2012-2013 Earth Science Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2012
September 7: Sean Solomon (Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) "MESSENGER at Mercury: The Surprising Innermost Planet"
September 14: Heather Savage and Pratigya Polissar (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) "Biomarkers Heat Up During Earthquakes: New Geological Evidence of Earthquake Slip in the Rock Record"
September 21: Aaron Putnam (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) "Climate Battles Between the Hemispheres During and since the Last Ice Age: Palaeoclimate Insights from the Record of Earth’s Mountain Glaciers and Drylands"
September 28: Sept. 2011 - Sept. 2012 LDEO Awardees Recognition Reception
3:30 p.m. Monell Building auditorium and lobby.
October 5: Carol Raymond (NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
"Exploring Protoplanets from the Beginning of the Solar System: Dawn at Vesta"
October 12: Lynn Sykes (Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) "Monitoring and Verifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and Prospects for its Ratification by U.S."
October 19: Bruno Tremblay (McGill University) "Sea Ice Decline in the Arctic: An Ocean Mechanism"
October 26: Hali Felt (University of Pittsburgh) "Marie Tharp: Portrait of a Scientist"
November 2: W.S. Jardetzky Lecture - Postponed
November 9: Timothy Creyts (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) "Basal Plumbing for the Changing (ice) Masses"
November 16: Kerry Emanuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Using Physics to Assess Long-term Flood Risk from Tropical Cyclones"
November 23: Thanksgiving
November 30: Shaun Lovejoy (McGill University) "The Climate Is Not What You Expect"
December 7: AGU
Winter/Spring 2013
January 25: Workshop on social media: "Beyond Cats: Communicating Scientific Endeavors Using Social Media" with Rebecca Fowler, Development Writer/Grants and Communications, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Brian Kahn, Communications Coordinator, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute, Columbia University.
February 1: David Wald (USGS)
"Earthquake Loss Modeling on a Global Scale: Balancing Empirical & Physics-Based Approaches"
February 8: Cancelled. Scott McLennan (Stony Brook University) "Returning Samples from Mars - No Prospect of an End?"
February 15: Marie Tharp Fellow Camille Li (University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)
"Sea Ice and Abrupt Climate Events"
February 22: Gabriel Vecchi (NOAA – Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)
"Predicting and Projecting Hurricane Activity"
March 1: Graduate Student Symposium
March 8: Gavin Schmidt (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) "Using Paleo-Climate to Constrain Future Projections"
March 15: Harold Brooks (NSSL/FRDD National Weather Center)
"Severe Thunderstorms and Climate Change"
March 22: Spring brake
March 29: Richard Stolarski (Johns Hopkins University)
"Stratospheric Ozone: How We Came to Understand its Chemistry and Response to Perturbations"
April 5: W.S. Jardetzky Lecture - Ellen Mosley-Thompson (The Ohio State University)
"Past and Contemporary Climate Change: Evidence from Earth's Ice Cover"
April 12: Aiguo Dai (University at Albany, SUNY) "Drought Under Global Warming"
April 19: Jacquelyn Bolman (INRSEP - Indian Natural Resources, Science and Engineering Program,
Humboldt State University)
April 26: Scott McLennan (Stony Brook University) "Returning Samples from Mars: No Prospect of an End?"
May 3: Suzanne Carbotte (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) "Imaging the Magma System Beneathan Erupting Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcano: What We Are Learning From the First 3D Multi-Channel Seismic Study of the R/V Langseth
May 9: W.S. Jardetzky Lecture - John Grotzinger (California Institute of Technology)
"Curiosity's Mission at Gale Crater, Mars"
"Curiosity's Mission at Gale Crater, Mars"
May 17: Tapio Schneider (California Institute of Technology) "How to Constrain Low-Cloud Feedbacks Trough Hierarchical Physical Modeling"
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