Session: Weather and climate in early US history (2008

Session 1

Weather and climate in early US history

Speakers: John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; Paul Ruscher, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Chair: Kristine C. Harper, New Mexico Tech/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

11:00 AM

1.1

Revisiting Benjamin Franklin and his role as America's first geoscientist

Paul Ruscher, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

11:30 AM

1.2

March 1843: The most abnormal month ever?

John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and B. McRoberts