyclones, Thomas J. Galarneau, Jr., Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany -Stony Brook University, School of Atmosphere and Marine Sciences, Oceans and Atmosphere Colloquium

Date: November 18, 2009, 12pm to 1pm
Location: Endeavour 120, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794
Link: http://www.somas.stonybrook.edu/news_events/events.html

 


Green from the Ground Up - Solar One & Office of Recycling Outreach and Education
Series Workshop

Date & Time:
November 18, 2009, 5:30 to 9pm
Location: The Red Oak, 135 W. 106th St., NY, NY
Information: RSVP’s required. Send email to celia@solar1.org to RSVP.
Link: http://solar1.org/2009/09/08/green-from-the-ground-up-2/




On cloud droplet size dispersion in shallow convection, Andy Ackerman, NASA GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), CCNY/GISS Convection Seminar

Date: November 19, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: 3rd Floor Conference Room, GISS, 2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025-7886
Information: Visitors must arrange in advance for a building pass. Please contact Ms. Patricia Formosa at (212) 678-5540 or pformosa@giss.nasa.gov for assistance.
Link: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/calendar/seminars.rp




Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing - IRI Seminar

Date: November 19, 2009, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building Auditorium
Information: Open to the Columbia University community.Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu
Link: iri.columbia.edu




Focus on Climate: Next Steps to Meet the Climate Challenge - Earth Institute Seminars on Sustainable Development

Date:
November 19, 2009, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Faculty House, Garden Room 2, First Floor
Information: Free and open to the registered public. Betsy Ness-Edelstein, en2109@columbia.edu
Link: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2552




Links Between CO2 and Climate Throughout Earth History--A Survey, Michael Bender, Princeton University -Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth Science Colloquium

Date: November 20, 2009, 3:30 pm
Location: Monell Building
Information: Scott Nooner, snooner@ldeo.columbia.edu
Link: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/earth-science-colloquium/2009-2010

 
 
Dynamics and Impacts of Fine-Scale Climate Change,Noah Diffenbaugh, Climate Scientist and Associate Professor, Climate and Earth Systems Dynamics Group, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Purdue University - LDEO Division of Ocean and Climate Physics (DOCP) Seminar
 
Date & Time: November 20, 2009, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, Seminar Room, First Floor
Information: Colin Kelley, cpk2111@columbia.edu
Link:http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=37126&con=standalone&br=ei_brand




Grand Challenges of Engineering, Charles Vest, National Academy of Engineering - Columbia Climate Center

Date & Time: November 24, 2009, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: International Affairs Building, Kellogg Conference Center, 15th Floor
Information: RSVP Required: www.earth.columbia.edu/events
Directions: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/directions.html
 
 
 
 
Connecting Terrestrial Water, Carbon and Energy Cycles through Microwave Remote Sensing, Dr. Kyle C. McDonald, Water and Carbon Cycles Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology – City University of New York & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Seminar.
 
Date & Time: November 24, 2009, 12:00 - 1:00 P.M
Location: T-105, The City College of New York, 140th Street & Covent Ave. New York, NY 10031
Information: Phone: 212-650-8099
Link: http://crest.ccny.cuny.edu/events_seminars.html
 
 
 
An Overview and Focus on Water- The National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges
 
Date & Time: November 24th, 2009, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Information: Registration required. Betsy Ness-Edelstein, en2109@columbia.edu



Ocean Acidification: A New Challenge for Researchers and Policy Makers - Munson Lecture Series

Date & Time: November 24, 2009, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Sage – Bowers, 205 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor, New Haven, CT 06511
Information: Rosanne Stoddard, rosanne.stoddard@yale.edu or 203-432-5136
Link: http://environment.research.yale.edu/calendar/day/2009-11-24/
 
 

Global Energy Outlook Forum, Ambassador Richard Jones, Deputy Executive Director
International Energy Agency
-The Business Council for International Understanding, hosted by Fordham University Graduate School of Business
 
Date & Time: November 30, 2009, 3:00 P.M. - 6:30 P.M.
Location: Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor
Information: RSVP required. Contact Onat Dogruer (212-490-0460)
Link:http://www.bciu.org/wip01/online_event_invitation.asp?currentorpast=&eventsorprograms=events&IDNumber=1345&ProgramIDNumber=0&Keycode=1045496




