Seminars for 2013-2014

Wednesday October 2, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Heterogeneous Photochemistry and Interfacial Redox Processes of Environmental Significance
Speaker: Wonyong Choi, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday October 9, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Piecing the puzzle of gas exchange and inorganic carbon transport in the polar sea ice zone
Speaker: Brice Loose, University of Rhode Island
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday October 16, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What controls sulfur isotope fractionation during microbial sulfate reduction?
Speaker: Min Sub Sim, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday October 23, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The role of oceans in setting climate sensitivity and radiative feedbacks
Speaker: Brian Rose, University at Albany, SUNY
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday October 30, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Smart Grid & Climate Change: Socio-political Influence on Energy System Change
Speaker: Jennie Stephens, Clark University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday November 6, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Diversity and Evolution of Aerobic Respiration and Denitrification
Speaker: James Hemp, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday November 13, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
(A Chemist’s) Exploration of the Potential Atmospheric Impacts of Carbonaceous Aerosol
Speaker: Jon Abbatt, University of Toronto
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday November 20, 2013 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Energetically Consistent Sub-Grid Eddy Parameterizations for Eddy-Permitting Ocean Models
Speaker: Malte Jansen, Princeton University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday January 15, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Anthropogenic Aerosol Water: Rediscovering the Importance of Atmospheric Multiphase Chemistry
Speaker: Annmarie Carlton, Rutgers University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday January 22, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Scaling controls on carbon cycling from organisms to ecosystems: Insights from novel isotopic measurements in temperate forests and thawing permafrost wetlands
Speaker: Scott Saleska, University of Arizona
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday January 29, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Marsh collapse does not require sea level rise
Speaker: Sergio Fagherazzi, Boston University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday January 29, 2014 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
COMPLEX THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS
Speaker: G. Jeffrey Snyder, California Institute of Technology
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday January 29, 2014 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
COMPLEX THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS
Speaker: G. Jeffrey Snyder, California Institute of Technology
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday February 5, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics of global warming
Speaker: Shang-Ping Xie, UC San Diego
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday February 12, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What can regional climate feedbacks tell us about atmospheric circulation?
Speaker: Nicole Feldl, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Tuesday February 18, 2014 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
From Force and Torque Sensing To The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator...Using Optomechanical Springs
Speaker: John Davis, University of Alberta
Location: Watson 104
Wednesday February 19, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reconstructing sulphate loading and timing of climate impacting volcanic eruptions during the Common Era
Speaker: Michael Sigl, Desert Research Institute
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday February 26, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Energy from waste - the practical implementation of Microbial Fuel Cells
Speaker: Ioannis A. Ieropoulos, UWE Bristol
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday March 5, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
North Atlantic jet variability and Arctic warming
Speaker: Elizabeth A. Barnes, Colorado State University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday March 19, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Constraining Regional Greenhouse Gas Emissions using Geostationary Measurements
Speaker: Peter Rayner, University of Melbourne
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 9, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
In situ constraints on reactive nitrogen cycling at atmospheric interfaces
Speaker: Timothy Bertram, UC San Diego
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 16, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Is there a need for an ice-sheet—ocean observation system?
Speaker: Knut Christianson, St. Olaf College
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 23, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A metabolic tree of life: from geochemical roots to oceanic ecosystems
Speaker: Rogier Braakman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday April 30, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insight to the past and future of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation from Plio-Pleistocene nutrient dynamics
Speaker: Patrick Rafter, University of California, Irvine
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday May 7, 2014 2:00 PM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Next: Breakthrough Technologies for National Security
Speaker: Arati Prabhakar
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wednesday May 7, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The physiological consequences of altering stomatal developent in plants -- lessons from Arabidopsis
Speaker: Graham Dow, Harvard University
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday May 14, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New perspectives on the ocean's role in transient climate change
Speaker: Kyle Armour, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday May 21, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Earth system response to massive carbon release: Atmospheric CO2, climate sensitivity, and ocean chemistry through time
Speaker: Richard Zeebe, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday May 28, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Past and Future Hurricane Activity
Speaker: Gabriel Vecchi, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday June 4, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reductive dechlorination and the chlorine cycle
Speaker: Stephen Zinder, Caltech
Location: South Mudd 365
Wednesday September 10, 2014 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
**SPECIAL SEMINAR** Seasonal modulation of mesoscale eddy turbulence by mixed-layer instabilities in the North Pacific Ocean
Speaker: Patrice Klein, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Location: South Mudd 365