The agenda can be downloaded here

Confirmed speakers include:

• Prof. Mike Wallace (Univ. of Washington) "EOFs, SVD and Beyond"
• Dr. Tom Bell (NASA GSFC) "Does Local Climate Really Change with the Day of the Week?"
• Prof. Bob Dickinson (Univ. of Texas)
• Dr. Michael King (Univ. of Colorado) "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Clouds observed by MODIS onboard the Terra and Aqua Satellites"
• Dr. Bob Cahalan (NASA GSFC) "Global energy balance and imbalance"
• Prof. Tom Wilheit (Texas A&M Univ.) "Uncertainties in the Retrieval of Oceanic precipitation from passive microwave measurements"
• Prof. Ed Zipser (Univ. of Utah) "What I learned from 11 years of TRMM data, 9 years at TAMU, and XXX years of advice from Jerry North"
• Prof. J. Shuka (COLA) "On the Fidelity and Predictability of Climate Models"
• Prof. Bob Houze (Univ. of Washington) "Extreme Convection Near the Himalayas and Andes"
• Dr. Doug Nychka (Director, IMAGe, NCAR) "The uncertain hockey stick"
• Prof. Jim Coakley (Oregon State) "Ship Tracks"
• Dr. Cecile Penland (NOAA ERL) "Fluctuation-Dissipation and Uncertainty Analysis: It's all Jerry's Fault"
• Prof. Benjamin Kedem (Univ. of Maryland) "Semiparametric Data Fusion"
• Dr. Bette Otto-Bliesner (NCAR) "A Dream Realized: Simulating the Transient Climate Evolution of the Last 21,000 Years"
• Prof. Tom Crowley (Univ. of Edinburgh) "Paleometeorology - Examining a high resolution ice-age simulation at synoptic-scale resolution"
• Dr. Prashant Sardeshmukh (NOAA ERL) "Feasibility of Dynamically Constrained Climate Reconstructions of the last 2000 years"

The program will also include contributed poster presentations, as well as 12-minute oral presentations from early-career scientists.

We are still accepting abstracts for the contributed poster session. If you would like to present a poster, please e-mail north-symposium@tamu.edu with your abstract.