Event Details — John Nielsen-Gammon: The Climate Abyss - Houston Tomorrow Distinguished Speaker Series

John Nielsen-Gammon:
The Climate Abyss

A Houston Tomorrow Distinguished Speaker event with John Nielsen-Gammon, State Climatographer and Regents Professor in Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University.

Date: February 16, 2012

Time:
6:30 Networking with refreshments
7:00 Presentation

Location:
Upper Kirby Building, 3015 Richmond, First Floor

Tickets:
Free, limited to 100

Looking into the distant future, the safest bet is that global temperatures will continue to increase, causing Texas droughts to be warmer and more strongly affected by evaporation.

Don’t miss this important presentation on the outlook for more heat and drought this year as climate change effects kick in on top of the dreaded La Niña effect.

About Dr. Nielsen-Gammon
Dr. Nielsen-Gammon’s weather-related work involves jet streams, extreme rainfall events, and land and sea breezes. His air quality research includes field forecasting support, numerical simulation, and diagnostic analysis of ozone events in Houston and Dallas for the Texas Air Quality Studies in 2000 and 2005-6. Dr. Nielsen-Gammon has also worked on drought monitoring and forecasting, air pollution climatology, and improvements to the climate data record. He teaches courses in weather analysis, weather forecasting, climatology, and atmospheric dynamics.

Dr. Nielsen-Gammon received a Presidential Faculty Fellow award (now known as PECASE) from the National Science Foundation and the White House in 1996, a Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching at Texas A&M University from the Association of Former Students in 1996, and was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in 2011. He is Past President of the International Commission for Dynamical Meteorology and is past chair of the AMS Board on Higher Education.