Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Contrasting Biophysical Responses to Central and Eastern Pacific El Niño
Michelle Gierach, Scientist, Oceans and Ice Group and PO.DAAC, JPL
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
A Theory of the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Associated Stratification of the Ocean
Maxim Nikurashin, Physical Oceanographer, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Deglacial CO2 release from the North Pacific constrained by boron isotopes, radiocarbon and earth system modeling
James Rae, Postdoctoral Scholar, Geochemistry, Caltech
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
CO2 Emissions in the Los Angeles Megacity as Observed in Pasadena
Sally Newman, Senior Research Scientist, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
The sensitivity of global tropical cyclone frequency to climate changes
Timothy Merlis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Theoretical Science and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory , Princeton
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Regulation of the ocean's deep overturning circulation by Antarctic easterly winds
Andrew Stewart, Postdoctoral Researcher, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Biologically Induced Snowball Initiation, and Snowball Ocean Dynamics
Eli Tziperman, Pamela and Vasco McCoy, Jr Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Tropical compensation of hemispheric albedo asymmetries
Aiko Voigt, Postdoctoral scientist, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
A stochastic parcel representation of cumulus convection
Zhiming Kuang, Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science , Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences , Harvard University
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Propagating vs. Non-propagating Madden-Julian Oscillation Events
Daehyun Kim, Assistant Research Professor , Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Blooming of oceanic phytoplankton
Amala Mahadevan, Associate Scientist, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
How, why, and when is Pacific climate changing (and who cares)?
Amy Clement, Professor, Meteorology & Physical Oceanography, Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
New Urban Water Infrastructure and the Water and Energy Nexus
Richard Luthy, Silas H. Palmer Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Regimes of aerosol-stratocumulus cloud-climate interaction
Chris Bretherton, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Surface ocean impacts on the chemistry of the tropical free troposphere
Rainer Volkamer, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
The Global Warming Yardstick: What Warming Oceans and Rising Seas Tell Us about Anthropogenic Climate Change
Josh Willis, Project Scientist - Jason-3, Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth Sciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Turbulence, submesoscales, and phytoplankton blooms at ocean fronts
John R. Taylor, University Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
4:00 pm
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
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