EOL Seminar Series

The EOL Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 pm Mountain Time. The seminar co-coordinators are Jacquelyn Witte (jwitte@ucar.edu) and Sarah Woods (sfwoods@ucar.edu) with logistical support from Melissa Ward (mward@ucar.edu). Please contact us if you have questions, would like to present a seminar, have a visitor who would like to present a seminar, or have a suggestion for a seminar speaker or topic that we should cover.
 

Upcoming 2023 Seminars

March 28, 2023
Dr. Zhaoxia Pu - University of Utah
Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain: Observations, Modeling, and Prediction of Cold Fog

April 18, 2023 (Joint EOL/ACOM Seminar)
Dr. Nathaniel Brockway - University of Alaska
Details Coming Soon!

April 25, 2023 (Joint EOL/MMM Seminar)
Dr. Paul Lawson - SPEC Inc.
The Secondary Production of Ice in Cumulus Experiment (SPICULE)

May 2, 2023 (Joint EOL/MMM Seminar)
Dr. Ulrike Romatschke - NCAR/EOL
Details Coming Soon!

May 16, 2023
Elise Rosky - ASP Graduate Student Visitor Program/Michigan Tech
Details Coming Soon!

June 27, 2023
Dr. Gannet Hallar - University of Utah
Details Coming Soon!

Seminar Archive

 All recorded EOL seminars are published on the NCAR EOL YouTube Channel.

March 14, 2023
Dr. Dave Parsons - Oklahoma University
Nocturnal Convective Systems and their Broader Relevance to Weather and Climate

March 7, 2023
Dr. Mathieu Casado - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
The Isotopic Fingerprint of the Atmospheric Circulation in Ice Cores in Polar Regions

February 21, 2023 (Joint EOL/RAL Seminar)
Dr. John Hubbert - NCAR/EOL
Global Regression Filtering: A Long Overlooked Technique for Processing Time Series Data?

February 7, 2023
Dr. Jothiram Vivekanandan - NCAR/EOL
Airborne Polarimetric Doppler Phased Array Weather Radar: Digital Twin

January 17, 2023 (Joint EOL/ACOM Seminar)
Dr. Sara Lance - Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany SUNY
Whiteface Mountain as a Natural Laboratory to Study Chemical Processing of Aerosols by Clouds

November 29, 2022
Dr. Paquita Zuidema - University of Miami
Earth, Wind and Fire: Defining the processes underlying smoke and cloud interactions over the south Atlantic

November 15, 2022
Prof. Alexander Kostinski - Michigan Tech
Glints, Glories, and Signals

October 11, 2022 (Joint EOL/CyPRESS Seminar)
Dr. Anna del Moral Mendez - ASP Postdoctoral Fellow, NCAR/EOL
Towards Improved Short-Term Forecasting for Lake Victoria Basin: Exploring HIGHWAY field campaign data

September 15, 2022 (In-Person Only)
Dr. Judd Welton - NASA Airborne Science Program
The NASA Micro Pulse Lidar Network: An overview of NASA's global ground-based lidar network

July 19, 2022
Dr. Jakob Mann - Professor, Head of Section, Department of Wind Energy, Meteorology, and Remote Sensing, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
The Balconies Experiment: Studying large-scale atmospheric structures with dual doppler lidars

June 28, 2022
Dr. Chijun Sun - NCAR/EOL ASP Postdoc
Paleoclimate Perspectives on Great Plains Extreme Weather From Water Isotopes

May 24, 2022
Dr. Joshua Gebauer - University of Oklahoma
Methods and Strategies for Multi-Instrument Data Products From Next-Generation Boundary-Layer Observation Networks

April 26, 2022
Dr. Matthew Hayman - NCAR/EOL
Modern Signaling Processing Techniques for Atmospheric Sensors

April 19, 2022 (Joint EOL/CISL Seminar)
Dr. John Schreck - NCAR/CISL
Neural Network Processing of Holographic Images

March 29, 2022 (Joint EOL/CGD/MMM Seminar)
Dr. Minghui Diao - San Jose State University
Ice and Mixed-Phase Cloud Microphysical Properties and Aerosols Indirect Effects Based on Multi-Scale Observations and Climate Model Simulations

March 15, 2022
Dr. Junkyung Kay - NCAR/EOL
The Role of MPD Water Vapor Profiles in Improving Convective-Scale Weather Predictions

