Ice-breaker reception (August 24, 2011) |
6:00 – 9:00 p.m. |
Day 1 (August 25, 2011) |
Introduction to Symposium |
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. |
Terry Root/Linda Mearns/Jean-Pascal van Ypersele/Ben Santer |
| MORNING SESSION |
| Moderator: Kevin Trenberth (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
Session 1: Aerosol effects on climate (including discussion of the “nuclear winter” issue) |
1: Phil Rasch (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) |
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. |
2: Alan Robock (Rutgers University) |
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Session 2: Cloud effects on climate |
3: Jeff Kiehl (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Mid-morning break |
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
4: Veerabhadran Ramanathan (University of California, San Diego) |
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Session 3: The role of the ocean in climate change |
5: Warren Washington (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
11:30 – 12:00 p.m. |
6: Frank Bryan (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch and special presentation by Rajendra Pachauri (TERI, India) "The life and work of Steve Schneider: Inspiration for IPCC’s future” |
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
| AFTERNOON SESSION |
| Moderator: Jerry Meehl (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
Session 4: Understanding uncertainties in estimates of future climate change |
7: Linda Mearns (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
8: Alex Hall (UCLA) |
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Session 5: Impacts of climate change on ecosystems |
9: Terry Root (Stanford) |
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
Mid-afternoon break |
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. |
10: Bill Anderegg (Stanford) |
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. |
Session 6: Integrated assessment modeling |
11: John Weyant (Stanford) |
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
12: Christian Azar (Chalmers University, Sweden) |
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. |
Open discussion/wrap-up of Session 1-6 |
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. |
Day 2 (August 26, 2011) |
Introduction to Day 2 |
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. |
| Linda O. Mearns (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
MORNING SESSION |
| Moderator: Kristie Ebi (Stanford University) |
Session 7: Paleoclimatology |
13: John Kutzbach (University of Wisconsin) |
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. |
14: Carolyn Snyder (Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Control) |
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Session 8: The economics of climate change |
15: Larry Goulder (Stanford) |
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Mid-morning break |
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
Session 9: Role of the social sciences in climate change research |
16: Diana Liverman (University of Arizona/Oxford University) |
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
17: Kirstin Dow (University of South Carolina) |
11:30 – 12:00 a.m. |
Open discussion/wrap-up of Sessions 7 - 9 |
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. |
| AFTERNOON SESSION |
| Moderator: Brenda Ekwurzel (Union of Concerned Scientists) |
Session 10: Decision-making in the face of scientific uncertainty |
18: Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) |
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
19: Richard Moss (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) |
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Session 11: Strategies for improving climate science communication |
20: Naomi Oreskes (UC San Diego) |
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
21: Paul Edwards (University of Michigan) |
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
Announcement of first annual Stephen H. Schneider Award For Outstanding Climate Science communication (Greg Dalton, Climate One, The Commonwealth Club) |
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. |
Mid-afternoon break |
3:45 – 4:15 p.m. |
Session 12: Training the next generation of climate scientists |
22: Mike Mastrandrea (Stanford) |
4:15 – 4:45 p.m. |
23: Chris Still (UC Santa Barbara) |
4:45 – 5:15 p.m. |
24: Jessica Hellmann (University of Notre Dame) |
5:15 – 5:45 p.m. |
Open discussion/wrap-up of Sessions 10 - 12 |
5:45 – 6:15 p.m. |
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Day 3 (August 27, 2011) |
Introduction to Day 3 |
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. |
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele(Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) |
| MORNING SESSION |
| Moderator: Susan Solomon (Earth System Research Laboratory) |
Session 13: A brief history of the journal Climatic Change |
25: Gary Yohe (Wesleyan University) |
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. |
Session 14: Steve Schneider’s contributions to the IPCC |
26: Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton University) |
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Mid-morning break |
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
27: Chris Field (Stanford) |
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
28: Ben Santer (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) |
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Open discussion/wrap-up of Sessions 13 and 14 |
11:30 – 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
| AFTERNOON SESSION |
| Moderator: Rick Piltz (Climate Science Watch) |
Session 15: The challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation: How do we translate sound climate science into sound policies? |
29: Ana Unruh-Cohen (Democratic Staff, Committee on Natural Resources) |
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
30: Joe Romm (Climate Progress) |
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
31: Jay Gulledge (Pew Center) |
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Mid-afternoon break |
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
32: Robert Watson (Department roe Environmental Food and Rural Affairs, U.K.) |
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
Open discussion/wrap-up of Session 15 |
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. |
Reports from rapporteurs/future of the Symposium |
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. |
Symposium dinner and after-dinner remembrances |
7:30 – 10:00 p.m. |
