MODELING THE PACIFIC
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THURSDAY, October 10 at Mosher Alumni Hall
1:00 pm

Welcome and Opening Remarks  
1:30 pm
Sabine Höhler: El Niño, »The Boy.« Local Stories and Global Satellites in  the Pacific Ocean 
Douglas Steigerwald: Determining Marine Reserve Boundaries
Samantha Stevenson: Climate Models and What They Can Tell Us About Pacific Climate Variability
3:30 pm
Walk over to 6020 HSSB
4:00pm at IHC, 6020 HSSB (Change of Venue)
Roland Geyer: Plastics Tipping Point (Talk & Reception)
7:30 pm 
Conference Dinner for Participants 

FRIDAY, October 11at Mosher Alumni Hall
8:30 am
Stefan Helmreich: Propagating Power: Making Wave Spectra in American Physical Oceanography
Lisa Han:Sonic Pipelines at the Seafloor 
10:00 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am 
Eckart Meiburg: Modeling the Pacific Ocean on the Computer 
Tapio Schneider: Modeling clouds over the Pacific and their effects on global climate
Fabian Offert: Learning Physics with Computers 
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
2:00 pm
Helen Rozwadowski: The Pacific Crucible: How an Ocean Helped Transform Science into a Frontier
Elena Aronova: The politics of oceanographic data during the Cold War and its legacies
Claus Pias: Coral Reefs, Space Stations, Media Ecologies
4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:30 pm
Naomi Oreskes (Keynote): The Context of Motivation: How 20th-century Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean
6:00 pm
Reception 


SATURDAY, October 12 at Mosher Alumni Hall
9:00 am
Tyler Morgenstern: How a World Hangs Together: Wireless Networking and (De)colonial Modeling in Cold War Hawai'i
Teresa Shewry: Literary Humor and Climate Change in Pacific Cities
10:30am
Libe Washburn: Observing and Modeling the Pacific Ocean
Sotiria Lampoudi & Christina Vagt: Message In A Bottle. Operations and Epistemology of An Explorative Drifter 
12:00
​Lunch 
1:00pm
Melody Jue: Entangled by Sargassum: Photo-aesthetics and the modeling of seasonal blooms
John Durham Peters: Charting the Pacific c. 1850: Melville, Maury, Marx, and Mormons
2:30pm
Closing Remarks 






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