February 8, 2022
Dr. Holger Vömel - NCAR/EOL
Understanding Climate Processes in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere Through Balloon-Borne Observations of Water Vapor and Ozone

 January 18, 2022
Prof. Chantal Staquet - Université Grenoble Alpes
Characteristic Atmospheric Circulation in the Grenoble Valley (France) During Winter

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December 7, 2021
Prof. Armin Sorooshian - University of Arizona
Smoke, Ships, Dust, Salt, and Other Features Interacting With Clouds: Findings from Recent Field Campaigns
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 30, 2021
Dr. Frank Beyrich - Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg, Deutscher Wetterdienst
Boundary Layer and Micrometeorological Measurements at Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory, Germany
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 16, 2021 (Joint EOL/RAL Seminar)
Dr. Gijs de Boer - CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder/NOAA
Robotic Revolution: Recent Work in Earth System Observing with Remotely-Piloted Aircraft
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 9, 2021 (Joint EOL/RAL Seminar)
Dr. Bianca Adler - CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder/NOAA
Observed and Simulated Characteristics of a Persistent Cold Air Pool in the Columbia River Basin
VIDEO: Presentation Link

October 12, 2021
Dr. Daniel Kirshbaum - McGill University
Large-Eddy Simulation of Convection Initiation Over Heterogeneous, Low Terrain
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 21, 2021
Dr. Javier Fochesatto - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Radiative Boundary-Layers in the Dark and Cold Atmospheres
VIDEO: Presentation Link

July 20, 2021 (Joint EOL/ACOM Seminar)
Dr. Holger Vömel - In-Situ Sensing Facility, Earth Observing Laboratory
In Situ Observations of Ozone Using Electrochemical Concentration Cell Ozone Sondes
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 25, 2021 (Joint EOL/MMM Seminar)
Mr. James Franklin - Systems Research Group/NOAA Hurricane Center
Tropical Cyclone Forecasting at the National Hurricane Center
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 20, 2021 (Joint EOL/MMM Seminar)
Dr. James Doyle - Marine Meteorology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Arctic Cyclones and the Influence on Short-Term Sea Ice Change and Moisture Transport
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 16, 2021
Dr. Mampi Sarkar - NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) Postdoctoral Fellow
TITLE: The Influence of Precipitation During Stratocumulus to Cumulus Transition Over the North Pacific Ocean
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 9, 2021
Dr. Jothiram "Vivek" Vivekanandan - NCAR EOL Remote Sensing Facility
TITLE: A Technique for Estimating Liquid Droplet Diameter and Liquid Water Content in Stratocumulus Clouds Using Radar and Lidar Measurements
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 23, 2021
Dr. Tammy Weckwerth - NCAR EOL Remote Sensing Facility
TITLE: Observations of Water Vapor MPDs (MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidars) and Their Impact on Convective Weather Forecasting via Data Assimilation
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 16, 2021
Dr. Adriana Raudzens Bailey - NCAR EOL Research Aviation Facility
TITLE: Moisture Transport by Shallow Clouds: Insights from the EUREC4A field experiment
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 2, 2021 (Joint EOL/HAO Seminar)
Mr. John Sobtzak - NCAR EOL In-Situ Sensing Facility
TITLE: An Introduction to CubeSats
VIDEO: Presentation Link

January 26, 2021
Dr. April Hiscox - University of South Carolina
TITLE: Variability in Turbulence Regimes During the SAVANT Field Campaign
VIDEO: Presentation Link

January 19, 2021
Mr. Chris Rattray - University of Oklahoma
TITLE: Evolution of the Great Plains Nocturnal Low-Level Jet and Return of Unstable Conditions After a Cold Frontal Passage
VIDEO: Presentation Link

January 5, 2021 (Joint EOL/CISL/MMM Seminar)
Mr. Hristo Chipilski - University of Oklahoma
TITLE: Assimilation of Ground-Based Remote Sensing Profilers: Motivation, forecast benefits, and challenges ahead
VIDEO: Presentation Link

