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Events for Winter 2008-2009

January 05 2009 04:00 PM
Hans-Ulrich Schmincke, professor, University of Kiel
Volcanology in an Accelerating World—The Past 2500 Years
James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
January 06 2009 03:45 PM
Edward Thommes, University of Guelph
Gas Disks to Gas Giants: Simulating the Birth of Planetary Systems
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
January 07 2009 04:00 PM
Frank Raes, Environmental Institute European Commission
Can We Tackle Air Pollution and Climate Change Simultaneously and Expect Only Benefits?
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
January 08 2009 09:00 AM
Bharat Patel, senior vice president and director sustainability, HOK architecture firm
What Are the Opportunities in a Declining Economy?
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 08 2009 04:00 PM
Motofumi Arii, graduate student in electrical engineering, Caltech
Backscatter from a Vegetated Terrain
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 13 2009 03:45 PM
Raymond Arvidson, professor of earth and planetary sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
Geologic Setting and Surface Properties of the Mars Phoenix Landing Site
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
January 14 2009 04:00 PM
Gerard Roe, associate professor of Earth and space sciences, University of Washington
The Shape of Things to Come: The Potential and the Potential Limits of Global Climate Predictions
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
January 15 2009 09:00 AM
Ted Crovello, environmental biologist
Environment and Society: Xinjiang and China
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 15 2009 04:00 PM
Tony Kampf, Curator, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Describing New Minerals: Trials, Tribulations and Rewards
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 20 2009 03:45 PM
Michael Jura, professor of astronomy, UCLA
Tidally-Disrupted Asteroids around Single White Dwarfs
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
January 21 2009 04:00 PM
Kristopher McNeill, associate professor of chemistry, University of Minnesota
Natural Photochemical Nanoreactors in Aquatic Systems
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
January 22 2009 09:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group—cancelled
ESE & Society Discussion Group
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
January 22 2009 04:00 PM
Carl Tape, graduate student in geophysics, Caltech
Seismic Tomographic Evidence for Schist and Farallon Crust within the Mojave Block
Geology Club Seminar
256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room
January 26 2009 04:00 PM
Peter Goldreich, professor of natural sciences, Princeton University
Reading the Record of Ancient Impacts
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
January 28 2009 04:00 PM
Stephanie Waterman, joint program student, massachusetts institute of technology and Woods Hole Oceanographi Institution
Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets: An Observationally-Driven Theoretical Study
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
January 29 2009 09:00 AM
Ben Smith, project manager, Caltech
Overview and Tour of Caltech's Central Plant
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 29 2009 03:45 PM
Phil Nickolson, professor of astronomy, Cornell University
Cassini-VIMS Observations of Self-gravity Wakes in Saturn's Rings
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 02 2009 04:00 PM
Eric Rignot, professor of Earth system science, UC Irvine, and senior research scientist, JPL
Ice Sheets in a Warming Climate: What Is Going On?
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
February 03 2009 03:45 PM
Michael Jansen, science investigator, JPL
Topic to be announced.
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 04 2009 04:00 PM
Andrew Ingersoll, Earle C. Anthony Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech
Wave in the Tropical Atmosphere: A New Theory of the Madden Julian Oscillation
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
February 05 2009 09:00 AM
Frank Raes, head of the climate change unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Can Climate Policy Making Learn from Air Pollution Policy Making? The Experience in Europe and the Enhanced Role of Science
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 05 2009 04:00 PM
Seth John, postdoctoral scholar in geochemistry, Caltech
3-D Ocean: What Can Fe, Cd, and Zn Stable Isotopes Tell Us about Marine Biogeochemistry?
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 06 2009 01:30 PM
Rich Wildman, graduate students in environmental science and engineering, Caltech
Water Quality Implications of Changing Surface Water Levels at Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona, and Groundwater Levels at the Mercer River, Central California, USA
Thesis Seminar
142 Keck
February 09 2009 04:00 PM
Thorsten Kleine, research associate, ETH, Zurich
From Dust to Planets—Timescales for the Formation of Asteroids and Terrestrial Planets
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
February 10 2009 03:45 PM
James Famiglietti, associate professor of Earth system science and of civil and environmental engineering, UC Irvine
Land Water Storage Variations and Contributions to Sea Level Rise from GRACE
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 11 2009 04:00 PM
Steve Margulis, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, UCLA
Large-Scale Characterization of Snowpack and Its Variability in Mountainous Terrain
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
February 12 2009 09:00 AM
Chip Jacobs
Bill Kelly
Lessons from the History of Air Pollution in Los Angeles for a Warming World
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 12 2009 04:00 PM
Scott Hynek, graduate student in geology, University of Utah
Growing the Puna: Geologic Perspectives on Development of the Southern Central Andean Plateau
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 17 2009 03:45 PM
Troy Hudson, JPL
Observations of Regolith Thermal and Electrical Properties and Atmospheric Humidity with the TECP at the Phoenix Landing Site
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 18 2009 04:00 PM
Benjamin David Santer, physicist and atmospheric scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Including Information from Large Multi-model Archives in Climate-Change Detection and Attribution Studies: One Model, One Vote?
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
February 19 2009 04:00 PM
Harald Sodemann, visitor in environmental science and engineering, Caltech
Determining the Origin and Transport of Water Vapor and Precipitation during Present-day Climate: Examples from Borneo and Elsewhere
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 24 2009 03:45 PM
Claire Newman, associate research scientist in planetary sciences, Catlech
Modeling Titan's Atmosphere with Observational Constraints
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 25 2009 04:00 PM
Alessandra Giannini, associate research scientist, Columbia University
Climate Change in the Sahel, Past, Present and Future
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
February 26 2009 09:00 AM
Paul Wennberg, R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory: An Early postmortem and prospects for future observations of CO2 from space
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 26 2009 04:00 PM
Amy Hofmann and Gretchen Aleks, graduate students, Caltech
'Sub-micron Scale Trace Element Distributions in Zircon' and 'The North-South Gradient in Free Tropospheric CO2: Implications for Surface Exchange'
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 02 2009 04:00 PM
Alex Sessions, assistant professor of geobiology, Caltech
The Biogeochemistry of the Stable Hydrogen Isotopes
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
March 03 2009 03:45 PM
Christophe Sotin, senior research scientist, JPL
Titan's Interior Structure
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
March 04 2009 04:00 PM
Shawn Marshall, associate professor of geography and Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, University of Calgary
Gauging Cryosphere-Driven Sea Level Rise: How Stable Are the Polar Ice Sheets?
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
March 05 2009 09:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group—cancelled
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 09 2009 04:00 PM
Justin Rubinstein, Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey
Stress Triggering of Non-Volcanic Tremor
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
March 10 2009 03:45 PM
Jay Pasachoff, professor of astronomy, Williams College
Syzygies: Eclipses, Occultations, and Transits
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
March 11 2009 04:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—cancelled
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
March 12 2009 09:00 AM
Michael Hoffmann, James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science, Caltech
Production of Hydrogen from Water with Sunlight: Does the Hydrogen Economy Really Have a Chance?
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 12 2009 04:00 PM
Danny Sigman, Professor, Princeton University
Foraminifera-Bound Nitrogen and the Ice Age Ocean's Slower Nitrogen Budget
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 13 2009 03:00 PM
Thesis Defense
142 Keck
March 19 2009 04:00 PM
Jack Silverman, postdoctoral scholar in global ecology, Carnegie Institute
Ecosystem-Scale Effects of Aragonite Saturation, Temperature, and Nutrients on Coral-Reef Calcification
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 24 2009 03:45 PM
Planetary Science Seminar—cancelled
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

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