Seminar Schedule for Spring, 2009:
Seminars are open to all faculty, staff, and students.

 

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Monday, February 16, 2009, 4PM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		Georgiy Golitsyn, A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119017, RF
Title:		Tropical Cyclones and Polar Lows: Velocity, Size and Energy Scales, 26c-origin criteria
Host:		Gera Stenchikov

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Monday, March 2, 2009, 4PM
Rescheduled for Tuesday, March 3, 2:15PM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		Noelle Eckley Selin, MIT
Title:		Mercury in the Atmosphere, Biosphere, and Policy Sphere: Insights from Global Modeling
Host:		Barbara Turpin

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 10AM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		Ann Marie Carlton, EPA, Triangle Park, NC
Title:		To What Extent Can Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol be Controlled?
Host:		Barbara Turpin

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Friday, March 6, 2009, 2PM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		Richard Harrington, Department of Geosciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Title:		Environmental and Geologic Materials: Probing local structure by Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis of total scattering data
Host:		Nathan Yee

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 10AM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		Arnico Panday, Princeton University
Title:		Air Pollution and Climate Change in the Himalaya: Interactions, Unknows, and Research Directions
Host:		Barbara Turpin

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 9:45AM
Alampi Room, IMCS building

Speaker:		Suzana Camargo, Columbia University
Title:		Exploring the modulation of tropical cyclone activity by ENSO and MJO
Host:		Barbara Turpin

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Monday, April 13, 2009, 4:00PM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		Zhuo Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Title:		Tropical Cyclogenesis in a Tropical Easterly Wave Critical Layer
Host:		Barbara Turpin

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:00PM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		Benjamin Lintner, University of California, Los Angeles
Title:		Understanding Controls on Tropical Convective Margins and Their Variability
Host:		Barbara Turpin

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Friday, April 24, 2009, 2:15PM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		Brian A. Colle Stony Brook University
Title:		Evolution and Dynamical Processes of Solitary Precipitation Bands Within the Comma-Head Region of Northeast U.S. Cyclones
Host:		Steve Decker

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Friday, May 1, 2009, 2:15PM
room 223, ENRS building

Speaker:		John Kelly, Loyola University Chicago
Title:		Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Alters Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Communities in a Temperate Forest
Host:		Robert Tate

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