SEES Earthweek Special Sessions

Category:
Public Lecture Event
Time:
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 08:30 to 12:00
Access:
public
Room:
Student Union Rincon Room
URL:
See the full EarthWeek 2012 program for details.
Contact:
Jesse Minor

8:30–8:45 Introduction

Introduction to Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research-sponsored Special Sessions • Dr. Steve Leavitt

9:00–9:30 Modeling & Empirics

  1. Discrimination-Inference to Reduce Expected Cost Technique (DIRECT): A new method for improving measurement selection • Colin Kikuchi, Paul A. Ferre
  2. Improving Distributed Snow Modeling with LIDAR Data • Patrick D. Broxton, Adrian Harpold, Peter A. Troch, Paul D. Brooks

9:30–10:15 GIS & Spatial Analysis/Large Dataset Management

  1. Orography, and Modes of Variability in Southamerican Precipitation • Sarah Dasher, Joellen Russell
  2. Greenhouse Effect Concept Inventory in Geosciences Mega-Course • Nicole Santangelo, Gina Brissenden, Ed Prather, Jeff Eckenrode, Phil Stokes, Jessica Kapp
  3. Management and visualization of fossil rodent midden data in an integrated paleobiological database • Nadine L. Warneke, Julio L. Betancourt, Kate A. Rylander, Owen K. Davis

11:00–12:00 Hazards, Fire and Drought/Research Serving Society

  1. A fire history reconstruction of the western San Juan Mountains using alluvial sediment and tree-ring methods • Erica R. Bigio, Thomas W. Swetnam, Christopher H. Baisan
  2. Fire History in Eastern Siberia • Christopher H. Guiterman, Thomas W. Swetnam, Christopher H. Baisan
  3. Spatio-temporal analysis of fire regimes in a Madrean Sky Island in southeastern Arizona • Jesse Minor
  4. Troubleshooting the pipeline: Developing a critical incident taxonomy for minority and non-minority student pathways into the geosciences • Philip J. Stokes, Karl W. Flessa, Roger Levine, Kristin L. Gunckel