STUDENT POSTER AWARD WINNERS

Session 1 - Short-Term Climate Prediction

1^st Award: Tannecia Stephenson, University of the West Indies, Kingston, JAMAICA Modes and Circulation Features of the Dry and Early Wet Seasons for the Caribbean

2^nd Award: Xuebin Zhang, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA Equatorial Waves and the 2002-2003 El Nino

2^nd Award: Takanori Horii, Dept. of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Miyagi, JAPAN A Relationship Between the Timing of El Nino Onset and Subsequent Evolution

Session 2 - The Monsoon Systems

1^st Award         Simona Bordoni, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,  CA USA Low-level Winds, SSTs and Precipitation in the North American Monsoon

2^nd Award        Viviane Silva, University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA On the Character of Intense Precipitation Events over the Central La Plata Basin

2^nd Award        Juergen Bader, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, GERMANY Interactions of the Tropical Oceans in Forcing Anomalous Sub-Sahara West African Rainfall

Session 3 - The Challenge of Decadal Prediction

1^st Award         Junye Chen, Columbia University, New York, NY USA Long-Term Surface Temperature Variability in 20^th Century at Middle and Low Latitudes

Session 4 - Understanding Long-Term Climate Variations

1^st Award         Lisa Baldini, Department of Geology, University College Dublin, Dublin, IRELAND Holocene Climate Variability along the North Atlantic and European Margin: Evidence from Annually Resolved Speleothems

2^nd Award        Sudipta Sarkar, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA USA Effect of Land Cover Change on Annual Rainfall over South East Asia

Session 5 - The Role of Oceans in Climate

1^st Award         Laura Ciasto, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO USA North Atlantic Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction on Intraseasonal Timescales

2^nd Award        Patrick Schultz, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA Response of Ocean Ecosystems to Climate Warming

2^nd Award        Claudia Valenzuela-Cuevas, Servicio Hidrografico y Oceanografico de la Armada, Valparaiso, CHILE Low Frequency Circulation and Coastal-Trapped Waves Propagation along Central Chile

Session 6 - Human Influence on Climate

1^st Award         Joao Santos, Department of Physics, University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, PORTUGAL Spatial Distribution of Precipitation and Temperature Extremes over Europe and Its Coupling with the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation

2^nd Award        Nicholas Faull, University of Oxford, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Climateprediction.net

2^nd Award        Emmanuelle Driesschaert, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-neuve, BELGIUM Climate Change Experiments with LOVECLIM, a Three-Dimensional Model of the Earth System

Session 7 - Application of CLIVAR Science to Society

1^st Award         Swarvanu Dasgupta, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA USA  Dynamic of Atmospheric Pollutants Around the Middle Atlantic Region