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Geosciences Seminars Fall 2012 Seminars
Geosciences Seminars Fall 2012 Seminars
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| Date | Title | Speaker | Place & Time | Host |
AUGUST |
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| 8/20/2012 | Aerosol Impacts on Microstructure and Intensity of Convective Storms and Hurricanes | Daniel Rosenfeld Institute of Earth Science in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
1209 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 8/27/2012 |
On the Observed Variability in the South Pacific: A Ross Sea Response to a Changing Climate? |
Alejandro Orsi Department of Oceanography Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 8/28/2012 | The North American National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) High-speed spectroscopic observations of stepped leaders, dart leaders, recoil leaders, and return strokes up to 100,000 images per second The Houston Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) |
Richard Orville Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
SEPTEMBER |
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| 9/3/2012 | Active Faulting in the Ninetyeast Ridge and Implications for Diffuse Plate Boundaries of the Indo-Australian Plate | Will Sager Department of Oceanography and Geology and Geophysics Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 9/4/2012 | The Planning, Realization, and Future of the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Field Campaign | Courtney Schumacher Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 9/6/2012 | Drought | Robert Mace Texas Water Development Board | CE118 5:15 PM |
AWRA |
| 9/7/2012 | Two Hundred Hectares of Good Business: Brazilian Agriculture in a Themed Space | Christian Brannstrom Department of Geography Texas A&M University |
CSA 303 3:30 PM |
GEOG |
| 9/10/2012 | Clastic Sedimentary Petrology: The Control of Provenance on Reservoir Quality and Rock Properties of Clastic Sediments | Tobi Kosanke Marathon Oil Company Upstream Technology- Worldwide Petrophysics |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 9/11/2012 | Topography and the Influence of Deserts on Monsoons | William Boos Department of Geology and Geophysics Yale University |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 9/14/2012 | U.S. Hegemony and Changing Civil Aviation Regimes on the Atlantic, 1944–2012 | Alan Dobson University of Dundee |
CSA 303 3:30 PM |
GEOG |
| 9/17/2012 | Zooplankton Growth, Phenology and the Dynamic Interactions with Fishes Linked to Environmental Variability | Hui Liu Department of Marine Biology Texas A&M Galveston |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 9/18/2012 | Invigoration of Cumulus Cloud Fields by Mesocale Ascent | Dan Kirshbaum Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 9/20/2012 | Low Impact Development | David Batts Convergent Water Technologies |
CE118 5:15 PM |
AWRA |
| 9/21/2012 |
Climate Change and the Carbon Cycle of Northern Ecosystems |
Jason Vogel Department of Exosystem Science and Management Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
GEOG |
| 9/24/2012 | Bacterial Remnants as Major Components of the marine Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles | Karl Kaiser Department of Marine Sciences Texas A&M Galveston |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 9/25/2012 | Climate Dissipation Structure: An Application of Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics | Jiangnan Li Canadian Center For Climate Modeling and Analysis, University of Victoria |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 9/27/2012 | Protected Aresas of Mexico: A Place in the Geography of Hope | Ernesto Enkerlin-Hoeflich IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas |
2404 MSC 4:00 PM |
ABS |
| 9/28/2012 |
The End of the Beginning-Anglo-American Geopolitical Rapprochement in the late 1800s: Samoa, Hawai'i, and Canada |
Peter Hugill Department of Geography Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
GEOG |
OCTOBER |
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| 10/1/2012 | The High-Latitude Oceans: An Ongoing Challenge for Climate Models | Achim Stössel Department of Oceanography Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 10/2/2012 | Using Ice Core Data to Constrain Climate Sensitivity | Gerald North Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 10/4/2012 | GCD and Groundwater Regulation | Staey Steinbach Texas Association of Groundwater Districts Kathy Turner Jones Lone Star Groundwater Conversation District |
CE118 5:15 PM |
AWRA |
| 10/4/2012 | The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines | Michael Mann Earth System Science Center The Pennsylvania State University |
1105 ILS Building 7:30 PM |
Texas Center for Climate Studies |
| 10/4/2012 | Building Capital to Enhance Sustainability | Urs Kreutuer Texas A&M University |
110JJKB 4:00 PM |
ABS |
| 10/5/2012 | The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries | Michael Mann Penn State |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
GEOG |
| 10/8/2012 | How the Ocean Influences the Atmospheric Composition of Trace Gases | James H. Butler Earth System Research Laboratory NOAA |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 10/9/2012 | Stratospheric Ozone and Southern Hemisphere Climate Change | Lorenzo Polvani Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 10/12/2012 | The Geographic Revolution: Geographers Tackling "Big Data" Problems in Multiple Domains | Geoffrey Jacquez President, BioMedware, Inc. Professor of Geography State University of New York at Buffalo |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