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December 1, 2020
Prof. Ankur Desai & Dr. Brian Butterworth - University of Wisconsin-Madison
TITLE: Be a CHEESEHEAD: Results from the Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-Balance Study Enabled by a High-Density Extensive Array of Detectors study
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 17, 2020 (Joint EOL/ACOM Seminar)
Dr. Anne M. Thompson - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
TITLE: The SCOAPE (Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment) Cruise, May 2019: Gulf of Mexico air quality near oil and natural gas operations
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 4, 2020
Dr. Cristina Archer - University of Delaware
TITLE: The Complex Story of How Wind Turbines Affect Near-Ground Properties
VIDEO: Presentation Link

July 14, 2020
Mr. Samuel Degelia - University of Oklahoma
TITLE: Systematic Evaluation of the Impact of Assimilating a Network of Ground-Based Remote Sensing Profilers for Forecasts of Nocturnal Convection Initiation During PECAN
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 16, 2020
Dr. Jenna Samra - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
TITLE: High-Altitude Instrumentation for Infrared Observations of the Solar Corona
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 2, 2020
Dr. Jorgen Jensen - NCAR/EOL
TITLE: COVID Meets Cloud Physics: On the hygroscopic properties of saliva and phlegm, and implications for virus die-off
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 12, 2020
Dr. Rezaul Mahmood - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
TITLE: The Great Plains Irrigation Experiment (GRAINEX): Land cover change and assessing irrigation impacts on the planetary boundary layer atmosphere
VIDEO: No Recording

May 5, 2020
Dr. Greg McFarquhar - University of Oklahoma
TITLE: Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Mixed-Phase Clouds over the Southern Ocean: Results from recent field campaign
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 17, 2020
Mr. Ang Zhou - College of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
TITLE: The Evolution of a Merger-Formation Bow Echo in Southeast China

March 10, 2020
Dr. Willem Marais - Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), University of Wisconsin-Madison
TITLE: Progress on Simultaneously Denoising CALIOP Images and Measuring High Image Resolution Extinction Coefficients
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 25, 2020
Dr. Julie Lundquist - Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder
TITLE: Turbulence in Complex Terrain: Insights from the Perdigão Field Campaign
VIDEO: Presentation Link

January 28, 2020
Dr. GyuWon Lee - Kyungpook National University
TITLE: International Collaborative Experiments for Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (ICE-POP 2018): Overview and progress
VIDEO: Presentation Link

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November 11, 2019
Dr. Elizabeth Asher - CIRES/NOAA ESRL CSD
TITLE: Development of the Whole Air Sampling Pilotless Platform (WASPP) and its Application in the Colorado Front Range
VIDEO: Presentation Link

October 15, 2019
Mr. Robert Menke - Technical University of Denmark
TITLE: Doppler Lidar Scanning of Flow Over Complex Terrain
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 10, 2019
Dr. Jakob Mann -Technical University of Denmark
TITLE: The New European Wind Atlas
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 27, 2019
Dr. John Hubbert - NCAR EOL Remote Sensing Facility
TITLE: Using a Regression Filter to Mitigate Ground Clutter Echoes and Improve Signal Statistics
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 20, 2019
Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer - University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
TITLE: PBL Studies With Lidar Synergy
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 6, 2019
Dr. Viral Shah - Harvard University
TITLE: Wintertime Aerosols Over the Northeast United States: Results from the 2015 winter campaign
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 16, 2019
Dr. Jorgen B. Jensen - Earth Observing Laboratory, NCAR
TITLE: Observations and Parameterizations of Autoconversion in Marine Stratocumulus: A closure study based on Giant Cloud Condensation Nuclei (GCCN)

April 23, 2019
Dr. Jothiram Vivekanandan - Earth Observing Laboratory, NCAR
TITLE: Radar and Lidar-Based Estimation of Liquid Droplet Size and Liquid Water Content in Stratocumulus Clouds
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 5, 2019
Dr. Helen Worden - Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, NCAR
TITLE: Approaching Two Decades of MOPITT - What have we learned from satellite carbon monoxide observations?
VIDEO: Presentation Link

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November 13, 2018
Dr. Adam Fleisher - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
TITLE: Accurate Spectroscopy of the Stable and Radioactive Carbon Isotopologues of CO₂
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 6, 2018
Dr. Sharon Collinge - National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
TITLE: Data and Infrastructure to Understand Our Changing Ecosystem
VIDEO: Presentation Link

