Seminars for 2012-2013

Wednesday October 10, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microscale X-ray Imaging Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: Peering into the Earth with X-ray Vision
Speaker: Samuel Webb, Stanford University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday October 17, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The plumbing of ice sheets
Speaker: Ian Hewitt, University of British Columbia
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday October 24, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
North African dust emissions over the last 20,000 years: Estimating the abruptness, magnitude and climate impacts of past changes
Speaker: David McGee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday October 31, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Terrestrial Ecosystem Science at JPL: Global Carbon, Water, and Nutrients Cycling Impacts To and From Climate
Speaker: Joshua Fisher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday November 7, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Photochemical signatures in rocks
Speaker: James Lyons, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday November 14, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate battles between hemispheres during and since the ice age: Palaeoclimate insights from the record of Earth's mountain glaciers and drylands
Speaker: Aaron Putnam, Columbia University
Location: South Mudd 365
Thursday November 15, 2012 1:15 PM
Thesis Seminar
Dynamics of Earth's Hadley circulation
Speaker: Xavier Levine, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday November 28, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron driven anaerobic methane oxidation in lake sediments
Speaker: Orit Sivan, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday January 16, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Contrasting Biophysical Responses to Central and Eastern Pacific El Niño
Speaker: Michelle Gierach, JPL
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday January 23, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Theory of the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Associated Stratification of the Ocean
Speaker: Maxim Nikurashin, University of Tasmania
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday January 30, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Deglacial CO2 release from the North Pacific constrained by boron isotopes, radiocarbon and earth system modeling
Speaker: James Rae, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday February 6, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CO2 Emissions in the Los Angeles Megacity as Observed in Pasadena
Speaker: Sally Newman, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday February 13, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The sensitivity of global tropical cyclone frequency to climate changes
Speaker: Timothy Merlis, Princeton
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday February 20, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Regulation of the ocean's deep overturning circulation by Antarctic easterly winds
Speaker: Andrew Stewart, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday February 27, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biologically Induced Snowball Initiation, and Snowball Ocean Dynamics
Speaker: Eli Tziperman, Harvard University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday March 6, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical compensation of hemispheric albedo asymmetries
Speaker: Aiko Voigt, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Location: South Mudd 365
Friday March 8, 2013 8:00 AM
30th Informal Symposium on Kinetics and Photochemical Processes in the Atmosphere
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Wednesday March 13, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A stochastic parcel representation of cumulus convection
Speaker: Zhiming Kuang, Harvard University
Location: South Mudd 365
Monday March 25, 2013 8:00 AM
2013 Caltech Space Challenge
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wednesday April 3, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Propagating vs. Non-propagating Madden-Julian Oscillation Events
Speaker: Daehyun Kim, Columbia University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 10, 2013 9:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Chemistry of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Speaker: Lindsay Yee, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 10, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Blooming of oceanic phytoplankton
Speaker: Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 17, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How, why, and when is Pacific climate changing (and who cares)?
Speaker: Amy Clement, Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 24, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Urban Water Infrastructure and the Water and Energy Nexus
Speaker: Richard Luthy, Stanford University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 24, 2013 6:40 PM
The Inside Story of Climate Science: Thin Ice - Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Wednesday May 1, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Regimes of aerosol-stratocumulus cloud-climate interaction
Speaker: Chris Bretherton, University of Washington
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday May 8, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Surface ocean impacts on the chemistry of the tropical free troposphere
Speaker: Rainer Volkamer, University of Colorado at Boulder
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday May 15, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Global Warming Yardstick: What Warming Oceans and Rising Seas Tell Us about Anthropogenic Climate Change
Speaker: Josh Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday May 22, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Turbulence, submesoscales, and phytoplankton blooms at ocean fronts
Speaker: John R. Taylor, University of Cambridge
Location: South Mudd 365
Saturday May 25, 2013 11:30 AM
Professor Francis Clauser Memorial Lunch
Location: Athenaeum
Wednesday May 29, 2013 4:00 PM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
The Wouk Lecture
Speaker: Lawrence Larson, Brown University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 29, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Location: South Mudd 365
Thursday May 30, 2013 9:00 AM
Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
Speaker: Yi-Chun Chen, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 254
Thursday June 13, 2013 3:00 PM
CATECHOL 2,3-DIOXYGENASE-ASSISTED CLEAVAGE OF AROMATICS BY “ANAEROBIC” TERMITE GUT SPIROCHETES AND GENOMIC EVIDENCE OF A COMPLETE META-PATHWAY
Speaker: Kaitlyn Lucey, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Thursday July 18, 2013 12:00 PM
Skoltech: Accelerating Innovations
Speaker: Edward F. Crawley, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Location: Annenberg 107