Yanai Lectures

January 28, 2025

11th Annual Michio Yanai Distinguished Lecture

Look at any satellite image, or even out of an airplane window, and you will see fascinating and diverse patterns in the clouds. To the trained eye, these patterns reveal a remarkable range of cloud forming processes from simple to subtle. After our guided tour, you’ll see clouds afresh.

January 28, 2024

10th Annual Michio Yanai Distinguished Lecture

Looking at the missing tool of ocean exploration. As growing concerns mount frenetically for our planet's health, the undercurrent of urgency is towing hope and enthusiasm out to sea. Third generation ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau will juxtapose the perceived catatonia of progress with a brief dive into what got us here and the development of a unique platform for ocean exploration that stands to change the course we have set for ourselves; a tool to help steer our future to one of realistic hope and engagement toward solution implementation.

May 4, 2017

4th Annual Distinguished Lecture

El Niño Comes of Age  John Michael Wallace  Professor  University of Washington  Thursday, May 4, 20175:00 p.m. reception | 6:00

May 5, 2016

3rd Annual Distinguished Lecture

Fingerprinting the Climate System  Benjamin David Santer  climate researcher. Ph.D.  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  Lecture: May 5 2016 6pm Reception: May

May 7, 2015

2nd Annual Distinguished Lecture 

exploring global warming with climate models  Syukuro Manabe  senior meteorologist. Ph.D.  Princeton University  Lecture: May 7 2015 6pm Reception: May 7