On the Structure and Dynamics of the Martian Middle Atmosphere

New engineering design, instrument modeling,
and data analysis techniques for spaceborne
mass spectrometers

MGU will be hosting the 9th annual Michigan Geophysical Union student research symposium this year, an event sponsored by both Earth and Environmental Sciences (EARTH) and Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (AOSS).

Friday April 13, 2012
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
2nd Floor of the Clarence Cook Little Building

 R. W. Schunk, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University

Escape of Neutral Gas and Plasma from the Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

At high latitudes, the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere system is coupled via electric fields, precipitating particles, currents, and ionospheric outflows.

Dr. Menelaos Sarantos, Goddard Space Flight Center

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Scholarship Application has extended their deadline for applications until Friday, 16 March 2012

Applicants must be entering their final year of undergraduate study in the fall of 2012 and provide evidence of acceptance as a full-time student at an accredited U.S. institution at the time of the award.

http://www.ametsoc.org/amsstudentinfo/scholfeldocs/namedscholarship.html

Dr. Michael Winton, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Connecting Changing Ocean Circulation with Changing Climate

Large changes in ocean circulation are projected for the 21st century.  What role will these changes play in climate change through their impacts on heat and carbon uptake?

Dr. Michael Thompson, Director, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR

Helioseismology and the roots of solar activity

Helioseismology provides a unique probe into the structure and dynamics of the solar interior. I will review some of the results from helioseismology that may provide constraints on the generation and evolution of magnetic flux in the solar interior, and I will conclude with a discussion of future challenges.

Dr. Mort Webster, MIT Join Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

An Approximate Dynamic Programming Framework for Global Climate Decision Under Uncertainty

Uncertainties economics, technological change, and in the physical earth system present a challenge to  formulating a policy response to climate change. 

The National Research Council of the National Academies sponsors a number of awards for graduate, postdoctoral and senior researchers at federal laboratories and affiliated institutions.

Dr. Christopher Little, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

The coupled response to ice shelf basal melting and its implications for sea level change.

Future projections of sea level are clouded by the potential for changes in the flow of continental ice sheets. Some of the largest uncertainties arise from the response of grounded ice to melting underneath floating termini ("ice shelves").

As part of the 92^nd AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. 

Dr. Michael Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Results from decadal high resolution simulations of the CAM5.1

We present results from decadal integrations of the Community Atmospheric Model version 5.1 (CAM5.1). These global simulations were run at a horizontal resolution of approximately 25km enabling direct numerical simulation of tropical cyclones and other extreme storms. Preliminary analysis of these extreme weather events as well as a discussion of the model mean biases will be presented. Comparisons of model biases with coarser resolution archived versions of CAM5.0 simulations are presented to illustrate what is to be gained from the substantial increased computational cost and what is not.

Katherine Hayhoe, Climate Science Center, Dept. of Political Science, Texas Tech University

High-Resolution Climate Projections: Connecting Global Change to Local Impacts

Robust future planning across a broad range of sectors,  including agriculture, water resources, and even tourism, depends on  our ability to quantify the impacts of climate change at the regional scale.