Bob Oglesby will speak on "Modeling Future Climate Change: Global and Regional Issues" at the meeting of the Omaha-Offutt Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, Feb. 21 at the Nebraska Union on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's City Campus. Today is the deadline to RSVP. Email omahaoffuttams@gmail.com.
Robert "Bob" Oglesby is a professor of climate modeling at UNL with joint appointments in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Natural Resources. Bob received his B.S. in Physical Geography from the University of California, Davis, in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Yale University in 1990. Prior to arriving at UNL in 2006, he was a senior scientist for five years at NASA, and previously spent 10 years on the faculty of Purdue University. Bob’s research interests include the causes of drought, the impact of deforestation on climate, and key mechanisms of climate change, both past and future. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 refereed journal papers and book chapters on these subjects. Bob is also currently involved with in-country training in the development and use of high-resolution climate change models for vulnerability and impacts studies in Central America and Asia.