Archive for December 2008

What the Hail?!?: Severe Thunderstorms and Climate Change

Tonight was the second installment of Science Cafe Norman.  Tonight’s talk (title is the same as the title of this post) was given by me.  We had a fairly large turnout of around 20-30 people and the talk lasted about an hour.  While I was originally planning on talking more about climate change and less about severe thunderstorms, however the severe thunderstorm portion of the talk took a little longer than expected.  This was fine though, I think everyone enjoyed the talk and learned something new.  Next month the talk is given by my officemate, Melissa Bukovsky, and will focus on regional climate change.  As of right now the talk is scheduled to be on January 8th, but may have to be moved since quite a few people will be at a joint meeting of the mathematical societies and the NCAA College Football National Championship.  Stay tuned!