Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium on Sun-Climate Research
October 22-24, 2010 Aspen, Colorado
Program & Presentations
The community was invited to present posters & participate in open discussions
(link) —Detailed program including abstracts
(link) —Jack Eddy legacy document
| Friday 10/22 | |
|---|---|
| 3–5 pm | Hike |
| 6–8 pm | Welcoming Reception |
| Saturday 10/23 | |
| 8:30 am | Opening Remarks: “What is past is prologue”, Philip Judge & Barbara Eddy |
| Session I | The Sun and Climate: A cross-disciplinary problem of global importance |
| 8:45 am | Opening keynote address—Eugene Parker, U. Chicago (Emeritus) |
| 9:30 am | Lessons from history—David DeVorkin, National Air & Space Museum |
| Session II | Solar Variability: “A Comedy of Errors”, or “All's Well that Ends Well”? |
| 11:00 am | Solar variability—Peter Foukal, Heliophysics Inc. |
| 11:25 am | The Sun, our star—Wes Lockwood, Lowell Observatory (given by Rich Radick, USAF) |
| Session III | Sun-Climate Data Relationships: “Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise” |
| 11:50 am | Historical records and the Maunder Minimum— K.K. Tung, U. Washington (given by Caspar Ammann, NCAR) |
| 1:30 | Paleo-climate—Caspar Ammann, NCAR |
| Session IV | Sun-Climate Causal Relationships: “Nothing can come of nothing” |
| 2:15 pm | Radiative links: Irradiance—Tom Wigley, NCAR |
| 3:00 pm | Radiative links: Spectral—Joanna Haigh, Imperial College, London |
| 3:30 pm | Non-radiative links: Clouds, cosmic rays, solar plasma —Jan Kazil, NOAA |
| Session V | Personal Recollections of Jack Eddy: “How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” |
| 4:30 pm | Eddy family members, friends, colleagues... |
| 6:30 pm | RECEPTION and DINNER: After dinner speaker—Spencer Weart |
| Sunday 10/24 | |
| Session VI | Public Understanding of Climate Science and Policy: “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics” |
| 9:00 am | Global warming/climategate—Gerald North, Texas A&M |
| 9:45 am | From science journals to the public—Curtis Brainard, Columbia Journalism Review |
| 11:15 am | Climate and Policy—Ana Unruh-Cohen, House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming |
| 12:00 pm | Open Discussion: Strategies and tactics in public communication |
| Session VII | Sun-Climate Relationships: "The next generation" |
| 1:30 pm | Panel Session: Students’ and participants’ questions |
| 3:00 pm | Jack’s Legacy—Dick Fisher, NASA HQ |
Posters:
- The solar corona during extended sunspot minima: Eclipse images from 1901 and 2009, by P. G. Judge, D. Kolinski, A. Lecinski, M. Druckmüller—(Read More »).
- Calibration of sunspot numbers, by Leif Svalgaard—(Read More »).
- Does the Sun Vary Enough?, by Leif Svalgaard—(Read More »).
- Solar irradiance and semi-empirical, Physics based modeling, James P. Mason, Juan M. Fontenla—(Read More »).