Briefings Received by the Committee
January 12, 2012. Daniel Cooley, Colorado State University. Estimating probabilities of climate events in the joint tail.
January 12, 2012. David R. Easterling, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Summer temperatures and drought.
January 12, 2012. Lisa Goddard, Columbia University. Looking to the future: Decadal variability and its prediction in dynamical models.
January 12, 2012. Mary Hayden, National Center for Atmospheric Research. The dengue vector mosquito Aedes aegypti at the margins: Sensitivity of a coupled natural and human system to climate change.
January 12, 2012. Upmanu Lall, Columbia University. Floods: National Research Council study climate change and security.
January 12, 2012. Robert Lempert, RAND Corporation. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.
January 12, 2012. Richard L. Smith, University of North Carolina and Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. Estimating probability of an extreme weather event in the next ten years.
January 12, 2012. Gabriel Vecchi, NOAA and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Cat. 4–5 landfalling tropical cyclones in the coming decade.
January 13, 2012. Kristie L. Ebi, Carnegie Institution of Washington. IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.
March 1, 2012. Daniel P. Aldrich, Purdue University and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The past, present, and future of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
March 1, 2012. Marc F. Bellemare, Duke University. Rising food prices, food price volatility, and social unrest.
March 1, 2012. Gary Eilerts, USAID and Chris Funk, U.S. Geological Survey. Climate and related factors that influence African food security: African food security conditions are an important feature of U.S. national security.
March 1, 2012. Thomas M. Parris, ISciences. Environmental indications and warnings.
March 1, 2012. Kaitlin Shilling, Stanford University. Climate and conflict.
March 1, 2012. Mark L. Wilson, University of Michigan. Climate impacts on emerging and re-emerging diseases.
March 2, 2012. Neil Adger, University of East Anglia. Migration, climate change, and national security.
March 2, 2012. Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University. Forecasting political instability: Political Instability Task Force history and approach.
March 2, 2012. Joseph Hewitt, University of Maryland. 2011 alert lists: Methodological overview.
March 2, 2012. Sari Kovats, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Climate change and health.
March 2, 2012. Jürgen Scheffran, Universität Hamburg. Conflict sensitivity in climate hot spots.