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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Snowpack, climate change and water balance in a Sierra Nevada forest
Roger Bales, Professor, Engineering, University of California, Merced
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Transilience of Mass and Momentum by Convective Clouds
David Romps, Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkley
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Biological productivity in the Southern Ocean, and variability in the atmospheric CO2 concentration over long timescales
Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences, Earth History and Geochemistry, Princeton University
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Tropical and subtropical latent heat transports and their role in the general circulation of the atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences & Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body
Eric Alm, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

The salinity, temperature, and δ18O of the Glacial Deep Ocean: 10 years after the Science paper
Jake Gebbie, Assistant Scientist, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

The Weather Underground: New speleothem records of Late Holocene climate
Kathleen Johnson, Assistant Professor, Earth System Science School of Physical Sciences , University of California, Irvine
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

HAIR: History of Animals using Isotope Records
Thure Cerling, Distinguished Professor, Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

On the Time-Varying Trend in Global-Mean Surface Temperature
Zhaohua Wu, Assistant Professor, Meterology, Florida State University
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Distributions, sources and sinks of greenhouse gases assessed using global and regional aircraft measurements
Steve Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor, Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Oil-Water Separations Research and Application to Oil Spill Cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico
Eric Hoek, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Bradley Tebo, Professor and Division Head, Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, Oregon Health and Science University
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Seeing the forest AND the trees: Modeling ecosystem-climate interactions
Naomi Marcil Levine, NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Multiple constraints on net community production and its regulating factors in the Southern Ocean
Nicolas Cassar, Assistant Professor, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Chlorophyll fluorescence from space, new avenues in carbon cycle research
Christian Frankenberg, Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Perihuman aerosol science: UFPs, SVOCs, and the indoor microbiome
William Nazaroff, Daniel Tellep Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkley
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Ocean Circulation, Ice Volume, and CO2 in the Late Pleistocene
Lorraine Lisiecki , Professor, Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Microscale X-ray Imaging Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: Peering into the Earth with X-ray Vision
Samuel Webb, Scientist, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Stanford University
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

The plumbing of ice sheets
Ian Hewitt, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

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
David McGee, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Terrestrial Ecosystem Science at JPL: Global Carbon, Water, and Nutrients Cycling Impacts To and From Climate
Joshua Fisher, Scientist, Water & Carbon Cycles Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Photochemical signatures in rocks
James Lyons, Associate Researcher, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

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
Aaron Putnam, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Geochemistry, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Iron driven anaerobic methane oxidation in lake sediments
Orit Sivan, Visiting Associate in Geobiology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech