Seminars for 2014-2015

Wednesday October 8, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Why do plants grow where and when they grow?

Speaker: Kyla M. Dahlin, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday October 15, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Biogenic reactive oxygen species in the cycling and mineralization of manganese

Speaker: Colleen Hansel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday October 22, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Large-scale Observational Constraints on GPP in Earth System Models using Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide

Speaker: Elliott Campbell, University of California, Merced

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday October 29, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Changes in the distribution of rain in response to warming

Speaker: Angie Pendergrass, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday November 5, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Speaker: Ian Eisenman, UC San Diego

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday November 12, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Speaker: Tran Nguyen, Caltech

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday November 19, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

A Paleo-perspective on Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change

Speaker: Yair Rosenthal, Rutgers University

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday December 3, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Resources for Climate Models

Speaker: David Rutledge, Caltech

Location: South Mudd 365

Monday December 8, 2014 4:00 PM

Digital Ventures ~ Designs Unveiled

Location: Annenberg 105

Wednesday December 10, 2014 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Island Rainfall Enhancement and the Tropical Climate

Speaker: Timothy Cronin, Harvard University

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday January 7, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Why is the ITCZ in the Northern Hemisphere? And why is there a double ITCZ problem?

Speaker: Dargan Frierson, University of Washington

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday January 14, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Physical mechanisms controlling the self-aggregation of tropical convection in idealized numerical simulations

Speaker: Allison Wing, Columbia University

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday January 21, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Life at pH 12: being educated by cultivated organisms and geochemistry -- being surprised and mystified by metagenomics.

Speaker: Kenneth H. Nealson, University of Southern California

Location: Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Wednesday January 28, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Simple predictions of forest structure from resource limitations and fractal geometry

Speaker: Chris Kempes, Caltech

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday February 4, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Atmospheric signatures of changing global biogeochemistry

Speaker: Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Location: Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Wednesday February 11, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Does planetary warming always dry out the continents? Lessons from theory, GCMs, and paleoclimates

Speaker: Jack Scheff, Columbia University

Location: Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Wednesday February 18, 2015 12:00 PM

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors--Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

Speaker: Dr. Burton Richter, Stanford University

Location: Baxter Lecture Hall

Wednesday February 25, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

A millennial-scale stagnation of Southern Ocean circulation in a past warm climate

Speaker: Christopher Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday March 4, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Multi-dimensional interactions define dynamics in natural microbial communities

Speaker: Karsten Zengler, UC San Diego

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday March 11, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Analysis of observed and modeled rainfall seasonality properties with indicators based on information entropy

Speaker: Salvatore Pascale, Caltech

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday April 1, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Experimental microbial sedimentology: seeing the processes that shaped enigmatic sedimentary structures

Speaker: Giulio Mariotti, Louisiana State University

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday April 8, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Oceans of Information

Speaker: Steven Hallam, University of British Columbia

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday April 22, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Can Global Warming be Held to 2 Degrees Celsius above Pre-Industrial?

Speaker: David Lea, UC Santa Barbara

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday April 29, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Inter-hemispheric asymmetries in climate and ITCZ migrations

Speaker: John Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Location: Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Wednesday May 6, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Resolving Discrepancies in High Global Warming Potential Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Atmospheric Measurements

Speaker: Ray Weiss, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Location: Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Wednesday May 13, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Plant waxes as environmental proxies in the tropics

Speaker: Sarah J. Feakins, University of Southern California

Location: South Mudd 365

Wednesday May 20, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Climate and Conflict

Speaker: Mark A. Cane, Columbia University

Location: Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Wednesday May 27, 2015 4:00 PM

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

A new look at the organic carbon cycle in the global ocean

Speaker: Ellen Druffel, UC Irvine

Location: South Mudd 365