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INSTAAR Noon SeminarsSpring 2005Tad Pfeffer, INSTAAR Associate Director, Institute Meeting.Detlev Helmig, INSTAAR, “Ozone smog at South Pole?New data from a tethered balloon experiment reveal unexpectedatmospheric chemistry in the Antarctic troposphere.”William Bowman, INSTAAR, “Are we there yet? Critical Nloads for alpine vegetation and ecosystem response.”Jacqueline Flückiger, INSTAAR, “Modeling glacial climate:bipolar seesaw and the ocean as a trigger for HeinrichEvents.”Robert F. Stallard, INSTAAR and U.S. Geological Survey,“Rapid hydrologic assessment: topical tropical examples.”Elena Yakimenko, former research scientist at the Institute ofGeography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,“Pleistocene stratigraphy of the East European Plain: paleoreconstructionsand controversies.”Raimund Muscheler, NCAR, “Cosmogenic radionucliderecords—rich sources of information about climate changesand its causes.”Bill Manley, INSTAAR, “Advanced geospatial visualizationsand data sharing for Arctic science.”Jerry Meehl, NCAR, “Future climate change: the IPCC processand results from global coupled climate models.”Astrid Ogilvie, INSTAAR, “The fish can sing: cod, climateand currents in Icelandic waters from the settlement to thefuture.”Paul Goldberg, Boston University, “Cave sediments andhumans.”Áslaug Geirsdóttir, University of Iceland, “Now you see it,now you don’t: Holocene glacier and climate variability inIceland.”Bette Otto-Bliesner, NCAR, “Glacial climates and abrupt climatechange: results from global coupled climate models.”Jim White, INSTAAR, “Have humans really messed withmethane for 2000 years?”Robbie Toggweiler, GFDL/NOAA, Princeton, “Origin of the100,000-yr cycle in atmospheric CO 2 .”Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Laboratoire d’Océanographie deVillefranche sur mer, France, “Response of marine ecosystemsto elevated carbon dioxide and biogeochemical consequences.”Irina Overeem, INSTAAR, “Numerical modeling of theimpact of an enhanced monsoon on the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system.”Cory Cleveland, INSTAAR, “Nutrient controls over Ccycling in tropical rain forests.”John Hoffecker, INSTAAR, “Climate change, vulcanism, andthe dispersal of modern humans in Europe: the view fromKostenki.”Fortunat Joos, Climate and Environmental Physics,University of Bern, “Climate–carbon cycle interactions.”Scott Lehman, INSTAAR, “Response of Norwegian sea surfaceand air temperature to solar forcing.”Reto Knutti, NCAR, “Uncertainty in projections of futureclimate.”Pilots perform last-minute checksbefore flying INSTAAR researchersto the center of Flade Isblink,a small ice cap at 81°N in NEGreenland, summer 2006. There,along with colleagues from theUniversity of Copenhagen, theyobtained an ice core and surfaceradar profiles. Photo: BruceVaughn (INSTAAR).Fall 2005James Syvitski, INSTAAR Director, INSTAAR GeneralMeeting.Scott Peckham, INSTAAR, “Hydrologic modeling and terrain:advances in computational and visualization methods.”SEMINARS | 55