Jim Hurrell, Senior Scientist

Invited Talks: Departmental Seminars

  • Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1993; 1996; 2004.
  • Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 1995; 2002; 2003.
  • Dept. of Meteorology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 1996.
  • Atmospheric Science Dept., Global Hydrology and Climate Center, Huntsville, AL, 1996.
  • Texas Center for Climate Studies, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, 1998.
  • Dept. of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK, 1999.
  • Climatic Research Unit, Univ. of East Anglia, East Anglia, UK, 1999.
  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Dept., Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 1999.
  • NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia Univ., New York City, NY, 2002.
  • Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 2003.
  • Institute of Geography, Climatology, and Meteorology, Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2003.
  • Oslo Climate Group, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2004.
  • Department of Geography, Univ. of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Invited Talks: Departmental Courses

  • Doctoral Program on the Environment: Climate Change. University of Girona, Girona, Spain, 2005 (6 seminars).

Invited Talks: Colloquia

  • NCAR Summer Colloquium on Applications of Statistics to Modeling the Earth's Climate System, Boulder, CO, 1994.
  • NCAR Summer Colloquium on a Systems Approach to ENSO, Boulder, CO, 1997.
  • Woods Hole Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Program, Woods Hole, MA, 1998 (2�seminars).
  • NCAR Summer Colloquium on Dynamics of Decadal to Centennial Variability, Boulder, CO, 2000 (2 seminars).
  • 3rd International NCCR Climate Summer School: Climate Variability: From Observation to Prediction, Monte Verita, Ticino, Switzerland, 2004.

Invited Talks: Corporate or Public Meetings

  • Universities Space Research Association/NASA Goddard Public Lecture Series, Washington, D.C., 1996.
  • The Houston Forum: The Scientific Debate over Global Warming, Houston, TX. 1998.
  • Applied Insurance Research Spring Conference, Miami, FL, 2001.
  • Denver-Boulder Local AMS Chapter, Boulder, CO, 2003.

Invited Talks: Congressional Testimonies

  • Testimony given to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 7 March 2007.
    Hearing on Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?
    [Statment Text (.pdf)]
  • Testimony given to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 21 July 2005.
    Hearing on Climate Change Science and Economics.
    [Statment Text (.doc)]

Invited Talks: UCAR/NCAR (excluding CGD seminars and CCSM talks)

  • UCAR Board of Trustees, Boulder, CO, 1994; 1995
  • Climate Modeling and Analysis Program Science Advisory Council Meeting, Boulder, CO, 1995.
  • Joint ASP/CGD Showcase Seminar, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 1998.
  • Meteorlogix and Peak Weather, Boulder, CO, 2004.
  • Norwegian CO2 Study Tour, Boulder, CO, 2005.
  • 50 for Colorado, Leeds Group, Boulder, CO, 2005.

Invited Talks: National/International Research Laboratories and Centers

  • Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL) Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, CO, 1994.
  • Laboratoire de Modelisation du Climate et de l'Environnement, Paris, France, 1997.
  • Hadley Centre, United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Bracknell, UK, 2000.
  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, 2000.
  • NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO, 2002.
  • NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, 2002; 2005.
  • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, 2004.

Invited Talks: National/International Conferences and Workshops

  • NASA EOS Science Panel Workshop, University Park, PA, 1991.
  • NOAA/NESDIS Workshop on the Development of a Comprehensive Satellite/ in situ Global Climate Data Product, Camp Springs, MD, 1992.
  • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) XXI General Assembly, Session M13, Boulder, CO, 1995.
  • Workshop on Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites, Wengen, Switzerland, 1995.
  • World Climate Research Program's (WCRP) Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Workshop: Ocean Program for DecCen Climate Variability, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 1996.
  • Inter-American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Research Climate Modeling Workshop, Boulder, CO., 1996.
  • Seventh AMS Conference on Climate Variations, Long Beach, CA, 1997.
  • Eighth AMS Symposium on Global Change Studies, Long Beach, CA, 1997.
  • Workshop on Past, Present, and Future Climate Variability and Extremes: The Impacts on Forests. Wengen, Switzerland, 1997.
  • Atlantic Climate Variability Experiment (ACVE) Planning Workshop, Dallas, TX, 1998.
  • Euroclivar and NOAA OGP Workshop on the Role of the Atlantic Ocean in Climate Variability, Florence, Italy, 1998.
  • IUGG XXII General Assembly, Session JSP 25: Ocean/Atmosphere Variability and Predictability, Birmingham, UK, 1999.
  • Meteorology at the Millennium: 150th Anniversary Conference of the Royal Meteorological Society, Cambridge, UK, 2000.
  • Workshop "In memoriam Hans Oeschger: Towards Isotope Climatology", Hamburg, Germany, 2000.
  • Frontiers of Science, 12th Annual Symposium of National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, CA, 2000.
  • WOCE/CLIVAR Representativeness and Variability Workshop, Fukuoka, Japan, 2000.
  • Japan-U.S. Workshop on Coupling of the Troposphere and Stratosphere by Dynamical, Radiative, and Chemical processes, Kyoto, Japan, 2001.
  • CRC/NRC Workshop on Climate Change Feedbacks: Characterizing and Reducing Uncertainty, Boulder, CO, 2001.
  • First International Conference on Global Warming and the Next Ice Age, Halifax, Canada, 2001.
  • CLIVAR Workshop on Tropical Atlantic Variability, Paris, France, 2001.
  • IAPSO-IABO Symposium on Decadal Variability and Predictability, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2001.
  • Symposium on the Arctic Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation: Ocean Coupling and Climate Change, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2001.
  • Variability of the African Climate System (VACS) Workshop, Boulder, CO, 2002.
  • Workshop on the Climate of the 20th Century, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 2002.
  • Bjerknes Collaboration for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, 2002.
  • Workshop on Climate Change and Biodiversity, Olso, Norway, 2003.
  • Fourth Annual Swiss Global Change Day, Bern, Switzerland, 2003.
  • EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, 2003.
  • 18th Stanstead Seminar, Lennoxville, Quebec, 2003.
  • Decadal to Centennial Variability of the Ocean and Atmosphere, JSP01-IUGG, Sapporo, Japan, 2003.
  • EuroConference on North Atlantic Climate Variability, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 2003.
  • ICES Symposium: Influence of Climate Change on North Atlantic Fish Stocks, Bergen, Norway, 2004.
  • 1st International CLIVAR Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2004.
  • 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change: Hydrology of Semi-Arid Regions, San�Diego, CA, 2005.
  • NOAA/GCOS workshop on Climate Requirements for Upper-Air Observations, Boulder, CO, 2005.
  • North Atlantic Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis and INtegration (BASIN) Program, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2005.
  • Attribution of Climate Variability During the Last 100 Years, AGU Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2005.
  • ASOF Conference, Thorshavn, Faeroe Islands, UK, 2006.