October 30, 2018
Dr. James (Jim) Moore - NCAR, Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: A 35-Year Journey Supporting Geosciences Research Field Projects: Perceptions, lessons learned and the remarkable future
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 18, 2018
Dr. James D. Doyle - NRL, Marine Meteorology Division
TITLE: Flying Through New Zealand's Gravity Waves
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 21, 2018
Dr. Leila Carvalho - University of California
TITLE: The Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX) First Intensive Campaign: Understanding downslope windstorms in the Santa Ynez Mountains, Santa Barbara, CA
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 16, 2018
Dr. Minghui Diao - San Jose State University
TITLE: Clouds and Aerosols: Linking aircraft measurements, satellite observations and model simulations
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 14, 2018
Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer - University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
TITLE: On the Application of a New Lidar Sensor Synergy for Studying and Improving Parameterizations of Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Entrainment in Hetergeneous Terrain
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 7, 2018
Dr. Andrew Manning - University of East Anglina, Norwich, England
TITLE: Atmospheric Oxygen: Useful for more than just breathing
VIDEO: Presentation Link

July 17, 2018
Dr. Joachim Reuder - University of Bergen, Norway
TITLE: The ISOBAR Project on Stable Boundary Layers: Experimental setup and first results of two field campaigns in 2017 and 2018 at Hailuoto, Finland
VIDEO: No Recording

June 12, 2018
Dr. Scott W. Tyler - University of Nevada Reno
TITLE: New Tools Near the Triple Point: Measuring antarctic ice shelf stability, endangered spring fish, snowmelt dynamics and flying drones
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 5, 2018
Dr. Steven Schill - National Suborbital Research Center
TITLE: Enabling the Science Onboard NASA Airborne Research Platforms
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 29, 2018
Dr. Kevin S. Repasky - Montana State University
TITLE: Ground-Based Eye-Safe Networkable Micro-Pulse Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) for Thermodynamic Profiling in the Lower Troposphere
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 15, 2018
Dr. Alan Blyth - National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Leeds, Leeds, England
TITLE: The Role of Multiple Thermals in the Development of Precipitation
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 1, 2018
Dr. Mark E. Weber - University of Oklahoma, CIMMS
TITLE: NOAA's Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR) Research Program
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 24, 2018
Dr. John H. Lehman - NIST, Sources and Detectors Group
TITLE: Planar Nanotube-Based Radiometers for Space and Telecommuncations
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 10, 2018
Dr. Zhaoxia Pu - University of Utah
TITLE: Progress and Prospects of Radar Data Assimilation Supporting Hurricane Research and Forecasting
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 3, 2018
Dr. Matthew Lebsock - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
TITLE: Differential Absorption Radar: A new method to remotely sense water vapor profiles within clouds
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 20, 2018
Dr. Jakob Mann - Technical University of Denmark
TITLE: Investigation of Small Scale Topography for Wind Energy
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 27, 2018
Dr. Britton Stephens - National Center for Atmospheric Research
TITLE: Oceanography Among the Clouds and Terrestrial Ecology a Thousand Miles From Land: The power of global-scale airborne observations
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 20, 2018
Dr. John Richard Anthes - UCAR President Emeritus
TITLE: Estimating Observation and Model Error Variances Using Multiple Data Sets
VIDEO: Presentation Link

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November 14, 2017
Mr. Jon Zawislak - NOAA/AOML Hurricane Research Division
TITLE: What Governs Intensification of Tropical Cyclones Experiencing Moderate Vertical Wind Shear?
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 12, 2017
Dr. John Hubbert - NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Precise Calibration of S-Pol Zdr: Accounting for antenna temperature effects
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 5, 2017
Dr. Mikael Witte - Postdoctoral fellow in the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
TITLE: Scaling Analysis of Cloud and Rain Liquid Water Content and Implications for Microphysical Parameterizations
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 22, 2017
Dr. Joshua Soderholm - University of Queensland
TITLE: Outcomes of the Coastal Convective Interactions Experiment and New Horizons with the Australian Radar Network
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 8, 2017
Dr. Matt Mayernik - Project Scientist & Research Data Services Specialist, NCAR Library
TITLE: EarthCollab: Enabling scientific collaboration and discovery through linked scientific resources
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 22, 2017
Dr. Emma Järvinen
TITLE: Understanding the Interaction of Solar Radiation With Cirrus Ice Crystals – Implications for the radiative transfer and climate modelling
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 16, 2017
Dr. Adriana Bailey - Dartmouth
TITLE: Fingerprinting Changes in Hydrologic Balance From Cloud to Regional Scales
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 16, 2017
Dr. Stefan Metzger - NEON
TITLE: From Flux Measurements to Information: A brief journey over land, air and space
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 6, 2017
Mr. Willem Marais - PhD ECE graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
TITLE: New Methods to Invert Backscatter and Extinction From Photon-Limited Lidar Observations
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 2, 2017
Dr. Ya-Chien Feng - McGill University
TITLE: Progress and Prospects of Advanced Radar Refractivity Retrieval
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 4, 2017
Dr. Christina S. McCluskey - Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
TITLE: Marine Ice Nucleating Particles: Implications for high latitude aerosol-cloud interactions
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 14, 2017
Dr. Jothiram “Vivek” Vivekanandan - NCAR
TITLE: Airborne Phased Array Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 7, 2017
Dr. Charles Brock - NOAA
TITLE: Around the World in 21 days: Mapping the global aerosol during the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Project

February 27, 2017
Dr. Britton Stephens - National Center for Atmospheric Research
TITLE: Oceanography Among the Clouds and Terrestrial Ecology a Thousand Miles From Land: The power of global-scale airborne observations

February 7, 2017
Dr. Tanu Malik - School of Computing, DePaul University
TITLE: GeoTrust: Improving sharing and reproducibility of geoscience applications
VIDEO: Presentation Link

January 10, 2017
Dr. Simone Tilmes - Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Division, NCAR
TITLE: Climate Engineering: Benefits, side-effects, risks, and opportunities
VIDEO: Presentation Link

October 5, 2016
Dr. Edward Patton - National Center for Atmospheric Research
TITLE: Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange: Insights from measurements and models
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 25, 2016
Dr. Peter G Baines - Dept. of Infrastructure Engineering - University of Melbourne
TITLE: The Dynamics of the Generation of Internal Waves by Explosive Volcanic Eruptions.
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 16, 2016
Dr. Ivana Stiperski - Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences University of Innsbruck
TITLE: Turbulence Characteristics of Downslope Flows in Mountainous Terrain
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 10, 2016
Julian Claudio, Nicholas DeCicco, Matthew Daily, Joseph Ronsivalle - EOL Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research Interns, NCAR EOL
TITLE: EOL's Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research Internship Project Seminar

August 4, 2016
Dr. Richard Ice - NOAA
TITLE: Data Quality and the Polarimetric WSR-88D
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 2, 2016
Dr. Minghui Diao - San Jose State University
TITLE: Ice Cloud Formation From In-Situ Airborne Observations to a Hierarchy of Models
VIDEO: Presentation Link

July 12, 2016
Dr. Eric Frew - University of Colorado Boulder
TITLE: Toward an Autonomous Airborne Scientist for Studying Severe Local Storms and Other Complex Atmospheric Phenomena
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 14, 2016
Dr. Bruce Albrecht - University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
TITLE: CSET (Cloud System Evolution in the Trades) Science Overview
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 7, 2016
Dr. Ron Smith and DEEPWAVE Team - Yale University
TITLE: Gravity Waves Over New Zealand Observed in DEEPWAVE: Scales, fluxes, breaking and impacts
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 3, 2016
Dr. Cynthia Twohy - NorthWest Research Associates and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
TITLE: Aircraft Measurements of Saharan Dust and Fluorescent Biological Particles and Implications for Ice Nucleation
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 19, 2016
Dr. Ed Eloranta and Dr. Ilya Razenkov - University of Wisconsin - Madison
TITLE: High Spectral Resolution Lidar Temperature Profiling: Progress and challenges
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 29, 2016
Dr. Mark C. Leifer - Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. - Phased Array RF Technologies group
TITLE: Dual-Pol Data Collection Strategies for Phased Array Weather Radar

March 15, 2016
Dr. Barbara J. Brooks - Head, Atmospheric Measurement Facility, University of Leeds, National Centre for Atmospheric Science School of Earth and Environment
TITLE: NCAS - AMF: An introduction to what it is and what it does. 
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 8, 2016
Dr. Gijs de Boer - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, CU Boulder and NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division
TITLE: Recent Efforts to Use Small Unmanned Aircraft in Studying the Atmosphere
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 2, 2016
Mr. Mike Daniels, and Mr. Charlie Martin - NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Cloud Hosted Real-Time Data Services for the Geosciences (CHORDS)
VIDEO: Presentation Link

