Thompson Lecture Series Archive
Background:
In 1998 ASP established the "Thompson Lecture Series," named in honor of Phil Thompson who founded the Advanced Study Program and was NCAR's first associate director. Under this program, prominent scientists are brought to NCAR for short visits that promote interaction between them and the postdoctoral fellows and other junior scientists at NCAR. In addition to presenting formal lectures, the Thompson Lecturers listen to briefings on the research being conducted by ASP Fellows and comment and provide advice on those research projects. They also meet with groups of scientists to discuss some more general topics, provide career advice, and offer their perspectives on scientific trends and priorities.
2009
Prof. Eugene N. Parker, S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago
(Abstracts and links to streaming video, requires Real Player, VLC player or QuickTime player)
2008
Prof. Raymond T. Pierrehumbert,
Louis Block professor in Geophysical Sciences at University of Chicago
(lecture abstracts)
Dr. Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and a co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley.
2007
Dr. William h. Hooke, Senior Policy Fellow and Director, Policy Program, American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Professor Michael Ghil, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Robert A. Houze Jr., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
2006
Julia Slingo, NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, University of Reading
2005
Anne M. Thompson, Penn State University
Isaac Held, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2004
Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University (Schedule, abstracts, etc.)
Dana W. Longcope, Montana State University (Schedule, abstracts, etc.)
David S. Battisti, University of Washington (Schedule, abstracts, etc.)
2002
Edward Lorenz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael McIntyre, Cambridge University, UK
Craig Bohren, Penn State University
2001
Bob Rosner, University of Chicago
Jim Holton, University of Washington
Mark Schoeberl, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2000
Susan Solomon, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA
Tim Palmer, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK
1999
Jerry Mahlman, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA (now affiliated with NCAR)
Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tamas Gombosi, University of Michigan
1998
Paul Crutzen, University of Mainz, Germany
John Wyngaard, Penn State University
Brian Hoskins, University of Reading, England, UK
Previous ECSA Scientific Leaders Series Lecturers
2003
Mike Wallace, University of Washington
2002
Roger Wakimoto, University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Avery, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder