Summer Colloquia 2004
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2004 Summer Colloquium on Climate and Health
AGENDA
July 21-28 2004
Boulder, Colorado
Last updated 08/03/04
Most presentations given at the colloquium are available in Power Point format.
They are only accessible to colloquium participants and password-protected.
| Tuesday July 20 | |
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| 17:00-19:30 | Welcome Reception at CU |
| Wednesday July 21 | |
| 08:00 | Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:15-08:30 | Main Seminar Room FL2_1022 |
| 08:30-09:00 | Introduction to theColloquium; Climate and Health: The Interdisciplinary Challange |
| 09:00-09:30 | Introduction to Climate and Health Issues. J. Patz/Johns Hopkins |
| 09:30-09:45 | Welcome to NCAR |
| Session 1: Climate and Climate Modeling. Chair: Linda Mearns | |
| 09:45-10:30 | The Earth's climate system variability and change. K. Trenberth/NCAR |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Climate modeling; General overview of how models work, type of info they produce, basic qualitative info on climate change. |
| 12:00-13:00 | How should rainfall change as climate changes: Prospects for increases in extremes? K. Trenberth/NCAR |
| 13:00-13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Bus departs from FL2 to Center Green |
| 13:50-17:45 | CTTC - Center Green |
| 15:15 | Break |
| 15:30-17:45 | CTTC - Center Green Extreme Events Tutorial: Extremes; analyzing extremes, extreme value theory, extremes toolkit. R. Katz, D. Nychka, E. Gilleland-NCAR |
| 17:45 | Bus departs from Center Green to CU dormitory |
| Thursday July 22 | |
| 08:30 | Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 09:00-10:00 | Main Seminar Room FL2_1022 |
| 10:00-11:00 | Regional Climate Change - Calculating Probabilities. D. Nychka, C. Tebaldi/NCAR |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Downscaling - Regional Modeling. L. Mearns/NCAR |
| 12:30-13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Bus departs from FL2 to Center Green |
| 13:30-17:30 | CTTC - Center Green |
| 15:15 | Break |
| 15:45-17:45 | Statistical Downscaling Tutorial-Part 2. Rob Wilby/Environmental Agency UK |
| 17:45 | Bus departs from Center Green to CU dormitory |
| Friday July 23 | |
| Session 2: Approaches to Studying Climate and Infectious Diseases and Case Study of West Nile Virus. Chair: Jonathan Patz |
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| 08:00 | Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:30-09:00 | Main Seminar Room FL2_1022 |
| 09:00-10:00 | Infectious disease ecology I. M. Wilson/University of Michigan |
| 10:00-10:30 | Group Photo & Break |
| 10:30-11:15 | Infectious disease ecology II. M. Wilson/University of Michigan |
| 11:15-12:00 | Arboviruses in the urban setting (Dengue fever). M. Hayden/University of Colorado |
| 12:00-13:00 | CDC' s Arbonet & emergence of West Nile virus in US. C. Moore/CDC |
| 13:00-14:00 | Working Lunch Scenarios, Reinsurance & Economic Impacts: Update from Swiss Re, Ruschlicon meeting P. Epstein/Harvard |
| 14:00-14:30 | USGS's West Nile Virus Program: integrating wildlife, equine and human data. E. Saito/USGS |
| 14:30-15:00 | The Humans in Human Ecology: Society and West Nile Virus E. Zielinski-Gutierrez |
| 15:00-15:15 | Break |
| 15:15-16:00 | Panel Discussion on Climate & Infectious Diseases |
| 16:00-17:00 | Predicting West Nile using climate, land use and mosquito data (Model Demonstration). R. Barbour/Yale and J. Patz/Johns Hopkins |
| 17:00-17:30 | Software loading in preparation for Monday's tutorial. |
| 17:45 | Bus departs from FL2 to CU dormitory |
| Monday July 26 | |
| Session 3: Applying Remote Sensing and GIS to Infectious Disease Studies. Chair: Jonathan Patz | |
| 08:00 | Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:30-10:30 | Main Seminar Room FL2_1022 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Case studies in RS and disease in Africa. M. Thomson/IRI |
| 12:00-12:45 | Lunch |
| 12:45 | Bus departs from FL2 to Center Green |
| 13:00-16:00 | Center Green 1 - Auditorium |
| 16:15 | Bus departs from Center Green to Flagstaff BBQ |
| 16:30- | Flagstaff BBQ |
| Tuesday July 27 | |
| Session 4: Heat Mortality and Air Pollution. Chair: Jonathan Patz | |
| 08:00 | Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:30-09:15 | Main Seminar Room FL2_1022 An Introduction to Time-series Analysis for climate/health studies. P. Wilkinson/London School of Hygiene |
| 09:15-9:45 | Heat waves in Europe and addressing Weather Extremes. S. Kovats/ London School of Hygiene |
| 9:45-10:15 | Climate change and heat mortality in California. S. Moser/NCAR |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-11:00 | Heat Wave Mortality Studies based on Clobal Climate Models. C. Tebaldi/NCAR |
| 11:00-11:30 | Moderated Discussion |
| 11:30-12:00 | Introduction to Time-series Analysis for climate/health studies. P. Wilkinson/London School of Hygiene |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 | Flexible Regression Approaches for Understanding Mortality D.Nychka/NCAR, P.Wilkinson/London School of Hygiene |
| 14:00-14:45 | Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry. S. Madronich/NCAR |
| 14:45-15:45 | Climate change and Air Pollution Models. M. Bell/Yale University |
| 15:45 | Bus departs from FL2 to Mesa Lab |
| 16:00-17:30 | Visit to NCAR Visualization Lab. |
| 17:45 | Bus departs from Mesa Lab to CU dormitory |
| Wednesday July 28 | |
| Session 5: Societal Responses, Integrated Assessment, & Communication of Uncertainties. Chair: Linda Mearns | |
| 08:00 | Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:30-09:15 | Main Seminar Room FL2_1022 Assessing Population Adaptation and Vulnerability. K. Ebi/Exponent Consulting |
| 09:15-10:00 | Methods of Assessing vulnerability - Report of the World Health Organization. S. Kovats and K. Ebi |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-11:30 | RISA, Regional Climate Impact Assessment. R. Pulwarty/NOAA |
| 11:30-12:30 | Analyzing Societal Response to Climate Change. J. Mayer/University of Washington |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 | Strategies for Engaging Students, Teachers, and the General Public in Climate Change and Health Education R. Johnson/NCAR |
| 14:30-15:00 | Applying Science to affect Policy Change. Peter Backlund/NCAR |
| 15:00-16:00 | Institute Wrap Up and next steps. J. Patz/Johns Hopkins, L. Mearns/NCAR |
| 16:30 | Bus departs from FL2 to CU dormitory |