Climate Change and Public Health, Patrick L. Kinney, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Health Sciences Center- Earth Institute Practicum
 
Date: December 1, 2009, 4:20 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Columbia Law School, Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 102
Information: Annemarie Eimicke, aeimicke@ei.columbia.edu
Link:http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=35867&con=standalone&br=ei_brand





Equatorial waves in vertical and meridional shear backgrounds, Boualem KHOUIDER (U Victoria) - Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium

Date: December 2, 2009, 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Location: Room 1302 of Warren Weaver Hall at 251 Mercer Street, New York
Information: Shafer Smith, (212) 998-3224
Link: http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

 
 
 
Cities as Solutions for Climate Change - Presented by the Green Science & Environmental Policy Discussion Group and New York City Panel on Climate Change
 
Date & Time: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: The New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor, New York, NY 10007-2157
Information: Register online: https://www.webassociationmgmt.org/nyas/events.jsp?itemID=1643&errorcode=&hideLeftNav=  Call 212.298.8600



Anthony Del Genio, GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Lunch Seminar

Date: December 2, 2009, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m
Location: 7th Floor Conference Room, GISS, 2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025-7886
Information: Visitors must arrange in advance for a building pass. Ms. Patricia Formosa, (212) 678-5540 or pformosa@giss.nasa.gov
Link: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/calendar/seminars.rp
 



New Directions in Brownfields: Building Sustainable Communities through Stronger City, State and Federal Partnerships - New Partners for Community Revitalization, Inc. (NPCR)’s 2nd Annual Brownfields Forum

Date: December 2, 2009, Registration 12:30-1pm, Forum: 1-5pm, Networking Reception: 5-7pm
Location: National Grid, 1 Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Information: Register online. Contact Kathleen Parisi, Kathleen@k2new.net or (917) 576-6283.
Link: http://www.npcr.net/DecForum/ForumInvitation.html




Legally Green: What You Need To Know about Your Property and the GREENER, Greater Buildings Plan – The Steven L, Newman Real Estate Institute,
Baruch College, CUNY & the Sallan Foundation
Date & Time: December 3, 2009, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: The William and Anita Newman Conference Center, Room 750, 151 East 25th Street, New York, 10010, NY
Information: Registration online: http://baruch.cuny.edu/newman. Contact, 646.660.6950.
Link: http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/newman/conferences/sustainability-shoptalk-series/legally-green
 

Markets, State, and Democracy: Lessons from the Economic Crisis, Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University - Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy and the Center for New York City Affairs, 2009 Henry Cohen Lecture
 
Date & Time: December 3, 2009, 6 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12thth Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Information: Admission is free, but you must reserve a seat by calling 212.229.5418 or emailing centernyc@newschool.edu.




Global approach to risk reduction: Green Chemistry, Evan Beach

Date & Time: December 3, 2009, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Kroon Hall - G01, 195 Prospect Street, Ground Floor, New Haven CT 06511
Information: Ysella Edyvean ysella.edyvean@yale.edu or 203-203-432-596
Link: http://environment.research.yale.edu/calendar/day/2009-12-03/
 
 
Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems, Melinda Smith - Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

Date: December 4, 2009 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location: Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (ESC), Rm. 110
21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511
Information: Open to public
Link: http://calendar.yale.edu/events/opa/CAL-2c9cb3cd-23b6c5fe-0123-bf871fa2-00002cd9bedework@yale.edu/

 

Dynamically consistent state estimates of the coupled ocean/sea-ice system: the ECCO project, Patrick HEIMBACH (MIT) - Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
 
Date: December 9, 2009, 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Location: Room 1302 of Warren Weaver Hall at 251 Mercer Street, New York
Information: Shafer Smith, (212) 998-3224
Link: http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium  



 
IRI Seminar: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing
 
Date & Time:December 17, 2009, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building Auditorium
Information: Open to the Columbia University community .Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu



Sustainable City Finance - The New York Academy of Sciences Conference

Date & Time: January 7th, 2010, 8 AM-6PM
Location: NYAS Conference Center, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor, New York, NY 10007-2157
Information: Registration required
Link: http://www.nyas.org/Events/Detail.aspx?cid=2ecbfc47-95f7-4b9f-bcac-59cf41182e52  

 


The Environmental Film Festival at Yale

Date: April 5-11, 2010
Information: http://environment.yale.edu/film/Home.html