GEOG |
| 10/15/2012 | The Role of Deep-water Circulation in the Greenhouse Climate of the Early Cenozoic | Debbie Thomas Departments of Oceanography and Geology and Geophysics Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 10/16/2012 | What Controls Stratospheric Water Vapor? | Andrew Dessler Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 10/18/2012 | Aquifer Storage and Recovery | James Dwyer CH2M Hill Engineering |
CE118 5:15 PM |
AWRA |
| 10/19/2012 SWAAG Practice Presentations |
Bedload Transport in Aeolian Environments: Trap Design, Development, and Transport Rates | Christy Swann Department of Geography Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
GEOG |
| Charquini Glacier Southeast Ice Thickness Measured in 2012 Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Inform Troipical Glacier Volume-Area Scaling |
Joni Kincaid Department of Geography Texas A&M University |
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| Perception of Rip Current Hazard in Galveston Island, Texas |
Sarah Trimble, C. Brannstrom, C. Houser, A. Santos, and H. Lee Department of Geography Texas A&M University |
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| 10/22/2012 |
Molecular Paleotemperature Proxies: How Biochemical Responses in Marine Organisms Furnish Records of Ocean History |
Simon Brassell Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 10/25/2012 |
SPECIAL SEMINAR Assessing Tropical Cyclone Rain Risk |
Kerry Emanuel Department of Atmospheric Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
112 O&M 4:00 |
ATMO |
| 10/29/2012 |
Paleocene, Oligocene and Miocene Abyssal Ostracods from the South Pacific Gyre and their Paleoceanographic Significance in Earth's Largest Oceanic Desert |
Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 10/30/2012 | Old Aerosols Never DIe, They Just Get Oxidized | Neil Donahue Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Director for Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies Carnegie Mellon University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
ATMO |
NOVEMBER |
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| 11/2/2012 | Unraveling the Mystique of Terroir | Greg Jones Department of Environmental Studies Southern Oregon University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
GEOG |
| 11/5/2012 | Fossil Carbon Inputs and Aggregation: How Oean Acidification or Oil Spills Impact Aggregate Formation | Uta Passow Marine Science Institute University of California, Santa Barbara |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 11/6/2012 | Rime Mushrooms of Patagonia | C. David Whiteman Atmospheric Sciences Department University of Utah |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 11/8/2012 | Local Cultural Models of Conservation and Organization Legitimacy: A Comparison Across Scales | Jane Packard Texas A&M University |
MSC 2404 4:00 PM |
ABS |
| 11/9/2012 | Road Map for Geography Education Research | Sarah Bednarz Department of Geography Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
GEOG |
| 11/12/2012 | What Can Genetic Diversity Tell Us about Algal Bloom Dynamics? | Deana L. Erdner Department of Marine Science University of Texas at Austin |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 11/13/2012 | Parameterizing Solar Radiative Transfer in Inhomogeneous Clouds: The Independently Scattering Cloudlets Model |
Grant Petty |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
ATMO |
| 11/15/2012 |
Wetland Regulation and Delineation |
Rex McAliley Turner Biological Consulting |
CE118 5:15 PM |
AWRA |
| 11/16/2012 | "Our Pappies Burned the Woods": Tree-Ring Studies of Appalachian Fire History and It's Relations with Land Use and Climate | Charles Lafon Department of Geography Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
GEOG |
| 11/19/2012 | The Hot and Cold of Aerobic Bacterial Carbon Monoxide Oxidation: Lessons from Kilauea Volcano | Gary M. King Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 11/20/2012 |
Advancing Trait-based Ecology for the Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity |
Julian Olden University of Washington |
MSC 2404 4:00 PM |
ABS |
| 11/20/2012 | The Three Laws of Climate Change | Bruce Wielicki, Science Doctorate at NASA Langley Research Center |
112 O&M 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 11/26/2012 | Uranium-Series Isotopes in Eastern Equatorial Pacific Sediments | Franco Marcantonio Department of Geology and Geophysics Texas A&M University |
112 O&M 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 11/27/2012 | The Science and Politics of Motor Vehicle Emissions | Donald Stedman Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Denver |
O&M 112 3:55 PM |
ATMO |
| 11/29/2012 |
Sea Otters, Kelp Forests, and Coastal Communities: Exosystem Services Amongst Trophic Cascades |
Kai Chan University of British Columbia |
MSC 2404 4:00 PM |
ABS |
DECEMBER |
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| 12/3/2012 |
Internal Wave Reflection and Transmission at Turning Depths in the Deep Ocean |
Matthew Paoletti Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Physics Department University of Texas at Austin |
O&M 112 4:00 PM |
OCNG |
| 12/10/2012 | NASA Opportunities for Students, Postdocs and Other Early Career Scientists & Engineers | Peter Haynes Head of Department of Aplied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) Cambridge University, UK |
O&M 1209 2:00 PM |
ATMO |
| 12/10/2012 | New particle formation in the marine boundary layer | Ru-Jin Huang Research Fellow at The Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies National University of Ireland Galway |
O&M 1209 4:00 PM |
ATMO |
