Because of the potential for Friday data collection as part of the TODS experiment, we should all consider this schedule very flexible. Please watch Clara’s forecasts at the TODS blog for updates on likely field activities that may occur during this seminar time.

31 Aug: Class cancelled (Labor Day). Please do your own reading on career preparation and identify some personal action items for the semester:

        Navigating Grad School and Beyond

        A PhD is Not Enough

These action items can include identifying potential collaborators, potential future employers, required skills, etc. The important thing is to write down any required steps for gaining essential skills so that you can measure your progress on them.

7 Sept: Discussion on career preparation and research habits (record keeping, time spent networking, personal web page development, skill acquisition, etc.)

14 Sept: class cancelled because Julie at AWEA.

Assignment: prepare or update your personal web page highlighting your research (see helpful links) and email the link to classmates and Julie before class time. Then, after reviewing your classmate’s pages, please send two constructive suggestions to each of your classmates (and Julie) regarding their web pages. ***Julie is extremely aware that her web page is out of date and would greatly appreciate help in identifying areas for updates, especially “News” of grad student awards, etc.***

21 Sept: Boundary-layer Meteorology/Wind Energy paper discussion on Sathe et al. 2012, led by Julie

28 Sept: Boundary-layer Meteorology/Wind Energy paper discussion on Higgins et al. 2012, led by Brian

5 Oct: Boundary-layer Meteorology/Wind Energy paper discussion on Hirth et al., led by Matt

12 Oct: Boundary-layer Meteorology/Wind Energy paper discussion on Balsley et al., 2002, led by Clara

19 Oct: Boundary-layer Meteorology/Wind Energy paper discussion on Kennedy et al., 2011, led by Josh. Note that at 11am, immediately following class, the CREW seminar on Multi-scale Modeling may be of interest.

26 Oct: class likely cancelled because Julie at Singapore.

Assignment: Review the NSF call for Sustainability Research Fellows and the list of recent awards. Write a one-page outline of a potential proposal to this call, identifying your hypothesis to test, your core disciplinary expertise and its relevance to this hypothesis, and how you could engage researchers in other disciplines. List potential collaborators at other institutions. **If this call does not resonate with you, you may substitute any other NSF call, such as Physical and Dynamic Meteorology or Fluid Dynamics or Graduate Research Fellowships.*** Email your text to Julie and classmates by class time on 26 Oct.

2 Nov: class cancelled because Julie visiting Cal et al.

Assignment: Provide two constructive comments to each of your classmates regarding their sketches of proposals from last week’s assignment. Provide your comments by classtime on Nov 2.

9 & 16 Nov: Graphics: Before class, consult Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (summary here), useful posts in the Figures section of the Eloquent Science blog, and Chapter 11 of the book Eloquent Science. We will discuss five figures each week (~ 10 minutes/ figure) for constructive criticism. By Thursday night of the appropriate week, email Julie your figure for inclusion into a ppt for discussion on Friday:

    9 Nov: Matt, Brian, Michael, Ludovic, Julie

    16 Nov: Rochelle, Clara, Josh, Ryan, Andy

23 Nov: no class (Thanksgiving)

30 Nov: Practice AGU talks and critiques (Julie, Matt, TBD)

7 Dec: no class (AGU)

14 Dec: discuss progress on personal action items identified in first week of semester