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November 12, 2015
Ms. Susan Sawatzky - In Scope Solutions
TITLE: Waking Up To Fatigue Factors In The Workplace
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 10, 2015
Dr. Jothiram Vivekanandan - NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: The Design, Development, and Deployment of the HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR)
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 3, 2015
Dr. Ana Barros - Duke University
TITLE: Toward a Pan-Andean Hydrometeorological Observing System – Understanding the intertwined roles of topography and evapotranspiration on precipitation processes with implications for water resources and bioconservation
VIDEO: Presentation Link

October 15, 2015
Dr. Greg Mcfarquhar - University of Illinois [Joint seminar with MMM]
TITLE: Use of In-Situ Observations for Quantifying Ice Cloud Microphysical Properties and Processes, and Their Uncertainties

September 24, 2015
Dr. Anthony Illingworth - University of Reading[Joint seminar with MMM]
TITLE: What Can Polarization Radar Tell Us About the Hydrometeors in Convective and Stratiform Rainfall?

August 11, 2015
Dr. Teruyuki Nakajima - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
TITLE: Progress of the Microphysics Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Clouds and Aerosols for Better Understanding of the Earth’s Climate
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 10, 2015
Katie McMenamin, Hien Nguyen, Lucas Reed, Scott Hally - SUPER Interns
TITLE: Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research Intern Project Presentations

June 2, 2015
Dr. David Edwards - Director, NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling (ACOM) Laboratory
TITLE: Observations of Atmospheric Composition From Geostationary Satellite Constellation for Air Quality and Climate
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 26, 2015
Dr. James Edson - University of Connecticut 
TITLE: Direct Measurements of Momentum, Heat and Mass Fluxes From Ships & Surface Moorings: Methodology and their use in marine boundary layer studies
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 12, 2015
Dr. Thomas Chubb - Monash University 
TITLE: Observations of High Droplet Number Concentrations in Southern Ocean Boundary Layer Clouds
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 7, 2015
Dr. Britton Stephens - Research Aviation Facility, Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: The Global Distribution of Atmospheric Oxygen
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 17, 2015
Dr. Vanda Grubišić - Director, NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory 
TITLE: Wave-Induced Boundary Layer Separation in the Lee of Medicine Bow Mountains
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 3, 2015
Dr. Scott Spuler - Remote Sensing Facility, Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Development of Low-Cost Laser Remote Sensor for High Vertical Resolution and Continuous Measurements of Atmospheric Water Vapor
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 10, 2015
Dr. Ken Melville - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
TITLE: Manned and Unmanned Aircraft in Air-Sea Interaction Research
VIDEO: Presentation Link

January 16, 2015
Dr. Maria Z. A. Pour - University of Alabama, Huntsville
TITLE: Electrically Large and Medium Antennas for Adaptive Virtual Array Antenna Systems

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December 2, 2014
Dr. Bart Geerts - University of Wyoming
TITLE: Plains Elevated Convection at Night: The PECAN Project
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 17, 2014
Mr. Philip Brown - OBR Cloud Physics Group
TITLE: Observation-Based Research in the Met Office: Current activities and future plans
VIDEO: Presentation Link

November 6, 2014
Dr. Holger Vömel - In-Situ Sensing Facility, Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Stratospheric Water Vapor Processes and Trends From In-Situ Observations
VIDEO: Presentation Link

October 28, 2014
Dr. Joseph J. Cione - NOAA
TITLE: NOAA’s Use of the Coyote UAS in Hurricane Edouard to Enhance Basic Understanding and Improve Model Physics
VIDEO: Presentation Link

October 7, 2014
Dr. Wen-Chau Lee - Remote Sensing Facility, Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Distance Velocity Azimuth Display (DVAD) – New interpretation and analysis of Doppler velocity
VIDEO: Presentation Link

