Seminar Schedule, Spring 2012:
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are on Fridays at 2:30PM in the ENRS Bldg, Room 223 , and are open to all faculty, staff, and students. Refreshments at 2:15 PM.

 

  Speakers: To select a seminar date, click here.

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Feb. 3, 2012

Speaker:		Nadine Unger, Yale University
Title:		HISTORICAL CROPLAND EXPANSION EFFECTS ON THE SHORT-LIVED CLIMATE FORCERS
Host:		Annmarie Carlton

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Feb. 17, 2012

Speaker:		Damianos Mantsis, Rutgers University
Title:		PRECESSIONAL CYCLES AND THEIR REMOTE INFLUENCE ON THE NORTH PACIFIC AND NORTH ATLANTIC ANTICYCLONES
Host:		Ben Lintner

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Feb. 24, 2012

Speaker:		Serpil Guran, Director — Rutgers EcoComplex
Title:		Sustainable Energy Systems
Host:		Uta Krogmann

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March 2, 2012

Speaker:		Andrew Maynard, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Title:		THE NEW SCIENCE OF SOPHISTICATED MATERIALS: NANOMATERIALS AND BEYOND
Host:		Gedi Mainelis, Yevgen Nazarenko

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March 9, 2012

Speaker:		Mathias Vuille, SUNY at Albany
Title:		Climate Change, Glacier Retreat and Water Resources in the Tropical Andes
Host:		Mark Miller

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March 23, 2012

Speaker:		Peter DeCarlo, Drexel University
Title:		FIELD AND LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS OF THE SOURCES AND PROCESSING OF ORGANIC AEROSOL
Host:		Barbara Turpin

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March 30, 2012, *Special Time*: Friday, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Speaker:		Abby Swann, Harvard University, University of Washington
Title:		ECOCLIMATE TELECONNECTIONS: REMOTE EFFECTS OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ECOSYSTEMS AND CLIMATE
Host:		Ben Lintner and Paul Loikith

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April 6, 2012

Speaker:		Tara Troy, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Title:		CLIMATE, LAND SURFACE HYDROLOGY, AND HUMAN WATER DEMANDS: EXAMPLES OVER NORTHERN EURASIA AND INDIA
Host:		Ben Lintner

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April 13, 2012

Speaker:		Jian Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Title:		TBD
Host:		Mark Miller

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April 27, 2012

Speaker:		Jonathan Milley, Energy Strategy Resources
Title:		ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND THE PRICE OF CLEAN AIR AND WATER
Host:		Mark Miller

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May 1, 2012, *Special Day/Time*: Tuesday, 2:00 pm

Speaker:		Enrique Curchitser, IMCS, Rutgers University
Title:		Imagining the future: Towards an integrated multi-scale Earth System Model
Host:		Robert Tate

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May 4, 2012

Speaker:		Mike Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Title:		The MC3 Experiment
Host:		Mark Miller