| Tuesday July 20 |
| 17:00-19:30 |
Welcome Reception at CU
Haven Room in Darley Commons - Williams Village Lounge, Colorado University
Registration |
| Wednesday July 21 |
| 08:00 |
Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:15-08:30 |
Main Seminar Room FL2_1022
Distribution of Colloquium Reader |
| 08:30-09:00 |
Introduction to theColloquium; Climate and Health: The Interdisciplinary Challange
L. Mearns/NCAR |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Introduction to Climate and Health Issues.
J. Patz/Johns Hopkins |
| 09:30-09:45 |
Welcome to NCAR
Tim Killeen/NCAR Director |
| Session 1: Climate and Climate Modeling. Chair: Linda Mearns |
| 09:45-10:30 |
The Earth's climate system variability and change.
K. Trenberth/NCAR |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Climate modeling; General overview of how models work, type of info they produce, basic qualitative info on climate change.
W. Collins/NCAR, |
| 12:00-13:00 |
How should rainfall change as climate changes: Prospects for increases in extremes?
K. Trenberth/NCAR |
| 13:00-13:45 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Bus departs from FL2 to Center Green |
| 13:50-17:45 |
CTTC - Center Green
Extreme Events Tutorial: Extremes; analyzing extremes, extreme value theory, extremes toolkit.
R. Katz, D. Nychka, E. Gilleland-NCAR |
| 15:15 |
Break |
| 15:30-17:45 |
CTTC - Center Green
Extreme Events Tutorial: Extremes; analyzing extremes, extreme value theory, extremes toolkit.
R. Katz, D. Nychka, E. Gilleland-NCAR |
| 17:45 |
Bus departs from Center Green to CU dormitory |
| Thursday July 22 |
| 08:30 |
Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Main Seminar Room FL2_1022
Climate change - components - emissions scenarios - calculation of uncertainty of climate change on global scale.
T. Wigley/NCAR |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Regional Climate Change - Calculating Probabilities.
D. Nychka, C. Tebaldi/NCAR |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Break |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Downscaling - Regional Modeling.
L. Mearns/NCAR |
| 12:30-13:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:15 |
Bus departs from FL2 to Center Green |
| 13:30-17:30 |
CTTC - Center Green
Statistical Downscaling Tutorial-Part 1.
Rob Wilby/Environmental Agency UK |
| 15:15 |
Break |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Statistical Downscaling Tutorial-Part 2.
Rob Wilby/Environmental Agency UK |
| 17:45 |
Bus departs from Center Green to CU dormitory |
| Friday July 23 |
Session 2: Approaches to Studying Climate and Infectious Diseases and Case Study of West Nile Virus.
Chair: Jonathan Patz |
| 08:00 |
Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:30-09:00 |
Main Seminar Room FL2_1022
Overview of Epidemiology
J. Patz/Johns Hopkins |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Infectious disease ecology I.
M. Wilson/University of Michigan |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Group Photo & Break |
| 10:30-11:15 |
Infectious disease ecology II.
M. Wilson/University of Michigan |
| 11:15-12:00 |
Arboviruses in the urban setting (Dengue fever).
M. Hayden/University of Colorado |
| 12:00-13:00 |
CDC' s Arbonet & emergence of West Nile virus in US.
C. Moore/CDC |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Working Lunch
Scenarios, Reinsurance & Economic Impacts: Update from Swiss Re, Ruschlicon meeting
P. Epstein/Harvard |
| 14:00-14:30 |
USGS's West Nile Virus Program: integrating wildlife, equine and human data.
E. Saito/USGS |
| 14:30-15:00 |
The Humans in Human Ecology: Society and West Nile Virus
E. Zielinski-Gutierrez |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Break |
| 15:15-16:00 |
Panel Discussion on Climate & Infectious Diseases |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Predicting West Nile using climate, land use and mosquito data (Model Demonstration).
R. Barbour/Yale and J. Patz/Johns Hopkins |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Software loading in preparation for Monday's tutorial. |
| 17:45 |
Bus departs from FL2 to CU dormitory |
| Monday July 26 |
| Session 3: Applying Remote Sensing and GIS to Infectious Disease Studies. Chair: Jonathan Patz |
| 08:00 |
Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:30-10:30 |
Main Seminar Room FL2_1022
Introduction to RS databases and data processing resources.
E. Wood/USGS and S. Batzil/University of Wisconsin |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Case studies in RS and disease in Africa.
M. Thomson/IRI |
| 12:00-12:45 |
Lunch |
| 12:45 |
Bus departs from FL2 to Center Green |
| 13:00-16:00 |
Center Green 1 - Auditorium
Tutorial: Orientation to "Windisp" software for remote sensing analysis for infectious diseases
S. Conner and M. Thomson/IRI
(hands on use of databases and the software - laptops needed). |
| 16:15 |
Bus departs from Center Green to Flagstaff BBQ |
| 16:30- |
Flagstaff BBQ |
| Tuesday July 27 |
| Session 4: Heat Mortality and Air Pollution. Chair: Jonathan Patz |
| 08:00 |
Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:30-09:15 |
Main Seminar Room FL2_1022
An Introduction to Time-series Analysis for climate/health studies.
P. Wilkinson/London School of Hygiene |
| 09:15-9:45 |
Heat waves in Europe and addressing Weather Extremes.
S. Kovats/ London School of Hygiene |
| 9:45-10:15 |
Climate change and heat mortality in California.
S. Moser/NCAR |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Heat Wave Mortality Studies based on Clobal Climate Models.
C. Tebaldi/NCAR |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Moderated Discussion
S.Moser/NCAR |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Introduction to Time-series Analysis for climate/health studies.
P. Wilkinson/London School of Hygiene |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 |
Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry.
S. Madronich/NCAR |
| 14:45-15:45 |
Climate change and Air Pollution Models.
M. Bell/Yale University |
| 15:45 |
Bus departs from FL2 to Mesa Lab |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Visit to NCAR Visualization Lab. |
| 17:45 |
Bus departs from Mesa Lab to CU dormitory |
| Wednesday July 28 |
| Session 5: Societal Responses, Integrated Assessment, & Communication of Uncertainties. Chair: Linda Mearns |
| 08:00 |
Bus departs from CU Williams Village Dormitory (500 30th St., Boulder, CO, Tel: 303-492-6573) to FL2 |
| 08:30-09:15 |
Main Seminar Room FL2_1022
Assessing Population Adaptation and Vulnerability.
K. Ebi/Exponent Consulting |
| 09:15-10:00 |
Methods of Assessing vulnerability - Report of the World Health Organization.
S. Kovats and K. Ebi |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30-11:30 |
RISA, Regional Climate Impact Assessment.
R. Pulwarty/NOAA |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Analyzing Societal Response to Climate Change.
J. Mayer/University of Washington |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Strategies for Engaging Students, Teachers, and the General Public in Climate Change and Health Education
R. Johnson/NCAR |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Applying Science to affect Policy Change.
Peter Backlund/NCAR |
| 15:00-16:00 |
Institute Wrap Up and next steps.
J. Patz/Johns Hopkins, L. Mearns/NCAR |
| 16:30 |
Bus departs from FL2 to CU dormitory |