October 2, 2014
Dr. Joe Zehnder - Arizona State University
TITLE: Stereo Photogrammetry Applied to Orographic Cumulus
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 30, 2014
Dr. Lou Lussier - Research Aviation Facility, Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Case Studies of Tropical Cyclogenesis of Within the Critical Layer of Easterly Waves: Typhoon Nuri (2008) and hurricane Sandy (2012)
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 23, 2014
Ms. Annette M. Foerster - University of Hawai'i at Manoa Department of Atmospheric Sciences
TITLE: Airborne Radar Observations of Tropical Cyclone Eyewalls
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 18, 2014
Dr. Ebba Dellwik - DTU Wind Energy
TITLE: Can Coherent Continuous-Wave Doppler Lidars be Utilized for In-Situ Intrument Calibration?
VIDEO: Presentation Link

September 2, 2014
Dr. Steve Oncley - In-Situ Sensing Facility, Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Devils and Hairpins in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

August 12, 2014
Dr. Jeff L. Stith - Research Aviation Facility, Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Ice Particles in the Upper Anvil Regions of Mid-Latitude Continental Thunderstorms During the DC3 Program
VIDEO: Presentation Link

August 5, 2014
Dr. Minghui Diao - NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP), Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Cirrus Cloud Formation and Evolution From the Microscale to the Synoptic Scale
VIDEO: Presentation Link

July 29, 2014
Mr. Dave Steitz - NASA Headquarters
TITLE: NASA Space Technology Communications Strategies in a Changing World
VIDEO: Presentation Link

July 1, 2014
Dr. G. D. Emmitt - President and Senior Scientist, Simpson Weather Associates, Inc.
TITLE: Airborne Doppler Wind Lidars: An overview and recent research projects
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 24, 2014
Dr. Rosie Fisher - NCAR/CGD
TITLE: Earth Observations and Plant Physiology; Testing ecological understanding at a global scale
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 17, 2014
Dr. Russ Lea - CEO of NEON Inc. (National Ecological Observatory Network)
TITLE: Emergent National (US) and International for NEON Science and the New Collaborative Opportunites They Create
VIDEO: Presentation Link

June 10, 2014
Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
TITLE: New Insights Into the Aerosol-Climate Problem From a Promising New Observing System: The Unmanned Aircraft Systems

May 28, 2014
Dr. James Pinto - Hydrometeorological Applications Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research
TITLE: Assessment of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model’s Ability to Predict Large Convective Storms Using Object-Based Verification
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 22, 2014
Dr. Holger Vömel - Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg
TITLE: Past, Present and Future of In-Situ Soundings
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 21, 2014
Dr. Ian M. Giammanco, IBHS Research Center
TITLE: Evaluating the Characteristics of Hail Through Field Observations and Unique Measurement Systems
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 20, 2014
Dr. Brian Medeiros - NCAR/CGD
TITLE: Bringing Climate Models and Observations Together Using a Weather Forecast Approach: Scenes from the tropical Pacific
VIDEO: Presentation Link

May 6, 2014
Dr. Phillip Chilson - School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
TITLE: Detection of Bragg Scatter Using S-band Polarimetric Weather Radar: Theoretical and experimental considerations
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 8, 2014
Dr. Raymond Shaw - Professor, Physics Director, Michigan Tech
TITLE: Holographic Measurements of Cloud Mixing and Inhomogeneity
VIDEO: Presentation Link

April 3, 2014
Dr. Sandra Yuter - North Carolina State University
TITLE: Questioning the Importance of the Cloud Lifetime Effect: The relative roles of drizzle and the sun
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 25, 2014
Dr. Jorgen Jensen - NCAR/EOL
TITLE: A Critical View of the Warm Rain Process in Marine Stratocumulus Observations and Numerical Models

March 12, 2014
Dr. Wenwen Li - GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
TITLE: Towards a Polar Cyberinfrastructure: Enabling semantic search in geospatial metadata catalogue to support intelligent geospatial data discovery
VIDEO: Presentation Link

March 4, 2014
Dr. David Carlson - Chief Editor and Co-Founder, Earth System Science Data
TITLE: Data Publishing - View from the front
VIDEO: Presentation Link

February 18, 2014
Dr. Richard Carbone - NCAR/EOL
TITLE: Revisiting the Role of Sea Surface Temperature in Tropical Oceanic Rainfall

January 7, 2014
Dr. Al Cooper - NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
TITLE: Calibrating Measurements Made During High-Speed Flight: An application of the new EOL laser air motion sensor
VIDEO: Presentation Link 

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