Meteorologist to talk climate change

Published: June 3, 2006

NORMAN - A University of Oklahoma meteorologist who has conducted research on climate change issues, will speak at the Bonus Years meeting at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at McFarlin United Methodist Church.

David Karoly, Williams Chair professor of meteorology at OU School of Meteorology, is active in research on climate variability and climate change, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and climate variations attributed to El Nino-Southern Oscillation.

He joined OU's meteorology faculty in January 2003 from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where he was professor of meteorology and head of the School of Mathematical Sciences. He was director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology at Monash University from August 1995 until it closed in June 2000.

Karoly received the Meisinger Award from the American Meteorology Society in 1993.

For reservations or for more information, call Polly Sandlin at 321-3484.